Dragons
Giant winged reptiles of great destructive power, dragons are a staple in any fantasy genre. Many different dragons exist, along with great legendary dragons. The Elder Dragons Arcades Sabboth, Chromium, Nicol Bolas, Palladia-Mors and Vaevictis Asmadi, while not planeswalkers, did have the ability to cross the planes. They fought a large war known as the War of the Wyrms or the Elder Dragon Wars, which ended when a powerful world spell cast all other dragons to the land, creating the elder land wyrms. The fivefold council fell apart and warred against each other, finding themselves chained by planeswalkers. Nicol Bolas ascended to planeswalker status and took part in the first true planeswalker duel Dominaria had ever seen, when he battled, defeated and consumed a massive leviathan in what is modern-day Madara. Most dragons tend to be red-aligned, the color of destruction and rage, and almost all are able to fly and breathe fire. Dragons are extremely long-lived and can survive for centuries in almost any environment. On the plane of Kamigawa, dragons are spiritual beings of great power bound to a pact of loyalty. During the Kami War, the dragons Jugan, Keiga and Yosei are known to have been defeated on the human realm. On the plane of Ravnica, the last surviving true dragon is the immortal genius Niv-Mizzet, who reputedly destroyed his own race to prevent any challenge to his reign. Other, lesser dragons still exist there, many created by Niv-Mizzet as smaller clones of himself. Within the red-aligned Jund shard of Alara, dragons roam the skies freely as the ultimate predator. Some in Alara revere the dragons for their position in the food chain, but most simply try to avoid their searching, predatory eyes.
(Shivan Dragon, Two-Headed Dragon, Rorix Bladewing)
Read more about this topic: List Of Species In Magic: The Gathering
Famous quotes containing the word dragons:
“Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)