Spoiler: Dragons
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Dragons are born as the result of curses laid upon people in vengeance by those who have suffered and died as a result of their misdeeds, being manifested exaggerations of the failing of their parent. Magical people who have a failing such as greed, anger or pride to a great enough degree may permanently transform into a dragon in an outburst when provoked by their sin and are thereafter indistinguishable from a curseborn dragon. They tend to lair in the location of their genesis.

For example a dying beggar may curse the miser who refused to offer them even the minimum of hospitality during a blizzard resulting in the miser's household giving rise to a loathsome wyrm that rapidly grows to become a being who eclipses it's father's greed, or a vain sorcerer-prince may twist into a draconic serpent in response to being rejected by the woman he wishes to marry.

Dragons don't need to eat or drink, though most do when they wake from decades of slumber as a method of venting their endless spite against mortals. All of them are consumed by anger, pride and greed, though in unequal measures. Some are content to extract a tithe of groveling praise and treasure from nearby communities before returning to sleep, many burn the lands for a full days travel around their lair to vent their fury upon the very earth, others may demand human sacrifice to satiate their desire to dominate and humiliate.


Dragons cannot mate to produce more of their kind, any offspring they have are twisted and bestial things, such as wyverns and drakes and other fouler things. Dragons will generally only mate if they desire to possess, defile or dominate other life, generally forcing themselves on or seducing mortals of noble birth, though rarely they will mate with one another, such events giving rise to the largest and most monstrous of lesser draconic creatures.




Elves are the outcast companions of the fey royalty, banished from their courts for a crime no longer spoken of. Exiled away from the timeless realms of their kings and queens the elves have shrouded themselves in mist and illusions to try and escape the painful reality of their immortal bodies aging and withering like rotting wood. Elves partake in various bastardised forms of the customs of the fey courts, hunting mortals on horseback for sport and enslaving people to fill the lower ranks of their society in an attempt to maintain the illusion that they are not suffering in exile.

Changelings are a caste of fey, created when mortals plead with the kings and queens of the under-realms for children or to replace children stolen by the fey. They closely resemble normal mortals, but often have black irises, pointed ears or other abnormal features, and often lack features of mortal life not explicitly requested in the bargain that was struck to create them. A baby given by the fey to an infertile couple may never age for example, being permanently the age it was created to be, or a child may have a cow's tail or a tendency to be unusually cruel to animals.

Children taken by the fey are used to replace the elves in the courts of the kings and queens, becoming their companions and advisers, waited upon by the lower ranks of the fey and treated as lords and ladies. These children do not age while in service to their liege and usually become as distant and callous towards mortals as the true fey are, cheerfully indulging in all manner of cruel tricks and murderous hunts upon their former kinsmen. Eventually though most such children are cast out by their host, usually on a whim, and find themselves released into the mortal world decades or even centuries after they were taken and abandoned to find their own way or die, though they do maintain a vestige of the magic they possessed as princes and princess of the fey.