Editing Dragon (section)

==Warhammer==
Dragons have appeared since the beginning in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'', but they're ironically one of the most vaguely defined parts of the lore. They will ally themselves with the [[High Elves]] and be used as powerful (and in game terms: expensive) mounts for elven lords. Aside from being intelligent, there's not much stated about them. Some dragons have also been corrupted by [[Chaos]] and fight alongside the [[Warriors of Chaos]]. In both cases, they are made out to be among the most powerful monsters in the setting, and their stats live up to it, with only few models, including [[Daemon#Greater_Daemons|Greater Daemons]], having a chance at beating them.

According to the Caledor novel and the recent revelation about Cathay, Dragons of all kind are not fond of the [[Old Ones]] and their creations (except Elves, because they are somehow nicer than the others), blaming them for bringing [[chaos]]' attention to their world, and freely terraforming their world (which it was akin the scenery of Jurassic period, many volcanoes and colder temperatures) as they pleased. Some dragons prefer to fight against the intruders, only to get fucking owned by their Slann servant's magic and the Lizardmen's forces in their prime. Only the smarter and wiser dragons survive by fleeing and nesting in the deepest caverns or ocean. The dragons are also not fond of the [[Dragon Ogres]] and the [[Fimir]](it had a huge empire in ancient Norsca at that time), and had fought against them many times.

[[Storm of Magic]] sees the return of "Emperor Dragons", huge dragons that are arguably the most powerful units in the book. Emperor Dragons not allied with Chaos can also be upgraded all the way up to level four sorcerers, in addition to having nearly all 9s across their statline. This does make them extremely expensive, ruling out their use in all but the highest-point games.

Dragons also have a connection with the [[Vampire Counts|vampires]], the reason being their blood has the power to cure their otherwise ceaseless thirst for blood. [[Abhorash]] and [[Zacharias The Everliving]] being the primary beneficiaries of this, where they defeated the beast either with [[awesome|straight up glorious approach]] or just [[Noobs|cowardly draining their blood in their sleep]]. Abhorash then formed the [[Blood Dragon]]s and tells his disciples if they want some of that sweet dragon ambrosia they have to go out and earn it themselves.

Speaking of dragon slaying, it is a popular hobby in the world of ''Warhammer'', where the reason said slayers participate in such activity is to either [[Bretonnia|prove themselves]], [[Slayer|die gloriously or having the glory to kill it]], [[Blood Dragon|the aforementioned thirst for blood as well as making it serve as a pretty sweet mount in undeath]], [[Ogre Kingdoms|for food]] or [[Gotrek & Felix|just killing them for fun]].

Some prefer to just tame them by rearing them from an egg then riding them into battle when they are big enough. Races or Factions like the [[Empire]] ([[Karl Franz]]'s dragon and Elspeth von Draken's Carmine Dragon are the only example for the human, for now), the High Elves, [[Wood Elves]], Vampire Counts(undead dragon, so is more of a summoning than taming), Warriors of Chaos, and the Dark Elves examples of this. And with the Monstrous Arcanum even the Dwarfs became this with shackling Shard Dragons with runic collars that their ancestors taught how to make and use them as expendable giant attack dogs.

