[Species] Dragons

Life expectancy: ca. 3000 years

Appearance:
Dragons are big lizard-like creatures with a massiv body, a long tail and leathery wings. The biggest specimen can get to a lenght of 80 meters and a wingspan of 40 meters. But only the oldest dragons are that big.
Dragons grow their whole life. After hatching they are not longer than 30 cm and have a wingspan of about 50 cm. At first they grow very fast, growing to a length of 1 m in a few days and doubling that in a few weeks. But with the years this process slows down more and more to only a few cm a year, but never stops completely.
Their whole body is covered in hard scales. Only at their stomach these scales are softer and vulnerable.
All dragons have hot, light red blood.
Through magic, most commonly through wearing magical stones or metalls, dragons can turn into a humanoid form. They can turn into humans or other humanoid creatures for as long as they under the influence of said magic.

Language:
Dragons have their own language which consists of sounds and body language as well as a kind of telepatic connections all dragons have with each other.
Since most dragons grow up only among themselves, most of them don’t speak the common tounge or only learn it later in life, when they leave their homeland.

Information:
Dragons are a proud people. They see themeselves as a superior race and usually stay amongst themeselves.
Dragons love treasure. They hoard gold and silver, gemstones and all that is of value. That is why many dragons have close relationships to dwarves. The two races often share land. Many dragons live in the kingdoms of air, which are ruled by the dwarves and many dwarves live in the kingdoms of fire, which are ruled by the dragons.
Dragons guard the treasures of the dwarves. These relationships are usually very clearly defined in complicated contracts, but nonetherless there are often disagreements, mostly when the dwarf wants his belonging back.

Dragons belong to the element of fire and rule over almost all kingdoms of fire, but they can also be found in the kingdoms of air.
They were created by Aodh, the god of fire about 70’000 years ago. The calender, that was introduced by the long, writes the year 41’792.
The calender of the long is often used by scholars, when they talk about events that happend long befor the time of the elves.
The calender starts with the completion of the library of Taraku.

A pregnancy lasts 42 month. The mother lays an egg which haches two to four years later.
Dragons never stop to grow, but the growth slows down drastically over the years. At first they develop very fast. With 80 they reach the mental age, a human reaches with 20. Thats when most dragons leave their nest for the first time. Between the age of 80 and 100 most dragons leave their parents home behind and start their own life.
Young dragons are fierce and tumultuous, which turns to belligerent and aggressive when they are young adults. Only with increasing age, they become calmer and settle down, devoting themeselves to the hoarding of treasures.

Skills:

Strength +3
Stamina +2

Element - Fire +5

Special ability:

Name: Transformation of the dragon
Type: Race ability
Description: Dragons can transform into the shape of a human. In this form they cannot be distinguished from normal humans. They can only take one form, hence they always look the same. The appearance is described in the profile.
Requirement: Dragon
Energy cost: 10 when transforming from a dragon into a human

Name: Breath of the dragon
Type: Race ability
Description: Dragons can spew stone melting fire
Requirement: Dragon
Energy cost: 15

Name: Force of the dragon
Type: Race ability
Description: In his true form, strength and stamina of a dragons increase 10 points. The dexterity falls 15 points though.
Requirement: Dragon

Name: Wings of the dragon
Type: Race ability
Description: Dragons have wings on their back. They can rise into the sky and fly.
Requirement: Dragon
Energy cost: 10 all 30 minutes in game

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[b][color=#993300]Name:[/color][/b] Transformation of the dragon
[b][color=#993300]Type:[/color][/b] Race ability
[b][color=#993300]Description:[/color][/b] Dragons can transform into the shape of a human. In this form they cannot be distinguished from normal humans. They can only take one form, hence they always look the same. The appearance is described in the profile.
[b][color=#993300]Requirement:[/color][/b] Dragon
[b][color=#993300]Energy cost:[/color][/b] 10 when transforming from a dragon into a human

[b][color=#993300]Name:[/color][/b] Breath of the dragon
[b][color=#993300]Type:[/color][/b] Race ability
[b][color=#993300]Description:[/color][/b] Dragons can spew stone melting fire
[b][color=#993300]Requirement:[/color][/b] Dragon
[b][color=#993300]Energy cost:[/color][/b] 15

[b][color=#993300]Name:[/color][/b] Force of the dragon
[b][color=#993300]Type:[/color][/b] Race ability
[b][color=#993300]Description:[/color][/b] In his true form, strength and stamina of a dragons increase 10 points. The dexterity falls 15 points though.
[b][color=#993300]Requirement:[/color][/b] Dragon

[b][color=#993300]Name:[/color][/b] Wings of the dragon
[b][color=#993300]Type:[/color][/b] Race ability
[b][color=#993300]Description:[/color][/b] Dragons have wings on their back. They can rise into the sky and fly.
[b][color=#993300]Requirement:[/color][/b] Dragon
[b][color=#993300]Energy cost:[/color][/b] 10 all 30 minutes in game

Wyvern are basically normal dragons. The only difference is in their appearance. Instead of four legs, a wyvern only has two. Their wings don’t grow on their backs, but instead of the front legs. And they have a long, big claw at the end of each wing.

Skills:

Strength +3
Stamina +2

Element - Fire +5

Special ability:

Spoiler:

The long are a speciall kind of dragon. They have a long, snake like body, four short legs and no wings. The have antlers on their head and start growing a beard when they are adult, which turns into a full mane in later years. (You might know it as a chinese dragon)
While some long can belong to the element of fire, most belong to diffrent elements. They don’t breathe fire, but can controll for example water, air, earth, ice, electricity or light. Usually their element shows in their appearance, waterdragons usually have blue scales, earthdragons have green ones…
Long worship Kyrana, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge. Instead of hoarding treasures of gold and silver, they often own huge amounts of books and scrolls.

Skills:

Strength +3
Stamina +2

Element +5

Special ability:

Spoiler:

Phoenixes are very rare creatures. They are much smaller than normal dragons and look like orange-red birds. A phoenix is seen as a symbol of life, not only because their tears have healingpowers, but because they are immortal. A phoenix can not die. If one is killed, the body decays to ash and after a little time the phoenix is reborn from that ash.
The rebirth can last from a few hours to a few days. In a whirl of fire, the ash turns into a bird and the phoenix lives just like he did befor he was killed. The body is fully regenerated, no wounds, scars or even tattoos or other changes are still visible.  
No one knows exactly where phoenixes came from. One legend says that Jeevan, the god of life, fell in love with a plejade, a fire nymph and their child was the first phoenix.

Skills:

Stamina +3

Element - Fire +7

Special ability:

Spoiler: