Approved Lore Clan Dragr

[Siv Dragr]

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"Cuun briada malyasa'yr va cuyir uur."
- Clan Dragr words

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To codify Clan Dragr.
• Image Credit: N/A
• Canon: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Links:
  • Kestri
  • Cheravh
  • Lagartoz War Dragon
  • Norg Bral

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Organization Name: Clan Dragr
• Classification: Mandalorian Clan
• Affiliation: N/A
• Organization Symbol: The signet of Clan Dragr is a stylized depiction of a Lagartoz War Dragon.
• Description: Clan Dragr is an ancient and well-respected Mandalorian Clan whose origins date to the New Sith Wars. Once a powerful Clan that commanded massive armies, its size was reduced drastically in the Mandalorian Excision where they became a clan of bounty hunters and mercenaries. Once again in the Sith Genocide of Mandalore, they were reduced to only a few individuals, nearly rendering the Clan extinct.
  
  Clan Dragr in the present day is an extremely small Clan, with only four active and known members. They run White Scar Post and as a Clan are generally reclusive from intergalactic affairs, with the priority of the Clan being foremost its rebuilding and preservation. Though their numbers are small, their reputation precedes them and Clan Dragr’s warriors are well-respected among the Mando’ade.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Headquarters:
  • Current: White Scar Post, Kestri
  • Formerly:
    • The Bloodfort, Cheravh [Destroyed 738 BBY]
    • Norg Bral, Mandalore [Destroyed 858 ABY]
• Domain: Clan Dragr has control of White Scar Post, through which they hold implicit authority in the Cin’hastaal mountains of Kestri.
• Notable Assets:
  • Kyr’bes Buy’ce | A Mandalorian armoring company founded by Sahan Dragr.
  • Kyr'yc Saca | Siv Dragr’s modified CVT-61 Stathas-class Assault Dropship
  • White Scar Orbak Herd | Reknown across Kestri for the quality of its mounts. Bred and managed by Volo Dragr.
  • Skira | A kal vibroknife, a valued heirloom.

SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Hierarchy: Like most Mandalorian Clans, the leader of Clan Dragr is the Alor, a position decided through a series of duels. Second in command is the Forgemaster of the Clan, whose role is to create and oversee the creation of weapons and armor for the Clan. Third in the hierarchy of the Clan is Warmaster, a position given usually to the honorably defeated opponent by an Alor. In charge of marshaling the Clan’s forces and overseeing the training of new members, after the destruction of the Bloodfort and Mandalorian Excision, the role of Warmaster changed into one that oversaw the training of young members of Clan Dragr as the Clan’s ways shifted to center around being mercenaries. After the Mandalorian Genocide in 858 ABY, the Clan did not have enough members to warrant (or muster) a proper clan Warmaster or Forgemaster.
• Membership: Before the Mandalorian Genocide, Clan Dragr was a relatively small Clan with only several hundred members. However, the invasion and subjugation of Mandalore by the Sith Empire saw that number reduced to single digits, rendering the Clan nearly extinct. Most members of Clan Dragr are born into the Clan or marry into it, but those who are proven skillful and worthy through a Verd’goten may be adopted into the Clan.
• Climate: Loyalty to kin is paramount among Mandalorian values; members of Clan Dragr have always supported and uplifted one another. After the Mandalorian genocide and near-extinction of the clan, there is an even closer sense of camaraderie and kinship between surviving members.
• Reputation: Despite its honorable past and deep history, Clan Dragr has always remained a smaller, more insignificant clan among the Mando’ade. Although they have traditionally earned respect as warriors and mercenaries, there are few figures from Clan Dragr known widely among Mandalorians and rarely has a Dragr made a large impact on Mandalorian or Galactic Society as a whole. In the Mandalorian Enclave, however, Clan Dragr has seen prominence through its Alor, Siv Dragr, a widely-known and respected veteran.
• Curios: Every Clan member who has passed their Verd’goten bears the signet of the Lagartoz War Dragon on their Beskar’gam.
• Rules: Clan Dragr adheres to the Resol’nare and Mandalorian Catechisms.
• Goals: Like all Mandalorian Clans, the primary interest of Clan Dragr is to advance the interests of the Clan, whatever they may be. Most important for Clan Dragr is rebuilding and ensuring the survival of the Clan,

