Dragons Appearance
Normal form is what you usually think when one say dragon.
Any dragon you can come up with is allowed, well it has to resemble a dragon in one way or another.
//examples:
Want a dragon 10m big, its ok.
Want a dragon as small as a bunny with scales and cute dragon wings, its ok.
Want a furry in water living asian shaped dragon its ok too.
etc...
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Compact form
Is what it sound like a compact form of a dragon their second face. In lot of cases if not all the compact form is human alike, with a mistake or two that resemble their dragon form. Those mistakes are often covered with human wear.
//examples:
A dragon having a girl like appearance but has a smaller version of the horns peeking under the hair.
Or the dragons compact form has its chest covered in scales.
Or maybe the feet arent those of a human but are shaped like the dragon feet.
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This form appears after a freshly born baby dragon reaches 100 days. They transform in the compact form. Every dragon older then 100 days is able to do it.
There are great individuality in the behavior of the compact form. Some compact form ages with the
dragon age, some age reversely and some have one compact form, one appearance for their whole life. While other age only a few years, their first form being for example 25 year old man, that over the life of the dragon age up to 35 and stops.
Dragons Age
Magic is a extremely important life aspect of dragons so much that they dont give a penny about the human years. They have their own way of counting age that describe how powerful of magic they have. Each dragon can sense this level naturally.
Every 10 humans years there is a ceremony
The festival in these days the dragons can show off their magic in front of others and officially be recognized that they got older. Of course the aging can be very individually too.
The dragons can tell by the look at one another which age they are.
//examples
There can be 750 human year old baby
And 20 human year old adult.
Some dragons improve so fast in their magic ability that they jump over a age or two.
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The Ages
- Baby
Only able to change into their compact form, doesnt show off any other magic abilities.
- Child
Small magic burst, often uncontrolled magic, weak magic.
- Teen
Stronger magic then children can get at times out of control, but able to do a lot more tricks and things. Time when dragons explore what can they do with their magic.
- Adults
Stronger magic then teen able to do lots with their magic, nearly never lose control over it. They are able to give birth to dragon eggs
- Grandma/Grandpa
High class magic, tend to teach the young ones who ask them. Help in protection of dragons and tribes. Can give birth to dragon eggs
- GrandGrandma/GrandGrandpa
Miracle magics, magic that can rip up continents, cause a whole land to sunk in darkness or dry out a ocean. The most powerfully dragons, often considered to be the leader figures, can teach the young who ask them. Most time spend in the tribe as their magic powers feed the old spell that protect and hides the tribe from harms way. Cannot give birth to dragon eggs because of their magic strength, the magic overloads the egg destroying the egg before its done.
Dragon Eggs
Dragons do not have genders. Any dragon can make a egg with any other. The gender they take on when turning into the compact form, may reflect they personality, may not mean anything. The dragons do not stay pregnant. When they mate the magic of two dragons and their showing love is what creates the egg out of nothing.
The dragons can mate in both of their forms.
There is great variation in both sizes and coloration of the eggs, which depends on the magic influence of the parents. The baby doesnt have to have any magic similarities to its parents.
There is no strict time of the eggs incubation, or the needs of the egg. Each egg takes its own time to hatch and some need to be in cold, while other prefer heat, some like the water and some do not need any attention. Dragons by touch the shell of the egg can sense what does the egg needs and want.
But there is a believing in the dragons folk, which says:
The longer the hatching takes the stronger the born dragon.
Some eggs hatch withing days some takes 1000 years, some appear never to hatch.
When it comes to parenting some dragons are the most dotting mothers while others prefer to leave the egg in the tribes nursery for caretaker. Neither is being judged on.
So a baby dragon may have never meet their parents, while others grow up with one or both of them.
The nursery in each tribe drifters, but most are having some underneath the earth complex in which some of the eggs needs can be meet. Obliviously if the egg needs the fresh air, sun, moon or star light it will be taken care off over the earth level. The nursery is always attracting some dragons, who take care of all the eggs. Or take care of it for some time before leaving it.
