When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and a different one by 1, or increase three scores by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20.

You are a Humanoid (Primeval Dragonkin). For the purposes of game rules, Drakaryn are considered humanoids, but effects that specifically interact with dragons or dragonkind may recognize their primeval draconic physiology at the DM’s discretion.

Your size is Medium (about 5.5–6.5 feet tall).
Your size category does not change when your wings are unfurled. However, when your wings are deployed, you occupy significantly more physical space and may be unable to fit or maneuver freely in cramped, crowded, or low-ceiling environments, as described in your Draconic Wings trait.
Unfurled wings affect movement, stealth, and environmental interaction, but do not alter your size for the purposes of spells, carrying capacity, reach, or other rules tied to size categories.

Your walking speed is 30 feet.
You have a flying speed of 40 feet.
You have a swimming speed of 35 feet.

You descend from a primeval draconic bloodline that predates elemental divergence. Your physiology reflects a true draconic form adapted to a humanoid scale. Some Drakaryn cultures formalize this heritage through emissary roles, ancestral rites, or scion lineages, reflected in certain optional backgrounds and feats.
You gain no weapon proficiencies from your species. You cannot gain proficiency with heavy weapons or two-handed weapons due to your species. You can wield light weapons, one-handed weapons, and small or buckler-style shields.
Class features and backgrounds may still grant weapon proficiencies, but the Drakaryn body plan is unsuited to oversized or heavily balanced weapons.

Your body is covered in small, tightly layered scales that are magically dense but not thick.

• You have resistance to slashing and piercing damage.
• You have vulnerability to bludgeoning damage.

In addition, you are immune to environmental movement penalties caused by extreme heat or cold. Effects that would reduce your movement speed, impose disadvantage on movement-based checks, or cause exhaustion purely due to temperature do not affect you.
Environmental conditions still affect your flight realistically. Severe cold, storms, or heavy winds may hinder aerial maneuvering, while hot environments may affect ascent and descent (DM adjudication).

You have Draconic Vision, a true multi-spectral vision, with a full-clarity sight range of 180 feet, with ultraviolet and thermal perception.
You possess true draconic perception across multiple visual spectra.

• You have true vision out to 180 feet. This is not darkvision; you see with full clarity regardless of lighting, requiring only minimal ambient photons.
• You perceive ultraviolet markings, residues, and biological traces.
• You perceive thermal gradients, heat signatures, and recent heat disturbances.

You gain proficiency in the Perception skill, and your passive Perception increases by 5.
Some Drakaryn further refine this perception through specialized training or extreme physiological development, represented by optional feats such as Draconic Sensory Overlap.
Line of sight rules still apply. You cannot see through solid objects or around corners.

Once per day, while flying with an unobstructed view of the surrounding world, you may enter a state of heightened draconic resonance for 1 hour.
This ability requires a long rest to refresh, and cannot be used more than once in a 24-hour period, even if you complete a long rest early.
While Dragon-Sight Ascension is active:

• Your vision expands from localized perception to extreme draconic distances, allowing you to detect, recognize, and identify creatures, terrain, structures, and large-scale movement across many miles.
• Your ultraviolet and thermal perception scales with this expansion, allowing biological traces, heat signatures, and environmental disturbances to be perceived across the same extreme ranges.
• You can discern formations, settlements, migrations, battle lines, weather fronts, and terrain features as coherent, intelligible patterns rather than vague shapes.

Your vision remains limited by line of sight, weather, atmospheric conditions, and planetary curvature.
This ability ends early if you are incapacitated or are no longer flying.

DM ADJUDICATION SIDEBAR

Draconic Vision & Dragon-Sight Ascension

This sidebar clarifies how environmental conditions affect draconic perception and provides explicit distance benchmarks for adjudicating extreme-range sight.

Applicability

• Draconic Vision: Applies within 180 feet
• Dragon-Sight Ascension: Applies at extreme draconic distances while the ability is active

Unless otherwise stated, all effects below respect line of sight and solid obstruction rules.

