Drakkin
A playable race introduced in The Serpent's Spine (2006), born of human and dragon blood — six rogue dragons created them to protect dragon kind, and they begin their lives in the abandoned ogre city of Crescent Reach in the Serpent Spine Mountains.
- Type
- Race
- Allegiance
- The Age of Scale — dragonkind
- Attested in
- EQ1
- Sources
- 22 texts
Overview
Drawn from On the Town of: Crescent Reach – 6/14/07 — official article.EQ1Primary · official · best available source
Overview of Crescent Reach
Crescent Reach is a city of stone built within a cliff face with a large crescent-shaped crevasse in its front, called The Hollow.
It was once an ancient ogre city called Nokk. When the Circle of the Crystalwing - the six dragons who defied the elders of the dragon's Nest to create a new race - sought a place to start a new race, they found the old city. It has now been adopted by the drakkin who have quickly made it their own. The drakkin culture shows in their organic items made with cloth, leather, plants, and colorful natural dyes that reflect their own vibrant colorings.
Main City Area
The main city area is fully equipped for your tradeskill and specialty needs. You'll find quest givers, tradeskill quest masters, tradeskill crafting objects, supply merchants for baking, pottery, jewelrcrafting, fletching, tailoring, blacksmithing, alchemy, poison making, research, tinkering and item augmentation.
The city also provides the basic necessities of adventuring: Bankers, a Soulbinder, a Tribute Master, and merchants that sell potions, backpacks, ale, bandages, food, drink, and fishing gear.
Guildmaster Hall
Official Lore
9Collected official lore pieces, from in-game and out.
SOE Announces The Serpent’s Spine™ Expansion For Everquest®
SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES THE SERPENT’S SPINE™ EXPANSION FOR EVERQUEST® Players Will be Introduced to the Drakkin, the First New Player Race in More Than Three Years SAN DIEGO, CA – July 10, 2006 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), a global leader in the online games industry, today announced EverQuest ® The Serpent’s Spine ™, a new expansion fo…
Read the full sourceDoNRaceBookDrakkin
In this book you will find a history of draconic armor making and the secrets that the Circle of the Crystalwing will share only with their children. The secrets are shared with anecdotes, and patterns that can be used to replicate the armor made by the dragons for their most faithful servants. The patterns in this book can be copied many times, but eventuall…
Read the full sourceCREMystranaCharter
We, the Drakkin and Scions of the Six, under the guidance of the Six, do establish this City heretofore named Crescent Reach: As the Children of Veeshan and the Six on Norrath, In memory of the Dragon's Nest which was defiled by a Curse, In recognition of the threat to Veeshan's bloodline on Norrath, Despite the objections of some, even those who are great,
Read the full sourceThe Master of the Scale
A small band of militant drakkin, appointed by the Circle of the Crystalwing in Crescent Reach, set off to Spine Peak and Ashengate Temple to reclaim Veeshan's Scale for all of dragon kind. The militants named themselves the Crusade of the Scale. Growing in numbers as they traveled, word of the militants soon reached Dyn'leth.
Read the full sourceDyn'leth the Dragonborn
When Dyn'leth reached maturity he changed suddenly and dramatically. It started in the evening. He was awakened by an itch. He scratched and tried to go back to sleep, but the itch persisted. It spread over his entire body and was agonizingly relentless. Dyn'leth dove into the clear waters of the shrine and scrubbed himself with ever increasing force.
Read the full sourceThe Shackle Spires and Vergalid Vol. II
…"We are drakkin, my lord, and we only just found you here," the fire-orange-haired creature spoke softly, as she looked back over her shoulder to reveal a number of drakkin of various colors. "It is our duty to serve and protect all of Veeshan's kind. We are here to keep you safe, though a great giant has trapped you here with magic.
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The Scale of Veeshan
…Only a short time ago, a band of drakkin set out to the mountains to reclaim the scale for all dragon kind. Their fate remains a mystery.
Read the full sourceTribes at War -- Minohten and Tuffein Satyrs
…When the drakkin arrived on the landscape soon after the Nest became corrupted by mortals, conflict arose among the Minohten. One group of satyr came to be led by Devan due to his convincing rhetoric that suggested they should kill any of this new race of drakkin on sight. Surely their arrival on the landscape was a threat to their existence.
Read the full sourceEmissary Tinnvin, Crescent
"Vasha, young $race. It would seem you have found your way to your new and true home. I'm sure by now you've all but forgotten your past awnd even how you arrived here in Crescent Reach – the diamond in the mountains. As our newest family member, I urge you to familiarize yourself with your city. You should visit your guildmaster at the bottom of this path.
Read the full sourceFurther sources
1Lore that mentions this in passing.
Community articles
11Fan-written encyclopedia entries — useful overviews, lower authority than the primary sources above.