Dragons

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> "Sane folk stay far, far away from dragons, especially dragons which clearly wish to be left alone. And do you know why, Rogar? Because dragons are a very sure and horrible form of death!”
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Dragons are monstrous reptiles classed as Monstrous Elders, along with Balrogs and Giants.

Dragons have been in existence since the First Age, although certain types were not bred or magically created until later. The Dragons of Otherworld are swift, cunning and lethal. Their abilities vary by type. Some can camouflage themselves. Some have specialized breath weapons, such as the ability to breathe fire or spit acid. Others can sense movement, Most can fly, even some types that don't have wings.

## Types of Dragons

There are several different classes of dragons:

* Occidental (Western) - Four or more limbs and separate wings.
* Wyvern - Bat-like forms with two hind limbs and wings, including more dangerous varieties like tentacle mouthed snallygasters and petrifying basilisks
* Lung (Eastern/Oriental) - A serpentine form with four limbs
* Wyrm - Non-dinosaurid reptilian monsters with two or more limbs but no wings
* Lindorm - Serpentine bipedal forms with no wings
* Tatzelwurm - Winged limbless serpentine forms, including fiery flying serpents
* Feathered Serpent - Feathered serpentine, limbless wingless forms
* Great Serpent- Non-feathered serpentine, limbless, wingless forms
* Lesser Dragon - Drakes, dragon dogs, and other smaller draconic types.

Within these basic classes, the game world features fur-covered albino dragons of arctic regions, translucent dragons inhabiting Crystal Caverns, baleen-mouthed oceanic dragons skimming the Leviathan Coast, heavily exoskeletoned bone dragons, undead necrodragons [dracoliches] like Necrophoros, robot steampunk dragons, arboreal dragons made of trees, and arachnedragons [spider-dragons] made by magic most foul when Dominus possessed the artifact called Godspell during the Third Age.

### TruDragons

GameComm has been conducting genetic experiments with the hopes of creating realm biological creatures to populate the Otherworld game rather than costly sims. They call these created species truforms. They have successfully designed a black dragon but it has thus far proven too temperamental to allow into the game.

## **Dragon History**

In Impworld’s history, dragons have featured prominently.

In the First Age, the Cloudgiant War was sparked over the possession of Wyrmthrall, a sword which allows its wielder to control dragons and their kin. The blade was forged by solari elf magi who intended to use it against the shadus elves, the latter of whom had won independence from Imperial rule as a result of the Bloodstone Accord which officially ended the Greater Elven Civil War. While the weapon worked, the dragons who were enthralled raged against the countryside once Wyrmthrall’s spell dissipated. The War ended when Wyrmthrall was broken. Much later, the First Age was brought to an end by the Great Dragonwar, in which dragons made a bid to wipe out the Noble Elders. The Noble Alliance of humans, dwarves and elves won by attrition; the destruction of forests by dragons enraged the arboreals, who sought out dragon clutches and began destroying them. Arboreal dragons were developed to combat the scourge of dragonkind more effectively. Though their strategy was ultimately successful, arboreal numbers were also greatly reduced during the conflict. Dragon dominance was broken and the world began to grow anew.

The Second Age ended with the Second Dragon War, a lesser plague of dragons which, nonetheless, managed to bring an end to the Icarii Empire, forcing the bird-men to flee the Empyrion Isles, their ancestral homelands in the skies of Obsidius.

At the beginning of the Third Age, Dominus seized Godspell and used it to create the arachnedragons, vicious fire-breathing spider-dragon mutations that spin highly flammable webs. The Magewar ended the Third Age. The blast of wyld magic that leveled much of the Highreaches and created the Blight, also dislocated the continent of Wanjur (with portions of Shakar and Astan) to the planet Tarak (and dislocated a proportional section of alien Tarak to the planet Obsidius).

Obsidius’ Fourth Age consists of hunting down newly outlawed magus and dealing with a new alien continent in the virtual Impworld game environment. Otherworld’s Fourth Age likewise finds those displaced to Tarak trying to make sense of their new world. Dragons still inhabit the realm of Otherworld. For example, the entire universe witnessed Luckbane's attempt to slay Gargath the Merciless. Likewise, the Champions squared off against the undead dracoform Necrophoros in the Everwylde Woods, enroute to Mot Hadrall. You can read about both dragons in Luckbane (if you haven't already). Expect to see more dragons as the series unfolds.

## Appearances

In Luckbane, Jarrod Seventhborn and his buddy Rogar Thunderhammer squared off against a dragon called Gargath the Merciless. Gargath is an Occidental Class dragon.

Luckbane also featured Necrophoros, an undead dragon.