Like in many settings, Warhammer has a number of different types, beyond the common/Emperor Dragon split.
*'''[[Merwyrms]]''' - Ancestor race of the dragon kind. Four legged sea serpents who answered only to the High Elves. [[Amanar]] is the greatest of them all.
*'''Caledorian Dragons''' - Dragons that originate from Ulthuan and who are de-facto the original dragon breeds. Just like the Asur that look down on the younger races, the Caledorian Dragons do the same towards other dragons. There are two renown ancient dragon introduced in the Caledor novel and are considered to be the progenitor of the Caledorian Dragons: '''Maedrethnir''', '''Caledor I''''s mount and his father '''Indraugnir''' aka '''Aenarion''''s mount.
**'''Sun Dragon''' - The youngest and smallest breed of High Elven dragons.
***'''Moon Dragon''' - Older and rarer than Sun dragons.
****'''Star Dragon''' - The largest, most powerful, rare and eldest of all dragons.
*'''Black Dragon''' - Dragons corrupted by [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dark Elven]] magic. First of their kind was Sulekh, Malekith's second dragon (first black dragon) to replace his old one. After Sulekh's death, some Black Dragons chose to keep aiding the Dark Elves to avenge her. Sulekh was replaced by Seraphon, Malekith's third dragon (second black dragon), who Malekith instantly favored because of her ruthless action of destroying the eggs around her after hatching.
**'''Sea Dragon''' - Corrupted dragons which have grown so large they can no longer fly. The Dark Elves now use them to tow their massive ships. This also pisses off the ancient sea demi-god Triton who hates the Dark Elves for using the Sea Dragons as glorified sea donkeys.
*'''Forest Dragon''' - Dragons that have adapted to live in the deep forests, so long that their will now linked to the Athel Loren itself, and fight whenever the forest will. In [[Total War: WARHAMMER]], It's appearance compare to other dragons is more leaning towards the forest it lives: antlers growing on its head, butterfly pattern on it's wing and leaves, vines growing on its body as a proof of its connection with the forest.
**'''Venom Dragon''' - A Forest Dragon on steroids. They are so oversaturated with poisons and toxins that even touching any body part or organ will end up fatally for the one touching them. Those Venom Dragons that can cast magic are naturally attuned to the winds of Ghyran.
*'''Shard Dragon''' - Wingless serpentine dragons that adapted to the [[Underdark|deep places]] of the world. They would attack everything they met no matter how harmless or dangerous it is and pursue it with a stubbornness only a Dwarf with a massive grudge would match. Dwarf miners often encountered and awoke these assholes slumber and were met with [[rape|predictable result]], also a shit tons of grudge if there were survivors. Same goes when a Shard Dragon looks for food and somehow gets into contact with a Dwarf Hold, Goblin Cave or a Skaven Burrow...and [[rape|the results are also predictable]] with the addition of massive collateral damage. Only the most skilled Runelord would put a rune collar on them and send them to battle like how the [[Lizardmen]] done to the Dread Saurian, making them the only monster option for the Dwafs (Rune Golems and Rune Guardians are constructs so they do not count as monsters). Knowing the Dwarfs however, a few long-beards might get off their chair and starts to bitching about the dishonorable and repugnant idea of bringing monster onto the battlefield, whereas a proper Dawi could just plant their trustworthy axe onto their wazzock's face. Then again, since their eldest ancestors came up with shackling Shard Dragons, then any Dawi wouldn't say no to it because you don't argue with your ancestors...not to mention that the collar completely eliminates the unpredictability factor and using them as expendable living weapons would be seen as a creative way of settling grudges. Biologically, they have razor-sharp spike scales (kinda like a Razordon, but their spikes are many and thin like an animal fur that would covered their entire body, not to mention the scales becoming as hard as gromlir with age as some Dwarfs discovered), have a venom that is both corrosive and poisonous, a breathe that causes hallucinations so horrifying that everyone dies from heart attacks and fights in absolute frenzy (even more so if they get wounded) on top of having the same magical protection Dwarfs have thanks to the runic collars. They also look like a black ferret, nicknamed: "murder ferret".
