Hunter

Hunters are a race that were created by combining dragon DNA with…well, something else. The process used to create Hunters is a mystery to most, and if anyone knows the truth of it, then they’re not telling. When the amethyst dragons fled the destruction of their homeworld the gold dragon who was the emperor at that time hired the Hunters to track down and destroy the remaining amethyst dragons. When the amethyst dragons were gathering their allies to bring them to the world they had created, the Hunters managed to insinuate themselves into the refugees. The Hunters were the best of the best at what they did, and they knew how to play a long game. They started a religious movement, convincing those that knew them how very righteous they were. In the meantime they began the other half of their mission by secretly stealing into dragons’ lairs and smashing eggs or killing hatchlings. In time they began to spread lies about how dragons were evil beasts who desired nothing more than killing and destroying and therefore must be destroyed themselves. It was all too easy to make these lies stick to the increasingly reclusive amethyst dragons, and soon they had plenty of willing help as they continued to destroy the dragons’ young. While there were occasional battles versus adult dragons, their most common target remained the eggs and hatchlings. After many centuries of this their strategy was very nearly successful. The last living adult dragon, after the death of her mate who gave his life to allow her escape, took her last clutch of eggs and fled, using Wishes to hide her children in plain sight among the other races. Having made them as safe as she could, she turned towards vengeance, using all the resources of those of her kind who had died to wage a desperate war against the Hunters. A successful war except in one thing. She could not bring herself to kill the Hunter’s children, so she let them live. Many of those children perished, but a few survived. Unfortunately the Shadowstrike clan was infected by the Champion of Madness, and they made war on any Hunters who did not follow the traditions as they understood them. They destroyed all who would not join them, and then attempted to fulfill their mission to kill the dragons. They were destroyed by Headmaster Ryo Antairus. There is currently only one known pureblooded Hunter left alive and few know of the existence of this race, or of its passing.