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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jefgorbach" data-source="post: 5256440" data-attributes="member: 28278">Always figured dragons were a natural development from the prehistoric archosaurs as an alterative to the crocodile branch. Ancient wizards infused these early non-magical lizards with their characteristic breath weapons, flight, and size; only the rare Familiar was sentient. Initial sterility was eventually overcome to eliminate the need to enchant each base creature independently; with unforeseen results - for the once domesticated base dragon species turned feral and thrived, spreading across the globe once that now long-forgotten empire fell. Eventually elves arose and re-domesticated these feral dragons in similar fashion, significantly lengthening the lifespan through careful breeding and perhaps even  arcane transfusion/transmutations seeking life-long companions; again with only the rare Familiar being truly sentient. History doesn’t record what Archmage Io intended when he began attempts to breed his familiar, but the result was the first line of sentient dragons. Dragons who willingly accepted their role of companion, partner, and centuries later willingly fought alongside their elven companions during the prehistoric Dwarven-Elf War. However as the war’s atrocities grew, so did the Elven need for larger more combat-oriented battlemounts and thus were the first chromatic breeds developed. Afterwards, many survivors (suffering posttraumatic stress disorders?) chafing at domestication and peaceful endeavors, went rogue to carve out their own isolated realms. Breeding true, these rogues gave rise to the scattered draconic settlements which gradually unified into the Draconic Empire that enslaved their ancestral masters for generations until the Draco-Giant War decimated both empires, releasing small groups of survivors to repopulate the wilderness to eventually establish the ancient forerunners to the modern nations.</blockquote>

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