Cor'tanos, shadow dragon patriarch
Originally pledged to Tiamat, Cor'tanos took his kin and fled the Dragon Wars for what they thought to be a new primal gate... Oblivion. This was a bid for primoridial and nexal god status that would have put Cor'tanos on par with Pha Rann, Demos-Gorgos, and Asmodeus. When Time flowed, the eldar saw it as a darkness ahead of them in its flow. They did not understand death for none of the eldar truly died.
For this, Tiamat considers Cor'tanos and his followers heretics. Their departure meant that Tiamat could not defeat the All Father in the Dragon Wars. Instead of a unified realm of dragons under Tiamat, the dominion of Dragonkind splintered in half. Tiamat blames Cor'tanos for this. This story is told in Malcor's Story and Bomoki's Gate.
To have enough power to pierce the "end of Time," Cor'tanos consumed his matriarch, and many of his followers. Those that survived, faced slow weaning of will towards the inert state of all spirit and matter past Oblivion: entropy. To the metallics, the shadow dragons are monsters, to be attacked on sight. No dragonkind is more hated than the Shadow clan, by all dragons.
Originally pledged to Tiamat, Cor'tanos took his kin and fled the Dragon Wars for what they thought to be a new primal gate... Oblivion. This was a bid for primoridial and nexal god status that would have put Cor'tanos on par with Pha Rann, Demos-Gorgos, and Asmodeus. When Time flowed, the eldar saw it as a darkness ahead of them in its flow. They did not understand death for none of the eldar truly died.
For this, Tiamat considers Cor'tanos and his followers heretics. Their departure meant that Tiamat could not defeat the All Father in the Dragon Wars. Instead of a unified realm of dragons under Tiamat, the dominion of Dragonkind splintered in half. Tiamat blames Cor'tanos for this. This story is told in Malcor's Story and Bomoki's Gate.
To have enough power to pierce the "end of Time," Cor'tanos consumed his matriarch, and many of his followers. Those that survived, faced slow weaning of will towards the inert state of all spirit and matter past Oblivion: entropy. To the metallics, the shadow dragons are monsters, to be attacked on sight. No dragonkind is more hated than the Shadow clan, by all dragons.