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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3206513" data-attributes="member: 9254">The Dragon Shaman can also be someone with a portion of draconic heritage, maybe 1/64 dragon, and is tapping into that great-great-great-great-grandparent's power (who could always still be alive).  Dragon Shamans were chosen by the Dragon Gods to be prosetelyizers for the draconic race.  Heck, maybe Dragon Shamans are part of some multi-century plot by a group of dragons to establish themselves as Gods.  Dragon Shamans are like Binders, except they have bound themselves to a vestige of a specific, powerful dragon.   IMC clerics actually go through a binding rite to find and bond with the diety that most suits them.  I could see such a rite instead latching onto a powerful dragon who just died that is a soul-mate for the shaman-to-be.  Could be the first dragon shaman's rite turned the dragon into a vestige.  Dragon shaman are bound to a dragon (god, vestige, living or otherwise) but not through their own actions.  An ancestor sold off a descendant's life/soul/blood, cut a deal with a fiend who sold the soul to a dragon, etc.  Maybe the dragons use these beings to keep their souls from going to some final death with an ultimate plan of being resurrected or reincarnated once sufficient dragon shamans exist.</blockquote>