Backup Lago

A dwarf merchant reads the notice and shakes his head. "Carbarum gems? Ah suppose he's got iron gems and gold gems tuh. Aneh gud master of their trade knows carbarum beh a metal. 'e's mixing it up with diamonds."

In character, this wouldn't work because of the nature of dragonic creatures. A drake is a corrupted, tainted dragon. The small boy trying to ride it, assuming he managed to get on his back, would probably die of skin burns. As for a dragon, you know when a cat gets food on the top of its head and it flails around trying to shake it off so it can eat it? That's what it'd be like with a dragon. Out of character, it wouldn't work because you couldn't do dragon riding mechanically and the playerbase are very against it and have been for many years.

Pretty much that.

You answer your own question before asking it here. Raptorious and Googlesearch have a strong point on the ET being scared of diminishing the impact of dragons/the admins having such a tight ringfence on them so much that the things pretty much never get used: the all but extinct Dragaar are somehow more common. I think a lot of this confusion stems from dragons being tied up in the dragaar lore: nobody knows what's going on with them, nobody wants to touch them and nobody can because they're ringfenced, and everyone who can touch them goes for the more in-depth Dragaar instead. In fact, for the sake of clarity (as there's a lot of confusion) I'd actually remove the dragons themselves from dragonkin lore, leaving that as just Dragaar, Drakaar and the daemon shenanigans. Then I'd put the feral dragons into this lore as the most powerful species (but still needing approval from the top to use.) ET gets to do dragon attacks and the higher-ups can do their daemon-related magical events with dragaar without treading on each other's toes. tl;dr: Dragonkin isn't using dragons, just dragaar and daemons. Give them to Raptorious or at least take the ring fence off.

As someone who contributed heavily to the dragonkin lore and who came up with the Dragon/Dragaar split in the first place (before that all dragons were dragaar and known as dragons) I can't see where the issue is. The Dragon itself is a wild, non-sentient creature, albeit a highly intelligent one. Dragaar were created from dragons by a certain Daemon and they're the ones that talk, shapeshift and have great magical powers. The dragons themselves have no daemonic origin any more than wild cats originate from Metzli and pretty much no involvement with the Dragaar or the Daemons. It's completely possible for them to have a weaker subspecies, the wyrm. If anything, the only issue is redundancy: the dragon and wyrm serve the same role as flying, firebreathing feral lizard monsters. Even then I can see an argument for wyrms, as having them allows the ready slaying of wyrms while retaining dragons as a very high impact, nigh unkillable threat and keeping dragonslayers rare.

What are they now? Oh, you were talking about the Watyll thing. Not your fault in the slightest, and it was a good event. Viper authorised the event but I'm not sure if he authorised the death.

To be fair this is what the dragons were meant to be (dangerous feral flying lizards), hence the old dragons being reclassified as Dragaar. That being said, wyrms are something you could reasonably kill, whereas we were under strict instructions back in the day to keep the player ability to kill dragons to an absolute minimum (Watyll's dragon being slain by Kais in Anthos wasn't actually authorised), the appearance of which were meant to be a major catastrophe.

Exists in the original materials lore, just doesn't have a name.

Then I'll put it another way. New races aren't happening outright. However, let's, for the sake of argument, assume one does. If, by some incredibly improbable turn of events, the administration decides to implement a new race, then they will get the Lore Team to make it. They will put the best people LotC has on the job, they'll consult the community and they'll pull out all the stops. They'll make it original, creative, and the best they can possibly do. It doesn't matter if another idea is good, if it's not the best, it's not going to be the one that makes it. Is this that? The very best the combined efforts of LotC can create? Because if it isn't, then even if a new race slot did open up then something else would fill it. As a former Lore Master who was the server's second longest serving LM after the great Rittsy himself, I'm telling you you're wasting your time here, and if you think this is going to make it as a race you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. And if that's not convincing enough, you cannot fight the community on a new race. Rules you can force but lore? Lore can't be forced on the playerbase. Even if, again for the sake of argument, this did get implemented, if the community's against it it'll reject it like a body rejects a foreign organism. An OOCly unwanted race will be turned on, invaded, hunted and belittled in character until it goes extinct, just like the snow elves.

Did they axe the Kha? (I consider the halflings a race)

Speaking as a former Lore Master I cannot foresee a time, ever, where the server would have enough people for seven races and if it did the policy is as it always has been: expand the existing ones. If anything, we have too many at the moment.