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'''Dragons''' are creatures of vast power capable of slaughtering whole armies with their claws, horns, fangs and their elemental breath, but only when roused from their slumber. They are found in many factions, but are primarily used by the [[Aelves]] of [[Order]] as mounts.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|4}}{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1c}}
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'''Dragons''' are creatures of vast power capable of slaughtering whole armies with their claws, horns, fangs and their elemental breath, but only when roused from their slumber. Dragons are found all across the [[Mortal Realms]] and are employed by many [[mortal]]s for a myriad of purposes, such as the [[Aelves]] of [[Order]] who employ them as war mounts.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|4}}{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1c}}
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The [[Bonesplitterz]] [[Orruk]]s value dragon teeth for making weapons, as they believe that the dragon's strong spirit means that the teeth will never lose their edge.{{Fn|17a}}
  
 
==Types==
 
==Types==
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===Dragon===
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* [[Azyrite Dragon]]: Serpentine dragons native to the [[Realm of Azyr]].{{Fn|14b}}
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'''Dragons''' of a unspecified type that are ridden into battle by the [[Drakeseers]] and [[Archmages]] of the [[Eldritch Council]] and the [[Dragonlords]] of the [[Order Draconis]]. They can unleash a blast of dragonfire from their maws.{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|1d}}
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* [[Black Dragon]]: The obsidian-scaled dragons ridden by the knights of [[Order Serpentis]].{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1b}}
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* [[Carmine Dragon]]: Dragons who are saturated with the arcane power of [[Realm of Shyish|Shyish]].{{Fn|1f}}
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* [[Chaos Dragon]]: Dragons corrupted by [[Chaos]].{{Fn|10a}}
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* [[Ice Dragon]]: A species of dragon whose breath runs cold instead of hot.{{Fn|11a}}
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* [[Magma Dragon]]: Primordial beings who are counted among the most malevolent of dragonkind.{{Fn|1e}}
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* [[Moon Dragon]]: A type of dragon found in the [[Mortal Realms]].{{Fn|9a}}
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* [[Sea-dragon]]: Dragons that dwell in the seas of the Realms.{{Fn|11a}}
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* [[Spirit Dragon]]: A ghostly variant of dragonkind.{{Fn|16a}}
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* [[Sun Dragon]]: A species of dragonkind.{{Fn|8a}}{{Fn|8b}}
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* [[Toad Dragon]]: These strange dragons are associated with the forces of [[Nurgle]].{{Fn|1h}}{{Fn|9b}}
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* [[Warpfire Dragon]]: Malignant dragons twisted by ruinous power.{{Fn|1g}}
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* [[Zombie Dragon]]: The cadaverous remains of a dragon animated by [[Necromancy|necromantic]] power.{{Fn|1i}}
  
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===Black Dragons===
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===Unique Dragons===
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'''Black Dragons''' or obisidian-scaled dragons ridden into battle by the [[Dreadlords]] of the [[Order Serpentis]] and the [[Sorceresses]] of the [[Darkling Covens]]. They are known to lay waste to entire armies with their dagger-like claws and their breath, vomiting a cloud of foul, noxious gas that chokes those in it. They are know to lay waste to entire armies with dagger-like claws{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1b}}
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* [[Ignax]]: The '''Solar Drake''' is a mighty, draconic [[Godbeast]] who once served as a second sun to the [[Realm of Aqshy]].{{Fn|14a}}
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* [[Shadracar]]: The '''Umbral Dragon'''.{{Fn|15a}}
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* [[Wyrdflame Drake]]: This [[Chaos]] corrupted serpentine dragon once made its nest in the [[Shimmering Abyss]], until it was slain by a combined force of warriors of the [[Hallowed Knights]] and mercenaries of the [[Vostarg Lodge]].{{Fn|13a}}
  
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===Carmine Dragon===
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===Order Draconis===
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'''Carmine Dragons''' are winged [[dragons]] saturated with the arcane power of [[Shyish]], such is its potency that their raking claws and fangs ripple with amethyst magic. Their roars and gouts of amethyst flame that erupts from their maws are infused with dark energy able strip and sheer those it terrifies of their very souls, leaving behind only glowing piles of purple ash. The amethyst nature of these draconic creatures allows it to force an spell to be ineffective on itself with just a single thought. They can fly. Their hide is composed of deathly dark scales that is nigh impenetrable and can ignore all but the strongest of blows.{{Fn|1f}}
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In ancient times the predecessors of the [[Order Draconis]] formed lasting kinship with wise drakes, of unspecified lineages, of the [[Mortal Realms]].{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|14b}}
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===Magma Dragon===
 
