Dragonlord

The Dragonlords were six of the most powerful dragons following the end of the Interregnum in the Shadow World history. In the middle of the Second Era they formed a cabal for the purpose of furthering the rule of dragonkind, reaction against the growing power of humanoid civilizations in recent millennia. With the aid of a famous Elven smith named Krelij, the Dragonlord Oran Jatar constructed the six dragon healms, artifacts which allows them to assume humanoid forms without sacrificing their strength. The Dragonlords are as innately powerful as Lords of Essaence.

The most powerful of their brethren disappeared beyond the Wall of Darkness for some unknown reason. The five dragonlords that remain are occasional rivals in spite of their loose alliance, and associate with other powers to further their own selfish agendas. As with all dragons they are highly intelligent, curious, violent, and have disdain for humanoid races. Their blood is caustic.

The Six Dragonlords

While the dragonlords tend to be somewhat "evil", they do not think in the same way as humanoids. Their power is tapped from Chaos, which is to say "negative" dark essence, but it is only indirectly from The Unlife. They are consequently independent of its corruption in a way even most of the Lords of Essaence were incapable, and some of them are even able to wield "positive" essence as well. It is not known whether the dragons existed in the First Era with the original humanoid race, or if they somehow came into being in the Interregnum when the Lords of Orhan (Liabo) repopulated the world.

Dragonlord	Color	Style	Home	Associates	Rivals	Other
Oran Jatar	White (Cold)	Intrigue	Mur Fostisyr	The Iron Wind	Sulthon Ni'shaang (brother), Lorgalis, Schrek	Artificer. Subverts civilizations rather than wield armies.
Sulthon Ni'shaang	Red (Fire)	Conqueror	Ja'Miil Targ	Voriig Kye	Oran Jatar (brother), Lorgalis, The Iron Wind, Schrek	Wields orcish hordes, summons demons. Lorgalis is his nemesis. However, he has tension with Oran Jatar, as the Priests Arnak undermine him.
Ulya Shek	Black (Sea)	Intrigue/Conqueror	Thuul	The Steel Rain, Jerak Ahrenreth, Jenkyna	Schrek, Folenn populus	Naval focus. Has a submarine fleet, a Lord of Essaence associate. Experiments on humanoids, makes demon hybrids of them.
Voriig Kye	Silver (Air/Electricity)	Intrigue/Conqueror	Vog Mur	Jerak Ahrenreth, Shu'raax	Ondoval/Schrek	Speaks to plants, wanders seas, relatively young. Assaulted Emer in Second Era with dragons. Good relations with other Dragonlords.
Drul Churk	Green (Gas)	Intrigue	Molaac Ruan	None	None	Cares about plants, not people. Focused on breeding. Three dragon mates.
Kydak Dum	Gold (Fire)	?	Vulm Shryac	None	Ondoval	Most powerful Dragonlord. Disappeared beyond Wall of Darkness.

Behind The Scenes

The Dragonlords Oran Jatar and Sulthon Ni'shaang were part of the immediate surrounding political context for Kelfour's Landing in the I.C.E. Age. Oran Jatar was based on a large island just northwest of Claedesbrim Bay (Darkstone Bay), and Sulthon Ni'shaang was in the volcanic wasteland that would have been northeast of Upper Trollfang. In the GemStone III specific story Ditmar's Tale, Oran Jatar makes an alliance with what are now called the krolvin of Glaoveln, which is part of the original backstory for the Council of Light. They were rivals with Lorgalis and each other. Lorgalis ends up frustrated in his quest to move south through Saralis slightly later in the timeline, and Sulthon Ni'shaang sends his orcish hordes instead into Zor against the weakened forces of the Order of Dansart.