Spirit dragon

Spirit dragons are the soul fragments of the Protogenoi Dragon Shenlong. They are benevolent beings which are far more ethereal than they are physical. As such, they are an easy creature to summon. They inhabit the Ling Mountains, serving as guardians for the region of Shuang. They are highly intelligent beings capable of speech.

Spirit dragons are comparable to Aetherians for having similar origins, though the two are unrelated. Shelong, while very powerful, was never a god. As such, spirit dragons are made of a different sort of magical energy than Aetherians.

Appearance

Spirit dragons are generally translucent and come in varying hues. The color of this hue reflects their personality, with white being the most benevolent, red being the most aggressive and blue being the most neutral.

Like Shenlong himself, their actual bodies are far more reptilian than typical dragons. A spirit dragon is serpentine with two frontal arms with no wings. They are generally akin to giant serpents. They come in a wide range of colors, but generally, they have tendrils on their snouts which form the analogue of a mustache and a beard. Most spirit dragons are ten meters in length.

Rather than walking, spirit dragons glide through the air staying low to the ground. This gives them great mobility. They stay aloft as their noncorporeality creates a field of magic that repels them off the ground. They use their two frontal arms for the manipulation of tools and the grasping of prey.

Biology

Spirit dragons do not reproduce, and instead reincarnate when they die. They reduce down to an ethereal white orb that remains dormant for at least a century before being reborn again.

While spirit dragons mostly started off as clones of Shenlong's personality, overtime, they diversified and took on their own forms through many generations of dying and being reborn. Many perceive spirit dragons as benevolent guardians. This is true to an extent as Shenlong's influence and teachings are strong within them, which has helped them more easily resist temptation and corruption. However, some spirit dragons became representative of Shenlong's darker thoughts, resulting in them acquiring a malevolent personality.

Powers

Like all dragons, spirit dragons have a strong affinity with magic. Most of their magic is expelled in the form of a breath, most often in the form of ice.

List of Spirit Dragons

• Seirei - A Spirit Dragon which the Frost Elf Wuji tamed and used as a mount.
• Shinryu - Shinryu is considered the direct successor of Shenlong having inherited most of his wisdom. He lives inside a hot spring and prefers to watch mortals from afar.
• Yugo - Yugo is an evil spirit dragon with a strong desire to unite all spirit dragons to revive Shenlong. He has a group of mortal followers known as the Blood Lotus which are hunting and capturing spirit dragons.
• Feng - Feng is the guardian of Windseeker Eyrie, being a patron spirit deity to the local Windseeker tribe. He is capable of granting flight across the ocean to Windseeker dragons.