Taichara/ShadowDragons

The Shadow-Dragons

Shadow-dragons, Deathwyrms ...

A random if intriguing thought; if bred, born and raised in a shadowland, what might happen to Dragonblooded over the generations? Better yet, could the Deathlords deliberately affect the outcome of such a bloodline? Or would such a thing arise naturally, if "nature" be at all a word applicable to such a creature?

Such death-aspected Terrestrial Exalts may well reflect the Elements of the Underworld, rather than those of the living world. They could find themselves serving as the lieutenants and elite warriors of the Abyssals as their brethren once did the Solars ..

This is, like much of my jottings on the wiki, very much a work in progress. We'll see what else manages to develop in regards to these critters  ;)

Aspect Descriptions

AspectsOfBlood (Water)

AspectsOfBone (Wood)

AspectsOfGhostFlame (Fire)

Sobriquets: Frenzied Knives, Basilisks / Sirrush
Associations: the corpse-element of ghost-flame, the colors ice-green and green-gold, Usine, the half-moon, the South direction, summer
"Come, little one, and dance in the fire ..."

AspectsOfJade (Earth)

Sobriquets: Hollow Kings, Terrasques
Associations: the corpse-element of jade, the colors of jade, the Dual Monarchy, the full moon, the Centre direction, Calibration
"May you serve better in death, than you have in life"

AspectsOfPrayer (Air)

Sobriquets: Phantom Savants, Amphipteres
Associations: the corpse-element of prayer, the colors ice-blue and ash-grey, Setesh, the crescent moon, the North direction, autumn
"Knowledge -- like breath -- is the sweetest thing to lure from the unworthy."

Random Musings

• Shadow-dragons would no doubt regain Essence in Creation much like Abyssals, and suffer the same penalities when in direct sunlight.

• Possibly these Terrestrial Exalts, while capable of growing fangs for Essence-draining from living beings, must consume flesh rather than drink blood? (Possibly higher-Essence Exalts would learn blood-drinking ..)

• There is also the issue of a requisite Magical Material. Soulsteel seems a little ... off, but perhaps plausable. Jade seems more likely, but the elemental affinities would of course be out of whack. I seem to dimly recall a reference back in the oWoD days to a form of 'white jade' that was actually forged from the plasm of ghosts or something along those lines -- perhaps I should look into that.