Creature:Mountain Dragon

The Mountain Dragon is a winged humanoid reptile. It's culture and mythology denote the species as their god's chosen species, meant to spread their message across the Galaxy. That is, if they can decide what their message is. They're actually quite scatterbrained, and aren't very intelligent.

Creature
At first glance, the Mountain Dragon is a humanoid being with wings. At second glance, it's still a humanoid reptile with wings. It possesses a set pf horns, which allow it to charge at an opponent that threatens it. It's wings allow it to fly great distances, and probably help it get away from anything too strong for it to hurt. In battle they are mostly cowardly, and have very poor stats for fighting. They also have very poor stats for socialization as well, though they do like to pose. (Mostly because they're egotistical, and the fanfare that occurs during a pose makes them feel important.) Being carnivores, they scavenge for corpses often, and do not frequently hunt. Sometimes they'll steal food from another being's kill, and prompt that being to hate it.

Culture
The Mountain Dragons, being the egotistical idiots they are have coined an entire mythology of gods and stories. The most prominent of which is the belief in a so-called "Great Dragon". A dragon god named Dragi whom created the dragon species in his image, and chose them to spread his message. This prompted the dragons to create and build for the Great Dragon, believing that they would find favor with the Great Dragon forever. Then the Great Dragon died, and the Mountain Dragons either went insane, or simply forgot their purpose. After this they chose to become a space-faring empire, and spread the Great Dragon's teachings across the universe. Then they met a Zealot empire, and felt bad that someone had already stolen their gig; and thus they became party animals, using very few of The Great Dragon's teachings ever again. (Though they still believe that the Great Dragon will one day be reincarnated, they're probably just dense in the head.)

Aside from worship of The Great Dragon, they are also a very superstitious species, believing in Spirits and paranormal creatures from beyond the grave. They also believe that they can knock back a few alcoholic beverages with these spirits and have a party of the undead.

Their culture is very greedy and egotistical. Which leads some sects of their species to be thieves or pirates. This has prompted the Galaxy, and even the planets they inhabit, to hate them with a passion. Though they do have friends, they're not very close to each other. And the Mountain Dragon Empire quite frequently loses alliances. And then they lose colonies because their ex-best friends got sore after a Mountain Dragon captain stole their wife.

But moreso than any other belief or purpose, they want power. Power to destroy. Power to create. Power to do bad things to that girl sitting across the bar from you, but you know she's either married or seeing someone. That is their greatest aspiration. To become omnipotent, like the gods they worship, or like the vacuum cleaners they fear.

History
A lot of the Mountain Dragon's early history is shaky at best. Mostly because nobody cared enough to preserve any ancient records. In fact, they had a holiday for a while called "Burn The Priceless Artifact Day", where they would destroy artifacts from their past. But it is certain that they were once a Tribe species whom was often hated for the color of their skin. (Which is their explanation. The likely explanation is that they ticked off a tribe at a party and that tribe decided to kill them for it. Also is the fact that Mountain Dragons have no skin, instead having scales like a normal reptile.) Eventually they rose beyond all the other tribes and beat them at a few thumb wrestling championships until the Mountain Dragons were smart enough to Civilization. (There were countless tribal wars where hundreds of brave Dragon warriors were killed, but they maintain that the thumb wrestling was the bigger achievement.)

After bulding a few cities, they renamed their home planet "Tedra", which they say is "Dragon Planet" in their own language. In reality, they found the name on the back of a gum wrapper and liked it enough to name their planet after. Anyway, they had wars between each other for stupid reasons like not giving each other enough spice, or for not beieving in the right religion, etc. But they also fought for good reasons like the right to own a chicken for food, or for the right to drink on Sundays. Eventually someone won and unified the planet. No one remembers who exactly it was, but the documents say he smelled like hard liquor and baking soda.

And thus, they went into Space! Where they did. . . space stuff. Which is mostly bumbling around the galaxy looking for things to eat and steal. Then eventually, they found an empire of pure power. An empire that would give the Dragons ultimate power. The Grox! Being friendly to anyone better than them, the Dragons instantly sent out an alliance request, which was quickly shot down by The Grox. But the dragons wouldn't give up. So they completed missions for The Grox, they gave money to The Grox, they destroyed planets in the name of their new, dark gods -- The Grox. Eventually after a long and arduous journey, The Grox became their friends. And everyone else hated them. But with divine intervention *coughModcough*, they stopped being hated so much. Sorta. Anyway, from there on they had ultimate power. And for them, great power comes with great irresponsibility!