History Main / DragonAncestry

A subtrope of MixedAncestry and [[RealityEnsues the probable end result]] of an InterspeciesRomance. See also WereDragon, which is a common ability for those who are part dragon.

* ''Fanfic/FaerieTales''" The [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Gentry]] present in the [[GrimUpNorth harsh North]] all possess dragon-traits, explained by the fact they all possess dragons blood within their veins.

* ''Literature/WrongTimeForDragons'': [[spoiler:Victor]] is eventually revealed to have both dragon and human blood in him: his grandmother was pregnant with a child of a dragon when the latter was killed and she, raped by his killer and banished from Middle World. This becomes a plot point late in the novel, when he must decide [[spoiler:whether to become a full Dragon or a Dragonslayer--a human with the power to kill dragons for good]].

Dragons have gained a bit of a reputation for being able and willing to breed with just about anything, if not everything, leading to some interesting mixes (a reputation they often share with humans). Often this is because the dragon is capable of transforming into a human form for reproductive purposes. Sometimes you can get a DraconicHumanoid, other times you get someone who is otherwise normal, except for maybe a few off traits.

A subtrope of MixedAncestry and [[RealityEnsues the probable end result]] of an InterspeciesRomance. See also WereDragon which is often the most common ability of those who are part dragon.

* Issei Hyoudo from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' starts off only having a dragon sealed into his Sacred Gear, but after [[spoiler:dying and being resurrected]], he becomes a dragon/devil hybrid. Due to TimeTravel, it's confirmed that he will have multiple children by his haremettes: each of them part-dragon from their father's side while the other half would be an assortment of vampire, devil, fallen angel and Valkyrie depending on their mother.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Himegami is the daughter of the Yamata no Orochi of legend and Oosuo no Mikoto, who was the first prince of the Yamato Court. Thus, she's half dragon, though it only becomes apparent when she's angry. During which, [[UhOhEyes her eyes turns amber]] and [[http://readpanda.net/Maken-ki/23/36/ her pupils become slitted.]]

* Lizardmen from ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' claim to be descended from dragons.
* The Dragon Kingdom from ''[[LightNovel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' was founded by a dragon/human couple, meaning the descendant royal family have the ability to use WildMagic.

* Duncan from ''ComicBook/{{Firebreather}}'' is the son of a human woman and a male dragon. He's understandably not eager to learn how ''that'' happened.

* The [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Gentry]] present in the [[GrimUpNorth harsh North]] in ''Fanfic/FaerieTales'' all possess dragon-traits, explained by the fact they all possess dragons blood within their veins.
* In ''FanFic/{{Embers}}'', most of the Fire Nation has dragon ancestry to some degree or another; for most its distant enough that the only non-human traits they have are SupernaturalGoldEyes, but for Zuko and Azula ([[spoiler:whose grandfather is a dragon]]), they have claw-like nails that can only be filed with obsidian, more powerful [[PlayingWithFire firebending]] than is usual, and NoSocialSkills due to the conflict between their draconic and human instincts for how to interact with others. The reason that it isn't widely known is that Fire Nation keeps their draconic heritage a secret from the other nations, out of fear of being seen as animals or less than human because of it.

* Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's ''[[Literature/{{Cygnet}} The Cygnet and the Firebird]]'' has [[MeaningfulName Draken]] Saphier and his son Brand Saphier, descendants of a nameless desert dragon. They don't get anything cool from it other than the name; the sorcery comes from Draken's human mother's side.
* Almost everyone in ''Literature/{{Elcenia}}'' has dragon ancestry if you go far back enough, but all the interesting traits breed out in a generation or two. The [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary pages]] go into great detail on probabilities and such, but only the most obvious cases end up actually explored.
* The protagonist of ''[[Literature/TheElminsterSeries Elminster's Daughter]]'', Narnra Shalace, turns out to be the love-child of the archmage Elminster of Shadowdale and a shapeshifted song dragon.

* [[spoiler:Victor]] in ''Literature/WrongTimeForDragons'' is eventually revealed to have both dragon and human blood in him: his grandmother was pregnant with a child of a dragon when the latter was killed and she, raped by his killer and banished from Middle World. This becomes a plot point late in the novel, when he must decide [[spoiler:whether to become a full Dragon or a Dragonslayer--a human with the power to kill dragons for good]].

