In the beginning , there was no earth, no sky, just the elements.
Each element fought each other for dominance over the new world that was forming (that would become the Tellerium). Fire, Earth , Air and Water. Each saught dominion over the others, none seeking to yeald.
Aech of the elements made champions, the pre dragons. The battle was harsh, and there was no quater given to any of the elements.
Then out of the this chaos formed a new element. Penne. (Prime). Penne formed its own dragon, taking a part of the elements to form the first true dragon. As a child of all 5 elements, the Penne was victorious. All ofhter elements yielded, and they too started to merge, so that after a time , all dragons had part of all the elements in thir makeup.
Man calls this first piriod the Age of dinosaurs. Dragons took many shapes, for Land, Sea, air, and fire (which represents the diverse shapes found today in fossils). Unfortunatly The Penne Dragon (Prime Dragon,or King Dragon), while hoding dominion over the land , wanted more. Seeing a new breed of beings (mammals, pre werewolves, pre changelings), he sought to hold dominion over them too. A great war erupted, and the Dragons found a new source of power that could not be explaned in simple elements. Was it God(s), Gaia? The Umbra Dinzines. No one knows. It did however let loose a great explosion and ice age that almost obliterated dragonkind, (and killing the Penne Dragon in the process).
Hence the second age. Dragonkind, in realisation that they have lost dominion of the world, sought somewhere else to go. They found it in the boundry of the earth and umbra (which they called the sky). Dragons became the Umbra explorers, and as a result became more wiser and learnt that with Penne, they could change reality. They became benifactors of many units of humans, while other humans where wary or hostile (maybe having racial history of the End of the First Age?)
The second age crashed when the Order of reason created the gauntlet. Many dragons where trapped in the umbra, many at earth.
Here , the origional background for D:TR takes over....
As a result, dragons now have four choices (as sson as i get it fully fleshed out). They would have stats representing the 5 elements, which determine things like (AIR) flying movement, (Water) Water movement / survivability, (Fire) Breath weapon power, (Earth) armour and (Penne) Magical might / Arte. Each dragon age woudl get points to add these pools, (like vampires getting more bloodpool), so an Ancient dragon would still have great power, compared to a Adolecant.
Queeries, Flames, please let me know, after all, it is for you.
Darryl