The World of Dragnar

Dragnar is a land which is split up into two realms: The realm of the dragon people, the dragonites, and the realm of the houoh phoenix people.

The realms of Dragnar are quite a couple of unique worlds. The dragonite race is a race of avian dragons with human-like intelligence and skills. Most humans would think of dragons as dumb, mindless killing machines out to kill livestock, set fire to forests and feast on young virgin maidens. But that is all false. The dragon races are much more intelligent than we humans think.

Phoenixes, on the other hand, are more revered by humans than dragons are (unless you follow Asian cultures, where both dragons and phoenixes are revered). But there are both good and evil phoenixes, just like how there is good and evil dragons.

Both the dragon realm and the phoenix realm have a wide variety of climates, from tropical jungles and arid deserts to frigid arctic regions and peaceful looking plains. It is somewhat similar to our world, but the biggest difference being the high magic content and the saturation of strange and unpredictable creatures. In fact, the world of Dragnar can be quite a dangerous place. Even places like schools and temples can get infested by aggressive monstrosities once in a while. That is enough incentive for you to pay attention to your surroundings, be prepared for any worst case scenario and not carelessly wander off.

The dragonites are descendants of the ancient dragon gods lead by Gilgamesh and their mystic wives. The males took on the father's dragon-like appearance while the females took on the mother's more humanoid appearance. Both genders do have similar builds, horns, retractable wings and the ability to turn into a dragon. To human eyes, females are more attractive than males, but there are possibly some humans out there who find the more monstrous male dragonites beautiful too.

The houoh are the descendants of the phoenix gods led by Feng and his divine bride Huang. Both genders look humanoid and have retractable feathered wings, and talon like hands and feet. The feathers of males are bright and vibrant colored, while females have feathers that are more dull and subdued than the males. In the eyes of humans, male houohs are more attractive than the females, due to the bright, radiant colors of the males, as opposed to the dull, earthy colors of the females. Then again, like most avian creatures, male houoh phoenixes are much more colorful and ornamented than females, so they can attract the attention of the female houoh phoenixes. Female houohs tend to be more dull and earthy colored, so they can blend in with natural environments and avoid possible danger.

Many centuries ago, the dragon god Lothurr and the phoenix god Karulla fought each other to the death, Basarla inherited the soul of the fallen dragon god and become the new dragon god of light. As Karulla died fighting Lothurr, Melektaus inherited the fallen phoenix god's soul and there, Basarla and Melektaus became enemies for centuries, but Basarla demanded a cease fire from the Phoenix's light kingdom. Thus, the dragon's realm and the phoenix's realm became separated from this day forward.

Types of Dragonites

Terra Dragons

Terra dragonites are usually seen in mountain and underground dwellings. Though they do live in towns underground and high in the mountains, they are anything but uncivilized. The underground and mountains have just as much advanced technology as the other dragonite clans. Terra dragonites in dragon form are flightless, since their wings are too small in dragon form. They make up for their burrowing skills, since they are flightless beings in that form.

Current Dragon deity: Frygga

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, High Priest, Sage, Magic Knight, Heavy Armor Knight, Runic Knight, Beastmaster, Ranger, Pictomancer, Cleric, Thief, Bandit

Fire Dragons

Fire dragonites tend to live in hot and humid climates and can withstand high temperatures. They are commonly seen in deserts and tropical areas. However, they are weak to cold climate and have to use heat magic and technology in cold climates.

Current Dragon Deity: Kulshedra

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Heavy Armor Knight, Berserker, Ninja, Kunoichi, Devil Shaman, Martial Artist, Black Belt

Storm Dragons

Storm dragonites usually dwell either in the plains or near the seas and lakes of Dragnar. Lightning can't harm them, in fact, lightning heals them. Storm dragonites are known to breathe lightning and their powers can be downright devastating if mastered well enough.

Current Dragon Deity: Fujin

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Lancer, Lunar Lancer, Magic Knight, Song Maiden, Runic knight, Evoker, Martial Artist, Black Belt, Samurai, Shogun

Ice Dragons

Ice dragonites prefer to live in cold and snowy areas. They can survive the coldest climates without heat spells or protective gear. However, since ice dragonites are used to frigid climate, they are usually weak against intense heat and have to use cooling spells and technology to withstand living in warm climates.

Current Dragon Deity: Yuki Benten

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Cleric, High Priest, Sage, Magic Knight, Pictomancer, Black Belt, Martial artist, Light Armor knight

Light Dragons

Also known as Holy dragonites, light dragonites are skilled at healing spells, exorcising spells and defensive spells. However, they sometimes work with dark dragonites and when paired up with dark dragonites, they can be a fatal pair. The undead beings of Dragnar tremble in fear over the light dragonites and the undead are usually too frightened to fight back.

