Does anyone know if the clan names listed in the Player's Handbook are linked to specific types of dragonborn? I feel like it wouldn't make sense for red and gold to be in the same clan usually, right?
Does anyone know if the clan names listed in the Player's Handbook are linked to specific types of dragonborn? I feel like it wouldn't make sense for red and gold to be in the same clan usually, right?
From the description it sounds unlikely, but not impossible
The first dragonborn had scales of vibrant hues matching the colors of their dragon kin, but generations of interbreeding have created a more uniform appearance. Their small, fine scales are usually brass or bronze in color, sometimes ranging to scarlet, rust, gold, or copper-green.
The blood of a particular type of dragon runs very strong through some dragonborn clans. These dragonborn often boast scales that more closely match those of their dragon ancestor—bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze.
So scarlet and duller gold colored scales seem like they are common and could be present within the same clan and you could always have an odd member of a mostly gold clan be a throwback to a red ancestor or vice versa.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Some lore from 4th edition talked about how clans of Dragonborn would sometimes live near the lair of a local dragon. I think in those cases, you could absolutely say "Look, this is blue dragons only club". Some lore talked about how most Dragonborn very extremely decisive, and either you were with Bahamut or Tiamat, you were not in the middle so pick a side and deal with it, which basically equates to metallics vs chromatics.
There isn't a lot that talks officially about how they got here except a generic "Dragon gods and Dragons combined them with humonoids", or in Faerun how the Call of Bahamut happened and some humonoids were able to undergo the Rite of Rebirth, which creates metallic dragons. Tiamat used her magics to create evil dragonborn chromatics.
Its vague enough for you to do you. Dragonborn being labeled as decisive and being forced to make choices, but at the same time integrating with existing villages based on their own beliefs does allow plenty of wiggle for both chromatic and metallic dragonborn to co-exist.
Does anyone know if the clan names listed in the Player's Handbook are linked to specific types of dragonborn? I feel like it wouldn't make sense for red and gold to be in the same clan usually, right?
From the description it sounds unlikely, but not impossible
So scarlet and duller gold colored scales seem like they are common and could be present within the same clan and you could always have an odd member of a mostly gold clan be a throwback to a red ancestor or vice versa.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Some lore from 4th edition talked about how clans of Dragonborn would sometimes live near the lair of a local dragon. I think in those cases, you could absolutely say "Look, this is blue dragons only club". Some lore talked about how most Dragonborn very extremely decisive, and either you were with Bahamut or Tiamat, you were not in the middle so pick a side and deal with it, which basically equates to metallics vs chromatics.
There isn't a lot that talks officially about how they got here except a generic "Dragon gods and Dragons combined them with humonoids", or in Faerun how the Call of Bahamut happened and some humonoids were able to undergo the Rite of Rebirth, which creates metallic dragons. Tiamat used her magics to create evil dragonborn chromatics.
Its vague enough for you to do you. Dragonborn being labeled as decisive and being forced to make choices, but at the same time integrating with existing villages based on their own beliefs does allow plenty of wiggle for both chromatic and metallic dragonborn to co-exist.