Environmental Obstruction Guidelines
Fog, Rain, Snow, Smoke (Non-Magical)

Draconic Vision (≤180 ft):

• Visibility penalties from light to moderate weather are ignored
• Heavy obscurants (dense fog banks, blizzards, thick smoke) impose disadvantage on Perception checks, but do not block ultraviolet or thermal detection

Dragon-Sight Ascension (Miles):

• Atmospheric conditions reduce maximum effective range, not perceptual clarity
• Heavy fog, rain, or snowfall may reduce extreme-range vision by 50–75%, at the DM’s discretion
• Detection remains possible at long range; recognition and feature-level identification degrade first

Magical Weather and Effects
Magical obscurants override normal atmospheric physics.

Examples:
Fog Cloud, Sleet Storm, Control Weather, magical smoke, planar haze

• If the effect explicitly blocks sight, it blocks all visual spectra unless otherwise stated
• If the effect obscures vision without blocking light, thermal and ultraviolet perception may still function, but only within the effect’s stated radius
• Dragon-Sight Ascension does not automatically bypass magical obscuration

DM Rule of Thumb:

• If the spell blocks photons, it blocks all vision.
• If it alters visibility, adjudicate spectrum-by-spectrum.

Spectral Vision Clarifications
Ultraviolet (UV)

• Blood residue, spoor, pheromonal markings, territorial traces, and biological stains remain visible even when color-based visibility is reduced
• Mundane camouflage, disguise, or coloration does not conceal UV signatures
• UV perception is blocked by solid cover and magical sight-blocking effects

Thermal / Near-Infrared (Near-IR)

• Warm-bodied creatures remain detectable through darkness, foliage, and visual clutter
• Recently disturbed terrain (footprints, opened doors, displaced objects) may emit residual heat
• Thermal perception is blocked by solid objects and equalized by extreme ambient heat
  Examples of Thermal Interference:
  • Lava fields
  • Large-scale fires
  • Superheated planar zones

Extreme Draconic Distance Benchmarks
(Dragon-Sight Ascension Only)

Use the following ranges to adjudicate what level of information is available, not whether sight is possible.

Daylight (Photopic Conditions, Daylight)

Detection – movement or non-specific presence
• 19–27 miles
Recognition – humanoid vs animal; posture and activity
• 4.5–6.5 miles
Feature-Level Identification – face, individual, or specific equipment
• 0.38–0.54 miles

Starlight (Scotopic Conditions, No Moon)

Detection – faint motion or silhouetted shape
• 15.5–21.7 miles
Recognition – silhouette confirmed as humanoid
• 3–4.3 miles
Feature-Level Identification – facial structure or equipment type
• 0.54–0.76 miles

Curvature, Elevation, and Altitude
Dragon-Sight Ascension assumes high-altitude flight.

• Low altitude, valleys, forests, or urban density may reduce effective range
• Elevated flight (mountain peaks, cloud level) may extend detection distances
• Planetary curvature limits recognition and identification before detection

Final DM Guidance

These abilities are intended to:

• Enable strategic-scale awareness, not sniper-level combat targeting
• Allow dragons to understand the world as a system, not just a battlefield
• Preserve mystery at range while rewarding altitude, planning, and positioning

If a ruling is uncertain, err toward detection over identification, and patterns over precision.

Your scales and magical acuity can attune defensively.
You can activate this ability in 5-minute bursts, a number of times per day equal to 1 + your character level. All uses recharge on a long rest.
When activated, choose one damage type from the following list to gain resistance to it:
• Acid
• Cold
• Fire
• Lightning
• Poison
You may change your selected damage type once per day, which requires a long rest.
• At 12th level, you may have two resistances active simultaneously (each consumes a charge).
• At 20th level, you may have three resistances active simultaneously.
You remain vulnerable to force, necrotic, and radiant damage.

Your mind and instincts operate at draconic extremes.

