Rexxit refugee here, so I guess I’ll try to do my part in case things don’t improve on Reddit. So what are dragons or similar beings like in your world?
In my world, dragons are called The Watchers, in charge of safeguarding the worlds from premature destruction. They were created by the gods to live alongside “lesser” mortals, but they blur the line between the mundane and divinity. For this reason, they consider themselves to be the apex species - and they aren’t wrong. They’re stronger, they’re smarter, they’re extremely long-lived. They have to be able to contend with any and all threats. But they also look down upon regular mortals and demand tributes. Even the most benevolent ones display some amount of haughtiness. Their borderline tyrannical nature caused humans in particular to rise up against them and drive them to near extinction, which was incited by the ascension of the Man-God. With many of their brethren slain, stereotypical stories of cruel wurms being celebrated, and the worship of the Man-God, many dragons have taken an antagonistic stance against humanity. They no longer express any interest in communicating with humans, which they did in the past via telekinesis since they can’t speak. It has also led to many killing and eating as they please with no regard to how it effects man.
A little late to the party but excited to have found this magazine! Wanted to answer this prompt even if I’m 6 days late haha.
There are 2 types of dragons in my world Ventreth, which I usually just refer to as northern and southern dragons based on where they live. (There are also dragon people called dorac, but I don’t quite think they fit the prompt!)
Northern Dragons:
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Your classic European style massive 4 legged lizards with wings. Their scales come in every color imaginable, although certain colors are more common than others.
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They are sapient and can live for over 1000 years, but the vast majority aren’t especially smart. Occasionally though one is born with intelligence on par with humans.
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They have massive mana reserves, but struggle with advanced magic due to their lack of intelligence. They are all taught flight magic from a young age, but it relies heavily on brute forcing them into the sky and then controlling their descent with their wings.
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All northern dragons are born with celestial magic allowing them to see mana. This can both be used to detect living creatures and for seeing someone channeling mana into a spell, making them very strong in magic battles.
Southern Dragons:
- They normally live on a separate continent near the South Pole, but can sometimes be found vacationing in the southern parts of the main continent.
- They are inspired by East Asian dragons, so they are long and slender creatures without visible wings. They also come in any color just like northern dragons.
- While they have less mana than them, southern dragons are significantly smarter than the northern dragons. This lets them make much better use of their mana overall, so they are some of the most skilled magic users on the planet.
Sounds interesting. Do southern dragons have fur or feathers, since they live in what I assume to be a cold environment?
That’s something I never really considered honestly. I’ve always imagined them as just having scales but it could definitely be interesting to give some of them fur or feathers. They do live in a cold environment, but I just hand-waved that part away with saying they use magic to keep warm if needed haha.
Thanks for the response :)
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Really late reply, but hopefully still OK?
In my world, the dragons are huge robots that are used as war weapons against whatever’s left of the world. They, along with every other Machine, are controlled by the HyperMatrix, the central AI that controls the entire species.
They resemble the classic European dragons, 4 legs, lizard-like, flying flamethrowers, but mechanical.
They are feared by humanity not only because of the obvious reasons, but because they are the most advanced unit of the entire species, capable of locating human settlements and disabling their already dated technology. Their sonic weapons also prove to be a challenge, as such attacks wipe entire bunkers in seconds with few ways of defending against.
They are also used as bombers, which helped the Machines to carpet bomb entire countries, and given their high maneuverability, anti-air defense weapons had seldom any success.
Even though they are controlled by the HyperMatrix, every Machine has it’s own personality and identity. Dragons are highly intelligent, being great strategists and some even capable of having some understanding of the impossibly complex structure of the human mind and emotion center. Some dragons even developed emotion-like routines, that made them take a liking to humans, some even going as far as to rebel against the HyperMatrix, disconnecting from it.
However, few dragons exist on the present day, due to The Blackout, where in a revenge-fueled rage, William Von Ferdi, one of the leaders of the Mechanicus Jihad developed a virus capable of obliterating any and all electronic technology existing on Earth, which he then used to destroy the HyperMatrix and all it’s Machines. Unfortunately, many of the rebelled dragons were also destroyed by the virus, and the few ones that survived were the ones that were isolated from everything else before the virus activated, as it’s prime spread vector was the Peer-to-Peer network the Machines used to communicate. The survival of those dragons did piss William off, but given their helpfulness, he did restrain himself to not release a second and final wave of the virus.
