What They Don't Tell You About Dragon Turtles - D&D
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Pirate dragon turtle, it's the Captian of it's ship aka it's self. It's crew water genasi, sea elves, and a few tritons. Boom concept
I want it to wear a giant pirate hat!
Sam Gross he’s wearing several mostly intact ships held together into the shape of a pirate hat.
YEEEESSSSSS!!!
Literally DMing session number 2 of my piriate themed campaign and i so am using this idea. Thank you!!!
@@jeffreytalarek8689 if you want to have a couple of non water breathers, you could have a magic dome that keeps water out in an area on his shell.
Originally, the Dragon Turtle used to be a Dragon with a shell instead of wings in 1E, then slowly grew more and more turtle looking. Now in 5E Dragon Turtles are just Alligator Snapping Turtles on steroids.
If that is so it would be interesting to see the 1E and 5E versions in one version, just so that people would have to discern between an actual dragon and a big as turtle.
DerMongoosePlays that would be interesting.
More like the Alligator Snapping Turtle was hit with radiation and grew to be the size of a one story house lol.
"Just"?
That's terrifying!
In my homebrew game, we have both. To differentiate, I use the Bronze dragon progression for the 1E version. Age does indeed make those beasts more dangerous.
In one of my recent campaigns, I had a scaled-up version of a turtle spawning beach, but for dragon turtles. It was a 100-mile-long, 3-mile-wide stretch of black sand backing up onto an active volcano range, and every spring female dragon turtles would cross the beach to lay their eggs in the boiling-hot sands adjoining the volcanic rocks. Then, around autumn, they'd hatch, and the baby dragon turtles would make their way across the sand to the sea, being preyed upon by manticores, hippogryphs and ankhegs along the way.
From spring to autumn that beach was utterly deadly to traverse, but during the winter, people from the nearby kingdom would come en masse to scavenge the discarded dragon turtle eggshells, which could be processed into a very tough, light material ideal for the construction of airships.
Stealing this concept
Love this idea! Might haveta steal
That's awesome worldbuilding
DrakeAurum thank you, mine now.
Dad: winter is coming
Son: yipee I can't wait to build an airship
(I don't know what type of airships but I like the idea)
Had to review what a Dragon Turtle is after that CR cliffhanger
Matt Harris funny thing is that Travis literally mumbled (after they made fun of Matt’s horn sound effect) something along the lines of ‘Cmon guys quiet down I don’t want to fight some kind of sea dragon.’ Lo and behold XD.
Same
and now that its on the hunt
Love that this comment is from 3 months ago lol
@@myrojyn And it was written hoping I would see that fight the week after I wrote it lol
MrRrxx: "The Dragon's charisma isn't high.."
>Charisma score is a 12
Me: "Great, a turtle has more personally than me."
What? Bowser is a pretty charismatic guy.
Most depiction of dragon turtles in fiction:
Ancient... Wise... Guidance...
D&D:
THEY WILL ATTACK ON SIGHT AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH
I feel like that's the frustrated DM in the creators that caused that. You get to control a dragon only once every few campaigns, of course you want to fight (those PCs always stopping the fights, sometimes a DM just wants to play with a monster).
Dragon Turtles are about as intelligent as other dragons, definitely on par with the humanoid races.
And being neutral, as long as one can provide treasure or some kind of service, Dragon Turtles *can* be somewhat amicable.
Its only natural, after all 3/4 of all players are murder hobos so you make dragon turtles into giant snaping turtles
They guide towards the deep water
I mean the MM also states that you can bribe it with gold and jewels, so it's not that rabid, and pirates are known to guide its destruction.
Do dragons call dragon turtles just turtles?
Do turtles just call dragon turtles, dragons?
@@charliescheirmann2926 no. They call them Zuul
They call them the weird cousins that only show up at holidays
@@miriamvlachoulis6875 LOL I can see that
I have a vampire in my world that has a castle on the back of a huge undead Dragon turtle.
Undead?! That's cool. Incide of its partially hollowed out shell there's a dungeon filled with other undead and oozes.
doesnt it sink, if its rotting and stuff?
@@namekman01 It's magic, shush your face, you.
@@tactilcalhorize yes, but what kind of magic? what kind of undeath? is it a skeleton, is it a zombie, is it a vampire, or maybe a thrull?
@@namekman01 If you just wanted to know what type of undead it was then you should have just asked that. But questioning why it can swim? Then my reply stands: Magic, shush you. (and if it wasn't obvious, then the reply wasn't really meant to be taken seriously.)
