Emperor Dragons

Emperor dragons are a danger on battlefields where many Imperials have fallen, as the creatures are created from the fused bodies of dead Imperials. Because they are made of deceased Imperials, they are not a separate breed of dragon and cannot procreate. Some specimens are known to have reached over 100 meters in length and are known to have duplicate body parts. These ghastly behemoths are believed by dragons to be mindless monstrosities. However, as seen in the lore story Raising A Family some, if not all, Emperor heads may actually retain some memories and thought, however simple and warped it may be.^[1] The amount of sentience the Emperor has may very well depend on how decayed it is.

Emperors may possess up to 11 heads - the larger the Emperor, the more heads it will possess. Each head is capable of wielding the element of the dragon that spawned it. These monsters destroy without thought and absorb elemental energy from the creatures and landscape surrounding it. Emperors are not to be trifled with. It may take the combined efforts of many clans to bring down an aberration of this magnitude; these dangerous opponents are one of the few creatures that may draw the gods from their shrines and onto a battlefield.^[2]

Emperors are insatiably hungry and this hunger is what pushes them to go after other dragons. They do not recognize dragons as the species they once were and only see them as prey to be hunted.^[3] They are a force to be reckoned with, requiring many dragons to battle a single Emperor and, as indicated previously, they are mighty enough to do battle with the deities themselves. Much of the Imperial breed's lifestyle seems to revolve around not accidentally creating an Emperor - including social habits and how they treat their dead. Though most Imperials seem painfully aware of what could happen to them when they die, other breeds seem oblivious to the threat, since they consider the treatment of the sick and the burial rites among Imperial dragons something of a mystery.

Currently, there is no given explanation as to how or why the bodies of dead Imperials fuse and transform into Emperors.

Trivia[]

Though the existence of Ancient Breeds allows multi-headed dragons to exist (such as the Aberrations), Emperors do not, and will never, count as an Ancient breed.^[4]. Emperors will never be an obtainable "breed" for players to have in their lairs.^[5]
The description of Emperors states that they can have up to eleven heads.
- This implies that each head of an Emperor may have to be a different element, which in turn implies that dead Imperials of the same element, no matter how many, cannot form an Emperor with each other. However, the existence of same-element headed Emperors has not been confirmed or denied by the developers.
- Emperors almost always have four or more heads. Less than that and the bodies usually just don’t have the energy to fuse.^[6] Luminax seems to be an exception to this rule, as it has three heads instead of four.

The first depiction of an Emperor on site is from the official lore story Raising A Family. It is written from the first-person perspective of one head of an Emperor, Luminax. It has only three heads total: Wind, Fire, and Light.
- This same Emperor can be seen on the world map in Light Flight territory. This is the first official visual depiction of an Emperor on site.
Luminax does not appear to have hind legs. This may imply that Emperors' body parts can completely rot away over time.
Many players hope that Emperors may be added to the Coliseum, perhaps as a boss battle or a community battle event.
The fact that any dead Imperial may spawn an Emperor has given rise to many head-canons about clans dealing with their dead Imperials, including cremation, dissection, sealing them in caves deep underground, throwing them into the ocean, etc.
Attempting to use a breed change scroll on an Emperor would not work, as Emperors are no longer living dragons. Scrolls work on dragons who are alive and active on Sornieth.^[7]
The admins featured a collection of Emperor fanart on a Words on the Wind.

References[]

[1] ttp://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=101

[2] ttp://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=29

[3] ttp://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=101

[4] ttps://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/2666099#post_38559441

[5] ttps://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/1327998/28#post_10688090

[6] ttp://undel.tumblr.com/post/90651058102/headcanon-time

[7] ttps://www1.flightrising.com/forums/ann/2946934

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