Draconic Culture

## Lore:

Despite their common portrayal as mindless beasts, True Dragons are sentient, intelligient, wise, and powerful. They are fiercely loyal to their family, and follow a strict code to ensure their place in the draconic afterlife of Drocodadaroko. You gain prestige due to how many lives you have affected, and the size of your hoard, as well as your number of heirs. Kobolds are treated as children/servants, due to their ability to eventually reincarnate into a dragon. In fact, there is a decently popular theory among dragons that every dragon born since the first kobold was made has actually been the reincarnated soul of a kobold.

A dragon's prestige can be raised through horde size, number of individuals affected, or their number of heirs. A dragon's horde can be whatever they wish, as long as it holds material value. Gold is very common as it also helps dragon eggs hatch, but gemstones, books, weapons, or even land can all count if that is what they choose to count as their horde. True dragons have 2 hordes usually, one for financial gain, and one that they do not touch except to add more. this helps them to think logically when dealing with finances, and true dragons are very money savvy as such.

Prestige can also be raised due to their number of heirs, whether that is offspring (biological or adopted), an adventurer, or a student. Some dragons consider an adventurer who fights them and one of the 2 dies to be an heir, and it doesnt matter whether it is the adventurer or the dragon that dies. Dragons are fiercely loyal to their offspring, and even other dragons are willing to die to save an egg or wyrmling not their own.

The last way to raise prestige is by the number of people they have helped. Some dragons count helping themselves when doing this (particularly chromatic dragons) and as such some of the 'evil' dragons see the removal of intruders as helping themselves. Most dragons, however, focus on helping those under their service or those around them. Dragons love kobolds, and as such helping to protect and raise kobolds accounts for their prestige.

There are 5 types of true dragons: Chromatic, Metallic, Astral, Stone, and Gemstone, and all have their own natures and abilities. See below:

* Chromatic(will add link here later)
* Metallic(will add link here later)
* Astral(will add link here later)
* Stone(will add link here later)
* Gemstone(will add link here later)

Most dragons respect the Rule of Kurtalmauk, a law that states if a kobold wishes to intervene to resolve a dispute, the dragons fighting should stop and talk this out civilized. if this discussion fails to appease both sides, the fight shall continue as both dragons decide.

Draconic siblings each have a special place in draconic society. Pseudodragons and faerie dragons are treated as cousins, the non-sentient wyverns treated as pets or animals, and dragonborn as nieces and nephews, while kobolds are treated as children and lizardfolk as distant relatives.

A shadow dragon is to be hunted down, as they are no longer the same dragon due to shadowfell infection. It is seen as a mercy to slay one, as its soul has already passed on. A dracolich, however, is to be killed on sight without mercy, as they have forsaken their right to Drocodadaroko to prolong their life on the material plane, and thus are to be killed with extreme prejudice. Dracoliches are very dangerous to dragons, as they can rip a sould out of a dragon's body and replace it with their own, and this process destroys the previous soul in the process, sacrilege to the highest degree.