#a lot of other dragons blame imperials for 'introducing the defect into our bloodlines'

[here-there-were-dragons]

“dragons are reptiles” “dragons are mammals” “dragons are dinosaurs” dragons live on another planet and were artificially constructed out of pure elemental magic as a slave army by gods. they have no connection to their home planet’s evolutionary history whatsoever. they’re not only aliens, they’re as as alien to their own homeworld’s evolutionary history as they are to ours. they’re technically artificial constructs. biologically they’re closer to being elementals like the sprites inhabiting very advanced sapient flesh golems with free will than they are to animals or anything of the like.

#flight rising #flightrising #they're amalgamations of whatver because none of it is actually related to them anyway #they're almost like elementals mimicking the shape of natural organisms rather than actually being made of or containign any of them #they're artificial pseudo-supernatural beings rather than truly organic lifeforms #and even their seemingly organic bodies are pure mimicry on the part of their creators #they are not evolved form nor do they have any connection to the lifeforms they resemble. they were just designed to work similar. #presumably so that integrating into the food web of and surviving on sornieth wouldn't be held back by incompatible biochemistry #this heads into a potential headcanon that sometimes the stitched/patchwork gene set is actually what happens when the deity magic #that holds the self-replicating artificial flesh construct golem body together #sort of like a low-level reality warping fae glamour that tricks the universe into holding and forming them as more seamless #and natural and whole and real fails and their flesh golem construct body is less... complete than it should be as a result #it's especially a problem for imperials because their creation process was a bit more literal in the frankenstien sewing together flesh #they have that specific expression of stitched/patch more often and since said expression is typically considered a hereditary defect #a lot of other dragons blame imperials for 'introducing the defect into our bloodlines' #a slave race of sapient advanced flesh golems animated and powered by minuscule independently sentient fragments of abusive parent gods