The Greater Dragons played a critical role in the War of Humanity by bearing the forces of the Aldar to rescue the Gods from destruction at Nishnatoba. Unlike their lesser dragon cousins, Greater Dragons are a noble race and able to cleave time-space to reach their misty, mountainous home of Parthren Gare, created for them as their own plane of existence at the end of the Chaos Wars. Normal mortals are unable to travel to this plane, as they are physically incapable of piercing the veil of reality the way Greater Dragons do.
The spirit of a red, black, silver, gold, blue, or green Greater Dragon is gifted to adventurers upon reaching the 99th circle of experience by Ashaxei, the white dragon of the Aldar Dragonmaster Han-Tolneth. Falling below the 99th level will cause the adventurer to lose the spirit - and all benefits attributed - until this milestone is aon again achieved.
In 317 AF, Aringar Claros became the first mortal to attain dragonhood; now, over 100 adventurers have succeeded in achieving this lofty goal.