Dragonsworn

Dragons are often reclusive creatures, masters of their domain. As Masters, they seek to expand their influence and enforce their will but, for the oldest of their kind, such action need not be carried out personally nor through the hands of more monstrous minions. Instead, an art kept only by the oldest, wisest or most cunning Dragons is the creation of a Dragonsworn; to forge a pact with a mortal. A mere sliver of the Dragon's power, sealed with the exchange of but a fraction of the Dragon's physical self (such as ritualistically grafting single scale in the would-be Dragonsworn or the ritual imbibing of a single drop of the Dragon's blood) in exchange for service. The resulting Warlock gains powers derived from the Dragon with the possibility to even ascending to a higher state of being in a Dragon's image...