* Emperor Jimmu, the mythical first Emperor of Japan in Myth/JapaneseMythology, was the grandson of Otohime, the daughter of the dragon god of the sea Ryujin.

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* Crossbreed Priscilla in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' is a half-dragon (the only one known in the setting) and, as such, is of giant size and has a dragon tail. ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' implies the [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid other half]] is [[spoiler:Anor Londo god--specifically that her father is Gwyn's eldest son, who betrayed his family to side with the dragons]].

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', there are multiple Crests carried in noble bloodlines throughout the continent, in much the same way as the Holy Blood of Jugdral. They even come in major and minor types, and either allows the use of various extremely powerful weapons. [[spoiler:Only a few of the Crests are actually a result of draconic ancestry, and those are all carried by ''actual'' dragons. The reason there are so many Crest bloodlines is due instead to [[SuperhumanTransfusion blood transfusion]], like Naga's (see above). But [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade the Ten Elites and their leader Nemesis]] didn't get theirs peacefully--they murdered the Goddess and as many of her children as they could find to [[MainliningTheMonster infuse themselves with their blood]], and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild make corresponding weapons from their corpses]].]]
* Kharg and Darc in ''VideoGame/ArcTheLadTwilightOfTheSpirits'' are the twin sons of a forbidden union between Nafia, a human woman, and Windalf, a member of the Drakyr, a race of {{Draconic Humanoid}}s. Kharg is able to pass as a human (though a pair of wings sprout from his back at one point, terrifying everyone around him) while Darc has a small pair of horns and his skin is partially covered in scales.
* Shyvana from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is part human and dragon. Her humanoid form has bluish, scaly skin with claws. She can also turn herself into a wyvern.
* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the unnamed race of {{Horned Humanoid}}s commonly called the Qunari (or Vashoth) are stated to have draconic features. Their horns, for example, are dragon horns. One member of the race, Iron Bull, says he has some sort of unidentifiable connection with a dragon he fought. Further, there's a warrior class known as the Reavers who drink dragon blood to gain new abilities but over time develop dragon-like features. Whether there's some sort of connection between the Qunari and Reavers is unknown, but Iron Bull ''is'' himself a Reaver, and states directly that he never drank dragon blood, instead stumbling upon his abilities during training.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** There is some confusion in-universe as to what it means to be "Dragonborn" - to be blessed with the soul of a dragon by Akatosh, the Dragon God of Time. There are some suggestions that it can be passed down genetically, but other suggestions that one must be judged worthy or otherwise [[TheChosenOne chosen by Akatosh]] to gain the blessing.
** Certain bits of lore imply that some Imperials have distant [[SnakePeople Tsaesci]] ancestry. The Tsaesci are one of the [[{{Wutai}} Akaviri]] races and attempted to invade Tamriel in the late 1st Era. They were defeated and the survivors [[DefeatMeansFriendship incorporated into the Empire of the Reman Dynasty]]. They had significant influence on Imperial culture, especially the creation of the [[AncientOrderOfProtectors Blades]] (who were based on the Akaviri [[CreatureHunterOrganization Dragonguard]] and use Akaviri styled weapons and armor), as well as some of the vague {{Wuxia}} elements of it. They were also said to have left behind [[HalfHumanHybrid cross-bred descendants]], who are said to be "beautiful, if frightening". The Tsaesci also have a MultipleChoicePast, with various conflicting descriptions of them in the lore. Some sources don't mention them being snake-like at all, essentially being humans with some East Asian physical features, while others say that they were snake-people who couldn't even wear humanoid armor. It is implied that, like the Empire itself, the Tsaesci might have been a mixed-race polity.
* ''VideoGame/DragonMarkedForDeath'': The Dragonblood Clan -- to which the main characters belong -- imbibed the blood of the dying Astral Dragon Atruum, gaining superhuman abilities and a stigmata called the Dragon Scar.

