[Reshy]

Hello, I wanted to ask a simple question, how well known are drakes in the Shadowrun universe?  What they are, how they work, and other traits.  I'm asking since I made a latent drake character recently and she got sprayed with ghoul blood during a run, and out of character the other players know she's probably a drake, but what about in-character?  How likely are they able to link ghoul disease immunity to being a drake?

[Sendaz]

Not getting turned after exposure is not automatically a sign of drakehood.

A shifter doesn't become Infected and a person could become a carrier (Run Faster, pg 141) without actually turning, and if they are still being nosy try making up a backstory about how this wasn't your first ghoul rodeo and that yeah you may be HMHVV positive because of it which should shut them up.
Plus as a bonus, nobody will steal your half-eaten lunch outta the van's cooler.

[Reshy]

Alright, but how well known are drakes in the shadowrun setting to begin with?  How common is the knowledge that they exist, and how common is the details about them known?

[Dwagonzhan]

After the Dragon Civil War, more people know about Drakes than before, but I wager they're largely mysterious.
Dragon society is relatively speaking, quite tiny and (deliberately) secluded from metahumanity. Drakes have no incentive to reveal themselves publicly, and those in the great dragon's "employ" (read: enslaved) obviously aren't saying anything.

[Reaver]

Alright, but how well known are drakes in the shadowrun setting to begin with?  How common is the knowledge that they exist, and how common is the details about them known?

They are known about, but that doesn't mean they are common knowledge either.

kind of like the Edo of Japan. (the original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands). There are people who know a lot about them, and then there are people who look at you cross eyed when you bring them up...

[Senko]

Can't you get very lucky and not get infected even if you get hit by ghoul blood?

[Reaver]

Can't you get very lucky and not get infected even if you get hit by ghoul blood?

There is a test you make (can't remember the rules off hand), if you pass, you dodged the bullet..... but it is a VERY hard test...

Like: "I Permanently burn Edge to pass" hard...

[Rosa]

I suppose it is with Drakes as it is with most Things magicial and mystical in the 6th World, what most people know comes from the media and the matrix, like with magic. so most people are likely to have either very inaccurate or incorrect information.

[dj-ork]

well personal in my game i would say that  if you have magic training or have made a in depth study of dragons you would know that drakes exsit but anything more than that would require either a arcana    or knowledge dragons check to she how much you know 

[Senko]

There's also the question of how common they are since their traits can apparently breed true.

[markc]

Is there a place where us new bee's can read about drakes?
MDC

[Reshy]

Is there a place where us new bee's can read about drakes?
MDC

Running Wild has the 5e ruleset for using Drakes and some background.  Clutch of Dragons and Dragons of the 6th World also has some information on Drakes.

[dj-ork]

don't forget howling shadows witch has a great section in it on drakes  as well as a more in depth way to handle drake powers

[markc]

Thanks Reshey and dj-ork for the info I will see if my friend has those books.
MDC

[Senko]

Oh I thought it was only howling shadows I'll have to take a look at running wild and  see if its woth getting.

EDIT
Drive thru RPG say's running wild is for 4th ed not 5th.