Category:Dragon

"Tactical. Covetous. Terrifying. Benign. Dragons are all these things"

- Scholar Al'Jibran of Kathlon City

At a Glance
Of all of the creatures in the world, The Drak (or "Dragons" as they are more frequently called) are the most known and feared. Many groups of adventurers have met their end at the hands of these giant beasts, the power of some rivalling that of lesser Deities.

Dnorkalag, a massive Drak, was the progenitor of his species. Born of the primordial flames of the early world, Dnorkalag was fire-made-flesh and a semi-sentient beast of insatiable appetite. Gaining his immense size through the consumption of prey, he cannibalized his own spawn, distorting his body and increasing his already collosal size. What consciousness he had was consumed with hunger and corrupted by his acts of cannibalise he was terrorized by visions of those he had consumed.

Eventually, his spawn would bind together in an effort to stop the leviathan that fed on his own children. The smartest of these spawn, a Drak named Nozlythastrs, led the charge and with their combined might the children of Dnorkalag encased their father, linking their claws and tails together with an iron grip, suffocating him.

With Dnorkalag gone, the Drak elevated Nozlythastrs to the role of patriarch. It was he who established the many Houses of Drak, a show of force for Dragons to remember for all time, and after eons of rule Nozlythastrs passed away -- but he did not descend into the abyss. Draconic folklore states that it was at this time Nozlythastrs ascended to The Astral Sea and became Bahamut, God of Time.

Since then, The Drak (now frequently called Dragons) have groupped in dragonflights that claim ancestry to the greatest of their kind at each House of Drak. Each House was painted a different colour to denote its heritage and lineage, and dragons remember the name of all of those who have gone before. These flights are further separated into small family groups known as broods. Each occupies and holds territory and while some are commonly seen; others have nearly been driven to extinction by wars among their own kind or with hunters or kingdoms.

The great dragonflights are identified by their coloration and connection to a House of Drak