• You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened, charmed, or magically influenced.
• You have resistance to psychic damage.
• You are immune to magical effects that would influence your thoughts, emotions, or actions if the effect’s save DC is lower than your passive Perception.

Full Description

Powerful, physical wings define your body plan and movement, granting reliable flight at the cost of space, stealth, and equipment flexibility. You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed +10. Your wings operate in one of two postures: Folded or Unfurled. Changing posture requires no action on your turn, but environmental constraints may limit which posture is possible.

Folded Wings

Your wings are tightly folded along your back, reducing lateral space but increasing bulk and rigidity. While your wings are folded, they are always physically present and cannot be concealed. You have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while wearing medium armor or while carrying a backpack, cloak, or other bulky back-mounted gear. Your wings interfere with standard equipment:

• You cannot benefit from cloaks or capes.
• Back-mounted packs or gear impose disadvantage on Strength (Athletics) checks related to climbing or jumping.

Folded wings remain vulnerable to obstruction, grabbing, or pinning in tight or crowded environments. Folded wings are a carriage posture, not concealment.

Unfurled Wings

Your wings are fully deployed, forming broad, load-bearing flight surfaces and shifting your posture into an aerial frame. You must have sufficient open space to unfurl your wings. In cramped or low-ceiling environments, the DM may rule that unfurling is impossible or restricted. While unfurled, you occupy significantly more physical space and have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This posture is required for takeoff, sustained flight, controlled descent, and aerial maneuvering. While unfurled, you have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to resist forced movement, maintain aerial control in strong winds, or stabilize during flight. Unfurled wings create a strong visual and physical presence and are ill-suited to confined terrain.

Stealth and Aerial Predation

Your wings hinder stealth in confined or cluttered environments, but grant decisive advantages when hunting from open air.

Grounded or Confined Stealth

While Folded, you have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made in tight, crowded, or enclosed environments, or while wearing medium armor or bulky back-mounted gear.
While Unfurled, you cannot benefit from Dexterity (Stealth) checks except under heavy obscuration or similarly extreme concealment.

Aerial Hunting Stealth

When attacking from above, your wings function as precision hunting surfaces rather than encumbrances. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to approach a creature from the air while:

• flying at least 20 feet above the target, and
• operating in dim light, darkness, heavy cloud cover, or similar low-visibility conditions.

This advantage applies only to approach and positioning, not to remaining hidden after the attack. Your wings allow controlled glides, rapid braking, and near-silent descent, enabling ambushes reminiscent of nocturnal and raptorial predators. Characters raised in aerial hunting cultures or who have undergone advanced wing conditioning may further specialize in this style of combat through optional backgrounds or feats focused on open-sky predation.

Armor and Load Interaction

Your wings rely on full shoulder rotation and clean airflow.

• Light Armor: Your flying speed is reduced by 10 feet; your swimming speed is reduced by 5 feet.
• Medium Armor: Your flying speed is reduced by 20 feet; your swimming speed is reduced by 10 feet.
• Heavy Armor: You cannot fly; your swimming speed is reduced by 15 feet.

Carrying a heavy load or bulky back-mounted gear may further reduce your flying speed or prevent takeoff, at the DM’s discretion.

Draconic Metabolic Augmentation

Your physiology includes a draconic metabolic augmentation—an internal organ system inspired by true dragon biology—that supercharges muscular output, oxygenation, and connective-tissue resilience. This augmentation enables sustained high-force wing use, rapid recovery, and reliable flight endurance without generating lift on its own. Your flight remains fundamentally physical and aerodynamic, functions normally in anti-magic conditions, and is still constrained by space, weight, drag, and environmental interference.

Your character knows at least three languages: Common plus two languages you roll or choose from the Standard Languages table. Knowledge of a language means your character can communicate in it, read it, and write it. Your class and other features might also give you languages.

The Standard Languages table lists languages that are widespread on D&D worlds. Every player character knows Common, which originated in the planar metropolis of Sigil, the hub of the multiverse. The other standard languages originated with the first members of the most prominent species in the worlds of D&D and have since spread widely.