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Dragonborn is a race of draconic humanoids originating from the pen and paper role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons.

The dragonborn of Dungeons & Dragons typically sport approximately human-sized heights, non-mammal breasts for the females, no tails, and head spines resembling dreadlocks.

They started off life in the D&D series as good-aligned and non-draconic humanoids who, upon rebirth, willingly took on draconic traits as a show of devotion to their patron god Bahamut. They became a playable race beginning with 4th edition, though whose origins are unknown and varied. But when taking magical creation and lack of tails out of the picture, a dragonborn becomes near-interchangeable from a half-dragon.

Not to be confused with

• The Dovahkiin, the hero of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, often referred to as "(the) Dragonborn".
• A kobold or lizardfolk, with the former race essentially being made up of shorter draconic humanoids and the latter race usually having little to no relation to the dragon species.

See also

• Forgotten Realms page about the Dragonborn race