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| Race | Quartz Dragon |
| Over-race | Dragon |
| Classification | Sundry |
| Family | Viridian Pillars |
| Sphere | Cosmos |
| Origin | Developed as dragons absorbed astral aether |
| Lifespan | 100,000 years |
| Habitat | Asteroid fields |
| Food | Omnivorous/energies |
| Description | At birth, all dragons look like large, pink worms. At maturity, dragons grow to be wingless flying serpents with quartz-studded scales glittering in the vastness of space. Some take on the form of constellations. |
| Procreation | Dragons mate with each other only. Without intense supernatural interference, half-dragons are an impossibility. Dragons lay one to three eggs at a time. Upon hatching, a dragon immediately begins absorbing background energies. All dragon eggs are filled with pure, liquid draconic energy, which sustains the baby dragon upon hatching. |
| Esoterica | Quartz dragons have absorbed massive amounts of astral aether. Lunar, sol angelic, viridian, and fundamental aether are very common as well as white tiger essence and earthpower. Fate, fortune, and flux are all common, as is possibility and complexity. Psionic energy is not unheard of, nor are divine energies. Natural radiation is very common. Other powers are rarer, but almost any are possible. |
| Special Powers | Dragons gain new powers as they accumulate more energies. At each stage of growth, they gain a new ability, usually culminating with the twelfth ability when they accumulate . The usual progression of powers is as follows:
All dragons accumulate energies by absorbing them naturally from the area around them. As such, they must carefully cultivate their lairs to provide the right kinds of energies, hence they hoard appropriate objects. Other common powers include lightspeed travel, chrononautics, relative displacement, radioactive scale, create blackhole, perfect navigation, and antimatter gaze. |
| Alternate Forms | Quartz dragons usually take the form of an asterian, but have been known to take on the forms of astral gnomes, tsukamaanes, astral gaunts, or zan-ka'ar, depending on the part of space they are in. They only do this when absolutely necessary, however, preferring to drift in their natural forms. |
| Weaknesses | Astral aether corrupted by msawhat will destroy them. |
| Subspecies | Draco asterus is a form of quartz dragon that is nearly completely made of astral aether. These appear to be small chains of tiny glowing stars, forming a dragon constellation that flies through space. They have the ability to move at light speed, reality shaping powers, and the ability to speak to logos and stars. They are extremely rare. |
| Culture | Quartz dragons lay their eggs in massive asteroid caverns. A monogamous pair of dragons raises the young and ensures they absord the right energies to become quartz dragons, though not necessarily the biological parents. Quartz dragons will trade child-rearing duties with other dragons if they have duties or preferences to travel distantly. Quartz dragons form many temporary nomadic tribes, switching tribes depending on their drift. Their drift is a cultural compulsion to explore in a structured way. Tribes usually stick to very similar patterns for long periods of time. During these times, they mate, but if they drift apart, it is rare there is any negative emotion involved in the separation. All quartz dragons have an asteroid they consider their original home, and they return there once a Shemmish year to reconnect. Elder quartz dragons settle down in their home asteroids, often to help raise the young. They build hoards through trade and acquisition, but rarely through conquest. Most quartz dragons are complacent, knowing the universe is great and vast, and conflict can easily be avoided. |
| Notables | Astraramatarain, Quartz Dragon Manifest |
| Sample statistics | For all draconic powers, the rule is 1 point in a stat costs 6 points of an energy. (Mature Quartz) PRO 19 ATH 24 STR 39 AWA 23 WIL 22 ROG 13 (Mature Draco asterus) PRO 19 ATH 50 STR 65 AWA 23 WIL 37 ROG 13 |
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