Jasralinth

- Imperials were formed from the dead bits of Lightweaver: blood, bone and essence, excavated from ancient battle sites

- The shed essence of the Lightweaver was finite, so once it was used in the original creation, it was all gone, no new imperials can be made due to lack of materials.

- Imperial have extremely unpredictable lifespans, this has led to a lot of cultural superstitions among them for not wishing to lose their essence, via their shed antlers, clipped manes, shed scales.

- Incidentally, this explains their distaste for Pealcatchers, who wantonly slobber their body fluids out and then carry it around, as though that is the same thing as keeping themselves complete.

- Emperors form from the bodies and miscellaneous bits of dead Imperials.

- Imperials consume their own shed horns and scales -to retain as much of their essence as possible, as well as the fear that antler-castings may give rise to bone-emperors.

- Imperials move the dead and dying, and their "burial rites" are unknown to the other breeds of dragons.

-Imperials can scent out carrion from many miles away, and unClanned imperials routinely sneak into Clans at night to steal any imperial corpses that are being improperly buried by non-Imperial clanmates.

- Imperials eat the bodies of the dead, ritualistically dividing up corpses to evenly spread the lingering essence to living imperials in attendence.

- This behavior incidentally helps prevent the occurrence of emperors and tends to limit the size of any who do manage to form.



2kg on Oct. 5, 2018