Dragon Hall

Anydragon · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Dragon Lore

This is written by my sister in soul Syrosa. She is the keeper of the dragon lore, and the historian. I hope you lean much, and possibly remember your past.

There have been those who have expressed interest in Dragon's Lore, so I will tell you what I remember.

I'll start with the four clans and their personalities, and the personalities of humans who have been re-encarnated from the clans. There is a fifth clan, but that clan is Stormwatcher, and he's his own clan, at the same time he is all other clans. (it's a little confusing. He's the guardian of the second gate)

As a note, no dragon clans are evil in and of themselves, though occasionally an individual dragon will be drawn to the dark paths. Certain clans are more sadistical and unfriendly towards humans than others, but this does not make them evil. Also, all dragons will have an affinity for the elements, fire especially.

First up we have Red Chasm which is the clan of Fire. They are extremely solitary and often violent in nature. Red Chasm dragons are easily angered and can hold a grudge for an incredible length of time. They do not like other intelligent species, and would rather eat a sentient than make conversation with it. They are also extremely unfreindly to their own species, with a few exeptions. (note, not ALL Red Chasm dragons are like this, but it is a tendancy that they have) Red Chasm dragons tend to be sadistical, and have been known to practice cannibalism on occaision. They are very solitary and live, usually alone, in the bowels of the earth. There is one intelligent species that they do communicate with, and that is Fire Salamanders, who share territory with them. Red Chasm dragons who have been re-encarnated as humans tend to be loners, usually have very short fuses and stay angry for a very long time. They are fiercly loyal to causes they beleive in, and they are stubborn as mules. They have a fascination with fire to the point of pyromania, and some will find that flames around them, whether they are candles, or fireplaces, or otherwise, will react with their emotions and mental states. Red Chasm dragons preferred raw elemental magics to psy magics and more conventional magics. They were usually red or other fire tones, rarely they had ash highlights and sometimes they had metal highlights, though they were never wholly metallic.

Ocean Deeps was the dragon clan of water. These dragons are very social with members of their own clan, but often reclusive and hard to find for other sentients, other clans included. These dragons are mellow and easy- going, and will always prefer negotiation and compromise to battle. When encountered they are friendly, if a little shy. These dragons are extremely gentle, always trying to avoid confrontation and pain on anyone's part. They live quite comfortably in the earth's oceans, breathing easily both in air and water. The magics of these dragons are mainly psy magics, though they dabble in the other magics. Compromising and adaptable, these dragons change with the seasons, though they will remain constant to their morals and their high standards. They are very true friends and very emotional in nature. Humans re-encarnated from this clan are often very fond of the water and will choose to live in places with a good view of a water source. They are usually very gifted, telepathically and empathically. They love animals and animals will do anything for them. They are usually quite easy-going but have a tendancy to become wildly emotional at the drop of a hat. They can be quite shy, but once befreinded, a truer friend could not be found anywhere. Ocean Deeps dragons were usually blue, green, purple, or variants of these colours. They were often highlighted with grey, yellow, or white, and sometimes had metal highlights, of gold, silver, or platinum, though they were never wholly metallic. They were the smallest of the dragons

Rolling Thunder was the dragon clan of air. Dragons from this clan are extremely social and gregarious. They have very strong and well developed senses of humor were rarely found alone. These dragons tended to travel in packs, or mobs, and often acted like roving pranksters. Mercurical in temperment, these dragons could go from 0-raging-giggly and back again in a few seconds. These dragons would either talk an enemy to death or outright battle them, depending on their mood. Some have a sadistical streak, but they are sadistical for laughs, instead of for rage. Usually even those unfortunates who bear the butt of their jokes will laugh about them in the end. These dragons can be stubborn as mules at times, but be prepared for split-second about-faces and sudden decisions. They tend to have two groups of friends, the mobs they travel with in public, and small groups of true friends with whom they are actually serious. Humans re-encarnated from these dragons are great manipulaters of others, often jokers, lawyers, or politicians. They enjoy storms, especially thunderstorms, and revel in the power of the wind. Often they are very talented with clairvoyance or telepathy, sometimes empathy as well. The dragons of this clan were usually very dark in colour, being black, dark blue, purple, or green, rarely dark red, or hematite. Some dragons were wholly metallic, but usually this was a dark metal like hematite. Sometimes they had silver or platinum highlights, and were often mottlings of many dark colours in one. They were the second largest in size. They had an active hatred for Red Chasm Dragons, and would usually fight when confronted by these enemies. They had an alliance with White Mountain.

