A wyvern's intelligence is not so high, and while they're wild, they are very obedient once you can control. In fact, their dragons are mostly mutated dinosaurs. Depends on what kind of "dragon" you are riding, because in FP, the term "dragon" is as broad as Earth's "dinosaur". Riders typically sit in a "basket" on their backs and have a special set of harness to control them. It never really went anywhere and I lost interest in it and moved a lot of these ideas to other worldbuilding projects.įlame Phantom: Dragon (or wyvern) riders have been a part of Gaia's military forces from the old Remusan Empire, which equals to Earth's Roman Empire (not the HRE). This empire was heavily inspired of Rome and was ruled by a class of dragon riding nobles and was at war with a rival empire ran magical religious zealot elves, being invaded by Aztec inspired orcs and battling to conquer the Germanic/Nordic inspired dwarf clans. What tactics do dragon riders use in combat and how destructive are they? Also what tactics have been developed to counter them?Īfew years ago I came up with an idea for fantasy world involving an empire ruled by dragon riders.
How powerful are the dragon riders of your setting, militarily, politically, etc.? What is the role of dragon riders in society and how are they viewed by the general populace? Are they protectors of the realm or ruthless warlords who leave nothing but ash and blood in their conquest? What are your dragons like and how where they first tamed? How are more dragons obtained and what challenges come into play with caring for them? How did your dragon riding organization begin and how do they operate? What qualifies a person to become a dragon rider? Do they need to have an inherit gift, be a certain race or social class?
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The weyr is now living a precarious hand-to-mouth existence, due to a series of ever weaker leaders over the previous fifty or so turns (years).For those who’s worlds feature or revolve around dragon riders how do they work in your setting? However, an unusually long interval between attacks, 4 centuries in duration, has caused the general population to gradually dismiss the threat and withdraw support from the Weyrs where dragons are bred and trained. At the time of this novel, only one weyr, Benden Weyr, remains (the other five having mysteriously disappeared at the same time in the last quiet interval). The Threads would fall for fifty or so years, and then there would be an interval of 200 to 250 years. The dragons and their riders destroyed the Thread in the skies over Pern before it was able to burrow into the land and breed. By taming and bonding to the indigenous flying, fire-breathing dragonettes called Fire-Lizards and then making genetic alterations to make them larger and telepathic, the colonists gained the upper hand. In the forward of the book, we find that he original colonists were reduced to a low level of technology by periodic onslaughts of deadly Thread raining down from the sky.
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