Dragons

Mortal sinew winds itself around ancient bones, no different from the basic chemistries of a clover, or an insect, or a human. Dragons are from this world, not the next one over like the fae are, and they follow Ohote’s laws of natural magical beings.

Dragons are sentient. Most are not interested in conversation with humans unless the need is great, but a few, depending on their mood, seek out humans in order to converse and to remember how others see the world. It gets lonely, being so old.

Dragons can die. Whether they fade into their element as they reach the end of their desired lifetime, or if outside forces end it prematurely, it is a sure fact that as creatures of Ohote, they have an end. Some dragons, having few enemies, have lived millions of years before deciding that it was time to start new. Some have lived only days in times of strife. Whenever a dragon dies, a new one is immediately created somewhere else on Ohote to take its place, reincarnated from the same immaterial font of the previous element’s dragon. The form changes, but the soul stays the same, and some dragons can remember back hundreds of lives ago.

Dragons are paragons of their affinities. They exemplify what it means to be tied to an affinity, and take on properties of living things, magical creatures, and natural aspects of their element. This means that dragons are extremely different from each other. The rain dragon and the land dragon are as different from each other as a grasshopper to a sea anemone, for example.