Dragon Adventuring and Crafting Schools
While reviewing some old books in the library of Tazoon I’ve come across some reference to a time where dragons once had different adventuring and crafting schools:
Dragon Bloodmage, Dragon Chaos Warrior, Dragon Cleric, Dragon Druid, Dragon Healer, Dragon Mage, Dragon Scalecrafter, Dragon Scholar, Dragon Spiritist, Dragon Warrior, Dragon Wizard
While the knowledge from these schools may be lost in history, or perhaps forbidden by the council, there are still remnants scattered across Istaria. My research has found that Severant, now known as the trainer for Drain Strike was in fact a Bloodmage trainer to dragons. Similarly Rykhar, the trainer for Spiked Scales used to offer Chaos Warrior training. Xerix offered training in the Cleric school. Other training for the remainder of the schools was available from the various dragons now offering adventuring and crafting quests. Unfortunately, due to the age of these books much information has been lost and short of what has been mentioned in these books very little is known.
I seek someone who may have studied with these dragons before the knowledge was lost or forced into silence. If possible to conduct an interview and learn more about the lost age of dragons. Unfortunately, Severant and the others are holding their tongues when it comes to discussing it refusing to comment on there past days instructing in these schools. Instead they focus on discussing a single skill they will instead teach.
It was not truly a lost age. In those days, I was a student of the bloodmage school, because the thought of using my life force to attack our enemies was a truly powerful and meaningful gesture.
This was actually a time of experimentation, rather than an age of flourishing. You see, we dragons had lost the Sleeper, had lost Draak, had lost many adults and ancients at Tazoon, and were generally in a sorry and confused state. We, who had once been so great, were great no longer. To learn why, we turned to the biped schools – if you can’t beat them, join them, I suppose. Our natural skills with tooth and claw were perhaps the only thing recognizable, while the rest would indeed look very similar to the biped schools of today. With the loss at Draak, we had even temporarily forgotten what the Prime was and channeled instead the power of the sky, Storm! To be honest, I miss the Storm far more than I did the bloodmage school…
After the shocked elders came forth and reminded us of our history and culture, we once again took up the Prime and trained again as dragons. Valkoth and Semeneth directed us to look inwards – to retrain the skills we had lost. Of the remaining elders, they asked them focus on one aspect of study to perfect the dragon body, mind, or soul. It was then understood that we did not lose so much because we were inferior, but because we had forgotten our virtues and perfection of ages past. Admittedly, this was a very, very difficult time and we did indeed feel inferior. But this continued study has revealed so much more and strengthened our connection with the Prime, leading to the training for Silver Strike and Gold Rage, as well as several more recent abilities and more continue to be discovered.
Dragons may someday reclaim their place, but it is unlikely we shall ever do it the way bipeds would. We have so much time as dragons – and that time allows us to perfect ourselves, rather than our schools.