Post by Scorchys on Nov 15, 2019 19:38:13 GMT -5
Dragons
DM control only
Type: Ancient Race
Creators: Gin'bo the God of Chaos and creator of chaos dragons.
Goddess Melfian Luminiae, Mother of Dragons.
General Information:The Dragons of this setting are diverse, coming in all shapes,colors,and sizes. There are many species of dragons in this world and each will have their own descriptions for players to view, of course Dragons are very rare and a encounter with one is even rarer and of course should be respected as much. Dragons are the high tier of Shinma even one dragon can shape the events around it or destroy it. This page is for those who wish to learn about these creatures from an ooc standpoint so one may get to know what to expect from this setting and should not be used for metagaming. In game they are considered extinct and in hiding.
The Lore:
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the world was brought to form by the gods. It was blank and useless, however, each god decided to add their own flavor to it. However before all other races came the dragons, ancient, powerful, wise and giant beasts.Melfian Luminiae loved the creatures she made and along with Gin'bo, the creator of the "savage" beasts loved power and chaos, and though evil he did not force his children to be such, he allowed them to choose their way and watch it all play out. First, they created the Aquatic Dragons to inhabit the great lakes and oceans of the world, then they took a bit of each element in the world, Fire, Lightning, Earth, Water, and Wind, and formed a dragon from each of the essences of the elements. So came the Colored Dragons, from here he then gathered these elements and combined them, adding a bit of gold to one, a bit of silver to another, and bronze, then brass, to each of the others, so came to be the metallic dragons of Shinma. Then they watched them as they drove lines between themselves, scattered amongst the realms, the most powerful beasts, yet forced into hiding by the mass quantities of the younger and weaker races.
It angered Gin'bo as his children were forced to hide and fear, some places respected his and Melfian's children greatly, but nothing like what they deserved, this anger formed and he opened his hand forming all of the elements combining them, he then added a bit of steel, and the other metallic dragons essences as well, then finally to stabilize the massive concentration, he added a single gem, a piece of obsidian as well as his very essence into the swirling mass, a blinding flash occurred and so was the birth of the obsidian crystal dragon held. He continued this one dragon for each of the gems, only one dragon for each gem may ever by one of these great dragons.
With the creation of these great dragons came the creation of many things, but mostly, fear. Fear and respect for the great race, this pleased the two gods, their children were now worth many things and something many feared, sailors feared and respected the aquatic dragon, some even worshiped them hoping they would bring in the fish for them. Farmers did the same for the colored Dragons, Priests of holy temples worshiped the metallic dragons for their seeming connection tot he gods above, and the greatest of their children ... the crystal dragons, were worshiped by all, those who saw them ether lived to tell tails of the greatest beasts of the world, or were never heard of again, leaving their feelings of pride and joys shrouded in respect and mystery. This caused many foolish mortal little ones, as they liked calling them, humans and elves, to go and seek out his children for teachings, or for slaying, very rarely did ether happen, only when an entire village or city banded together with powerful magic and warriors ever dd one of his children fall, of course, he considered this a good thing, it proved that he had balanced his children, powerful and great, but still able to fall like any great king of any land. Soon their children fell into myth, they had learned to avoid challenging huge numbers of these little ones it made Gin proud of how intelligent and wise they had become in these hundreds of years, they learned from their mistakes immediately another mark of a good mind. Soon the race nearly disappeared from the memory of any, and they were called extinct, this amused him at the ignorance of the races created by the other gods, and often he mocked them about such.
Notable Dragons:
Valius Khalu
Kaiser
Grandie Zzaus
Varos Garbrathn