Editing Age of Dragons: Jungle Dragons (section)

==Society and Culture==

''Jungle Dragons'' lack true society and culture, instead existing somewhat like intelligent animals. Alpha males of the breed dominate their small family groups and claim sole breeding rights with the females in their packs. There is an inherent assumption amongst Jungle Dragons that females are useful only as breeding stock, and it is not uncommon for female hatchlings to be deliberately declawed and detoothed at birth so that they can be more easily controlled when they are older. Lesser males are either kept in line until they're old enough to challenge for leadership (a battle to the death, naturally). Dragons from other packs are either there to be captured (and thereafter brought into the pack) or killed and eaten (as to a ''Jungle dragon'' meat is just meat, regardless of source).

Despite possessing some intelligence (less than a human, but more than most animals) they tend to be happy in their atavistic state. Language is kept to a minimum, they have no appreciation of civilisation or technology, and have no over-arching cultural myths. Most have not even heard of the Mother Goddess, and instead are more concerned with day to day animal existence. 

Their way of life and their lack of education means that their brutal existence is perpetuated, generation after generation. Because their jungle domains are so far from the rest of the Realm (at least good month's flight from the area of Heart Forest where their parent breed lie) they remain uninfluenced by the ways of the other draconic peoples.

A small number of ''Jungle Dragons'' have in the past been relocated from their environment by well-meaning ''Forest Dragons''. Inevitably this has met with failure - the ''Jungle Dragons'' seem unwilling or unable to adapt to more civilised behaviour.
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