Originally Posted by
dunkl
a dragon-humanoid race. Strong, bulky, slender models for male and female. Quiet warriors, majestic, golden-scaled dragon people for alliance and/or horde, but they'd fill an available slot the alliance silhouette doesn't have in a scaled, reptilian race that embodies the alliance's shinning principles and nobility. Strong, silent lancers or wielding spear or pole arm or giant axe, with over the shoulder sheath/animations or with the tip if the staff or pole arm touching the ground as they walk. Customizable spikes, teeth, snouts (slender beak-like and tough, stern jaws), fins, tails, whiskers, etc.
Each flight should have their culture reimagined/reintroduced, aesthetically. Not lore breaking, it's been a long time since dragons came into being and each flight would and should develop differently from one another, based on beliefs, ideals, customs, locations, landscapes, affinity, etc -like any and all cultures.
Arabian-inspired bronze dragons with golden trimmed and wispy cloth clothing, majestic desert palace, ornate weaponry and jewelry.
Each dragon land could be it's own unique landscape, borrowing from inspired real and fantasy cultures. A thick woods, groves and glades for emerald flight, with actual treetop bridges and cozy huts,
crimson could borrow from korean or japanese mythology and their dragons aesthetic could be more sleek, and their lands can also be home to other inhabitants we haven't met yet or only heard of, such as the rabbit race of samurai and sorcerers (which the vermin which are de-evolved from).
Would be cool if each flight had their own unique culture, traditions, architecture, clothing, jewelry, customs, stances, animations, spell and ability visuals (sandy, leafy, crystally, etc).
Azure could live in a crystalline castle with spacey sky and tall astronomy towers that open to view the stars, philosophers seeking knowledge and and scientists studying the great dark beyond, or perhaps in a crystal-strewn caves below, maybe goblins tunnel undergrounds and find their kingdom.
Lots of potential and interesting variations on each flight would be welcome (by me). Right now they are all very similar to one another except for color, and given their origin that can be understandable, but it's been a long time so perhaps in that long time, each flight's original homeland and people/brood/flight developed in their own unique societies, and also, the homelands of the dragons/flights could be the more primal/ancient/untouched version of their grounds.
While we see aspects and dragon-kind roaming the world, i'm sure when they return home, they look forward to being among their customs, traditions, beliefs, architecture, ideals, ways, foods, activities, heritage, etc, and the more traveled dragon-people we've met are the more learned and worldly type, not exactly reflective of their hidden/ancient lineage who remain unchanged and still living in their original ways on their original lands.
Exploration into their customs, ways, history, etc, would be fun. And it would be so cool to see each color/flight it's own style and visually distinct from one another, arabian-inspired golden scaled dragons in a glinting desert, space-crystal blue-scaled dragons living in crystalline caves or kingdom with whirling scopes and magical artifacts floating, woodland fantasy green-scaled dragons living among the treetops and within mighty tall roots, korean or japanese-inspired red-scaled dragons whose land varies from cliffs to gorges and who take part in ceremonies that uphold life and they are skilled swordsdragons and forge enchanted steels with their breath, earthy/volcanic/hawaiian black-scaled dragons living in caves and tunnels inside a volcano portion or island of the isles, deep meditators and communers with the earth, currently repairing azeroth's fractures veins from the sword and from the cataclysm, and even the moonlit, shimmering scaled, pearly white, elusive white dragon flight - probably located on the moon and elune is the mother of the elusive white dragonflight.
So it wouldn't' be surprising to discover their isles or ancestry, and find that they are each an entire separate civilization with each their own look and feel!