* The ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}''
** Saber from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has dragon's blood thanks to the tampering of [[spoiler:Merlin]]. While she doesn't have any dragonic features, this does give her a massive mana reserve. It also gives her a weakness against anti-dragon weapons.
** Lancer from ''VideoGame/FateExtraCCC'' [[spoiler:aka Elizabeth Bathory]] has dragon blood due to the legends of her family supposedly having it and their family crest, which manifests on her as a Servant as gaining dragon horns, tail, wings (though she can hide the last at will), and a powerful sonic BreathWeapon.
** The Sabers of Black and Red from ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' both have dragon's blood. In Saber of Black's case, it's because he's [[Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}} Siegfried]], who bathed in the dragon Fafnir's blood after killing him, which paradoxically gave him the defenses of a dragon along with [[TheDragonslayer increased effectiveness against dragons]]. While he doesn't have draconic traits normally, ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' shows he can grow them with time if he taps into them. As for Saber of Red, [[spoiler:she's Mordred, the child/clone of King Arthur/''Fate's'' Saber, which means she inherited the same dragon blood of her "father".]] Later on, [[spoiler:the homunculus Sieg also gains dragon's blood due to incorporating the heart of Siegfried into his body, and he can take the "dragon features" to the point he ''becomes'' [[ScaledUp the dragon Fafnir]].]]

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':

** Played for laughs with the Snail, which, as a joke on the template system for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' third edition, is a half-dragon...as well as being [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot half-troll, fiendish, lycanthropic and vampiric]]. All of which, since templates add to a monster's effective level, makes it Challenge Rating 14, putting it on par with a full-grown black dragon and superior to a [[SandWorm purple worm]], despite it still being a ''snail''.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Darken}}'', Mink and her brothers are {{Demihuman}}s with the blue dragon Silvador for a mother. It gives them patches of blue scales, CapeWings, [[ShockAndAwe lightning breath]], and, for the youngest brother, an often-mocked case of FantasticRacism against mere humans. [[spoiler:Mink has a daughter by Gort in the epilogue, adding some [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archdevil]] blood to the mix.]]

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' is a dragon on his mother's side. In the show, dragons are shapeshifters between dragon and human form, and protect magical creatures living among humans. His maternal grandfather and little sisters are dragons as well. His mother is ''[[MuggleBornOfMages not]]'' -- the SuperpowerfulGenetics [[RecessiveSuperGenes skips a generation]] in their family.
* The entire Garmadon family of WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}} has not only Dragon blood, but Oni blood too. Wu and his nephew Lloyd take more after the Dragon side, whereas Garmadon himself (Wu's brother and Lloyd's father) has more Oni tendencies.

* Issei Hyoudo from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' starts off only having a dragon sealed into his Sacred Gear, but after [[spoiler:dying and being resurrected]], he becomes a dragon/devil hybrid. Due to TimeTravel, it's confirmed that he will have multiple children by his haremettes: each of them part-dragon from their father's side while the other half would be an assortment of vampire, devil, fallen angel and Valkyrie depending on their mother.

** The Sabers of Black and Red from ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' both have dragon's blood. In Saber of Black's case, it's because he's [[Literature/Nibelungenlied Siegfried]], who bathed in the dragon Fafnir's blood after killing him, which paradoxically gave him the defenses of a dragon along with [[TheDragonslayer increased effectiveness against dragons]]. While he doesn't have draconic traits normally, ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' shows he can grow them with time if he taps into them. As for Saber of Red, [[spoiler:she's Mordred, the child/clone of King Arthur/''Fate's'' Saber, which means she inherited the same dragon blood of her "father".]] Later on, [[spoiler:the homunculus Sieg also gains dragon's blood due to incorporating the heart of Siegfried into his body, and he can take the "dragon features" to the point he ''becomes'' [[ScaledUp the dragon Fafnir]].]]

* Saber from VisualNovel/FateStayNight has dragon's blood thanks to the tampering of [[spoiler:Merlin]]. While she doesn't have any dragonic features, this does give her a massive mana reserve. It also gives her a weakness against anti-dragon weapons.

* Issei Hyoudo from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' will have multiple children by his haremettes. Each of them will be part dragon from their father's side while the other half would be an assortment of vampire, devil, fallen angel and Valkyrie depending on who was their mother.

** The ''Unearthed Arcana'' 3.5th splatbook adds the bloodline rules describing creatures with various ancestries, among which all the chromatic and metallic dragons are possible. Presumably, the various degrees of bloodline falls in-between the diluted ancestry of most sorcerers and the direct ascendance of half-dragons (thus, second, third or fourth generations removed from the full-blooded dragon).

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** 3rd Edition D&D eventually added a whole creature subtype for beings descended from dragons - the dragonblooded - with access to unique dragon-themed feats and {{Prestige Class}}es (including wings and {{Breath Weapon}}s). While Sorcerers are ''not'' automatically dragonblooded, they can trade away some of their normal abilities in order to count as such.