Neutral Dragons my friend, do the Gem Dragons.
That and planar dragons.
Capitain, we're being followed by a tiny island.
*boss music starts playing*
CR just cliff hung us on this dude. Had to check it out
"See, a human gets stronger and smarter as they age- but only up to a point." "[...]then starts deteriorating. The human body gets weaker at the end of its life cycle."
Wait, what? oh god.. oh no... Not like this, please..
looking forward to a "What They Don't Tell You About Humans" episode
If the Dragon Turtle were beefed up a little i could see someone building a campaign where a powerful one and a Kraken are at war. Imagine that battle, could even be a split campaign. One game the players serve the Kraken, the other serves the Dragon Turtle and then culminate in one big battle between parties each bringing their patron. I think it could be pretty cool, lotta work though.
This series has honestly gotten my creative juices flowing so much that I'm writing a dragon based campaign right now. Thank you so much. It's been years since I've spend time writing for a campaign, and now I've started, I can't stop.
The first tavern that my current party visited, was built from the shell of a long-dead dragon turtle. The skull formed the entrance and wardrobe. There were small rooms in the back for rent and a narrow deck built on top of the shell, for relaxing or shooting from. Great scene for bumping into the nobleman who hunted them.
Dragon Turtles remind me of the turtle from The Never-ending Story.
"We are allergic to you!"
Dragon Turtles are easily confused with Zaratans, which are also gigantic turtle creatures based on ancient mythology, but are elementals rather than dragons in D&D, and are much, MUCH larger, up to 100s of feet across, rather than average Dragon Turtle, which is 20-30 feet. They can also live on land, unlike DTs. They are often depicted as having trees or even entire forests growing on their backs, if they live on land, or being mistaken for islands if at sea. I think the picture at 4:53 might be one of them instead, which would explain the confusion.
Also horizonbacks for that same giant fuck off turtle with shit living on its back
hummmmmm. Tortle race....... half dragon "template" from dnd beyond. why not use a dragon turtle.
DRAGON TORTLE!
Class as a 19 year old Monk and now you have
TEENAGE NINJA DRAGON TURTLES!
@@DCdabest teenage mutant dragon tortles,
teenage mutant dragon tortles,
teenage mutant dragon tortles,
dragons in the half shell,
Dragon Power!
I so, so, SO want to play as a Teenage Mutant Dragon Tortle, now. Call me Volothamp, Volo for the friends, and my weapon is the Nun-Chucks (Flail).
eheheheheheheheheh
7:15 Lagiacrus what are you doing here?This ain't M.H. it's D.A.D.
There is only so much artwork that people are allowed to use. It’s just closer than many other things.
Two word: google search
Jon Mack oops
Lol
Came here to say the same, allthough I loved it
Ooh I knew so little about dragon turtles before but now I'm hyped to use them in my later campaigns! Paying almost "protection money" in jewels and trinkets to a dragon turtle who comes to the harbor once a month, and scares away other monstrous water creatures or thieving pirates. Gives me shivers! I love it! Keep doing what you're doing man, I'm loving the content and I know I'm not the only one!
I like how you can basically "rent" a dragon turtle. I mean the monthly fees are insane and the interest rates are even worse but you got a mother-flippin ancient beast of the depths defending your harbor from other monsters.
So basically dragon turtles capsizing ships are the sea equivalent of cats knocking off stuff from tables
Love this
So who is here after the latest Critical role episode?
can you please modify your comment to include a spoiler alert my good sir ?
meeeee
Bidet fellow critter
AYUP
@@gantzplayer.n.m4410 consider where they are in the story. In the middle of intense negotiations. Do you think Matt would spring an encounter like this on them, in the same episode?
SPOILER WARNING CUZ YOU NEED IT FORM SOME REASON
he doesnt. It ends with him revealing its a dragon turtle.
7:20 why is lagiacurs a dragon turtle ? i thought it was just a mix of a saltwater crocodile, giraffe, and a defibrillator
Google search
Ha ha Defibrillator
Lol yeah. He is actually a leviathan
Yeah something like that
Zappy reptile
I never even knew that dragon turtles existed. I'm kinda new to D&D but I absolutely love dragon turtles now! 🐲🐢
Same dude! I got introduced to it by my friends and stranger things.
My first time knowing about this kind of creature was while watching the Avatar series, it’s cool seeing how different universes of fiction interpret the mythology
Thats lion turtle lol similar imagery tho
...wait, did we hear what their breath weapon actually was? It's not coming to mind
no we didnt, i was wondering the same ^^
we didn't, but it's a steam breath.
