#Rebirth of Myths: Dragonborn

[the-monkey-ruler]

Rebirth of Myths: Dragonborn (2024)

Date: 2024 Platform: Android Developer: 9RING Publisher: 9RING Genre: Role Playing Theme: Anime Type: Crossover

[ankoku-teion]

Dioraden: History of the world.

Overview of the ages the various cultures and religions of the world frequently disagree on the exact starting point and end point of each age, as well as naming conventions, but in the broad strokes they agree.

The Dawn Age: Age of Myth. Age of the Gods. Age of Creation. - Start: the beginning of all creation - Length: Unknown

The First Age: Golden Age. Age of Magic. - Start: the birth of the Elven and Dwarven civilisations. the founding of Enothas and Torum, the first Elven and Dwarven cities. -Length: aprox. 10,000 years.

The Second Age: Silver Age. Age of Men. Age of Stone. - Start: the birth of human civilisation, the founding of Cathel, the first human city. -Length: aprox. 2800 years.

The Third Age: Bronze Age. Age of Monsters. -Start: the creation of Orcs, Goblins, and several other monstrous and demi-human races. -Length: aprox. 2200 years.

The 4th Age: Iron Age, Age of Blood. Age of the Dragon. -Start: the empire of the Dragonborn invading the west. Death of the Last Prophet, creation of the Grand Inquisition and the start of the Great Purge, Retreat of the Dwarves. -Length: 1250 years.

The 5th Age: Steel Age. Age of Heroes. Age of Rebirth. -Start: the birth of the Messiah (see: Vathism), End of the Jarethe Dynasty. Length: 970 years

The 6th Age: Age of Steam -Start: invention of the steam engine, Founding of the Second Empire of the Dragon, Return of the Dwarves. Length: Current Age.

[overfedvenison]

I’ve never really been into the trope, but D&D 3.5 had a lot of “Dragon Aspirant” concepts it kept going back to. Basically a person that tries to ascend to dragon-hood. Off the top of my head: - This was the original deal with Dragonborn, who were “rebirthed” in their dragon form from human origins - Dragonfire Adepts were a base class that gained Draconic Powers as a Warlock gained Eldritch Powers, from bartering with dragons instead of fiends. Their Eldritch Blast is instead a Dragon Breath - Dragon Shamans sometimes worshipped Dragons, and mostly sought to become a dragon themselves - Dragon Disciple is a Core Rules Prestiege Class that draws out their dragon bloodline to ascend to dragonhood - The Sorcerer was originally specifically a class that derived it’s powers from a draconic bloodline, specifically, rather than the more general approach we see now (though this was being phased out even as 3.5 was released, we see it in the association of Kobolds and Sorcerers for example, and it’s implementation in 2e.) For whatever reason they kept going back to this idea, and it seemed like a pretty important part of the game’s identity given it’s emphasis. But I’ve not really seen anyone actually be into that... Perhaps because it is a rather niche subset of dragon myth. There’s enough there that if you wanted to take “Dragon Aspirant” and run with it, you could have a full adventure just about the various ways to become a dragon. Eldren Ring has the Church of Dragon Communions dotted about, and a bunch of creatures spawned as imitations of dragons, which reminded me of that of late. The portrayal of it less as this cool thing and more as a pale mimicry has an element of tragedy to it that I like