Optimized Essence of the Dragon
By consuming the essence of the Dragon, you gain several boons:
Dragon Form: Gain a dragon form of your own design, supernaturally strong and durable, with secondary powers like weather manipulation or the ability to dig through stone. In this form, you can devastate armies and kingdoms. You can switch to and from this form instantly and partially manifest dragon parts in human form, though they will be less effective. Your powers grow with age, amplifying over centuries.
Immortality: You are immortal, requiring no food, water, or other sustenance, relying solely on your innate energies.
Superior Mind: Your mind is a bulwark against the fog of ages, with perfect memory and instant recall. Mind-based abilities and illusions are ineffective against you. Learning magic is easy, and your internal reserves are vast compared to mortals.
Durable Body: Your body is exceptionally durable, with scales that shrug off immense punishment and cause supernatural attacks to slide off or bounce back. Your bones, teeth, and claws are nearly indestructible.
Endurance and Stamina: You have extreme endurance and stamina, able to fight for weeks without rest. You do not feel pain but are alerted to any damage.
Regeneration and Resurrection: You regenerate steadily, returning to perfect health no matter the damage. Even if reduced to a skeleton, you will eventually recover. Mortals can only hope to disable you temporarily.
Elemental Power: Gain control over one or more elements, able to manipulate, control, and generate them along with sub-elements. Your elements can be tied to your biology, such as having volcanic rock-like scales and lava blood. You are immune to your elements and resistant to others.
Draconic Lordship: You have lordship over dragons and draconic creatures. They feel an urge to serve you as their sovereign unless they are more powerful. Optionally, you can be recognized as a dragon of royalty. Your spawn will always consider you their lord.
Reproductive Prowess: You have exceptional virility or fertility, capable of breeding with anything that has the proper sex organs. Gestation and birth are always successful, and the spawn are free of genetic flaws.
Creation of Dragons: You can bring other dragons or lower dragon-type creatures into existence, such as kobolds, dragonborn, wyverns, and drakes. The stronger the spawn, the longer it takes. All your dragon children are perfectly loyal and have genetic memories suited to various tasks. You can create half-dragons from anything you consume or copulate with.
Dragon Blood: Your blood is extremely powerful. By giving another mortal your blood, you impart a fraction of your might, enhancing their endurance, stamina, and vitality. They may develop draconic traits over time or become a dragon if they live long enough. Immersing them in a pool of your blood speeds up this process.
Treasure Sense: You can sense treasure, gold, and potential mates for miles, even deep underground.