@@grahamgoldberg6908 sauna breath attack!
@@axlmagnus ....I wonder if there's some "black sheep" dragon turtle out there, who just decides "You know what? Forget having to patrol and protect so much territory. I'm gonna open my own bathhouse!"
And they do, and they make a world-famous one, and become rich
A dragon turtle running a world famous bath house is a perfect way to bring some comedy to a campaign. I love it. Lmao..
"My time has come" -Wizard Turtle
I love dragon turtles, becuase they add variety to the sea monster category. Normally it's big octopuses or squids. I had an idea to make a fresh water one for loch ness monster theme in campaign I've been working on for a while.
I have to say, I LOVE your DnD lore videos, and I never even played the game. But the lore is very interesting and you deliver it with such enthusiasm and passion in your voice. Very great content.
A dragon turtle featured pretty prominently in the early party of a campaign. The group was breaking up some coastal lizardfolk who were trying to bribe the the thing into overindulging in local fish to starve out a city. The party slew the lizardfolk and set up a new bargain with him. His name was Demnethalis.
If you are wondering about the sudden spike in views you probably saw, Critical Role is about to fight one of these and were left on a cliffhanger.
I'm hoping we get to see you do videos on dragonic humanoids, like Half dragons, dragonborns and of course Draconic sorcerers.
I can just imagine a dragon turtle coming back to his den and spitting out his latest haul while making an unboxing video on UA-cam of what treasures he got.
Alright hi guys, and welcome to episode twenty of my unboxing channel series. Today ive got a very large boat here, covered in barnacles and stained with the scorch marks of my breath weapon. Lets open it up… OH, its a +1 shield of defence! Nice.. and here we have..! A PAIR OF BOOTS MADE FROM THE SKIN OF A BABY DRAGON.. turtle.. oh god please no. Sharrel.. sharrel no
Thanks a lot for that! I never knew how badass dragon turtles are before listening to this. I guess I was imagining them smaller like elephant size rather than mansion size. Great video
Thank you so much, this has given me at least 4 or 5 sessions worth of inspiration. Homebrew based on wildmount with a heavy revelry and pirate vibe.
There's a Dragon Turtle protecting the major settlement of Chult, Port Nyanzaru, in the adventure Tomb of Annihilation. This gives me a lot more insight on this awesome creature. Thanks
7:11 It's my boy, Cha-Cha, and that ain't no dragon turtle thats a Lagiacrus :p
I'm glad someone else saw that
PLATINIUM DRAGON DOES NOT APPROVE THIS VIDEO!!
still my favorite d&d channel
Neither does Tiamat
Good time for the Critters out there to review this video. The Mighty Nein are facing a dragon turtle this Thursday on Twitch.
BTW, I have really enjoyed your videos -
At 7:04 thats a lagiacrus from monhun. More of a leviathan than a turtle.
The Lagi was always my favorite "boss" in monhun. MH3:U was fantastic.
@@ventusvindictus 3U was my jam, I started with it and Its rustic gameplay was amazing. I have an unpopular opinion that they should bring back underwater, but rework it so you move faster.
God, this is so nostalgic! Mh3u was my first title, and I've been obsessed ever since. Of course with that, I was so used to the underwater mechanics that when I played later titles I really missed it...
@@ImJustTryingToSurvive I didn't mind the water combat much. The only water monster I really didn't like was the darn Gobal.
I never really had an issue with underwater combat. At worst, I just switched from heavy to lighter weapons and it fixed my problems.
Are you going to cover humanoid dragons (Dragonborn, Kobolds, Half-Dragons)?
Yes
I really want him to do lesser dragons and 3.5 dragons. Like the mercury dragon or the gem dragon
I would also love to see him do a mercury dragon. I have one as a hidden NPC in a game I running and would like to see if what I have carved out matches his vision on the lore.
But Gem Dragons are true dragons like the Chromatic and Metallic
^ yeah, what op said, they are not only TRUE dragons, but were just as important and mainstream as chromatics and metallics at one point.
@@zionthedragon8866 Well there's also the Explanar Dragons as well they are true dragons
Did he do blue dragons? I just can't find it.
7:24 "See, dragon turtles are dragons. Duh." * giggles *
XD
I knever knew there was so much I didn't know about my name sake. Keep up the good videos.
1.) Would it still attack if something, instead of trespassing on its territory, instead seeked an audience with it, or was something that would have little interest in disputing it, like a true dragon?