MEMBERS

The Survivors
Those who survived the Sith Genocide
Siv Dragr | Alor

The Future
Members gathered to be the future of the Clan
Volo Dragr
Adopted by Siv Dragr 871 ABY

Obran
Adopted by Siv Dragr 871 ABY

Sahan Dragr
Foundling, adopted by Siv Dragr 881 ABY​

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

The Founding | New Sith Wars
Kol the Clanless, he was called. A foundling and veteran warrior of the New Sith Wars that already had ravaged the galaxy for nearly seven millennia by the time he came into the galaxy, Kol was saved from an early death on a forgotten world and inducted as a warrior of Mandalore. Fighting alongside his brethren, Kol quickly became known for his fierce aptitude in battle.

Kol fought alongside his mentor, Oxxam Bralor, who was the master of one of the last fearsome Largartoz War Dragons. The mighty beasts had once been a sentient race until Mandalorians had subjugated them so severely that they had devolved into mounts thousands of years prior. The War Dragons were fearsome in battle, but slow to breed. Though they had survived for two millennia, the centuries of endless fighting during the New Sith Wars had taken a toll on their stock.

It was on Arvala-7 that Oxxam Bralor fell to Sith mercenaries, and though Kol was not part of Clan Bralor, its Alor granted Oxxam’s War Dragon to Kol in recognition of the Mandalorian’s loyalty towards their mentor and father figure. From there, Kol and his War Dragon became near-legendary, until he was revered throughout Mandalorian space as Kol, Last Rider of the War Dragon and victor of a Hundred Battles.

Kol’s beast companion was a unique specimen. Through its lineage, it had been able to retain a slight level of sentience, enough to retain a sense of identity and rudimentary semi-telepathic communication. This enhanced the bond between rider and dragon, and Kol derived the beast's name from the broken Basiliskan language that the Largartoz War Dragon had inherited from its sentient ancestors: Dragr.

Previously Clanless, Kol took on the name Dragr.

The Growth | New Sith Wars (Cont.)
Kol Dragr took Zalenda Bralor as his wife, forever cementing the connection and kinship between the two Clans. The two had a son, Ilyn Dragr, and Clan Dragr continued to grow from there. Ilyn was mentored by Kol not only in the ways of the Mando’ade but in Kol’s own doctrine and philosophy that he had built from his life on the war front. Soon the boy became a capable warrior, and although he was young, he was often fighting on the front lines alongside his father and mother.

Cheravh was a hardscrabble frontier world on the edge of the Mandalore sector, but still, it was a refuge from the constant warring of the New Sith Wars. Blood to the Alor of Clan Bralor through marriage, Kol became a trusted lieutenant within Arvus Bralor’s ranks, fighting alongside him and his wife as they fought Sith and Republic forces alike. While Arvus only sought to conquer and pillage for the glory of Mand’alor the Ultimate, Kol wanted to swell the ranks of his burgeoning clan. As the war progressed, Kol began a tradition of honorable dueling -- inspired by his own rise to power -- that allowed combatants deemed worthy by Kol to choose the path of a Foundling over their death. Few accepted, but those that did lived on to become legendary Mandalorian warriors in their own right.

Two notable individuals who joined Clan Dragr via battle adoption were Tigranes and Jacarys. Tigranes was a hulking warrior, almost inhuman in his brutish abilities, and a wielder of a massive warhammer. He fought fiercely against Kol, and when amnesty was offered, became one of Kol’s fiercest warriors. Jacarys was not as skilled as most at the sword but was a gifted craftsman and gunsmith. Soon Jacarys was learning the ways of beskar-forging and would become the first Forgemaster to come from Clan Dragr.

