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The Elder Dragons were ancient dragons of Dominaria whose vast power rivaled that of planeswalkers.

The chronologically oldest bit of Magic lore we have is that the Elder Dragons ruled the plane many millenia ago, until the Elder Dragon Wars, a conflict that shook the planes and killed most of their kind. The winners of the war spawned the Lesser Elders, who in turn became the ancestors of all dragons and drakes, while the losers were stripped of their wings, limbs and most of their power and became the Elder Land Wurms. Viashino are also descendants of them, altough it is unknown how.

There is some debate about how many Elder Dragons actualy surivived. We know for sure that the siblings Nicol Bolas, Chromium Rhuell, Arcades Sabboth, Palladia-Mors and their cousin Vaevictis Asmadi survived, but were there any others? Some (prerevisionist) lore says there where none, and that Piru was a Lesser Elder, but it seems unlikely that a race as powerful as the dragons could arise from 5 close relatives. It could be that the 5 Elder Dragon Legends where simply the most prominent of the survivors.

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