*'''Chaos Dragon''' - Dragons perverted by the ruinous powers, typically [[Tzeentch]]. No two are said to be alike, but they tend to have two heads. [[Galrauch]] is said to be the first chaos dragon; a High Elf dragon possessed by a lord of change, it wreck peoples shit while earning hundreds of Dwarven grudges on [[Book of Grudges|The Dammaz Kron]]. Egrimm van Horstmann has a chaos dragon called '''Baudros'''.
**'''Frost Wyrm''' - A sub-species of Chaos Dragon that appeared in the first Total War: Warhammer game with its final DLC that made Norsca a playable faction. Lore-wise it is speculated that Frost Wyrms used to be Ice Dragons that mutated over time by Chaos.
*'''Warpfire Dragon''' - A mutant Dragon that almost exclusively feeds on Warpstone. Has a devastating breathe attack yet at the same time it's limited to the Northern polar caps of the Warhammer world, so people luckily will rarely see this monstrosity. Skaven understandingly hate those things because burrows to the northern part of the world were always attacked by hungry Warpfire Dragons who did literally everything to break into a Clan's warpstone reserve.
*'''[[Carmine Dragon]]''' - Dragons that are born tied to the amethyst winds of death magic, Shyish. [[Elspeth von Draken]] being the only known person in both the Empire and the Warhammer world to have one as a mount so far.
**'''Nightmare Dragon''' - Said to not be true dragons but the winds of Shyish given life and form, these creatures have a breathe attack similar to that of Black Dragons yet far more potent. The most famous one of them is Omdra the Dreaded. A giant of a dragon that was gravely wounded by a massive combined force of Chaos Dwarfs, Warriors of Chaos and other Chaos monstrosities. However it came at a terribly high price and she simply slid back into her lair to heal.
*'''[[Toad Dragon]]''' - Giant lumbering reptilian horrors with insatiable appetites and a frog-like tounge. Oftern serves Nurgle worshipers. Tamurkhan owned a Toad Dragon named Bubebolos and it was the most well known and the greatest of its kind.
*'''Zombie Dragon''' - Basically dead dragons raised by Vampires to become their mount.
*'''Fire Dragon''' - A hotblooded, short-tempered dragon species. Rarely seen and are synonymous with flaming destruction.
**'''Doomfire Dragon''' - Even more hotblooded and short-tempered than Fire Dragons. Love to set whole cities on fire and are a whole species of pyromaniac arsonists. Are heavily attuned to the winds of Aqshy and those that can use magic can cast Lore of Fire spells. The most famous Doomfire Dragon was Malathrax the Mighty who was personally slain by [[Markus Wulfhart]].
***'''Magma Dragon''' - The single most evilest of dragons and arguably far more powerful than even the Star Dragon. A obsidian black and shiny monstrous dragon with a ton of malevolence and bad temper. Its breathe attack isn't just a normal flaming breathe, but it mixes in sulphur and poison to further weaken its prey in a most painful manner (game-wise, every successful wound resulted in the model loosing a point in Toughness...WHICH WOULD STACK if the dragon managed to wound the model multiple consecutive times). Only known to live in Naggaroth's Blackspine Mountains and among the volcanic ranges of the Dark Lands. Needless to say, the Chaos Dwarfs have a lot of relations with the Magma Dragons. Especially with the case of the eldest of them, Hadgar. Once a simple Fire Dragon, Hadgar was taken captive by the Chaos Dwarfs and experimented on by them with daemonic possession techniques that would be used to create their trademark K'Daai. This turned him into a Magma Dragon who eventually broke his chains and exacted disproportionate retribution on the Chaos Stunties. Not only most of the Tower of Gorgoth was obliterated by the dragon, but everything around it too (especially the multitude of slave camps). These days Hadgar comes out of his lair near Gorgoth to either beat some wannabe challenger or to answer the summons of powerful wizards. The Dawi-Zharr that observe from very afar note that parts of his scales turned to stone, meaning that with his transformation he inherited the same deadly curse that turns the Sorcerer Prophets into stone statues.
*'''Frost Dragon''' - A rare dragon species that is ice and winter incarnate with a freezing breathe. Due to its nature it's very slow to anger actually. Lives exclusively in the Mountains of Mourn. While certainly powerful, it will avoid adult bull Mammoths or stampeding Rhinoxes.
