Dragons are a thing out of the far, distant past. No one quite knows what fate betook them nor what kind of tragedy befell upon them, but one thing is clear: their undeniable extinction.
Some dragons, however, high in power and in stature, could walk among mortals under the appearance of seemingly humanoid figures. The offspring of such events led the way to the birth of a dragonborn race that still lingers to this day.
The Dragonborn are receptacles of the blood of those dragons that once roamed Terra, as their blood trickled down upon their descendants. Their settlements are located very far and between over the continent, and their numbers are among the fewest in relation to the other races. One could live several tens of years without seeing one.
In truth, Dragonborn are indeed a dwindling kind. They live in high, robust towers atop mountains and are mostly concerned with themselves. Dragonkind have always struggled to find a way to revert their plight, to return to the majesty of their ancestors, when dragonblood ran fast and strong within their veins. But now, every drangonling born is more distant from their lineage, away from the very cradle of their existence.
Some among them have lost the faith that, one day, they will return to their former glory. They say there is no point in trying anymore, for, in a few more hundred years, the Dragonborn race will all but break completely apart from their glorious ancestry.
Some Dragonborn communities, however, have a very close relationship with lizardfolk, to the horror of the most purists among their kind. Such purists call them all degenerates who seek to destroy whatever hope they have left by mingling with inferiors. Fierce arguments usually follow from such outbursts, with "degenerate" Dragonborn fighting tooth and nail for their choices and beliefs. In general, lizardfolk themselves take little offense and usually move on with their business, despite a few serious altercations over the years.
Dragonborn societies do not enact capital punishments. Instead, they condemn those charged with the gravest crimes to life as a subject to what they call bloodline experiments. None of those who go to such dungeons ever returns.
Most within Dragonkind pray to Draconic entities who are believed to correspond to the Givers of Life, those who once walked on Terra as mortals. Such entities are associated with a diversity of natural elements and aspects, all figuring around the Chromatic Pentagon: Telera, Acera, Virmira, Zestina and Uxal, the Mothers of Dragonkind. Dragonborn urbanities often adopt one of them as patron deities, and organize festivals around their myths and lore every year.
Some astute minds have already hypothesized connections between the chromatic nations of Orchenkind to the chromatic nature of the old Draconic gods. The boldest among them even once posed that the Orcs might be in fact a direct result of failed outcomes from bloodline experiments of old, but her voice has not been heard again ever since...
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