SERPENT
Serpent (Fire)
The elementals of fire are Firedrakes. Firedrakes are a shape-shifting race of
people who are able to transform from their humanoid shape into fire breathing
lizards. They dwell in the Great Desert of the Eastern Continent. Their god is
known as the Inferno God.
Fire drakes had problems with "political" affairs
for some time, having wars that led to the destruction of some parts of the
society. Since the war of Gonzul, a war that was held at the capital city, the
people was split up in clans that leagued each other in a war against enemies.
All stopped upon the reign of the king Talarus, about 10 years ago, when peace
was declared.
The clans still live on, as five of them still live on the lands. These clans
are the Shaki, the Ronten, the Porala, the Likan and the Jilabos.
Shakis are known for their brutal natures and their customs that involve
publics fight to settle a trouble among the villagers. Their skin when they are
in drake mode is red.
Rontens live as nomads, passing from town to town, making the commerce
of the entire Fire drake society. They don't like to enter the local conflicts
for evident reasons, except maybe for selling armours. Another one of their
hobbies is to go hunt in the desert for small scorpions or other animals that
lurk in the desert to sell them for their food or for other reasons. Their skin
when the look like drake is green.
Porala live near the oasis of the burning planes. The entire people rest
upon the principle of agriculture, making them the cornerstone of the survival
of the other clans. They share with everyone who comes, and if they have to
defend themselves, they are fierce and will protect their lands to the death.
Likan are the administrators of the cities and the other half works
underground to gather minerals. With their better intelligence, they manage to
get city working, so that no goods is needed. They used to live in the southern
desert. Their skin in dragon form is purple.
Jilabos are the craftsmen. They are pretty good at doing tools. Living
in the northern deserts, the go out mostly at night. Some of the people made
another branch and scattered around the world. No one knows why they did such a
thing, but some speculations say that the Inferno God called them to be the
scouts of the society.
War of Gonzul
The capital city was found to have a lot of resources
buried under it. When rare minerals were found, some people wanted to get
control of the resources to have a better control on all the population. The
proconsul of the cities gathered and planned the king's assassination. The king
was killed using a poison in his food and that day marked the great war. With
the king out of the picture and the prince too young to rule, the proconsuls
made war against each other to know who would win the city. Great misery
followed and in months famine was about to destroy everyone when someone came,
someone called Talarock. Talarock was the grandfather of the young king and was
believed dead until that day. He went to see his grandson and claimed he was
able to rule the country. The young drake claimed his place and was named
Talarus. After only a week of fight, he proved himself worthy of the throne by
winning against every proconsul. After that war, the separation of the
resources under the capital city was made. The war lasted for about 2 years and
a half, and made a lot of innocent victims.
Consequences of the war of Gonzul
The war left some profound scars in
the drake society. Some clans don't want to talk to each other for the war
still goes on in their heads. Likens and Ronten are the two clans that still
have a conflict. The administrator and miner society had a common dispute about
who should control the commerce in cities. No one agreed to that point, and
since then hatred can still be visible on that clan. Not all relations were
wasted because of the war. The relations between the Porala and the Jilabos is
so good they cohabit without any problems. Both the societies live in symbiosis
and this situation is mostly do to one fact : the majority of the people from
both of the societies went out of the deserts during the conflicts and lived
with other races. They learned, not without difficulty, how to tolerate
themselves and eventually went to live as a ghetto in the other persons cities.
Economically, the drakes have not yet recovered completely from the war : they
still have cities to rebuild, roads to restart and more importantly, make the
society a better place to live.
Relations
Fire drakes kept minimal relations with other cultures until
the war. The war made a lot of people want to get out of their country to go
somewhere else, where the wrath of war couldn't get them. The went on as
refugees and lived in forests and learned a lot from the other races. In our
days, the drakes learned how to cohabit with the other persons around them, and
if someone needs help, they will come, except if they don't want to. Drakes
keep a relation of peace with the neighbour races and keep a good commercial
link with them.
Religion
There are two major beleifs in the drake society, the Platism and the Macroism.
The Platism, religion that about half of the population beleive in, tells that
the drakes here on Dragon's Breath are there to show their worth. They think their
god intentionnaly placed people to meet them, to interact only to prove their
worth in another life. If they don't suceed the test, they will be put in
another life upon the society, a life of misery and poverty. Those who succeed
get back after their lives in another body, a body who will have a good faith.
Sometimes, their god goes on to check who is everyone, and if all goes wrong,
it will get worse with plagues, agricultural problems, wars, etc. Otherwise, if
all's well, the blessing will show by the unusual rain. The person who follow
this religion must celebrate the glory of the god once a month and give a part
of the culture to the crurch. Once a year, everyone is gathered around to
listen to the myth of the gods and after the story everyone is invited to
celebrate over on a dinner and there is some music, people are invited to dance
etc.
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