Since the existence of the female draconians solved the survivability problems the draconian race, Kang decided to set out to find a homeland for his people. After allowing them to hatch Kang discovered that the eggs yielded female draconians. Meanwhile, a Bozak draconian engineer named Kang happened upon the female dragon eggs that Takhisis had hidden. Since there were no females to repopulate with, Maranta began to contemplate using the Heart of Dracart as a way to continue his species in some form (a plan that ultimately would have failed, because the draconian "clones" created by the Heart of Dracart were short-lived and unable to breed with the aforementioned females). As time passed and draconians began to age and die, Maranta feared for the future of the draconian race. Once the Heart was in his possession, Maranta wished to destroy it, but could not bring himself to do so. It was stolen by Maranta, an Aurak draconian who sought to prevent the draconians from becoming a mindless slave race.
Fortunately, Dracart never got to use his artifact. But they were docile, obedient, and able to fight. These draconian copies were not as smart, powerful, or long-lived they were also sterile. The Heart of Dracart allowed for the creation of hundreds of new draconians from an existing draconian, essentially splitting its soul into many and killing the original draconian in the process. As a result, Dracart created the Heart of Dracart. When the Whitestone Forces started to mount a serious offensive, Takhisis ordered Dracart to develop a more efficient method of creating draconians. Dark dwarves (Theiwar and/or Daergar) raided the temple during the last days of the War of the Lance and spirited the eggs away to the underhalls of Thorbardin, where they rested for twenty years. Instead, she ordered the eggs placed in suspended animation and hidden in a vault of her temple in Neraka, perhaps foreseeing a day when they might be needed. Fortunately, Dracart was prevented from destroying the eggs by Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness. Indeed, Dracart wished to destroy all the female dragon eggs in order to prevent a future rebellion by the draconians. However, it was known by at least one man (Dracart) that female dragon eggs yielded female draconians. Until the Chaos War, many believed draconians to be sexless. They have green blood, as it is based in copper rather than the iron-based red blood of most other species.
Baaz draconians turn to stone Kapak draconians dissolve into pools of acid (releasing clouds of poisonous fumes) the scales of Bozak draconians dissolve, leaving just their bones which then explode Aurak draconians are consumed by magical flames. Fighting them is difficult due to their large size, natural toughness, and magical abilities, including magical death throes that vary depending on the type of draconian killed. Draconians are reptilian creatures most of which have small wings on their backs. Baaz were created from brass dragon eggs, Bozaks from bronze, Kapaks from copper, Sivaks from silver, and Auraks from gold. There are many types of draconians, depending on the type of metallic dragon egg that was corrupted to produce them. Even though both male and female draconians were created at the same time, the existence of the female draconians was concealed. They were supposed to be more predictable than humans, and more tractable than ogres or goblins. This process was first performed on bronze dragon eggs.ĭraconians were created to serve as specialists or shock troops in the Dark Queen's army. A Brass Dragon's egg can produce as many as twenty draconians, whilst a Gold Dragon's egg will only yield two draconians at most. This ritual causes the subject egg to produce a number of draconian hatchlings dependent upon the type of egg. Historyĭraconians are created through the use of a powerful and undetailed spell, the exact workings of which are unknown all is known is that the process requires the spittle of a Chromatic Dragon, an evil Arcane spellcaster and a Cleric of Takhisis (who cast the spell in tandem) and the egg of a Metallic Dragon. ĭraconians appeared in fourth edition in Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons (2009), including the Adamaaz (adamantine), Ferak (iron), and Kobaaz (cobalt). ĭraconians were further detailed in third edition in Dragon 339 (January 2006). They subsequently appeared in Dragonlance Adventures (1987).ĭraconians appeared in the second edition in the Monstrous Compendium Dragonlance Appendix (1990), and the Tales of the Lance boxed set (1992).
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Draconians first appeared as "dragonmen" as part of the first edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game for the Dragonlance setting in the original series of Dragonlance modules, beginning with Dragons of Despair (1984).