Feydragon
Draco sapiens pauxillulus
pl. Feydragons
The beauty of the fey is unspeakable
They fly swiftly beyond the trees and sky
Whilst I watch their children in the snow.
- Anonymous poet
The faeries of Ramath-lehi have many names, but they are most commonly referred to as Feydragons. These special creatures are part of many a myth, legend and tale, but they are far from bedtime stories.
Description
The most notable thing about the fey is their size: fully grown ones are almost never larger than an Earth fox when quadruped, and when humanoid, they hardly reach beyond three feet and eight inches in height. This is, of course, not their only distinguishing feature. They are often quite slender, with powerful limbs. They always have wings, and they always have tail-flames - unless they somehow lose their connection to a power source.
Many kinds of feydragon have a special, Fromina-infused tattoo which represents the deity they seem to follow. The design of the tattoo depends on said deities, but they always have one thing in common: they are so powerfully infused that it takes one with an equal of journeyman rank or higher in Sorcery, Inner Sight or Seerism to be able to see the tattoo.
There are multiple kinds of feydragon, but they can be narrowed down to several types: the Alanamsul, the Telbaj, the Azetsum, and the Myshemd.
I. Alanamsul The name is Ramathian for "elemental", and indeed, these Feydragons seem to have a link to the Numegola. When they train in elemental sorcery, they specialize in a specific element, and if they have any kind of 'kinesis, it is very likely to be their element, and they can sometimes be quite powerful in it. Their tattoo is, of course, related to them as well. Typically Alanamsuls have surprisingly sturdy insect wings - they have bones and muscle in them, and the wings are related to the deity.
II. Telbaj As their name, meaning "silver", suggests, the Telbaj Feydragons tend to stay on the neutral side of things. They can essentially be normal pendragons in the sense that they typically worship more than one god. Their wings vary - they can be normal feathered wings, leathery wings, or even insect wings. They can touch upon a range of elements in elemental sorcery, but making up for variety is lack of power: their spells can never be as powerful as spells in a specialized element.
III. Azetsum The name means "existent", though lacking a letter, and as one would guess, they are the fey which seem to be of Fromina and Tanastlasei - but Fromina is of greater importance to them. Their wings are large, feathery and seemingly angelic. Easily the most beautiful and handsome of the fey, they are also the most reclusive: only a few Azetsum sightings have been reported, and none have been confirmed. But the Azetsums are of great importance; there is many a tale of an Azetsum helping a lost soul into Fromina.
IV. Myshemd However, the Azetsums have an enemy. Myshemd is Ramathian for "nothing", and it is a dead giveaway of what these Feydragons serve in tales: Kythlekh himself. They are often dark-coloured, possess demonic-looking leathery wings (the females' wings are covered in feathers), and their claws are occasionally tipped with poison. There are many tales about them assisting rapines, as well as tales of tricking and murdering young pendragons, offering the victims' souls to the Nothing. However, a surprise was recently unearthed. Most of the time, they were only myths. What these Feydragons actually do is, for the most part, unknown.
Feydragons are more fragile than regular pendragons, despite being more magically powerful. They can actually die from old age, which is almost unheard of with their larger "cousins". Aside from that, they can die from the regular causes of death. They live to roughly 70 Ramathian years of age, but there is a common belief that they are not murdered nearly as much...
Reproduction and Social Life
Ranging in size from small clans to great cities, feydragons often live in their own societies, away from the normal pendragons. There are only two social classes: the leaders, often one to three families with a council, and the general inhabitants. Many have called whether it actually works into question, and indeed, rebellions have taken place, but for the most part, society is kept in order.
History
For much of the planet's history, the fey have kept themselves hidden from the rest of Ramath-lehi. However, several centuries ago, some of them began to come out and reveal themselves to the rest of the world. Since then, a small fraction of the fey have chosen to live amongst normal pendragons. With the wide genetic variety, they tend to do particularly well, and some have even become respected teachers of various kinds of magic. They are, for the most part, content with their positions in pendragon society - there is no recorded event of a feydragon wishing to take part in politics.
