Dragonbone Crafting

"Oh, that is a beautiful shield, even if it is a bit of an odd shape for one."

"It's made of dragonbone. If dragons were anything like other animals in their skeletal structure, that shield likely has a twin made from the other scapula."

Where one would imagine bones to be brittle and a weak material to create armor or weapons with, a true craftman can take their knowledge and work the bone into those.

Origins

Desperation, or a desire to mock one's enemies, saw the rise of people taking the parts of a dragon's skeleton and turning the bones into armor or weapons.
It is believed a Bone Weaver took the bones of a fallen dragon and put them to use. When others saw what they were doing, the weaver found themselves surrounded by others wanting to learn the same.
At first, records describe the bones as being brittle despite the skills of a bone weaver, until a blacksmith tried to use their own skills over low heat. The combined skills created the dragonbone crafting trade.
As dragon hunts brought dragons to extinction, the availability of bones dwindled until the exact skill for arming and armoring with dragonbone fell out of living memory. Only a few written texts and half-remembered phrases remain, despite the modern interest in exploring the ability to craft using other bones and smithing.
Scholars puzzle over written records describing the process, and note the steps seem to assume certain pieces of information. Currently, they believe the bones themselves had some kind of ability allowing for them to be crafted, but have no idea what the ability would be.

Related Items

• Dragon-Slaying Equipment

Related Species

• Dragons