Current Dragon Deity: Basarla

Common classes: High Priest, Bishop, Sage, Song Maiden, Evoker, Paladin, Dual blade Knight, Sun Lancer, Magic Knight, Runic Knight, Samurai, Shogun, Pictomancer, Illusionist, Cleric

Dark Dragons

Despite their title, not all dark dragonites are evil. In fact, dark dragonites can be rather useful in areas plagued with the undead and other beings of darkness, since dark dragonites can control them and communicate with them. They can see in the pitch black darkness without light available.

Ajattara is the current dragon goddess and empress of darkness after her father, Piasa, was sent on a mission to the human world and never came back.

Current Dragon Deity: Ajattara

Common classes: Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Necromancer, Dark Knight, Enchantress, Song Maiden, Illusionist, Dual Blade Knight, Devil Shaman, Lunar Lancer, Magic Knight, Martial Artist, Black Belt

Wood Dragons

Wood dragonites commonly live in heavily forested areas and are in tune with nature. They can also be rather venomous too, since wood dragonites have retractable fangs where they can poison those who threaten them. They can control how much venom they can use, ranging from making an enemy just sick to the stomach, to painfully killing the enemy in a few minutes. Wood dragonites are also skilled at brewing potions and elixirs with different results.

Current Dragon Deity: Nidhogg

Common classes: Beastmaster, Thief, Ninja, Nightblade, Kunoichi, Bandit, Berserker, Geomancer, High Priest, Bishop, Sage, Lancer, Chemist, Alchemist, Ranger, Magic Knight, Pictomancer

Gem Dragons

Gem dragonites are very skilled at alchemy and black smithing. Some of the finest weapons and items have been crafted by the gem dragonites. Gem dragonites are skilled at manipulating metal and precious rocks, making the most mundane gem into a magical weapon and the most invaluable metal into something very valuable and powerful. Gem dragonites are the most magically and technologically advanced of dragonites and are a force to reckon with.

Current Dragon Deity: Hotei

Common classes: Heavy Armor knights, Enchantress, Dual Blade Knight, Illusionist, Geomancer, Alchemists, Chemist, Runic Knight, Pictomancer, Samurai, Shogun

Types of Phoenixes:

Terra Houoh

Terra houohs are usually seen in mountain dwellings. Though they do live in towns high in the mountains, they are anything but uncivilized. The mountains have just as much advanced technology as the other dragonite clans. Terra houohs in phoenix form are flightless, since their wings are too small in that form. They make up for their swift running and swimming abilities.

Current Phoenix deity: Gagana

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, High Priest, Sage, Magic Knight, Heavy Armor Knight, Runic Knight, Beastmaster, Ranger, Pictomancer

Fire Houoh

Fire houohs tend to live in hot and humid climates and can withstand high temperatures. They are commonly seen in deserts and tropical areas. They can even withstand hot lava and burning rocks. However, like fire dragonites, they are weak to cold climate and have to use heat magic and technology in cold climates.

Current Phoenix Deity: Zhulong

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Heavy Armor Knight, Berserker, Ninja, Kunoichi, Devil Shaman, Martial Artist, Black Belt

Storm Houoh

Storm houohs usually dwell either in the plain lands or lakes of Dragnar. Lightning can't harm them, in fact, lightning heals them. Storm houohs are skilled at storm, wind and lightning spells and if they mastered every wind and storm elemental spell and technique, they can be downright deadly.

Current Phoenix Deity: Quetzal

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Lancer, Lunar Lancer, Magic Knight, Song Maiden, Runic knight, Martial Artist, Black Belt, Samurai, Shogun

Ice Houoh

Ice houohs prefer to live in arctic climates. They can survive the coldest climates without heat spells or protective gear. However, since ice houohs, just like the ice dragonite counterparts, are used to frigid climate, so there fore, intense heat weakens them. However, both ice dragonites and ice houohs can freeze lava and water, making it easier for non-fire elemental creatures to cross over to the other side without getting hurt.

Current Phoenix Deity: Apalala

Common classes: Geomancer, Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Cleric, High Priest, Sage, Magic Knight, Pictomancer, Black Belt, Martial Artist, Black Belt

Light Houoh

Light houohs are skilled at healing spells, exorcising spells and defensive spells. However, they sometimes work with houohs of the darkness element and when paired up together, they can both be a fatal pair. The undead are frightened of light elemental creatures and grow weak when they are around the beings of light.

Currently, Melektaus is the phoenix god of light. He became the phoenix god and emperor of light after Karulla, the former houoh god of light, was killed off centuries ago.