Morals
Lets call it Morals.
1. Each dragon life is the most precious and has to be protected.
2.Each dragons chose and free will is to be respected as long as it doesnt endanger a dragons life
3.Each dragon can chose how to life his life.
4.Each dragon is unique and is loved for it.
Some guidelines, often given out by the GGM/GGP
-Babies shouldnt ever leave the tribe, on their own.
-Children can only leave in the company of a teen or older.
-Teen and older are free to come in and out of the tribe as they wish.
-Humans are forbidden to be taken to the tribe (a rule that was mostly violated in the recent times)
//Examples
You see because the dragons free will is important, and there are dragons who are human obsessed or human loving, you can see in the tribe a human house while beside it a dragon sleep under his tree. Or random human object that some dragon took in the tribe. Well each object is controlled over by the oldest to make sure not a single one is a tracker or something to dis-spell the tribe protection.
Well that wouldnt stop the more traditional dragons to frown over this human things, but they respect and just nag about those.//
The Tribe
There was only one tribe at the begging of the time. The big tribe surrounded by high mountains. Times werent idle and peacefully, in opposite there was a war between dragons for the wish to rule and not be ruled. It was a just hatched dragon with great power that challenge every dragon there was and in less then 100 days from its birth he won against everyone, his magic a miracle. He changed his body to a young person, surprising the beast around, declaring that he is the oldest dragon.
He taught every dragon the respect for each other and gave them free will to live how they wished for. He shared his secrets of transformation giving ever dragon a second form, but even his magic couldnt make them perfect to his own second form. Some bits of the beast remained.
Given the free will to do what each wanted many explored the world but every ten years their would hear the voice, a soft whisper, a tug on their heart, calling them back, to their first home to celebrate life and its flow.
That tribe is the tribe where
the Festival is being hold.
Each tribe has at least one grandgrandma/grandgrandpa that feed the shield their magic just by living there. This shield is like a bubble imagine the magic that hide Hogwarts for comparative. Humans would just not be able to come close on their own. At least not with out a dragon leading them in. At the time where this rp will start there are many tribes, but they all migrate for the festival over to this one. Well each dragon choose is if they will come or not.
Each tribe has a nursery where its taken care of the eggs, some dragons choose to live in the tribe some not. The tribes are pretty big and have many variation in housing. Caves trees houses, etc. In the tribe our rp will happen there is a natural arena, surrounded by 3 sides by clifs and for more info look at location guide.
The Festival
The festival is really important for the dragons. The duration of the festival varies from the time to time but it never shorter then a week and never longer then 4 weeks.
This time is when the biggest egg boom happens too. Because dragons from all around come in this time of celebration finding a partner is much more successfully.
The main part of the festival is the Aging ceremony. Each dragon that chooses comes with his momentary age group and does one of two things to be considered older.
1. Show off their magic.
2. Challenge a dragon that is a age group over them.
In 1 they have to impress, get approved by most grandgrandma/pa that are there. In second the grandgrand choose the dragon against who they will fight, but they may accept a volunteer as the opponent. The fight last till one surrenders or one is K.O. if a dragon endangers the life of the other the GG will interrupt.
Falling the Aging isnt considered too bad, its like failing a exam there is always the next time.
Magic
What sort of magic does dragon wield?
Well 90% are element based, 10% are not.
So having a for example a water manipulating dragon is common, but a necromancy dragon is rare.
Some of the dragons can wield more then one type of magic.
So a dragon wielding earth and snow can be found on occasion but a dragon wielding telekinesis and animal control is super super rare.
Most dragons just think and the magic happens some thought use poems, hums and words to help them keep their magic under control.
I will ask you guys not to just say water magic but to explain what he exactly do with the water magic, does he turn the water into balls and shot them use it as a whip, evaporate it etc.
And if you deiced to be able to create life from example light butterflies that allow you to see far away, then be aware that they will die fast as in within hours and cannot be complexes life forms.