Dragons Overhaul

[ElMariuso]

Overhaul dragons for making them playable, interesting and powerful:

Aspects traits

• Aspect of Life: Prowess bonuses, diplomacy, steward and learning bonuses, life and fire magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done)
• Aspect of Nature: Prowess bonuses, diplomacy, steward and learning bonuses, huge life magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done)
• Aspect of Earth: Huge prowess bonuses (Aspect of Earth was made to protect through combat.), martial and intrigues bonuses, earth and fire magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done)
• Aspect of Magic: Prowess bonuses, learning and steward bonuses, huge arcane magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done), more health
• Aspect of Time: Prowess bonuses, learning and steward bonuses, arcane (and another for balancing ?) magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done), more health

Others Aspects traits

• Aspect of Death (Corrupted Aspect of Earth): Huge prowess bonuses (Inherited from Aspect of Earth), martial and intrigues bonuses, fire magic bonuses, huge void magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done), more health
• Aspect of Infinite (Corrupted Aspect of Infinite): Prowess bonuses , learning and steward bonuses, arcane magic bonuses, huge void magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done), more health

Dragonflight government

• Troops bonuses and dynastic opinion maluses: As in CK2's Hive government, in this type of government you should have a bonus of troops per child and a dynastic opinion penalty.
• Dragonflight succession: The succession of a dragonflight should be done by electing the best dragon in the flight, with choice bonuses for opinion. Some should have title claims. Which would explain why Wrathion would become the self-proclaimed leader of the black flight after the fall of Deathwing.
• Dragonflight succession event: When the succession is done, there should be an event / decision that brings all the flight together for the ritual of creating a new aspect. As a result, the new leader of the dragonflight would gain the title of aspect.
• Brood special contract: We should be able to create broods, which are less defended but which bring big bonuses of troops and fertility for the overlord of the brood.

Draconic faiths

• Green faith: Faith about nature things and protect that. Should have life syncretism. If we put back the emerald dream system, they should have wide access to it. And be subject to the corruption of the void.
• Black faith: Faith about protect azeroth. Replaced in Blackdragonflight by N'Zoth worship. Except maybe for Ebonhorn ? Can be come back if we put an uncorruption system.
• Red faith: Faith about life things and protect that. Should have life syncretism.
• Blue faith: Faith about magic things and protect that. They should be wary of mortals who practice magic.
• Bronze faith: Faith about time things and protect that. If we put back the emerald dream system, they should have a system like that for going through the corridors of time. And be subject to the corruption of the void.
• Loyalty to the Aspects: Most dragons in a flight are very loyal to their appearance. Having the aspect trait should give an opinion bonus.

Special things

• Dragonspawn/Drakonide transformation: Mortals who practice the religions above should be able, at some point, to transform into dragonspawn or drakonid. Like on a pilgrimage to the shrines in Dragonblight. Once this is done, they become loyal to the dragonflight, perhaps automatic vassalization? If they are of imperial title, they simply ally themselves with theft.
• Black dragons corruption : Black dragons must worship the Old Gods no matter what. We can do a decorruption system later. For Ebonhorn and Wrathion for example. This is done "biologically" and not through education. Since it is only the eggs that have been decayed that are not under the influence of the Old Gods.

Notes

• Black dragons and Infinite dragons should worship N'Zoth basically

Sources

• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Embrace
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Aspects
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dragonflight
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Sect_of_the_Dragons
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dragonspawn
• https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Drakonid

[zumbak04]

• Loyalty to the Aspects: Most dragons in a flight are very loyal to their appearance. Having the aspect trait should give an opinion bonus.

You should take into account that you can create a new faith thus this loyalty thing should be a doctrine. So there may be a few faiths loyal to the Life Aspect. May be similar to Muhammad's succession of muslims.

[zumbak04]

• Black dragons corruption : Black dragons must worship the Old Gods no matter what. We can do a decorruption system later. For Ebonhorn and Wrathion for example. This is done "biologically" and not through education. Since it is only the eggs that have been decayed that are not under the influence of the Old Gods.

Sounds like it won't need a special mechanic, but just Void Infusion passed to children and spawned courtiers. https://github.com/Warcraft-GoA-Development-Team/Warcraft-Guardians-of-Azeroth-2/issues/456

[arithon]

Aspect of Life: Prowess bonuses, diplomacy, steward and learning bonuses, life and fire magic bonuses (when magic lifestyle is done)

What about a health bonus?

Troops bonuses and dynastic opinion maluses: As in CK2's Hive government, in this type of government you should have a bonus of troops per child and a dynastic opinion penalty.

How about way stronger knights instead?

[arithon]

We could limit the dragonflights to MaAs like the dragons (in the cultural MaA PR) and drakonids and dragonspawn. They could be different types of infantry, I guess. So, skirmishers/pikemen/heavy infantry. Nothing large enough for Large Infantry imho.

[Remerod]

We discussed what the aspect could be called on other's sphare on discord so i'll write them down here.

For Void Aspect of Death-earth Aspect of Insanity-magic Aspect of Nightmare-nature Aspect of Blood-life Aspect of Infinite-Time

So for Undeath Aspect of Bones-earth Aspect of Frost-magic (because of frost wyrms and i doubt that the liches give up all the secret of necromancy to the dragons, so perhaps necromancy don't fit) Aspect of Plague-nature Aspect of Scourge-life Aspect of Undeath-time

Aspect's in the sphare of fel Aspect of Destruction-earth Aspect of Fel-magic Aspect of Terror, Taint or Blight-nature (terror in the same sense as void and how nightmare is natural, would use the dream to influence terror on the waking world, taint in the sense that nature would be fel tainted, Or Blight as in the land would be rotten, having life sucked out of it). Aspect of Corruption-life (as in the corruption of beings into fel beings, green/fel orcs, blood/fel elves, satyrs etc etc). Aspect of Nether-Time (as in the Twisting Nether, witch give the demon immortality, witch also stands outside time, witch could be used to mess with time perhaps? [time is complicated in fiction] ).