Modding:Sightglass Dino Lore
This is a lore document for Sightglass's (at time of writing, PLANNED) dinosaur race mod.
Intro
In the distant past, dinosaur-morphs were commonplace and dominated much of the wild areas outside of the at-the-time fledgling city of Dominion. With ravenous appetites for power, wealth, and pleasure, they carved out small fiefdoms lording over the smaller, squisher morphs. These dinosaur-lords would demand large tributes of food, treasure and slaves, threatening to flatten towns and cities if they did not receive absolute submission and satisfaction. The exact nature of their practices and the severity of the reign varied from place to place (and accounts vary greatly depending on the historian's feelings towards the dinosaurs).
Reign of the Dinosaurs
Large carnivores, such as theropod-morph dynasties, would terrorize their underlings into serving their every whim. Quickly conquering and subjugating neighboring areas, feeding their hunger with easily-exploited peoples, but not as concerned with keeping "spent" territory, these kingdoms built on plunder would grind their way through the forests and jungles through history, chewing up weaker areas while being eaten up by rivals on the other side in turn. At the time, the only real barrier containing them were the citadels of the large herbivore dinosaur-morphs. To any aspiring conqueror, even the smallest of those cities would be a enough of a prize to gather all others to their banner, and perhaps swallow the rest in turn. While there are records of these fortress-cities being conquered, it appears that in all cases the conquering carnivore king or queen would instead spend the rest of their life living in indolent indulgence, with their kingdom quickly disintegrating as their many, many offspring fought for power afterwards.
Herbivorous dinosaur kingdoms of the grasslands and deserts were reputed to be comparitively stable and gentle, especially compared to carnivores'. Pouring their wealth into grand public construction, the largest herbivore dinosaur families sought to gain prestige and loyalty through splendor, awe, and benevolence. Marvelous gardens, aquaduct and geyser-fed public baths, decadent brothels, luxurious palaces, and colossal amphitheatres were protected by high, unbreakable walls, promising safety and comfort in exchange for absolute obedience and loyalty. Despite their grandeur, it was not always grand. Competition between prominent sauropod, ankylosaur and stegosaur-morph families led to wild spending and mismanagement, while important infrastructure decayed from neglect. Rebellions over the resulting famines and disasters would be unceremoniously crushed, the dissenters exiled to the exposed plains and easy pickings for bandits.
Maniraptors and pterosaurs, smaller carnivorous dinosaur-morphs, rarely formed permanent settlements. Bands of roving maniraptor-morphs would frequetly splinter and diverge, reform and merge as they ravaged their way through jungles, woods and plains. Despite the large number of subspecies (or even perhaps because of it), raptor-morphs held a certain sort of camaraderie, and a shared contempt for "weak, soft" settled folk, so these bands were often composed of a wide array of different shaped and sized raptors. This allowed for a great deal of tactical flexibility in their raids, allowing them to attack effectively with different weaponry from many angles. Arriving in an area, they would extort the locals for "protection" by muscling out smaller isolated crews, while acting as little more than bandits themselves. Usually, they would stay only long enough to rearm, gather a load of food, and breed more raiders from the locals. Occasionally, the raptor-morphs would act as mercenaries and patrols for larger dinosaurs' kingdoms, in exchange for a steady supply of food, luxuries, weapons, and sex. These raptor enforcers would be given a very long leash and allowed to take liberties with how they operated (and liberties on how they treated their arrestees). Even so, as the crews grew, many would become dissatisfied and break off to return to freedom as a raiding horde.
Sexual Ceremonies
It seems it was a common practice the dinosaurs to sexually humiliate the subjects in seasonal ceremonies.
Large carnivores, such as the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex, would force their subjects to "sacrifice" some of their own to be used as sex slaves, discarded when they were too traumatised, stretched or pregnant to be any more fun. They would most commonly target virgins, and would even invade weddings to ravage the newlyweds. Another common practice would be to wage mock wars against their already-conquered territory over the most trivial (or imagined) of slights as an excuse for violent sexual excess. Tyrannosaurus-morphs would notoriously go into such "battles" with slaves worn as living cocksleeves or dildos, violating them in front of their village or tribe. Afterwards, the subjugated people would reenact their original surrender by ritually cleaning their master's "armor" and "weapons". What this meant was they were forced to lick clean the unfortunate slave's holes or cock, and to take turns to worship their master's cock or pussy (or both). The "lucky" one who happened to bring the tyrant to orgasm would be taken as the next slave, to be used for next year's "battle".
Herbivores such as the sauropod-morphs, seeing themselves as more gentle rulers, would smother tribute-slaves under their oversized breasts, testicles or buttocks, using them as living seats and footrests. Favored servants would have their orifices elasticized and genitals enlarged to massive proportions with magic potions, to satisfy their overlord's massive cocks or pussies without discomfort. Symbolically, this was supposed to represent the great burden of rulership, and the fact that only the titanic dinosaur rulers were both great and merciful to bear it. It seems that compared to the carnivores, they did not have any trouble finding "volunteers".
After a successful raid, the defeated villages would be gathered to watch the raptors party and fuck over a pile of loot. After they were satisfied with each other, they would then turn their attention to their captives, walking among them and bickering, taking some as slaves, taking others on the spot for some more sexual relief. Despite their disdain for the "weakness" of settled peoples, maniraptor-morphs seemed to have respect for strong opponents they fought. Occasionally, one or two captives who fought particularly skillfully or bravely would be picked out of the crowd and declared "contenders". Those chosen would be dosed with a unique potion, the "storm brew", that would bring them to a rut or heat similar to that brought about by exposure to an arcane storm. Surrounding the dazed captive, the raiders would dance, gyrate, moan, tease, whatever they could think of to entice them. In this state, they were given an offer: if they could resist falling to lust, the warband would forever leave that town alone. Almost inevitably though, their will would break and they would mindlessly breed with enemies. As a tool to erode defenders' morale, it seems to have been very effective. Whole towns, after repeated losses and becoming increasingly populated by raptors, would be absorbed wholesale. On the other hand, it seems that if the the "contender" managed to hold out, the raptors would keep their word and never again raid them. Several towns are noted to have gotten this protection, going untouched for the entirety of this period. There are even stories of bands of raptors coming by to pay "tribute" and politely ask to be bred by the Contender or their relatives. In other cases, raptor raiding parties would come to the aid of these towns against other threats, usually larger predatory dinosaur-morphs. In some cases a rogue raptor band would be singled out and hunted by others if they menaced these protected settlements. Several historic towns that would eventually merge into the city of Elis have stories gaining this protection, but this particular case seems apocryphal.
Section 3: Downfall
Despite being immensely intimidating and physically powerful, dinosaurs were slowly edged out by the rise of the dragons. Not only were the dragons able to match them physically, but they had powerful magic and the backing of the powerful Elder Lilin, Lisophia. Smaller morphs, sensing an opportunity and hoping the dragons' reign would be (at least physically) less brutal, rose up against the dinosaur-morph dynasties, or sabotaged . Losing influence and unable to trample over their subjects, the dinosaur
