Shadowrun: Who Are The Great Dragons?
Dragons are a classic of storytelling, and the Shadowrun setting tells stories filled with advanced technology and magic hand-in-hand. In a world like this, dragons seem to fit in perfectly. Instead of sitting on hoards of gold, they sit at the heads of corporations.
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The fiercest dragons in Shadowrun are known as the Great Dragons. There aren't many of them still living, but the ones that stuck around are immensely powerful and are often the focus of campaigns and stories. Just who are these powerful creatures, and how did they get their titles?
In the Shadowrun setting, dragons are exactly what they sound like. While it's often said that they come in all shapes and sizes, they can be largely categorized into Western, Eastern, and Feathered Serpent varieties - covering all bases pretty well. There are also Leviathans, but thanks to their aquatic nature, they're often secluded from the land-based dragons.
They are creatures with intelligence and their own civilization, but they can only exist actively in worlds with magic. When it comes to Shadowrun, this means the Fourth World and the Sixth World.
The Fifth World was a world without magic, covering the time between 3113 BC and 2011 AD. The Awakening of magic in 2012 denoted the dawn of the Sixth World and is where we see the Shadowrun setting kick into full gear.
Starting in 2011, the Awakening is the term given to a drastic rise in the world's magic levels, or mana. It was a time of great turmoil, with dormant races revealing themselves through goblinization and certain awakened species now roaming the land. One of these species was dragons, some of whom were old dragons that had hibernated throughout the entirety of the
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