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--- draconic_race [2024/04/26 16:32] – bearglyph
+++ draconic_race [2025/12/02 17:22] (current) – bearglyph
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 ======Draconic Race======
-The **Draconic Races** are a [[sape]]-like population of those descended from dragons, including dragons themselves. All draconics have horns which gradually darken and harden with age.
+The **Draconic Races** are a [[sape]]-like population of those descended from dragons, including dragons themselves. All draconics have horns which gradually darken and harden with age. They represent the worker, warrior, artisan, and scholar castes of draconic society.
 ====Races====
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 They have the least amount of draconic blood necessary to be considered draconic. Much less, and they’d be indistinguishable from a sape by appearance, although admittedly they would tend to be noticeably shorter than the average sape.
-Despite their small stature, they live long lives, typically over 200 years.
+They tend to live for only five to ten years.
 ===Wyrmkin===
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 They often take up jobs requiring immense endurance and physical prowess, and they have appetites to match.
+A wyrmkin typically lives for forty years.
 ===Draigfolk===
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 They are adaptable, hardy people, and they can survive in the wilderness between villages for months on end. They are sociable, entertaining people, and they tell engaging stories.
+Draigfolk also have similar lifespans to sapes, typically 70-90 years.
 ===Alwyvern===
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 They are also adept liars, fond of feigning ignorance to waste the time of others.
+They may live for up to 250 years.
 ===Speaker===
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 Speakers are usually incredibly powerful mages.
-They live far away from the draconic villages, as they are more than capable of defending themselves, and they often resent full-blooded dragons.
+They sometimes live far away from the draconic villages, as they are more than capable of defending themselves, and they may resent full-blooded dragons (as without them, speakers would be the most powerful residents of Feyndraig). When they do reside with a village, they often sell their services as a mercenary to the demiwyrm who oversees the village, or otherwise, they may deal directly with the dragon whose territory the village is within.
+There are many accounts of Speakers killing dragons and taking over their territory, especially dragons who are younger than them.
+They may live for up to 500 years, although there are some speakers who have lived for over 1,000 years.
 ===Demiwyrm===
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 They often act as elders for a village, remembering the history of the village and making decisions on how the village ought to be managed to meet the needs of its patron dragon. As they are typically the strongest people living in each village, they are instrumental in finishing construction projects.
+Demiwyrms may live for up to 3,000 years.
 ===Dragon===
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 [[Dragon|Dragons]] are the backbone of feyndraigish society.
-The nation revolves around the movements and whims of dragons, entire villages will pack up and move when a dragon decides the view would be nicer elsewhere.
+The nation revolves around the movements and whims of dragons, entire villages will pack up and move when a dragon decides the view would be nicer elsewhere, often because entire villages will be descended from one dragon.
 A great many abandoned villages across the countryside get that way because of a dragon’s wanderlust.