Bloodletters
General Lore:
The Bloodletters know one truth: Blood is strength.
It is a lesson well known among them, these dragons whose ancestors spent their days studying the art of blood magic. They hunt everywhere in Sorneith, their dark colouration helping them blend into shadows and into the night. Predominantly nocturnal, this species have evolved into what they are today by design of their ancestors, who stumbled upon the art of blood magic centuries ago.
The blood magic artefacts and scrolls their ancestors found were fresh, and the strange writing took years to decipher. Many turned away from the study, but those that stayed reaped the rewards of this strain of new magic.
Their ancestors used the new magic to give themselves more strength, both physical and magical. Some used it to enhance their intelligence, and it was these dragons that came up with new and improved rituals and spells that harnessed the innate power in the blood of animals and other dragons.
Over time, they expanded upon the rituals and spells within the texts they had uncovered. Tests were necessary for experiments, and when no one would volunteer they had to find subjects. And of course, the best subjects to test spells and rituals designed to work on dragons were other dragons.
This was the beginning of the Hard Bloodletters. They implemented the old rituals to test the new ones, and were the first type of Bloodletter to truly harmonize the two.
The blood harvested by Bloodletters is used in many different spells and rituals that would have been forgotten over the years. These spells are used to enhance individual Bloodletters and the rituals enhance the Bloodletters as a whole. Their prey separates this species into different types: primarily Hard Bloodletters, as mentioned above, and Soft Bloodletters.
Both types store gathered blood in their bodies – the soft type store the blood in the spines that line their back, while the hard type store blood underneath their scales, in hardened pockets that can be drained at will.
Scribe Bloodletters are unusual in that they don’t actually gather blood from outside sources. They are about as strong as the average dragon of their species, but they are also a very important part of Bloodletter rituals.
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General Lore:
The Bloodletters know one truth: Blood is strength.
It is a lesson well known among them, these dragons whose ancestors spent their days studying the art of blood magic. They hunt everywhere in Sorneith, their dark colouration helping them blend into shadows and into the night. Predominantly nocturnal, this species have evolved into what they are today by design of their ancestors, who stumbled upon the art of blood magic centuries ago.
The blood magic artefacts and scrolls their ancestors found were fresh, and the strange writing took years to decipher. Many turned away from the study, but those that stayed reaped the rewards of this strain of new magic.
Their ancestors used the new magic to give themselves more strength, both physical and magical. Some used it to enhance their intelligence, and it was these dragons that came up with new and improved rituals and spells that harnessed the innate power in the blood of animals and other dragons.
Over time, they expanded upon the rituals and spells within the texts they had uncovered. Tests were necessary for experiments, and when no one would volunteer they had to find subjects. And of course, the best subjects to test spells and rituals designed to work on dragons were other dragons.
This was the beginning of the Hard Bloodletters. They implemented the old rituals to test the new ones, and were the first type of Bloodletter to truly harmonize the two.
The blood harvested by Bloodletters is used in many different spells and rituals that would have been forgotten over the years. These spells are used to enhance individual Bloodletters and the rituals enhance the Bloodletters as a whole. Their prey separates this species into different types: primarily Hard Bloodletters, as mentioned above, and Soft Bloodletters.
Both types store gathered blood in their bodies – the soft type store the blood in the spines that line their back, while the hard type store blood underneath their scales, in hardened pockets that can be drained at will.
Scribe Bloodletters are unusual in that they don’t actually gather blood from outside sources. They are about as strong as the average dragon of their species, but they are also a very important part of Bloodletter rituals.
For more information and to be taken to the main thread, please follow this link!