Current Phoenix Deity: Melektaus

Common classes: High Priest, Bishop, Sage, Song Maiden, Evoker, Paladin, Dual blade Knight, Sun Lancer, Magic Knight, Runic Knight, Samurai, Shogun, Pictomancer, Cleric

Dark Houoh

Despite their title, not all dark houoh are evil. In fact, dark houohs can be rather useful in areas plagued with the undead and other beings of darkness, since the beings of darkness can control them and communicate with them. Dark Houoh are usually nocturnal and perfer going out at nighttime, do to their keen vision in the dark.

Current Phoenix Deity: Hraesvelgur

Common classes: Magus, Arch Magus, Grand Magus, Necromancer, Dark Knight, Enchantress, Song Maiden, Illusionist, Dual Blade Knight, Devil Shaman, Lunar Lancer, Magic Knight, Martial Artist, Black Belt

Wood Houoh

Houohs of the wood/plant element commonly live in heavily forested areas and are in tune with nature. They can also be rather venomous too, since wood dragonites can shoot out rather toxic quills and pierce their enemies with them. They can control how much venom they can use in their quills, ranging from making an enemy just sick to the stomach, to painfully killing the enemy in a few minutes. Wood houohs, just like their dragonite counterparts, are also skilled at brewing potions and elixirs with different results.

Current Phoenix Deity: Windofnir

Common classes: Beastmaster, Thief, Ninja, Nightblade, Kunoichi, Bandit, Berserker, Geomancer, High Priest, Bishop, Sage, Lancer, Chemist, Ranger, Magic Knight, Pictomancer

Gem Houoh

Gem houohs are very skilled at alchemy and black smith abilities. Some of the finest weapons and items have been crafted by creatures of the metal element. Gem houohs are aptly named, due to their skills at manipulating metal and precious rocks, making the most mundane gem into a magical weapon and the most invaluable metal into something very valuable and powerful. Gem houohs are the most magically and technologically advanced of houoh races and are a force to reckon with.

Current Phoenix Deity: Ekeko

Common classes: Heavy Armor knights, Enchantress, Dual Blade Knight, Illusionist, Geomancer, Alchemists, Runic Knight, Pictomancer, Samurai, Shogun

Lifespan:

Both dragonites and houoh phoenixes have a much longer lifespan and age slower than humans. While the oldest known human was rumored to live up to be 150 years old, the oldest dragonite lived up to be 10,000 years old, while the oldest houoh phoenix lived to be 15,000. In dragonites and houohs a like, childhood ends at 100 years old and adolescent years begins at 150 years and ends at the 200 year age mark. So therefore, dragonites and houohs, alongside a lot of the other creatures of Alefa, have childhoods that are much longer than the average human childhood.

Humans in Dragnar:

Dragnar is a very unpredictable world where humans are either feared or revered by both houohs and dragonites alike. Some dragonite mothers would tell scary stories about humans and "the humans under the bed" stories to scare their children into good behavior, while others tell their children stories of good, heroic humans aiding dragon warriors in their quest and helping them out in dire situations. Humans in Dragnar must prove their worthiness and trust to a dragon/phoenix god before being accepted in Dragnar.

Humans that end up in Dragnar are sometimes known to fall in love with houoh or dragonites, marry them and produce hybrid children with them. Human/dragonite and human/houoh offsprings have both their strengths and weaknesses. Hybrid children live longer than their human parent, have retractable wings and are skilled at magical and mental abilities. However, hybrid children can't transform into dragon or phoenix form, hybrid children are also usually known to be shorter than pure blood children and aren't as physically strong as pure blooded children. Hybrid dragonites and hybrid houohs look more like regular human beings, save for the horns, retractable wings and retractable plumage in male houoh hybrids.

However, humans in Dragnar have to be very cautious, since there are a lot of fearsome and downright dangerous creatures that lurk in Dragnar. Humans that are aloof and careless usually end up as three things: a slave, dead, or eaten alive. Some of the rather fearsome creatures that lurk in Dragnar include the Surma, a fearsome rat/dog hybrid that can turn you to stone if you look into its eyes and

So to all humans who end up in Dragnar: Be prepared, expect the unexpected, and enjoy life while you can, for tomorrow (or any other day) is uncertain.

Minority races:

Minority races (besides humans) include various species of yokai (from the world of Yoseitochi), banished demons and mystics (from the world of Nornheim).

Occasionally, beings from other worlds come by and participate in the inter-dimensional exchange programs in Dragnar and some sporting events from other worlds are held in Dragnar sport stadiums. Both dragonites and houohs take interest in foreign beings, and are curious to know more about foreign beings outside of Dragnar.

However, just like with humans, the other non-dragon, non-phoenix creatures (save for the elf races) have to prove their worthiness to the head dragon/phoenix god before being accepted into Dragnar.