As the years wore on, Clan Dragr’s size swole from three to over fifty recruits from various worlds. As its population grew, so did the settlement on Cheravh, which had begun to grow from a settlement into a true Mandalorian fortress, named the Bloodfort by Kol. Soon enough came the first generation of the Clan that was born Mandalorian, rather than conscripted, and as the years passed Clan Dragr’s identity began to consolidate. Kol would pass as he lived, fighting for glory on the battlefield, and was succeeded as Alor by his son Ilyn. Ilyn would reign as Alor for several decades too before falling on the battlefield, another member of Clan Dragr taking his place as its leader. And so it would continue for several more centuries.

The First Fall | Mandalorian Excision
The Mandalorian Excision of 738 ABY was a brutal and decisive intervention by the Galactic Republic against the Mandalorian Clans, a preemptive strike to remove the Mandalorians as a competing galactic power in the wake of the Ruusan reformation.

Their attack was sudden and destructive, razing most of the Mandalore sector and other Mandalorian holdings without warning. Cheravh was one of those worlds, and in the brutal fighting Clan Dragr’s home of the Bloodfot was completely destroyed, as was a large percentage of the Clan’s fighting strength. In the wake of the Excision, what remained of Clan Dragr relocated to Norg Bral on Mandalore.

The Mercenary Days | Old Republic to Mandalorian Empire
Emerging from the Excision, Clan Dragr’s fighting strength was significantly weakened. Lacking wealth, an abundance of warriors, and their homeland, Clan Dragr turned to mercenary work in lieu of traditional raiding and crusading. Such activities would have been met with reprisal by the Galactic Republic at the time, a power that Clan Dragr could not withstand.

During these many centuries, greater emphasis was put on the individual warrior, and it became common practice for Clan members, once they had passed their verd’goten, to be encouraged to make their own way through the galaxy as a mercenary in an additional, informal right of passage. Sometimes this journey would be accompanied by a more seasoned Clan veteran who would act as a mentor, but more often new Clan Dragr warriors would embark alone.

These traditions encouraged independence and individualism, and hoped to decrease reliance on a home or Clan unit; a lasting effect of the Excision.

The Second Fall | Second Excision & Genocide
Under this system Clan Dragr existed for another millennia, earning a reputation for its bounty hunters and mercenary warriors. The clan never recovered to its post-excision size and as a result, remained a considerably smaller clan, and never played a large part in any Mandalorian conflict. Its decentralization meant that most of the time its Clan Alor couldn’t field even a small amount of warriors to a conflict.

Through this existence of largely galactic irrelevance, Clan Dragr was able to weather most storms thrown its way. But the decade of 850 ABY would prove to be a storm that even they could not hide from. The Second Mandalorian Excision was an event where much of Mandalore was ravaged by a chain of provoked natural disasters; Clan Dragr was evacuated, but with most of their fighting force offworld across the galaxy, the excision did not affect them too much.

In the wake of the excision, much of Clan Dragr was recalled from their mercenary journeying abroad back home to rebuild their Clan holdings. This was when the Sith Empire struck Mandalore, and a second razing and pitched siege ensued. Trapped on Mandalore, Clan Dragr was engaged in a fight for its own existence. But like the rest of their Mandalorian brethren, they could not withstand the overwhelming might of the Sith. Mandalore was sacked, and most of Clan Dragr was killed.

Post-Genocide
In the wake of the genocide, Clan Dragr was left fractured and on the brink of extinction. Their holdings were completely destroyed with Mandalore, as well as a majority of their Clan.

Though rumors would persist of active Clan Dragr members, the only confirmed and active member was Siv Dragr. Barely a fully-fledged warrior at the time of the genocide, it wouldn’t be until a decade and a half later that he would make an attempt at rebuilding the Clan.

Adopting two warriors, Volo and Obran, as brothers into his Clan, Clan Dragr slowly began to recover. Although it was still functionally extinct, the building of White Scar Post was a notable moment in transition where Clan Dragr finally had its own home for the first time since the genocide.

The adoption and raising of Sahan Dragr, in 881 ABY, marked the first time a new generation of Mandalorians were introduced to the Clan. It heralds the promise of a brighter future and recovery for Clan Dragr.

 

[Darth Strosius]

Siv Dragr

Very detailed and solid!

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