Thousands of years ago, a true dragon had descended upon a human variant world and indulged itself.
The dragon slaughtered every adult male it encountered without exception and took every viable female for itself.
Some of the offspring those females birthed survived, enduring the incompatible blood warring inside them from birth. The survival rate was not high. The process was not gentle. But those who made it through matured into something that was neither fully human nor anything close to dragon, occupying a space between the two that had never existed before. When they were old enough, they were able to reproduce among themselves.
That was how the Drakeblood race was born.