2.) Do they consider collectives, like a sea elf city or a navy, a rival?
3.) Do they care about anything outside of its territory?
4.) Are half dragonturtles a thing?
5.) Do they willing go on land?
I found your channel through tes lore but man, I really really like these dnd lore videos a lot more. I listen to them almost every day while at work. It helps pass the time a lot. I don't even play DND but you have a way of conveying information in an interesting and intriguing way that I think I could listen to you discuss the history of cole slaw and I'd be entertained.
They're awesome. wondering what to do for a harbor disaster, now a fun one.
I wonder if dragon turtles can be paid to be part of a military as a weapon, with a bit of engineering and/or magic, they'll make powerful war machines for sea warfare (maybe carry armies, work as corsairs, etc.).
Maybe be paid and allow residence for creating their lairs, and will be paid in treasure and water (or be paid to defend a kingdom's waters)
luv the whole dragon stuff they don't tell u series. not that it was in this video but i liked the steel dragon. the way you brought that to life really had my attention. well done on all of these.
RIP Gem dragons
look up Matt Coville's stronghold and followers book it has them for 5e
@@digitalmstrmind All his new ones yea. Not all of the OG ones from 3.5 and below.
@tylerx2f01 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_dragon#Mercury_dragon
Neat, to think some weird girl on a kink site sent me on a D&D lore spiral that I pick up like storytime. Dragon Turtles archetype sounds like Pirate King, as dragons are oft used as superior representations of kings who are both fearsome and "noble."GoT etc. Their having their own patois is pretty on point as well as intriguing. Namely since I do as well, hence the style that you're reading.
Dragon turtles were one of the first monsters in the monster manual that caught my attention when I started playing D&D. I knew I had to build an encounter with one. Later I gave my player a dragon turtle egg. One of my favorite monsters! Thank you for the extra info
Is Bowser from Super Mario a Dragon Turtle?
@@jjk5693 honestly his design points that way. He has fire breath instead of steam breath, but there's a shot there wad some influence there
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."
Master Oogway
I love these video titles. Like there is a cabal of people out there manipulating forces behind the scenes to prevent me from knowing about dragon turtles.
This is the only YTber I actually pay attention to when mentioning his patreons. For some reason, I just really love the way he says:
"Kacy butler and MediOgre At Best!! ...for supporting me at the $25 dolar level" xD
ran a campaign with alot of homebrewing of my own, and dragon turtles made an appearance in it. in my world, there are 2 kinds. saltwater and the smaller fresh water. saltwater DTs are gentle giants, herbivorous and generally considered more of a nuisance by scraping the bottom of boats, then a threat. but the smaller freshwater DT are aggressive, mean creatures. about the size of a house (stats remade for each ofc), they tend to live in way off lakes, and swamps. i do that to alot of MM creatures. I tend to include civilized goblins and the like, and wild counterparts. i feel like it adds a fun and diversified effect to the worlds i create. and it gives vet players new experiences.
ya know, Dragon turtles are probably one of the major reasons why Krakons are normally found in fresh water and lair so deep in the oceans.
i just love hearing this guy talk, i need to hear him read a book.
Yeah but not a fan of the way he repeats words. I feel like if he was reasonably concise with his words he could cut the video length in half and have the videos be just as poetic.
Fun fact: The Dragon Turtle was the first monster I ever faced in D&D. At my ESY (Extended School Year), we do a theme each week. This week was game week, primarily featuring D&D. 3 of the students, myself included, played D&D. This was my first experience playing the game. A Bugbear did appear earlier, and several dolphins, but all of them were friendly; the Bugbear owned and ran an inn and the dolphins were for us to ride. We rode the dolphins through a river and one of us rolled really high and saw a Dragon Turtle, which we avoided. Another person, slightly later, used Message to send messages to the Dragon Turtle, which pissed it off. The game will pick up again on Friday and we are screwed because it’s CR 17 and we are all level 3 noobs who have never played before.
This popped up in my feed the SAME DAY that the Mighty Nein fought a Dragon Turtle on Twitch. Odd....
Remember guys its almost thursday
I can't wait, you think they're gonna try bribe it?
@@jamescanjuggle I dont think thats posible. Unless Caleb and Fjord uno reverse card Matt XD
they’re on a hiatus now :((( we have to wait for the pandemic to end before they come out with new episodes
It was pretty epic tho
God I cant get the image of Stimpy (From Ren and Stimpy) the episode where Stimpy is a Turtle laying eggs in the sand.
