Tarasek

Tarasek
Faction/Affiliation	Primalists, Embertooth, Independent Formerly: Sundered Flame, Neltharion, Dragonflights
Character classes	Conjurer, Elementalist, Hunter, Scout, Shaman, Warrior
Racial leader(s)	Various pack leaders
Homeworld	Azeroth
Area(s)	Dragon Isles
Language(s)	Draconic, Common

Tarasek are dragonkin native to the Dragon Isles. They are highly adaptive, peerless hunters able to channel elemental energies. Their physiology depends on what force, if any, they were infused with. Neltharion considered them little more than fodder and targets for the training of the dracthyr. But they are cunning hunters, unpredictable and wild, and deadly when encountered in packs. Recently, they have been gaining elemental power from the Primalists, becoming even more dangerous.

Like many creatures of the Dragon Isles, the tarasek bear limited draconic traits yet are believed to have evolved independently of the primal dragons. Originally, the tarasek lived a rustic and wild existence that lacked the defined social structures of their respective dragon allies.

Over twenty thousand years ago, the original drakonid were transformed from tarasek, uplifted by the Dragon Aspects in the same manner that the titans uplifted proto-dragons into dragons.

Background

War of the Scaleborn

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Over 20,000 years ago, Fyrakk was the first proto-dragon to speak up against the titans and dragonflights, and the first to imbue himself with elemental magics and become a Primal Incarnate. He was also the one who rallied an army of proto-dragons and tarasek, forming what would become the Primalists. Many tarasek were driven to the cause of Iridikron as he spread false rumors and propoganda that the Dragon Aspects were abducting legions of tarasek to transform into subservient drakonids.

When the black dragon Ikronia fled the Dragon Isles to ask help from her brother, Iridikron, he tasked her with burning down mortal villages so that mortals would come to fear ordered dragons and flock to the Primalists to fight them. The two slaughtered tarasek for fifty summers. Eventually, during an attack on a tarasek village on the Forbidden Reach, Ikronia was spotted and captured by black dragon patrols. Thousands of tarasek died during the war.

Despite this, some tarasek still sided with the Aspects against the Primalists. All tarasek that sided with the Aspects were eventually turned into drakonid. To serve the Aspects, they must be accelerated through Order magic to evolve into the various drakonid forces.

Dragonflight

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When the Primalists invaded the Stormsunder Crater at the Forbidden Reach, they began to recruit the vicious tarasek to their cause. As the dracthyr headed out to rescue their allies, Scalecommander Azurathel directed his forces in thinning the numbers of tarasek in the area.

In the Primalist Future, a potential future where the Primal Incarnates have won the war against the Dragon Aspects, some tarasek could be seen among the Primalists forces.

Culture

They tend to hoard things like trinkets and trophies by the dozens.

In Thaldraszus, tarasek use a poisonous sap on their spears which they harvest from venomsprouts.

Known

Bonesifter Marwak, a tarasek in elemental armor.

Named

• Bluescale
• Ketess the Pillager
• Bonesifter Marwak
• Sparkspitter Vrak
• Tikarr Frostclaw
• Vraken the Hunter

Types

• Awakening Tarasek
• Brimstone Conspirators
• Brimstone Scavengers
• Careless Harvesters
• Embertooth Harvesters
• Embertooth Pooltenders
• Embertooth Scavengers
• Embertooth Spearhunters
• Embertooth Vinewranglers
• Ferocious Tarasek
• Flashfrost Tarasek
• Fused Tarasek
• Icebound Tarasek
• Infused Tarasek
• Magmaclaw Raiders
• Primal Tarasek
• Primalist Worshippers
• Prime Tarasek
• Rimetalon Brawlers
• Rimetalon Conjurers
• Rimetalon Spellflingers
• Ritual Guardians
• Ritual Scouts
• Tarasek Elementalists
• Tarasek Laborers
• Tarasek Shockbringers
• Tarasek Shockshaman
• Trueborn Rainmakers
• Trueborn Tempest-Warriors

Notes and trivia

• The tarasek are treated remarkably poorly by almost all of dragonkind for seemingly little reason. The Primalists had no issues slaughtering thousands of Tarasek and blaming the Aspects in order to rally survivors to their cause. Neltharion is noted as seeing the tarasek as worth less than mortals. Throughout Dragonflight, they are treated as unintelligent scavengers by the other dragonkin, often removed from areas they dwell in for the sake of being in the way.
• They have the same animations as male worgen, dragonman, and saurok. They also use the same combat sounds as saurok.
• Their species name may be a reference to the Tarasque, a dragon-like legendary creature from the region of Provence in southern France. In Dungeons & Dragons, the tarrasque is a notoriously powerful and destructive monster.

Gallery

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  Tarasek concept art.

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  Vraken the Hunter

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  A tarasek in The Dragonflight Codex.