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'''Magma Dragons''' are primordial and vicious dragons, some of the most malevolent and strongest of their kind. These flying creatures have enormous crushing claws and furnace-hot jaws, gullet burning with the intensity of a raging volcano, covered in fangs can easily tear most of their preys to shreds and crush stone and steel with ease. When angered they can incinerate their foes with jets of Brimstone Dragonfire, gouts of whitehot fire that leaves behind only cinders. The lifeblood of these beasts is molten rock and when it is wounded, the blood spilled is like standing besides a volcano eruption.{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|6}}
 
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===Sun Dragon===
 
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'''Sun Dragons''' are a type of dragon. One of these creatures, [[Axranthos]], was captured by the [[Iron Golems]] to heat and fuel their forge-complexes in the [[Ferrium Mountains]]. Sun Dragons spew streams of magma, rather than fire.{{Fn|8a}}{{Fn|8b}}
 
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===Moon Dragon===
 
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'''Moon Dragons''' are a type of dragon. One of these creatures was imprisoned within [[Jercho]].{{Fn|9a}}
 
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===Toad Dragon===
 
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'''Toad Dragons''' are bulky dragons with long lashing tongues.{{Fn|1h}}
 
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====Notable Toad Dragons====
 
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===Warpfire Dragon===
 
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'''Warpfire Dragons''' are ruinous dragons, members of a rare, twisted and malformed branch of dragonking and malignant [[Monsters of Chaos]]. They can fly and attack with their twisted, barbed claws and snapping jaws, filled with rows of jagged teeth and caustic saliva. They are spite-filled and ruinous creatures that delight in the destruction and mutilation of their foes, specially when they spit gouts of mutilating warpfire, scintillating flames that cause rapid and grotesque mutations in those it touch, reshaping their victims in grotesque configurations of their former selves until they die. When they dies the burning morass of ruinous energies that seethes within them explodes in a raging blast of anarchic energy and unleashed fire that reduces their foes to mounds of malformed flesh and scorches the land.{{Fn|1g}}{{Fn|7}}
 
  
 
==Miniatures==
 
==Miniatures==
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Archmage on Dragon M01.jpeg|An [[Eldritch Council]] [[Archmage]] mounted on a Dragon.
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Dragonlord M01.jpg|An [[Order Draconis]] [[Dragonlord]] mounted on a Dragon.
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Archmage on Dragon M01.jpeg|An [[Eldritch Council]] [[Archmage]] mounted on a [[Dragon]].
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Dragonlord M01.jpg|An [[Order Draconis]] [[Dragonlord]] mounted on a [[Dragon]].
 
Dragonlord M02.jpg
 
Dragonlord M02.jpg
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Dreadlord on Black Dragon M01.jpg|An [[Order Serpentis]] [[Dreadlord]] mounted on a Black Dragon.
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Dreadlord on Black Dragon M01.jpg|An [[Order Serpentis]] [[Dreadlord]] mounted on a [[Black Dragon]].
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Sorceress on Black Dragon M01.jpg|A [[Darkling Covens]] [[Sorceress]] mounted on a Black Dragon.
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Sorceress on Black Dragon M01.jpg|A [[Darkling Covens]] [[Sorceress]] mounted on a [[Black Dragon]].
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Carmine Dragon M01.jpg|A Carmine Dragon.
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Carmine Dragon M01.jpg|A [[Carmine Dragon]].
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Magma Dragon M01.jpg|A Magma Dragon.
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Magma Dragon M01.jpg|A [[Magma Dragon]].
 
Magma Dragon M02.jpg
 
Magma Dragon M02.jpg
 
Magma Dragon M04.jpg
 
Magma Dragon M04.jpg
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Magma Dragon M03.jpg|A Magma Dragon compared to a Stormcast Liberator.
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Magma Dragon M03.jpg|A [[Magma Dragon]] compared to a [[Liberator]].
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Tamurkhan M01.jpg|[[Tamurkhan]] mounted on the Toad Dragon [[Bubebolos]].
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Tamurkhan M01.jpg|[[Tamurkhan]] mounted on the [[Toad Dragon]] [[Bubebolos]].
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Warpfire Dragon M01.jpg|A Warpfire Dragon.
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Warpfire Dragon M01.jpg|A [[Warpfire Dragon]].
 
Warpfire Dragon M03.jpg
 
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Warpfire Dragon M02.jpg|A Warpfire Dragon compared to a Liberator.
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Warpfire Dragon M02.jpg|A [[Warpfire Dragon]] compared to a [[Liberator]].
 
