Celestial Dragon

Delcho Sinfella, a Vantablack Celestial Dragon, fires his Gamma Ray Burst at the Binturian Party.

## Stats

### Power Level

Plot Boss, DeathQuest Boss, Year Boss (Depending on age and color of celestial dragon)

### Main Abilities

Physical strength, flight, breath weapon, incredible magical power, high intelligence, interplanar travel

## Common Knowledge

During the Planar War, the Draconic Incursion, and the Battle of Binturia, people may have borne witness to glowing dragons unfurling their scales to reveal massive collages of light and color, reflections of a world undreamt. Scholars of Celestial magic may have read about such creatures in the ancient past, who would teach their wisdom and secrets to only the worthiest mortal wizards.

These beasts are celestial dragons, and they seldom ever enter the mortal plane.

## Location

Celestial dragons are native to the Celestial Plane, and can be found there almost exclusively.

## Biology/Lifestyle

Celestial dragons, sometimes called metallic dragons, are the inherently magical counterpart to mundane dragons, and as such exhibit many similarities. Celestial dragons take the appearance of large, scaled, quadrupedal lizard creatures with large wings, claws, talons, and the ability to breath some kind of energy.

Celestial dragons, however, are theoretically superior to mundane dragons in all respects. Celestial dragons do not need to eat, but do need to sleep, and their aging has no upper limit. The weakest celestial dragon is tougher than the average mundane dragon in physical strength, intelligence, and magical potency. Celestial dragons also develop sapience far faster than mundane dragons, requiring only a few years.

In accordance to their creator’s design, each celestial dragon embodies a great body or phenomena of the order of the stars beyond the Stars. Each celestial dragon is unique in this regard with no two embodying one single celestial body. For example, one such dragon may embody a large planet orbiting a distant star, while another may embody a comet speeding through space. The color of a celestial dragon’s scales usually reflects the kind of celestial entity they embody and their relative strength: bronze celestial dragons embody planets and nebulae; silver celestial dragons embody comets, meteors, and anything travelling quickly through the night sky; and gold dragons embody stars, galaxies, quasars, and anything in the night sky that shines. Black celestial dragons are unfathomably rare, only two are known to have existed and neither occurred naturally. These celestial dragons embody the endless abyss of black holes, and are even more powerful than gold celestial dragons.

When unleashing their full power, a celestial dragon’s scales fall away to reveal aspects of their true selves like spinning stardust, swirling gasses, and so on. While in this state, their so-called “true form”, celestial dragons have incredible destructive potential. Maintaining this form for long periods of time is difficult for celestial dragons, and they are at their most vulnerable while they remain in such a state.

### Personality

Celestial dragons are born with an inherent desire for order, and though they do not possess it from birth a great many value discipline and study, among other supposedly-noble qualities. Though the greed seen in mundane dragons is a more nuanced passion for research and learning in celestial dragons, their vanity and arrogance dwarfs that of nearly any other living thing. Celestial dragons are, in their own opinion, the highest order of creatures -- the pinnacle of all life anywhere -- and it is their duty to impose order upon the fools beneath them with a gentle but firm hand.

Generally Celestial Dragons are sort of solitary, though many take mates or have friends to work with. There aren’t many clans or packs, like their material counterparts, but they do happen. There aren’t really families, as Celestial Dragons don’t reproduce.

Celestial dragons also have an intense, almost vitriolic hatred for the Fae, their supposed counterpart from their creator’s relative. The Fae represent anarchy in an ordered world, and take great joys in dismantling the works of the celestial dragons.

#### Golden Celestial Dragons

Gold dragons are teachers among the celestial dragons, holding truest to the God of Knowledge’s original intent. As such, they have a tendency to hoard knowledge above most things, often amassing vast libraries in their immortal lives; of books either of their own writing or that they’ve collected. That said, they will often freely share the knowledge given, though they may wish to test aspiring students first. Gold dragons prefer to be nonviolent, but are not above fighting when the need arises, or when instinct gets the better of them.

#### Silver Celestial Dragons

Silver dragons are the soldiers and defenders of the celestial dragons, if there must be any. Silvers are more inclined to fight than their brethren, though even then, fights are few. They hoard weapons of all types and designs, and though they may never participate in warfare, they will study it and hoard knowledge in that regard.

#### Bronze Celestial Dragons

Bronze dragons are the creators and builders. They design massive structures to call home, and incredible creations to spread across their domains. They are unique in the sense that bronze dragons tend to hoard their own creations more than things belonging to others.