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** Enor the bounty hunter is the son of a half-ogre and a blue dragon.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' is a dragon on his mother's side. In the show, dragons are shapeshifters between dragon and human form, and protect magical creatures living among humans. His maternal grandfather and little sisters are dragons as well. His mother is ''[[MuggleBornOfMages not]]''--the SuperpowerfulGenetics [[RecessiveSuperGenes skips a generation]] in their family.

* The Dragon Kingdom from ''[[LightNivel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' was founded by a dragon/human couple, meaning the descendant royal family have the ability to use WildMagic.

* Lizardmen from ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' came to be descended from dragons.

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* The protagonist of ''[[Literature/TheElminsterSeries Elminster's Daughter]]'', Narnra Shalace, turns out to be the love-child of the archmage Elminster of Shadowdale and a shapeshifted song dragon.
* Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's ''[[Literature/{{Cygnet}} The Cygnet and the Firebird]]'' has [[MeaningfulName Draken]] Saphier and his son Brand Saphier, descendants of a nameless desert dragon. They don't get anything cool from it other than the name; the sorcery comes from Draken's human mother's side.
* Almost everyone in ''Literature/{{Elcenia}}'' has dragon ancestry if you go far back enough, but all the interesting traits breed out in a generation or two. The [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary pages]] go into great detail on probabilities and such, but only the most obvious cases end up actually explored.

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* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' is a dragon on his mother's side. In the show, dragons are shapeshifters between dragon and human form, and protect magical creatures living among humans. His maternal grandfather and little sisters are dragons as well. His mother is ''[[MuggleBornOfMages not]]''--the SuperpowerfulGenetics skips a generation in their family.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' both the Hoshidan and Nohrian royal families are descended from the First Dragons, which allows them to use Dragon Veins, and the Avatar in particular is capable of transforming into a dragon as a result of [[spoiler:Anankos, a big-name First Dragon, being their birth father]]. Kana, being the Avatar's child, has the same ability.

* [[spoiler:Victor]] in ''Literature/WrongTimeForTheDragons'' is eventually revealed to have both dragon and human blood in him: his grandmother was pregnant with a child of a dragon when the latter was killed and she, raped by his killer and banished from Middle World. This becomes a plot point late in the novel, when he must decide [[spoiler:whether to become a full Dragon or a Dragonslayer--a human with the power to kill dragons for good]].

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* The entire Garmadon family of WesternAnimation/[[Ninjago]] has not only Dragon blood, but Oni blood too. Wu and his nephew Lloyd take more after the Dragon side, whereas Garmadon himself (Wu's brother and Lloyd's father) has more Oni tendencies.

** Certain bits of lore imply that some Imperials have distant [[SnakePeople Tsaesci]] ancestry. The Tsaesci are one of the [[{{Wutai}} Akaviri]] races and attempted to invade Tamriel in the late 1st Era. They were defeated and the survivors [[DefeatMeansFriendship incorporated into the Empire of the Reman Dynasty]]. They had significant influence on Imperial culture, especially the creation of the [[AncientOrderOfProtectors Blades]] (who were based on the Akaviri [[CreatureHunterOrganization Dragonguard]] and use Akaviri styled weapons and armor), as well as some of the vague {{Wuxia}} elements of it. They were also said to have left behind [[HalfHumanHybrid cross-bred descendants]], who are said to be "beautiful, if frightening". (The Tsaesci also have a MultipleChoicePast, with various conflicting descriptions of them in the lore. Some sources don't mention them being snake-like at all, essentially being humans with some East Asian physical features.)

* Much of the lore in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' states that some Imperials have some distant Tsaesci ancestry. No Tsaesci have appeared in any of the games, but they are believed to a race of vampire serpents. They had a profound influence on Imperial culture and are responsible for the vague {{Wuxia}} elements of it.

* Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's ''The Cygnet and the Firebird'' has [[MeaningfulName Draken]] Saphier and his son Brand Saphier, descendants of a nameless desert dragon. They don't get anything cool from it other than the name; the sorcery comes from Draken's human mother's side.

* Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's ''The Cygnet and the Firebird'' has [[MeaningfulName:Draken]] Saphier and his son Brand Saphier, descendants of a nameless desert dragon. They don't get anything cool from it other than the name; the sorcery comes from Draken's human mother's side.