Skulblaka[Dragons] 2.0

Appearance: The Skulblaka are what legends would call dragons. Their appearance was the very thing that inspired the stories among the various races. While they can vary in height, they are all known for still being much larger than that of the other races. These Skulblaka have large wings that are able to carry their own body weight and more. While a dragon’s color can variate to many beautiful forms. The most common colors that are seen is red. They are covered in scales with a rather soft underbelly that is despite its look, easily able to be bruised from a hard-enough force. Some of these very dragons have been known to grow horns or spikes even as well with age.

Most dragon are known as well not just for their hardened scales, which are nearly as tough as a frost demon’s bio armor. They are known for their sharp claws. These claws are very well designed with the purpose of tearing through meat and bones in their search for prey like the carnivorous instincts they hold. Their wings as well can come between two variances. Whether it be a leathery feeling of sorts or even a hardened scale variant. The leather variant appears to provide a much easier time with gliding, while the scaled variant allows the dragon to dive at impeccable speeds. As accustomed with their massive size is their massive weight. Merely being stepped on by the foot of the smallest of dragons is said to be able to break a tuffle’s ribs.

Background:  The Skulblaka have a rather oppressive history upon themselves, the best way to truly begin this story is to start back in the beginning. It was here near after the species had first started to form that they had lived a rather free and wild life. Taking what belonged to them and savaging throughout the rest. They were happy on their home world of Orúm. The prey was plentiful, and they truly lived between each other in a form of peace, as savage as it might have been. This went on for hundreds and hundreds of years. All to come to a sudden change in but a thousand years.


Foreigners from another world, their ears rather pointed and their faces pale in color. A race apparently by the name of Konatisians. They had become the first humanoids to come in contact with the so-called dragons. They hadn’t come fully in peace though. While they admired the power of the race. They began to hunt them down and capture them, to use them in servitude as mounts. This was a dark time for their race. They were treated no better than livestock. The Konatisians however underestimated their intelligence. As the dragons grew older and older, they began to adopt the languages and studies of the Konatisians. The battleplans they held and even the weaknesses of their race.


Over time it finally happened, a female dragoness led a revolution and after a long and bloody war, was peace finally made. Only then was the magical blood bond between a rider and a dragon able to be formed. Time and time passed as this bond grew stronger. Finding new strengths as the two species found they needed to be in sync for their powers to reach their maximum in efficiency. It was a marvelous peace, one that remained until one day, the dragons awoke to their partners having vanished. They were all seemingly just gone! It felt like the old ages were beginning to arise again.


It was at this moment a hierarchy formed, the female dragoness who had led the revolution at first had been crowned the Queen of the dragons. She had achieved the status of a Dragoon, a being they treated as god-like almost. Forever in memory she rests in the barrow of empires, a past left to be honored as the modern species lived their day, growing ever more xenophobic as the blood pact grew more and more forgotten. Many of the scribes of their people continue to wonder, will this oath of the ancient ever be formed again?



Large Bodied: Dragons being so large and heavy, cannot fit in normal spaceships. This requires them to take two seats worth of room in a ship. This prevents them from riding in ships with only one seat available! This weakness comes as well at a cost in combat with a 10% penalty to natural dodging, and a 15% penalty to Dodging Techniques.

Mythical Beast of the Skies: Dragons are blessed from birth with wings of extraordinary strength and large reservoirs of magic. This grants them free access to flight and a special form of shapeshifting that only allows them to transform into a species local to the planet they are on. When in this disguise however they lose access to the majority of their draconic abilities, including their flight and Primal Burst while keeping their large bodied weakness.