But Now I'm picturing a giant ferocious coin coveting stimpy on steroids haha!
That bit about draconic just makes me think that dragon turtles have a really thick accent.
They have a super Russian Accent because it sounds epic
Friend and I collaborated to come up with a dragon turtle they wanted in their campaign but be something of a subversion of the usual dragon turtle. This one actually was considered captain of the “cruise ship” which was really just the dragon turtle’s body. Dragon turtle deals with Karens this way and by making his body a cruise ship and starting a tradition on his island base to throw treasure and gold into the ocean, he expands his hoard. He has a weird fascination with humanoids for his species and found a magical item that briefly allows him to take a human form, which he usually does to set up a treasure hunt on the island for children only, something he particularly has a fascination for. He enjoys playing games with children and listen to them tell him stories and funny jokes or whatever else fascinates them. It was entertaining and the friend says his party he dm’s for really loved meeting this dragon turtle a lot and only came across him when they tried to find the “elusive” cruise ship captain the crew kept referring to. It was also fun for them to participate in the treasure hunt and join in with the treasure coin throwing tradition too and they received a cool item from the dragon turtle later for being such good guests, if a bit nosy.
Im looking forward to your "What they don't tell you" about Pseudodragons.
my half orc barbarian once pulled one up to the sea surface with his great axe
We desperately need a Bahamut and Tiamat video to put some of the Metallic/Chromatic stuff into perspective
Yoooo, i used to watch you ten years ago and here you are popping up in my recommendation. Nice 👌
Dragon turtles...
dragonborn...
I think I know what my next D&D character is going to be~. :)
The photo of Turtle with a cast on its back is most likely a Zartan which In d&d lore they turned into a giant rock monster but in traditional mythology it was just a huge turtle that imitated an island and sunk beneath the surface once people landed on its shores although a few myths do involve buildings being built on it
Dragon Turtles are like the Wandering Isle in World of Warcraft, which is basically a HUGE turtle with an entire large island with multiple villages on its back.
if only they would band together. then we would have a dragon turtle mafia running a protection racket.
This series is genuinely amazing. Keep doing what you’re doing cuz ya do it well.
I love it when you go meta, as someone who hasn't played Dnd yet but loves the lore and mechanics it's fascinating to see how they play together
Should do this series but about giants
Landscape idea: dragonturtle grave yard. Maybe some tortles make homes out of the huge shells. or some barbaric small folk.
I would love to learn about Landwyrms, Howling Dragons &the Styxx Dragon!
I ran a campaign once where the heroes convinced a dragon turtle island to allow them to build a tavern on its back. The only thing that finally convinced the dragon turtle to allow it was that the tavern, adventurers, and all the future joyous merrymaking to occur in the tavern would be considered as part of the dragons treasure.
Now in current campaigns that I run there are rumors of a legendary traveling tavern that the heroes will have a chance to visit at some point in their game
Can't wait for the fang dragon
Would metallic dragons attack dragon turtles in the same frenzied manner they would attack chromatic dragons?
I hope not. I see a lot of potential in neutral dragons (that actually interact with other creatures).
My main D&D character, Captain Serus Blackblade's (swashbuckler/dread pirate), entire motivation as of now is finding and killing the dragon turtle that destroyed his ship. He's basically like Captain Ahab, in that whenever he has the opportunity to kill one, he'll take it on the off chance it's the one that wronged him (he's very petty like that), and to show his absolute hatred for dragon turtles his jolly roger is a dragon turtle skull with a sword driven through it.
This is honestly my favorite monster in dnd. And this video is only increasing it :D
When I was just starting playing D&D and before I'd learned how to be a more respectful player to my DM's, I was in a homebrew campaign intended to follow the world and the novel written by the DM. The other players and I didn't really like feeling railroaded, and if the DM didn't like something about the character you were playing, they would just kill it and make you roll a new one (most of our characters died at least once before we all quit). Probably the 2nd to last nail in the coffin was when our party began adopting orphans in cities and training them in our class skills and hiring them out as laborers reaping in the income- now we treated our orphan army quite well just for the record. But we bought a ship and were sailing with our orphan army to another large city, and to stop our tangential shenanigans, the DM had our ship attacked by 2 dragon turtles, killing all our orphans, and leaving us stranded on the land. I have long resented that DM for obviously metaing us just to get us back onto their intended story. But with this video I can at least respect that while it may have been an intentional action to railroad us again, it was at least very much in character for these creatures to sink our ship that was full of our amassed treasure. Much less directly personal than a different DM who randomly spawned in a beholder to kill my rogue because I killed his 3 race personal pet character 3 times without doing much damage to me.