### Society

#### Celestial Council

Celestial Dragons are beings of order, considering their origins. As such, their societal structure tends to be extremely hierarchical in regards to respect and regards. The easiest way to describe it would be The Council above Gold above Silver above Bronze. But this is extremely inaccurate, technically speaking. The more structure would be something to the extent of:

The Celestial Council is above all else unless they approve an Arbiter to have Special Authority, at which they would be allowed to act above them. Below the Council are Gold Dragons, specifically those that embody galaxies above those that embody quasars and regular stars. The exception to this is a Dragon that embodies the Sun, who would technically be placed equal to or above the top of the Gold Dragons. Silver Dragons are generally below Gold Dragons, though their power may be equivalent or greater than lower Gold ones. In these instances a series of challenges can be issued by a Silver to a Gold to attempt to elevate their status. These “Elevated Silvers” are generally on equal level with Quasar Golds, as no Silver has ever been seen to be stronger than that. However, failing one of these challenges will drop this status to the level of Medium Bronze. Bronzes are generally below Silvers, though the same variant of challenge can be issued to elevate them. The general code with these is the more magnificent their true form appears, the stronger the Bronze. Nebulae tend to be above Gas planets which tend to be above standard worlds. A failed Bronze is dropped to the bottom of this pyramid. Failing a challenge prohibits you from trying again for another century. Arbiters work outside of this Hierarchy, and therefore may elevate or lower themselves to any level to complete their works. They are, however, regarded with utmost respect by all, and therefore can be seen as fitting into the structure as slightly above Gold, unless they abuse their position, which not only sets them to the bottom but also forces the council to lose respect as they had nominated a failed arbiter.

The Celestials are ruled by a council of Dragons within the Celestial fields, which varies in size and involvement and who sits on it from aeon to aeon. Generally to be on the council a Dragon needs to prove to their peers that they are worthy of having a vote.

#### Arbiters

The Celestial Dragons do not have many enemies or reason to intervene in anything, but things do happen once in a blood moon. A group of one to five Dragons is nominated by the Council to the position of “Arbiter” when things happen, and it is on them to resolve the issue by any means necessary, by any authority, so long as they don’t endanger the rest of the universe or abuse their power. If the issue is resolved, the Arbiters are to remain in their position until they believe that they can retire, which will be confirmed by the council should they believe that they have successfully completed their work.

#### Celestial Apotheosis

In extremely rare cases, the Celestial Dragons may take interest in a certain individual on the material plane, be it mortal or material dragon or something else. Generally it would have to be a particularly powerful sorcerer, or someone who shares the same mindset as a Celestial, or someone they think is cool and want to work with, or someone who they grow to respect. In these cases, which require a unanimous vote from the Celestial Council, the Dragons will allow the individual to join their ranks, to become a Celestial Dragon themselves. This is usually done in a very flashy fashion, as seen below.

This has only happened a handful of times, such as the story of Zaros and Heisen, two brothers who fought for the position of court mage in their king’s court when the last one passed. Zaros won the position, and with it, its secrets, but Heisen wouldn’t take defeat, and snuck into Zaros’s chambers to learn his secrets, and then into royal libraries to learn even more. When Zaros found out, and attempted to have his brother detained, Heisen vanished in a flash of light, leaving in his place a polished slab of brass. The other time in recent memory concerned a Butterfly-folk, exiled for his mixed-court blood, who, upon learning the origin of his race, attained such an unfathomable hatred for the Fae, that he began attempting to dismantle the island’s monarchies, and doing research into how to destroy Fae. This caught the Dragons’ attention, and they elevated him to one of their own to lead their army in the upcoming Planar War.

## Rarity/Power Level

Celestial dragons are abundant on their home plane -- the Celestial Plane -- but are almost not present at all on the Material Plane. If one should appear on Temporis, it may be to further some obscure research passion of theirs, fulfill some grand design, or perhaps they harbor a grievance with some unfortunate mortal.

Celestial dragons are inherently very magical, possessing massive wells of mana and nearly-unsurpassed knowledge of magic. A great many of them may be able to cast some spells without expending any mana at all, or even without an incantation.

Like many intelligent mundane dragons, celestial dragons have the ability to assume a mortal form through magic (likely an enhanced form of an Alter Self spell, but sources vary and dragons are oft loathe to share trade secrets).

## History

Celestial dragons were created by the Elder God of Knowledge, to embody the school of magic that he himself created and teach it mortals they deemed worthy. They travelled between their plane, the Celestial Fields of their plane, and the Material Plane for a great many years, but slowly visited less and less. This was partly due to inconvenience, and partly due to the influence of the Fae.

In order to continue the spread of Celestial magic, in keeping with their creator’s wishes, the celestial dragons created more of themselves. These creatures would not embody anything, and in many ways were strictly weaker than they themselves were. Whether this was due to the cost of creating so many more beings like themselves, or simply out of vanity will never be known for certain. These beings would also be made to be adaptable to whatever environment they took residence on in the primordial, ever-changing Material Plane. These beings would become the mundane dragons, or simply dragons as they have come to be known in the absence of their superior counterpart.

Celestial dragons have, at various times, gone to outright war with the Fae, devising powerful engines of destruction and interrogation to achieve their aims. In recent memory, celestial dragons under Delcho Sinfella attempted to install dragon rulers across the Material Plane and open countless gates between their plane and that of the mortals.

## Further/Related Information

* Astral Plane
* Celestial Plane
* Constellations
* Delcho Sinfella
* Draconic Incursion
* Dragon
* Fae
* Knowledge
* Magic
* Planar War