At the moment I’m currently writing up my own Dracthyr, a member of the Dark Talons that, frankly, doesn’t have the heart or passion for battle like many of their peers have. I’m working on it atm, but its very much along the lines of “Creation made for war doesn’t know if it wants to fight” which is used pretty often in WoW.
During the TWW I plan on them joining my main cast of characters, but it also got me thinking about other people’s Dracthyr and how they write about them. So, tell me about your dragon fellas! Who are they, what do the feel about their situation, what are their goals, etc etc etc
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While I have presently written two Dracthyr characters I haven’t really done much with them, and so there isn’t really much to share. The oldest one, Jadenrel, I’ve characterized as being outwardly simple, animalistic and individualistic, working as a mercenary for food and money. She has a bit of quirk to her where she tries to convey an air of elegance through her visage, despite being comparably barbaric in personality. While not my original intent, apart from the aforementioned quirk she’s kind of like a D&D Lizardman, geared towards her own personal survival and success with little mind for much beyond that.
The other I have far less to offer on. I don’t even remember her name off the top of my head. If memory serves, she was a former member of the Ebon Scales who abandoned the weyrn in disagreement on the direction they were headed. Similar to Jadenrel, she decides to focus on herself, choosing to further expand her knowledge of the arcane and appraise herself of the history of the world along the way.
I ended up deleting the latter one for space but I’m considering bringing her back as a Mage when I’m able. I also had some nebulous ideas for a Dracthyr Warrior, though I may instead simply reroll Jadenrel as such. While I don’t hate Evoker, I like pretty much every other caster I play more, and I always imagined Jaden as a more physical combatant anyway, combining claws, teeth and tail with the characteristic breath attacks; not too dissimilar, I suppose, to an actual dragon.
Writing Nirazar has been really difficult for me, and I think it’s because of the blank slate that the dracthyr are. They don’t really have a culture, there’s no art, no music, no cuisine. Just mind control, then stasis.
What I do have, though, is that Nirazar likes to collect things, and is naturally curious about those many thousands of years he was asleep, which lends itself well to archaeology. He’s still a soldier, and that’s how he earns his keep, but apart from “collecting things almost as old as me,” I don’t have mush in the way of a character. He’s vain like a bird, always preening, but not much else. I’m struggling with it.
I only just transferred my Dracthyr over to Moon Guard, so I’m in the pretty early stages of hashing out a proper character for em.
I’m pretty much right there with you. Maybe after I read War of the Scaleborn I’ll have a better idea of how to write the early stages of Vorthiss’s life. But as it stands, she’s a member of the Healing Wings whose experience of waking up from a 20,000 year stasis to resume the same old Primalist war soured her taste for conflict.
Vorth continued her service as was expected of her, but after the events of Dragonflight died down she took the first opportunity to board a ship to Stormwind and see what else the world had in store. Mainly, that meant catching up on the state of the world. Her kind slept through about 90% of Azeroth’s history, after all.
She’s spent long hours poring over all the historical tomes she can get her claws on. She’s rarely spotted without a backpack full of them — her own little dragon’s hoard. In her downtime, she adopts a visage that isn’t immediately clockable as a Dracthyr (no horns, scales hidden under her hair, and so on) to get a taste of civilian life in modern Azeroth. It’s working out quite well for her, even if there’s a bit of trial and error involved in navigating an unfamiliar culture.
She’s painfully aware of the Radiant Song, though. As much as she’s enjoying this lifestyle, she knows it’s only a matter of time before it’s all hands on deck once again. Going into The War Within, I could see her linking up with the Alliance’s field scholars as a liaison from Valdrakken.
My Dracthyr
He uses his connection to the Bronze to be a fortune teller.
He will look at other and find where time seems to be loose and use that to look into the future for them. He can see possibilities of things that may come.