Age of Dragons: Jungle Dragons
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The Innocent Sinners
Descended from a branch of Forest Dragons, the Jungle Dragons exist in the vast unnamed tropical rainforests that lie to the Southwest of the Heart Forest.
While still recognisably sharing a common ancestry, Jungle Dragons have changed over the ages into a distinct sub-breed, with a mindset and culture that is entirely alien to the Dragons of the Heart Forest.
Character Creation: Game Rules
The above rules and background details apply to the sub-breed of "Jungle Dragons".
The progenitor breed of Forest Dragons are covered separately, as are the corrupted Jade Dragons.
Sphere Ratings
- Soma 4
- Sophis 3
- Pneuma 5
Birthrights
Re-aligned Pneuma - Jade Dragons count as Death-aligned dragons rather than as Life-aligned Dragons.
Body of Jade - Jade Dragons gain +1 to any dice rolls relating to the casting of magic. Note the
Breed Weakness
Withered Souls - Jade Dragons have exceptionally poor fertility. They are at -4 dice to dice pools relating to conception or fertility.
Disconcerting Presence - Jade Dragons are at -2 dice to any dice pools relating to any positve socialisation (though attempts to intimidate or disturb are not affected). This effect is doubled when relating to other Jade Dragons (to -4 dice).
Physical Appearance
Jade Dragons are not scaled or made of ordinary flesh, but instead their skin is made of a smooth hard jade-like substance, with a similarly coloured pale green liquid in place of blood and a strong jade tint to all their viscera. Their skin and flesh has a disconcerting translucent quality to it, and their eyes are just dark red pinpricks. Though they have no scales, their Jade skin has all the supernatural benefits that scales afford, such as immunity to heat and fire.
Society and Culture
Jade Dragons are found mostly in the cold pine forests of the North. Throughout much of this woodland, the trees are long dead and petrified, and those that do grow are withered looking. They have abandoned the ways of their parent breed, and tend towards a solitary existence. Part of this is from a desire to be as different as possible from the Forest Dragons, and part is from the sense of disconcertion that Jade Dragons experience in each others company.
Their solitary lifestyle combined with their low fertility means that Jade Dragons are declining in population numbers as each century passes. Courting and reproduction are seen as a tactical necessity rather than as a pleasure.
Around two thirds of Jade Dragons have found their way to the Ascendancy (where they are valued for their sorcerous acumen), with the remainder leading isolated existences far from any faction. To date, there are no Jade Dragons in the Alliance, though this is likely due to geographic distance more than anything else.
Lifepaths and the Jade Dragons
The Jade tend towards arcane study, and so the majority are Scholar-Sages. A small number of Ascendancy Jades have taken up the role of Demonbinder.
Few other Lifepaths appeal to Jade Dragon psychology, though the only Lifepath they will absolutely refuse to pursue is that of the Animist Adept.
Outlook
Thirst-of-Balefire, Jade Sorceror of the Ascendancy speaks of the twelve:
- Pure Dragons - "To their eyes we are an abomination. To hell with them - I spit on their religion, and I will burn their temples"
- Argent Dragons - "They're organised and tough, these meatheaded ironmongers. Avoid."
- Solar Dragons - "Blessed with pneuma, but relatively inept at sorcery. They can be disregarded."
- Hunter Dragons - "Rabid filthy beasts. If you see one, kill it. If you see a whole pack, go get some Ascendancy back up, then kill them as well."
- Forest Dragons - "Idiot cousins who celebrate their greatest curse as if it were a badge of honour. If they will not join us, they must die."
- Storm Dragons - "Like us, they have metamorphosed into something different. Ultimately though, their reverence for animism and the Mother Goddess sickens me."
- Ashen Dragons - "They have potential."
- Velvet Dragons - "The nice thing about reduced fertility is you can sate your libido on a willing Velvet without much risk... Or an unwilling Velvet if needs be..."
- Chimerical Dragons - "They know more than they're letting on. They are a threat."
- Ghost Dragons - "They fear and run from the Void Beyond. We seek to master the Void Beyond. Could we be any more different?"
- Blood Dragons - "Mindless nasty dangerous idiot thugs. Good thing they're on our side."
- Sable Dragons - "Our Lords and Masters. For now."
