The Dragon Wars
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The Dragon Wars
The rise of Dragons
Once the young Gods realized the destructive power of dragons, angels faded out of use as soldiers. They still existed and a few troops were created during the Dragon Wars, but were used mainly as scouts and harvesters. Dragons were less pure than angels, but more powerful. The gods raised and lowered the land and manipulated the elements to make ideal homes for their warriors, defensible places where a wounded dragon could hide away from foes: a dragon took a considerable amount of a God’s life force to create.
Draconic Warfare
Dragons usually lived and flew alone, but some traveled in pairs. Dragons engaged in deadly jousts in the air, attempting to bite at the vulnerable neck of their adversary or use their deadly breath weapon against the other dragon’s vulnerable underbelly.
First use of Magic
Dragons had a certain magnetic quality to them, such that as time passed, they attracted elemental energy from their surroundings. As they acquired this energy, they became stronger. Some eventually learned to manipulate energies in their surroundings, the first known use of magic in the history of the universe. Angels soon learned this skill, and proved to be more adept magicians than dragons, due to their purity. They saw more use after that point, but the focus of the gods still remained mostly on dragons.
Battles
Most of the Dragon Wars was a passive period. The goal was to place your dragons at places charged with magical energies, so they accumulated these energies quickly. If your dragons maintained their sphere of control, they absorbed energy. When a dragon was finally killed, a troop of angels would salvage what it could from the dragon’s scattered energies.
While dragons were solitary, massive battles occasionally erupted during the Dragon Wars. A battle sometimes involved a hundred dragons and was usually fought over a dead dragon or a troop of angels.
Some angels became extraordinary dragon slayers. They learned stealth magics and sneaked up to a dragon, destroying it and scattering its life force, then fleeing the scene. While dragon-hunters were rare, they were very feared by gods and dragons. Sometimes only ten angels would slay a great dragon.
Awareness of Fertility
Some Gods realized that the Dragon Wars were stalemated, and began experimenting with other methods of fighting. Obad-Hai finally hit upon the idea of using Earth to grow warriors instead of making them out of his own life force. Soon after, the first races were created. In their early stages of existence, races frequently experienced divine intervention, and some individuals were able to kill dragons. Because they arose from the land itself, they were much less costly than angels, and the Gods gradually neglected the dragons, leaving them to gather treasure in their fortresses.
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