To many in Aedelor, lohiken were a reminder of a time when dragons dominated much of the world. Attitudes towards them varied wildly between fear, distrust, respect, and reverence. Lohiken proudly bore the similarities with their draconic origins despite the animosity it sometimes brought them. Their proud, hearty, and clever nature made them one of the most populous and politically powerful ancestries in Aedelor. They were often called dragonkin by the non-draconic-speaking peoples of the world.

Lohiken bore a striking physical resemblance to dragons in many ways, though they stood erect on two feet and did not possess tails or wings. They generally stood taller than humans with heights of six to seven feet, and their overall build was larger than humans. They had dragon-like snouts and were entirely hairless, instead having frills, horns, or ridges upon their heads in a variety of shapes and sizes. Their eyes were reptillian-like: a solid colour with a vertical elliptical pupil, and may have been red, orange, yellow, or green. Lohiken skin colour could range the whole draconic gamut: from black as pitch to white as freshly fallen snow, or from striking silver to glamorous gold. Their skin was also covered with hundreds of small, smooth keratinous scales. Their feet had three toes with a rear dewclaw and their hands had three fingers and a thumb.

Much like their namesake, lohiken hatched from eggs. Very soon after hatching, a lohiken was capable of walking on its own, but was still vulnerable in many other ways. Lohiken were born with a full understanding of the draconic language, but it could take up to a year before they could speak; this was a byproduct of the genetic memories of dragons. They physically matured faster than humans and by the time they were fifteen, they would have reached their adult size and stopped growing. Many lohiken would develop the ability to exhale elemental powers in short bursts, very much like dragons could. Lohiken lived up to 100 years naturally and showed no visible physical signs of their age. However, lohiken past 70 would begin to suffer from diminished mental faculties.

A lohiken's skin colouring and features were not determined by their parentage, unlike dragons. Because of the nature of their creation, lohiken bore the ancestry of all dragon types, and their features were often an amalgamation of draconic features. For example, a lohiken may have had black skin but the long whiskers typical of a gold dragon. Their personalities, desires, and dispositions were not influenced by their colour or features unlike a dragon's.

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The Lohikapen sought a method of self-preservation in the face of extinction, using their souls to be reincarnated into a draconic-humanoid hybrid. They believed that by stretching the power of their souls, they could multiply their numbers tenfold while maintaining their memories, powers, and personalities.

Because their efforts culminated at the same time as the Withering, the Lohikapen's plans were inadvertently sabotaged. Instead of redistributing their souls across many hundred, the magical interference caused their souls to be redistributed across many hundreds of thousands. Because of this, their memories were lost save for an ingrained understanding of the draconic language. Their powerful magical nature as dragons was also severely diminished such that only a trace of their powerful elemental breaths remained. Their personalities and individualistic draconic features were not wholly lost but combined. The lohiken descended from the Dragonspine Mountains into Lohikdal, Lohikossa, and the Verdant Valley.

The mass migration was ill-received by most natives to the areas and within a few years most lohiken were forced to continue looking for a home. They migrated west across the Dala Desert and sailed across the Shimmersea, Emerald Sea, and Stormsea to settle Tizano and western Kamazar. In present-day Aedelor, the lohiken continue to hold dominion over these areas and have grown to be politically powerful people. Lohiken cultures are similar in many ways, but the degree of hardships they faced in their migrations, and the cultures they integrated with along the way, created new ethnicities to call their own.