White Mountain dragons were the dragons of Earth. They were quite gregarious and often gathered in small groups to discuss philosophy, theology, science, art, magic, etc. They were very great intellectuals. Peace-loving and gentle, these dragons enjoyed being able to sit back and watch the world go by. They could sometimes be quite lazy, almost taciturn. Posessed of dry senses of humor and a flair for facts, when presented with something they knew as a misinformation, they would be quick to correct the source. These dragons acknowledged and utilized all types of magic: psy, elemental, and more conventional magic, which they referred to as 'High magic'. They were pacifistic by nature but would fight when pressed to it. Humans re-encarnated from these dragons are usually very intellectual and are great thinkers. They will often teach their fellow humans, even if they are not professional teachers. They enjoy nature and the outdoors, and 'roughing it' can be a fun concept to them. They usually have minor talents in most or all of the psy skills, occasionally they have major talents, but usually in a few selected abilities, like empathy, or clairvoyance. They are often very heavily into spirituality and religeon. Dragons of this clan were usually very light in colour, very often metallic, or pearled. Sometimes they are crystalline, but this is rare. These dragons were quite often mottles of metallics or wholly metallic. They were the second smallest of the dragons, and had an alliance with Rolling Thunder.

These are the four main clans of the dragons. All other clans have branched from pure lines or combinations of clan lines from these original four. As my life was in the time before the new clans, I can't tell about these new clans. I could tell which clans they sprung from based on their personalities and colours, but I couldn't tell much else.

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Anydragon · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

This is the second of Syrosa's writings

This is the second part of my bit on Dragon's Lore. I have been reminded of a cogent point, Ocean Deeps dragons did not actively seek out battle and tended to avoid it, but when forced to fight they were extremely passionate and deadly fighters.

I think I mentioned in the last posting that I'd be telling about the Great War and the events that led to this. Just a little refresher, Red Chasm dragons and Rolling Thunder dragons hate each other with a passion, and this plays a big part in the events that led to the war. I can't remember exactly why these two clans hated each other, but they did.

I lived about 50,000 years ago. I place my souls' age at roughly 52,691 years, give or take a few centuries, etc. The events I will describe occurred during this first lifetime. When I was born, Humans had not yet entered the earth in the form they now wear. There were other sentient creatures, the 'mythological' creatures like griffins, elves, wyverns (who were a distant cousin of dragons, as well as drakes), unicorns, etc. As a note, these creatures were all formed of magical energy that had been given mass, and as such, when they died, their energies returned to the earth in the form of magical deposits. They did not leave skeletons. The closest to a skeleton you could find from these creatures would be large deposits of precious or semi-precious materials in unlikely geographical locations. Often they would just 'dissapear' after being dead for a certain amount of time. As a further note, these creatures' souls for the most part, were eventually re-encarnated into humans. After humans became widespread, these creatures lost their physical forms and existed for the most part on the spirit and astral planes, where they still live now.

This part of my treatise deals a little with my life and with the life of my mate, who was then known as Mahari. Mahari was a prince of the Rolling Thunder clan, ("Mahari" meaning literally "storm prince") and a fairly typical dragon of that clan. I was known then as Tathaenhi, (literal translation, ta meaning cloud, thane meaning mountain, nhi being an honorific for lady, thus "Lady of the Mountain's Clouds") and I was a minor Lady of the White Mountain clan, belonging to an offshoot branch of the White Mountain royalty. (which is inconsequential because nearly everyone in every clan belonged to offshoot branches of clan royalty) Mahari and I met quite by accident, though it was bound to happen, considering the closeness of White Mountain and Rolling Thunder territory (both clans preferred to live in mountainous and forested areas). It was sort of a case of love at first sight, and I won't go too much into it as it is very personal. Anyhow it was soon discovered that Mahari and I shared a bond known as Soulmating, indeed we were CounterParts, which is a type of Soulmating that is extremely close.

