WIP dragolore 1

Dragons
The nature of dragons in the land of the rebuilt is of that of a guardian: masterpieces forged by the gods themselves, even one of them can stand toe to toe against an army. They are unique in that they are living creatures forged from the raw threads of reality, devoid of any original meaning by themselves. This contrasts them with the human-woven constructs, which needed some base to be created from.

Biology
Born at about half the height of an adult human, they never stop growing, with scholars believing that the most ancient of their race would likely outgrow the deep canyons and caverns of the old capital itself provided those representatives were still alive. They have incredible strength and speed,capable of diving a target at speeds almost unseen to the human eye, with the fastest among them capable of breaking the sound barrier. Their strength allows them to cleave straight through most forms of protection, leaving spellwoven shields the only form of defense capable of blocking swipes from their claws. Their scales are nigh impervious to most forms of damage, with the exception being those that are magic based to a certain degree, spell infused physical strikes, or similar in impact to the strike of another dragon. These aspects put them at the pinnacle of society in decades past, until the gift of magic bestowed upon the mortal races evened the playing field. They possess several intrinsic magics, namely their ability to fly and their exsanguinating breath, but most are limited to these two abilities due to the rules of the magic system overlapping with their biology: namely that you can only cast magic by consuming the magical properties of another item with similar intrinsic composition to the spell you wish to cast, and that you may only cast with the strongest catalyst you have on hand. As dragons are raw magic woven into a perfect facimile of a living being, their bodies are the purest and most powerful catalysts for spellcasting, preventing most of them from casting.

Their diet consists of magical beings and large game, but they are largely omnivores provided what they consume contains magic. Their digestive tracts are specialized toward stripping the magic from a corpse for use in regenerating wounds, flight, and their breath weapon.

They fly with scaled, batlike wings that can launch them into the sky in an instant, and can remain airborne for long periods of time while carrying the gargantuan carcasses of prey.

Their exsanguinating breath can "erode" a target, effectively stripping away their flesh and easily eating away at armor and nonmagical forms of protection; through training, this effect can be manipulated into a much slower, wider spread erosion or a narrow beam of incredibly fast acting desintegrating stream of magic. Historically, this weapon has seen use in construction projects as a stonecutting and stoneworking tool. This allowed for the construction and development of stone architecture early on, eventually becoming a vital part of the massive valley cities emblematic of the age of dragon rule.

Society
Dragon society is shaped by power; power in physical fitness, power in dominance and control over others, the application of that power, and the luxury and excess that comes with power. They took great stock in their role as the chosen protectors of mortalkind. Using the knowledge bestowed upon them by their patron deity, the forge weaver, they united primordial man under a world spanning, millenia old empire. Over time, however, growing tensions between both the gods and the cities themselves led to the first empire fracturing into quarelling city-states, which eventually descended into open war as the interpersonal conflict of the pantheon bled into giving mortalkind the means to even the playing field, even assisting in deposing the draconic heads of some cities to spite their patron gods. This long war would be cut short after the first hundred years of off and on conflict as the first incursion decimated all populations, leaving few cities and even fewer gods left standing. After a desparate final stand, the lord of magic wove the greatest spell ever known to the world, consuming his own metaphysical form and that of every soul residing in the afterlife in a globe-spanning seal, saving the world from the incursion at the cost of crashing the white-marble temples of heaven on the world, their inhabitants stranded on foreign soil.