Draconian

Draconians were created in the Dragonlance series of books and served as that world's version of orcs or Nazis: a cannon-fodder enemy you could kill without remorse.

Draconians were inspired by Dragons and inspired Dragonborn.

Takhisis created the draconians when she return to Krynn for the first time since the Cataclysm; to ensure her forces of dragonriders would reign supreme, she stole away all of the eggs of the Metallic Dragons, the dragons associated with Paladine, God of Good. She threatened to destroy their eggs unless they sat back and did nothing to stop her forces. Then, after she was confident that she had them good and scared, she decided to try and mess around with their eggs, just because. Using a ritual that required a Black Robed mage and a Priest of Takhisis, as well as the spittle of one of her Chromatic Dragons, she mutated the embryoes inside the eggs and created distorted humanoid dragon-things, which she proceeded to use as cannon fodder.

After Takhisis was beaten back, the draconians were abandoned, and started climbing out of the "always evil: kill on sight" rut, unlike their orcy counterparts. They got females, and even "noble draconian" counterparts made from Chromatic Dragon eggs.

There's ten kinds of draconian, based on which of the five Metallic or five Chromatic dragons they were made from. Each kind has its own unique ability - for example, the Baaz, made from Bronze Dragons, turn to stone when you kill them, usually trapping your sword inside them when they do.

Unified Setting Description

• Unified Setting/Draconian