ChickenBonanza

A short section of thoughts upon the life of dragons, mostly utilizing non-plot information from Isles of the Emberdark. Not an ounce of strict-plot stuff, but in case you wanna keep physiological and worldbuilding spoilers away, I suppose. Some of this information was previously revealed in WoBs, I recall. So really there’s actually no physiological spoilers, ha!

Anyway, in canon, dragons mate and spend the first portion of their lives in human form. Like amphibians, it is described. I, however, would like to suggest a slight variation upon this phenomenon.

Here’s the sitch. Dragons would be able to mate in both their draconic and humanoid forms, and produce offspring in both. Instead of always spending their childhood in solely humanoid form, dragons spend the first portion of their childhood in solely draconic or humanoid depending on what form their parent… produced them in. Weird awkward language.

Later, after the thirty years or whatever, they would gain access to their alternate form, as normal. However, this comes with some neat cultural divisions. Certain canon dragons would say that dragons spend the first portion of their lives in human form in order to learn humility and understanding for less grand life, in accordance with Adonalsium’s wisdom. This would apply to humanoid-born dragon children.

If draconic-born, however, this idea could be flipped on its head. Spending the formative years larger and stronger than most others, perhaps inspiring a pride or superiority over other life-forms. Obtaining access to their human form would mark the start of the time in which they might better infiltrate, command, and manipulate these lesser forms of life. Not a hard rule, necessarily, because their parents could also be perfectly benevolent dragons who simply prefer this method. The same would apply for the ‘canon’ method.

This could lead to a small gulf in dragon culture. Whether a dragon should be born humanoid or draconic, and what lessons they should take away from such. A more selfish type of dragon could be indicative of the draconic-born philosophy, or perhaps a proponent of it.

Very cool, I think. That be all.