Primal Burst: A dragon is best known for their elemental control, by placing enough strength into it, a dragon can generate once per thread, a powerful attack seemingly of an explosion of their birth element. This attack can leave them rather fatigued however in return. [Requires 2 Stamina to use - Non-Stackable with other powerups, Special VT-2 attack with a charge up to a 320% Max - Once per thread - The user gains another use of this technique per thread for each level achieved]


Elemental List - Chosen at Character Creation

Fire - Burn Effect

Air - Chaser Effect

Earth - Pain Effect

Water - AoE Effect

Aether - Aura Effect


Blood Oath Ritual: In place of the fact how this race can not hybridize, long throughout legend the dragons kept a special blood pact. This ritual was celebrated as the bonding of partnership between dragon and rider. The dragon and future partner each place a single cut on leg and arm before holding the two together in place. A day later and the partner and dragon experience the full potential of this Pact. The rider becomes marked by the pact by a near foot increase in height, and their ears growing more pointed like the konatisians of the past. A single warning issued however, for the dragon or rider may end this friendship if they wish at the cost of the rider never being able to bond again. [Ritual requires both users to be at Level 2 to be able to handle the magical energies of the oath]

[When the Skulblaka completes this ritual with their chosen partner they gain a new ability]

- Fight as One: The Skulblaka feels at their most powerful when with a trust friend, granting them a passive 10% bonus to their supportive techniques when fighting alongside their partner in a thread due to their now enhanced awareness. [Only usable when partner is fighting in thread]

[When the Partner has been inducted into the ritual, the Partner gain a bonus racial to use once per thread]

- Bonded Primal Burst: The rider now feeling a connected bond to their partner’s elemental power, when fighting alongside their chosen Skulblaka, the rider gains the ability to summon a weakened primal burst powered by their own new reserves of magic. [Special EVT-1 attack – 1 Stamina Cost- Chargeable up to 160% Max, Once per thread, Effect is the same as the Dragon's Element, Not stackable with powerups] [Only usable when partner is fighting in thread]



Wyrmling (x5) [Perm] [30k PL, Must also hold 2000 Zeni at time of transforming]
A dragon who has reached that of a wyrmling begins to notice changes in their body, these changes including a more elegant and slender form as their very wings grow stronger and larger. Their heads begin to start showing nubs for their future growing horns.


Primal Enragement (x14) [120k PL]
This temporary power is the enraged dragon’s call to their elemental powers. This power is a temporary one manifested by using their large magic reserves to temporarily bolster their abilities. This is only the beginning however to a long journey ahead.


Drakon (x18) [160k PL, Must hold 4000 Zeni at time of transforming] [Perm]
An adult dragon who is said to have a large treasure and a powerful presence. This drakon is said to grow larger horns and spike along their tail to increase their own battle prowess. Their wings have now grown more streamlined and show better performance at faster traveling of flight.


Elemental Beast of the Skies (x25) [250k PL]
A Dragon of this level is beginning to gain a true mastery over their elemental abilities. They are said at this form to have the abilities to easily control the weather of an entire planet!


Elder Dovah (x33) [Must hold 6000 zeni at time of transforming, 350k PL] [Perm]
A Dragon who had reached this level had earned the right to be called Dovah. This level of power combined with their vast treasure is truly reserved to only the most powerful of their race. It is upon their states that their horns begin to reach their longest points, their tails beginning to show nubs for future growing spikes.


Mastered Elemental Beast (x40) [400k]
When a Dragon has mastered their elemental journey, they are said at this level to not only manipulate just their element, but rather the four main elements of nature all together! This state is extremely draining on their magic reserves however and was considered by many to be reserved for only the strongest of foes.


Legendary Dragoon of the Ryūjin (x46) [460k Must hold 10,000 Zeni at time of transforming] [Perm]
Only one dragon has reached this power before, it is said to be reserved to only those who truly gain this power. They are said to have the largest amounts of treasure. These dragons are said to have absolutely mastered control over their elemental powers and to possess the very spirit of the first dragon at their whims. Their tail now having grown its spikes, the wings so slick that the dragon hold high maneuverability. Their skulls having reinforced to smash down entire cities in a mere blow. This is the strongest known state of the Skulblaka, one known only in myth…