The Elders and the Rulers of both clans considered this a good omen and a sign, and the clans were allied. This is a very fortunate thing, considering that the territories of both clans were so close together, which could have led to wars if there was not an alliance of some sort in existance. From that point, White Mountain was bound to defend and protect Rolling Thunder, and vice~versa.

There were minor skirmishes between the united clans of Rolling Thunder/White Mountain and the now mutual enemy Red Chasm. Tension increased over time, but always remained below the mark of all out war.

Then something happened. The Creatrix, whom we worshipped as a twin God and Goddess, much in the manner of many of the nowadays Pagan religions, introduced a new species on the earth, Humans. The Age of Magic was beginning to end and many of the magical creatures agreed to let themselves decline on the physical realm, with the promise of re-encarnation as humans given to them. Dragons were no exception to this. We were told that one day Humanity would surpass even us dragons (yes we were very vain about ourselves) in potential and greatness. Most of the dragons acceeded gracefully to this new way, White Mountain and Rolling Thunder being some of the most enthusiastic about this new idea. I don't know what it is, if it was perversity and hatred for these two, or just an unwillingness to relinquish the hard-fought-for power they held, but not all of Red Chasm clan liked this idea. Some did, the majority though, including the Red Chasm royalty, loathed the idea.

War was declared on the other dragons, on the dragons who would 'tamely roll over and die on command'. Red Chasm dragons were of the concensus that this was an extremely stupid and cowardly thing to do. So we fought. (a note: Ocean Deeps stayed secluded from this for quite some time. It wasn't until near the end of the war that they joined the fight, and then they took the part of the dragons who wished to be re-encarnated as humans. another note, there were members of all clans who didn't like the idea, and those joined sides with the others of like mind, just as there were members of all clans who did like the idea. Thus there were occasional Red Chasm dragons fighting beside Rolling Thunder and White Mountain, and there were White Mountain and Rolling Thunder dragons fighting side by side with Red Chasm royalty.) The battle lasted a little over half a millennia. It was the most terrible time in dragons' history, never before had the whole race gone to all out full scale war with itself. Many non-dragon sentients found themselves caught in the middle of battles, and a great many innocents were killed this way.

Eventually nearly all the dragons had been killed, or had fled to other places. A faction of White Mountain/Rolling Thunder cross-breds fled to the far East, where they lived quite safely for a long time, adopting new forms and different ways of doing things. Some Ocean Deeps and a few Red Chasms who were fighting for humans joined them as well.

The dragons who were left in the traditional homes (which later became parts of Europe, Africa, and Americana) grew very solitary. There was no unifying clans and society was sporadic. Gradually they died out, the last known dragons dying in the Dark Ages when little men in tin cans came and battled them as 'demons' and 'spawn of satan'. As the dragons' physical forms died, their souls were transferred, as I said, to the spiritual and astral planes. There they retain the society they once had on this plane of Earth, though there is less infighting and vioilence both inside and between clans. Occasionally Red Chasm and Rolling Thunder dragons will be seen fighting on these planes, but it's not as deadly or violent as it once was. If there are any dragons left physically 'alive', I have yet to learn of their presences, if they are, they would have to be quite ancient, for as time went on, and the types of Magic that were around when dragons were more populous faded, they lost their ability to reproduce physically. (beleive me their quite active on the other Planes. I've been stuck with several sets of young from randy familiars. I was 'babysitting' a pair of twins for about half a year, then Wai Loong and Kai Lin adopted humans of their own.)

Because of this war, you may find that older red dragons you encounter on other Planes are not always friendly towards humans. Usually they become a little more polite if they discover a dragon past in you, sometimes they'll just ignore you and refuse to have anything to do with you. The young ones, particularly the ones born in the last 500 years, are usually more friendly.

Well this concludes the second part of my treatise. Next time I plan to go into dragon physiology in all its myriad forms, some of the magics and 'powers' we had, our infamous vanity, and some other facts and tidbits that I remember. (including those notorious breath-weapons.. beleive it or not they did exist, but not quite how D&D and role-playing games would have us think.)

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NahTahDahNah · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

these writings are from my friend tathaenhi. (syrosa) Wink

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