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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 3917201" data-attributes="member: 54843">Something to consider: Dragonborn are egg-laying creatures. This means they CANNOT cross-breed with any humanoid race, and their child-raising practices can be very different from those of humans.Possible example: Beneath the great mountain temple, second only in holiness to Bahamut's shrine itself, is a deep, warm cave known as the Broodlair. It is here that the Dragonborn eggs are hatched and the hatchlings raised under the watchful eyes of the Broodmasters. From a young age, every Dragonborn child is trained in everything from religious tradition to unarmed combat.At age 10, the young Dragonborn undergo a ritual test called the Blooding. This test, performed annually by the high priestesses of Bahamut, divides the young into various castes befitting their individual skills. At 16 (the ritual age of maturity), they undergo a spiritual vigil known as The High One's Breath, after which they may pursue any of the careers suited to their caste. For example, a member of the warrior caste could choose to become a paladin of Bahamut, a traveling mercenary, soldier, or anything else with a military bent.Bloodlines are considered completely irrelevant to the dragonborn, who regard other races' preoccupation with lineages and inheritance to be a strange mammalian weakness.Dragonborn living outside their race's biggest cities often travel for hundreds of miles to lay their eggs at a large Broodlair, where they know their offspring can receive proper education and earn honorable caste tattoos. Anyone familiar with dragonborn tradition knows how to read at least the basics of these markings, which reveal the bearer's age, caste, and place of education. The markings of Drak'Thul are highly presitigious, making it somewhat difficult for dragonborn from smaller settlements to find work - let alone the "casteless" raised in remote areas away from any dragonborn other than their parents. These "casteless" are not considered inherently inferior, but rather untrained and untested. It is not uncommon for full-grown casteless dragonborn to appear before the altar of Bahamut and request testing; the survivors are granted their tattoos and treated thereafter just like any native-born Drak'Thulian.</blockquote>

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