Dragons

Dragons have been around for a long, long time. Eons even. Longer than man can remember. Although there are only a few of them left now, there was a time when you couldn't travel the countryside without seeing a Dragon flying overhead. Sometimes looking for a snack, or just protecting their lands. After thousands of years, the Dragons started to fade away. Why, you ask? Well, there's a few different stories, but you know most of them already from the tales you were told as a child. What I'm going to tell you is the truth, the real reason the dragons faded away.   You know of the Elves and Dwarves, and others of their ilk, you know their stories. You know their longevity. However, long before the Elves and Dwarves, the gods created Dragons. Ages ago, Dragons didn't look or act the way they do now. Dragons of all colors worked together in great societies. They had their own way of doing things, and they were nothing like they are now. Red dragons as nice as Grandma Yathanae. Silver Dragons as cruel, and mean as Old Tiarsus. When they were the only intelligent creatures roaming the land, they were the size of mountains, they were supremely powerful, and highly territorial. Most of all though, they were vain. So vain that they challenged the will of the gods themselves, thinking that they, Dragonkind, were more powerful than the gods. This would end up being their downfall.   This earned the ire of the gods and there was a huge battle that took place, and for a while, the Dragons were about to prove their point. No one really knows what turned the tides, but eventually the Dragons lost. Taking some of the gods with them, but still, they lost. The gods proved themselves to be more powerful than the dragons. After the gods won, they had to figure out what to do with the Dragons, to keep them controlled. The Dragons were reduced in size, not able to grow to the sizes they were before. They were forced to turn on each other. This is where the story of Bahamut and Tiamat comes from, but that story is not the full story.   When the gods changed how big Dragons could grow, they also changed the way they think. They essentially created a whole new race, and social structure. The gods couldn't have the Dragons conspiring against them again, it might not go as well as it did the first time. This is why the dragons were the way they were for millennia, the shiny metallic Dragons being the good and protective dragons under the guidance of one of the greatest Dragons who saw the error of their ways (or so the story goes), Bahamut. The duller chromatic Dragons being the sneaky, and mean Dragons, under the guidance of one of the ones leading the rebellion, Tiamat. Both, becoming gods in their own right, but still only mortal Dragons. The one Dragon "god" that everyone forgets about is Chronepsis. Where Bahamut envelopes all that is Good, and Tiamat envelopes all that is Evil, Chronepsis envelopes all that is Neutral. Chronepsis is truly neutral in all things, dispassionate and unconcerned with the unfolding of events. He observes, but does not act. It is his children that were the first to fade away. His children, that we have forgotten. But, that is a tale for another time.