Draconic races

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"Draconic Races" is the term for various dragon-like races in the Magic Multiverse.

Draconic Races

Dragons

main article: Dragons

Dragons are huge, flying reptiles. They have incredible physical strength many of them also score high on intelligence and magical capabilities. They can be found in all colors although more dragons are aligned with red then with any other color.

The dragons of today are all descendants of the Elder Dragons, and ancient race of very powerful beings who devastated entire worlds in their Dragon War. The winners of the war sired the races of dragons and drakes, while the losers where stripped of their wings and limbs and became the Elder Land Wurms


Drakes

main article: Drakes

Drakes are smaller and less powerful than dragons. Their mind is also more similar to that of an animal than that of their draconic cousins. Like dragons they come in all colors of the color wheel, but most of them are blue aligned. It is oft thought that drakes where descendants of the losers of the Elder Dragon Wars, like the Wurms, but this is not true, for their ancestry can also be traced to the surviving Elder Dragons.

Officially[1] the difference between drakes and dragons is that dragons have wings in addition to their limbs, while drakes have one set of their limbs replaced by their wings, like birds or bats. Although that reasoning is true for most of Magic’s drakes and dragons there are a few exceptions such as Wormfang Drake and Dromar, the Banisher. No explanation for this has been given.


Wurms

main article: Wurms

The descendants of the losers of the Elder Dragon Wars. Wurms are large, land bound serpents with no limbs whatsoever. They can be aligned with all colors but most of them are green. They typically live in forests, usually near or at the top of the food chain. Wurms are increadibly strong, but very few of them possess and magical or intelectual capabilities.


Viashino

main article: Viashino

Viashino are a draconic but humanoid race. While most of their relatives can be found on many planes and in many colors, Viashino have only been seen on Dominaria and Ravnica and are always, although sometimes only partially, red aligned.

It is unclear how Viashino descendant from the other draconic races.

Possible Draconic Races

Several other large reptilian creatures exist in the Magic Multiverse, but there is no evidence that they are related in any way to the other draconic races.

Serpents

To be written

Dinosaurs

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Kavu

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Notes

  1. That is, according to medieval bestiaries.