The Dragon Avatars

Era of Dragons / ~65 million years ago
Ancient draconic and elven legends tell the tale in many ways, but a common thread holds in the origin story of dragons on Andaria. All of these legends agree that the first born, the first dragon of each of the ten broods, were uplifted by the gods from the most dominant dinosaur species that roamed the world. None however agree on whether the evil chromatics, or the good metallics were created first, but either way the divine forces of the Eternal Struggle decided to balance the scales once again and both types of dragon appeared on the world near the same time.

These first born were effectively immortal, and were like gods among the creatures of the world. In time they would become known as the Dragon Avatars. Each of their personalities gravitated to a particular gender; however, each of the Avatars needed no mate as they had the power to reproduce on their own. Their direct children were known as First Generation dragons, and these had much more power and magic than even the eldest of today's dragons. From this first generation onward the beasts needed mates to reproduce as normal, and in this manner the Dragon Avatars spread their broods across the world of Andaria. After around fifty million years they had asserted their species as the dominant race on the planet - after almost wiping out most opposing dinosaur predators.

After which began the first long age of draconic infighting that lasted for millions of years itself, known as The First Scale Wars.

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