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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9717469" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Draconians, which are found on Krynn and exist because of the specific physical effects of the inherently alignment-based nature of that world, are produced by corrupting dragon eggs. A corruption ritual is used on the eggs, which subverts the nature of the dragon from which the draconians are made. Originally, they were created from stolen clutches of metallic dragon eggs, so the "sivak" (silver), "aurak" (gold), etc. draconians are all inherently evil-aligned unless they work to be different (which they were rarely given reason to do). They don't really have "childhoods" as we would understand it, and are specifically trained to be the most vicious, cruel, bloodthirsty soldiers they can be, though time and independence can drift them away.A later batch of draconians were created from the clutches of chromatic dragons slain during the conflict, because their creator mistakenly believed that the ritual always produced evil beings. It doesn't. It "corrupts" the resulting draconians to be the antithesis of their original draconic nature. Hence, these "noble draconians" were all inherently good aligned, but colored like chromatic dragons, as opposed to the original (one might say "metallic") draconians, who are inherently evil aligned but colored like metallic dragons. Most of the original clutch was slain, but a few survivors are said to exist; naturally, no good-aligned dragon would condone such corruption, even if what it produced was good-aligned draconians.As a result, draconians aren't really a "people". They are an entirely manufactured species, albeit magically so. They don't have a culture or any real origin, they are tools of war created for war and abused by their creators until (in theory) all they care about is war and violence and obedience to their masters. They do still have a certain thin kind of draconic arrogance and avarice, but it takes nearly the entire run of the series for there to even be a small population of draconians who are acting independently and even considering trying to exist on their own or find a way to perpetuate their species without the interference of Takhisis or her minions.</blockquote>

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