**'''Ice Dragons''' - Even rarer than Frost Dragons, but in this case adult bull Mammoths and Rhinox stampedes don't make it chicken out. They are all FROSTBITE. Just like the Frost Dragons, it has a freezing breathe. Unlike Frost Dragons, this breathe attack is significantly more powerful. The two most famous Ice Dragons are Jaugrel and Ymirdrak. The former being slain personally by [[Greasus Goldtooth]] while the latter freezing a whole Ogre Tribe with a single blast of his freezing breathe. For some reason they are attuned to the winds of Hysh, meaning those that can use magic can cast Lore of Light spells. The Frost Wyrms may be their Chaos-mutated cousins.
*'''The Imperial Dragon''' - The Empire's only owned dragon (Elspeth's dragon does not count). It was taken from the deepest cave of the black mountain. Only [[Karl Franz]] can ride it in battle. Otherwise, it just sits in the imperial zoo of Altdorf whenever Karl rides Deathclaw to battle. It is also nameless. The poor dragon just can't be anymore popular than Deathclaw huh? On the other hand it did get some piece of the action when during the End Times it slew the Bray Shaman known as The Harbinger and its horde of Beastmen in the Altdorf Palace with its fiery breathe.
*'''Cathayan Dragon''' - Like the real life Eastern Dragons, they are serpent-like and have the ability to cast magic and transform into smaller humanoid forms. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5G5v4W7omc The word is overused within the Cathay roster] as if they were [[Space Wolves]]. They also rules [[Cathay]]. Although they were mysterious in the past due to the lack of Cathay fluff, the recent revelations from [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] and the [[Warhammer: The Old World]] has revealed that there are only 7 of them ruling that damn place There's the original grandaddy Dragon Emperor [[Lord Kroak|(who is said to be about as strong, if not stronger than a fucking old world god like Ulric)]], and the newly addition of his wife, an equally powerful Dragon Moon Empress. The said power couples has 9 children with the same dragon abilities defending the borders of Cathay, with only 4 missing. In the older fluff, these dragon are awesome at being magic casters (especially lore heaven). So awesome that they fucked up the ogre tribes living north, created the great maw, and sunk a Dark Elf Black Ark. That said power is still true in recent canon, for the lore of heaven (aka Azyr) is the Dragon Emperor's most favored lore of magic. Its is also known that the offspring of the Dragon Emperor are able to have intercourse with humans which results in many citizens in Cathay sharing their blood.
**'''Dragon-blooded Shugengan Lord''' - Sons and Daughters of the Dragon Children. They are half-dragon, half-man commander who are like Vampire Lords (AKA: good at doing everything, be it fighting, casting magic or leading an army...OR ALL THREE ALTOGETHER). With these kind of special snowflake privileges, they grow up into becoming spoiled, arrogant arses, probably more so than a typical Elf (but less than Settra) due to their superior physiology. As a result, many mortal commanders resents them with jealousy, and yet are unable to do anything to them due to their noble birthright.

=== [[Age of Sigmar]] ===
In [[Age of Sigmar]], there are still dragons, albeit with a lesser variety.

*'''Draconith''': Age of Sigmar's attempt at bringing back dragons. The Draconith are the progeny of the legendary dragon god [[Dracothion]] and used to populate the realms during the Age of Myth. Their reign ended after a disastrous war with the ancient Drogukh race which saw [[Kragnos]] sealed away and the Draconith on the verge of extinction. They went into hiding with the help of the [[Seraphon]], but now that Kragnos has awakened, the lizardmen have finally seen enough progress with the Draconith and have begun unleashing them...into the pens of the [[Stormcast Eternals|Sigmarines]], so they can have even more fucking pets. Also look like they are straight out of Eragon (fyi: ERAGON WAS NOT GOOD {{BLAM}} Ok the film sucked but the books were sorta decent). Their leaders are Krondys and Karazai, twin dragons who claim to be the direct sons of Dracothion and serve as Sigmar's trusted generals.

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