I've got a campaign going on where there are cities built onto the backs of massive creatures connected to the magic of the planar magic. The plane of water's moving city is an ancient dragon turtle kept alive through the siphoning of pure alemental magic from the source. The city, as its formed a symbiotic relationship with the city, they take care of it and it takes care of them. The city itself built into the shell of the dragon turtle that has hollowed.
at 7:00, that is a Lagiacrus. The Shakalaka on the boat with the knight made me realize it
- Dragon Turtle Random Encounter -
Dragon Turtle casts Big Guard.
Dragon Turtle uses Bite.
Is the only thing that comes to mind.
Fighter: "I uh... I guess I shoot it with my crossbow?" *rolls 19 "Sorry it doesn't hit." Fighter: O_O'
Ship: Goes into the sea
Dragon Turtle: "I am once again ask for your financial support"
Your videos are always fun to watch and I always learn something new about D&D Lore; thank you for your videos and keep up the good work
I recently bought Tomb of Anihilation to run it for some friends. It's good to know that detail about Turtle Dragons protecting a zone in exchange for money. I think the Merchant Princes would be glad to have such protection and they would be really mad if the players killed the Turtle Dragon.
Que Dice, Camera, Action
I personally love this video because I am currently playing a Triton Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer and me and the DM had his Draconic Ancestry be a Dragon Turtle, half because it fits the theme but mostly because I've always love the image of a Dragon Turtle . So it's nice to learn more about this awesome dragon!
Back here after catching up with critical role.
Are there any Criter seen this for the 100° ep?
Did he made a video about multiheaded dragons?
Would really be a interesting thing to know.
I got curious because of his last picture.
He made a lore video about it I'm sure
Had a dragon turtle act as a taxi; had a small fortress on it's back run by mermen. Would charge a fee to skip on land travel(the entire island was crisscrossed with huge waterways.)
Thank you for all your lesser dragon and steel dragons ect. research it is very helpful!
My Lagiacrus makin an appearance at 6:55
Your lore videos are crucial to my campaign. Many thanks.
Hey Rhexx, I’m so happy for these videos; you’re doing an excellent job as always. I enjoyed every single video about the true dragons, and I’m very happy you decided to continue the series by including other draconic creatures. On that note, I would like to request, if I may, that you take your time to talk about the Dragonborn, as I’m extremely interested to know your take on them. They have been a kind of obsession to me since they came out as a standard race in 5e because there is so much speculation about how did they get to that point, at least story wise. I remember the first time I learned something about them was in 3.5e; they were described as the Dragonborn of Bahamut, supposedly individuals who heard The Call of Bahamut and underwent The Rite of Rebirth to better fight the Spawn of Tiamat. If I remember correctly, it was said somewhere in the lore of some book that Bahamut gave these individuals the choice to “turn into an ancient draconic race”, suggesting that not only the race was very old, but also that the race had not been around for some time. I never got to play 4e, but after 5e came out I read that the Dragonborn had been in Abeir the whole time as slaves to the True Dragons (at least concerning the Forgotten Realms lore) and then they ended up in Toril again. Now, what bothers me is that I could not find a single concrete reference to describe the origins of the race and how they ended up in Abeir. The miths and legends in the 5e books scramble things even more by suggesting different origins (either Asgorath/Io, created by the Dragons themselves, created by Bahamut, or even evolution). As you found and gave a very plausible explanation to Asmodeus/Ahriman in a previous video, I believe that maybe you can find more lore to the Dragonborn and make some sense of it. I know, at least, that you would make the hell of a video if you decide to do so, and, well, they are draconic creatures after all, right? I’m very sorry about the long post, btw. Thanks for reading it.
Gem dragons are true dragons. Just FYI.
@@gamecavalier3230 which is shameful. Also given that he can do a "what the monster manual doesn't tell you....." for sapphire dragons, being the case they are 5e now....
@@gamecavalier3230 although, I don't like much of the design changes to sapphire dragon. It doesn't feel like it looks like a living, dragon.....
Looks like a freaken golem construct in the form of a dragon, and lacks the iconic sapphire dragon horns, IMO.
Which they kept the 2e dragon design, felt like a organic dragon with scales that happen to be as nice and shiny as gems, and sapphire colored...
Please do "Steel Dragons" next (or soon) pls! And thank you for the great vids and narration