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==Trivia==
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* It is said that [[Dracothion]] is the grandfather of all dragons.{{Fn|18a}}
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
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** {{Endn|1f}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20200613210307/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/Downloads-AoS/aos-warscroll-carmine-dragon.pdf Carmine Dragon warscroll]
 
** {{Endn|1f}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20200613210307/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/Downloads-AoS/aos-warscroll-carmine-dragon.pdf Carmine Dragon warscroll]
 
** {{Endn|1g}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032039/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/Downloads-AoS/aos-warscroll-warpfire-dragon.pdf Warpfire Dragon warscroll]
 
** {{Endn|1g}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032039/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/Downloads-AoS/aos-warscroll-warpfire-dragon.pdf Warpfire Dragon warscroll]
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** {{Endn|1h}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032120/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-tamurkhans-horde.pdf Tamurkhan's Horde compendium], Toad Dragon warscroll
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** {{Endn|1h}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032120/https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/aos_warscrolls/warhammer-aos-tamurkhans-horde.pdf Tamurkhan's Horde compendium], Tamurkhan warscroll
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** {{Endn|1i}}: [https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/AoS_Warscrolls/aos-warscroll-zombie-dragon-en.pdf Zombie Dragon warscroll]
 
* {{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032221/https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Dark-Elf-Dreadlord-on-Black-Dragon Dreadlord on Black Dragon product description]
 
* {{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032221/https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Dark-Elf-Dreadlord-on-Black-Dragon Dreadlord on Black Dragon product description]
 
* {{Endn|3}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032340/https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Dark-Elf-Sorceress-on-Black-Dragon Sorceress on Black Dragon product description]
 
* {{Endn|3}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032340/https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Dark-Elf-Sorceress-on-Black-Dragon Sorceress on Black Dragon product description]
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* {{Endn|9}}: [[Gods and Mortals]]
 
* {{Endn|9}}: [[Gods and Mortals]]
 
** {{Endn|9a}}: Bear Eater
 
** {{Endn|9a}}: Bear Eater
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** {{Endn|9b}}: Order of the Fly: Tourney of Fate
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* {{Endn|10}}: [[Battletome: Slaves to Darkness (2019)]]
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** {{Endn|10a}}: Archaon the Everchosen, Pg. 24-25
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* {{Endn|11}}: [[Heart of Winter (novella)]]
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** {{Endn|11a}}: Chapter One
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* {{Endn|12}}: [[Soulbound Core Rulebook]]
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** {{Endn|12a}}: Chapter Five: Equipment
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* {{Endn|13}}: [[Battletome: Cities of Sigmar (2019)]]
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** {{Endn|13a}}: Hallowheart, Pg. 26-29
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* {{Endn|14}}: [[Age of Sigmar: Core Book (2nd Edition)]]
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** {{Endn|14a}}: The Great Parch, Pg. 86-89
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** {{Endn|14b}}: The Free Peoples, Pg. 140-151
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* {{Endn|15}}: [[Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2021)]]
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** {{Endn|15a}}: Artefacts of Power, Pg. 64-65
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* {{Endn|16}}: [[Battletome: Beastclaw Raiders (2016)]]
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** {{Endn|16a}}: Frozen Rage, pg. 80-83
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* {{Endn|17}}: [[Battletome: Bonesplitterz (2016)]]
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** {{Endn|17a}}: Great War Bones, pg. 14-15
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* {{Endn|18}}: [[Realmslayer: Legend of the Doomseeker]]
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** {{Endn|18a}}: Chapter One
  
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{{Monsters of Chaos}}
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[[Category:Grand Alliance of Chaos]]
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{{Tamurkhan's Horde}}
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[[Category:Grand Alliance of Death]]
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{{Monsters of Destruction}}
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[[Category:Grand Alliance of Destruction]]
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{{Monsters of Order}}
 
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{{Darkling Covens}}
 
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{{Eldritch Council}}
 
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{{Order Draconis}}
 
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{{Order Serpentis}}
 
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[[Category:Grand Alliance of Order]]
 
[[Category:Grand Alliance of Order]]
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[[Category:Order Serpentis]]
 
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[[Category:Darkling Covens]]
 
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[[Category:Eldritch Council]]
 
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[[Category:Creatures]]
 
 
[[Category:Beasts]]
 
[[Category:Beasts]]
 
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[[Category:Dragons| ]]

Latest revision as of 17:39, 24 August 2023

Dragons are creatures of vast power capable of slaughtering whole armies with their claws, horns, fangs and their elemental breath, but only when roused from their slumber. Dragons are found all across the Mortal Realms and are employed by many mortals for a myriad of purposes, such as the Aelves of Order who employ them as war mounts.[2][3][4][5][1a][1c]

The Bonesplitterz Orruks value dragon teeth for making weapons, as they believe that the dragon's strong spirit means that the teeth will never lose their edge.[17a]

Types

Unique Dragons

Order Draconis

In ancient times the predecessors of the Order Draconis formed lasting kinship with wise drakes, of unspecified lineages, of the Mortal Realms.[1c][1d][14b]

Miniatures

Trivia

Sources

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