Dragons are a bestial race of TerVarus. This means they do not craft, build, wear armor, use weapons, speak or use currency. Well, not as currency is intended to be used by humans at any rate. They are designed to be non-social, extremely difficult to progress, and ultimately the strongest race in the game. We make no apologies for any of it and invite you to try your hand at reaching true power if you think you can.
Frost or Fire?
Pretty easy there. Do you want to be badass and on fire or badass and icey?
Breath Weapons:
Breath weapons are directly tied to nuggets, the currency of humans. You have three breath sacs. Consuming copper nuggets goes into one sac, silver to another, gold to another and so on. Each breath sac has a different type of weapon. These have not yet been decided upon but for example: (THESE ARE NOT CONFIRMED. JUST PLACE HOLDERS!)
• Copper: A single target attack. Maybe it shoots out a huge icicle.
• Silver: An AoE status effect. Maybe it shoots out a layer of ice on the ground, slowing or tripping enemies in that patch of ice.
• Gold: An AoE attack. Perhaps something like an ice storm effect on a certain area. Raining down softball sized hale.
Aging:
Of course it wouldn't be as easy as choose race, click, create, and be an unstoppable terror in TerVarus. We are going to make you work for it. REALLY work for it.
• Hatchling: A little baby lizard that is pretty much as defenseless as a... well lizard. You don't get any of the fun stuff like flight or uber breath weapons. You have to claw and bite your way through rodents and such to fill your belly enough to get your growth meter up. Consequently, eating the heart of another hatchling (or larger dragon) will keep your belly fuller, longer.
• Young: About as large as a big dog, you get a relatively small gain in strength and hit points. Not much of a gain, but look on the bright side - now you can die in two hits instead of one.
• Juvenile: You finally figure out how to use your tail as a weapon, and your bite becomes quite a bit stronger as does your strength. You're about the size of a horse. Don't get cocky though, you've got a long way to go.
• Adolescent: You get flight! Or rather, the opportunity to fly. It's skill based so it will take lots of training and practice. Just don't fail too many skill checks one hundred feet above the ground. Your breath sacs develop just enough to give you a weak version of your breath weapons.
• Adult: Your breath sacs grow to their full capacity and your physical size and strength intimidates the bravest of souls.
• Ancient: Congrats you are a walking, flying, breath weaponing raid boss of terror that is not confined to a raid. Enjoy your achievement by wreaking havoc on anything and everything. We'll be disappointed if you don't.
Food:
It is very important, make sure you have it. It may also be of note that dragons are a bit snobbish as far as food goes. They have a great sense of personal pride and do not feel satisfied to grow if they do not kill and consume their own kills. If humans or other creatures 'gift' food to dragons they view it as tainted and cannot find it in themselves to grow. It's just too damn humiliating to be demoted to a pet. Eating too much tainted food can also result in death.
Tainted Meat:
Tainted meat is something that was not killed by your dragon. Eating tainted meat will fill your belly but it will not count towards your growth if you fill up on it. Eating tainted meat also gives you a debuff to show you that you will not gain growth because tainted meat has been consumed. This debuff does not hurt your dragon or reduce it's stats in any way shape or form... until you get enough of them stacked up. If, for example, you gain 5 stacks of this debuff your dragon will start to take some detrimental hits to stats. If you gain 10 stacks, your dragon dies.
Why do this? We said dragons will be tough to play, we meant it. We don't want dragon farms and have our world over-run with them. But we do not want to cripple you if, on occasion, you have no choice but to eat some tainted meat to keep death by starvation at bay.
Hoards:
On top of being well fed to age, you will also need a hoard to molt in. These can vary in size, depending on the stage of dragondom that you are in.
What do you need for a hoard?
Generally a hole, cave, volcano?, hollow of a glacier?, and things of that nature are required for space. Shiny things like nuggets, gems, gold and silver items, (maybe a crown or goblet here and there?) and magical weapons or other items help to make a dragon really feel at home. I hear magical tomes of perma-dead mages are really good for the molting atmosphere.
Gem weapons:
These can be really useful for larger dragons that have a considerable hoard built up. Unfortunately people seem to want the stuff you collected from them back. To keep that from happening, we encourage you to find special gems around that you can infuse with your breath attacks. These would be able to be placed around your hoard and have a detection ability given to them. If anyone other than your dragon were to walk within that detection radius, they would get the full blast of power stored inside that gem. This will hopefully keep those pesky thieves at bay and your treasures safe.
Communication:
There is no communication slated for dragons at this time. Nor is there likely to be. I suppose there is ventrilo or skype or teamspeak for that if you really feel the urge to chat.