Dragons

Mystics of Flame

While dragons have become very rare, they are well known about, for their immense power, nad flaming personalities. They were once plentifully across the world including Veskar, they have now been reduced to a fraction of their number, almost entirely due to the spread of the corporeals. They are the flying lizards of fire, and their incinerating wrath is well known, and feared, in the entire world.

Appearance

There are different types of dragons, but there are a few things they all have in common, they all have thick, scaly skin, long necks and tails, and big horns on their heads. They may also have smaller horns on other parts of their body, but this differs per type and individual. They have strong hind legs on which they stand, and they support themselves with their wings, which have claws on the middle digit, in order to provide grip. They all have big eyes, that are usually yellow, or orange, with large round iris's, that can see much further than any human eyes.

Types

Dragons can be divided into two main classes, and six types. There are four common dragons, and two greater dragons.

Common Dragons	Common dragons those that are the most plentiful, they are smaller than the greater Dragons, and there are four types.
Green Dragon	As their name suggests, green dragons come a variety of shades of green, from a dark spruce, to a more grey-green color, and everything in between. They are they most common type of dragon, and they are also the smallest. Their size ranges from that of a large elephant, to twice that. There are estimated to be around a hundred of them left on Veskar.
Red/Blood Dragon	The red, or blood dragon is named such for their deep crimson shades, they range from a reddish green, to deep red, and some of them also have stripes. They have the general body plan of a green dragon, but they are slightly larger on average, and their tail has a flat leaf-shaped tip, which they use to knock over enemies and objects while flying over them. There are slestimated to be a few dozen left on Veskar.
Blue/Water Dragon	The blue dragon, also known as the water dragon, gets its nickname from its aquatic nature. It is shaped to fit the water. Their legs are reduced to flippers, and their tails are flattened sideways, to allow them to glide better through the water. Their necks and bodies are also much more strealined, and their wings are shorter and more adapted to proper them through the water, which is further aided by the layer of slime that grows over their scales. Despite their aquatic adaptations, they can still lfly perfectly fine, although they struggle with long-term sustained flight. These all live in the sea, and their numbers are completely unknown.
Brown Dragon	Brown dragons are somewhat the back sheep of the dragon clan, they do not have wings, and they move around on four legs. They come in a wide color range, from yellow, sandy color, to dark brown shades of mud, and everything in between, they colorations help them blend in with their favorite environments, that of rocky, sandy places, and occasionally, mud pools. They are extinct on Veskar, but they can still be found on Armir, and the other landmasses.
Greater Dragons	There are two types of Greater dragon, the black and the white, some think they are simply the same type of dragon, and the two of them are merely the male and female versions of said type, but this isn't true. However, because they are both very rare, they are known to mate across their two types, which is quite uncommon among dragons. In this case the offspring will be either a full white or full black dragon.
Black Dragon	The black dragon is the largest of all dragons, they have exceptionally large wings and the longest neck-to-body ratio of any dragon. They also have notice fangs, and they often have in addition to their regular horns, and any potential extra horns, a single smaller horn on their nose, which is not seen in any other types.
White/Ice Dragon	The white dragon gets its nickname of ice dragon more from its appearance than association with the cold, in fact, these dragons are more often seen in warmer, humid climates. Their most distinguishing feature is their four wings, and their exceptionally rounded and elegant stature, they are slender, and they have a round membrane-like fin on the end of their tail. Their wings too are semi-transparent, with a slight blue hue.

Magic

Dragons have powerful magic, and as they get older and more experienced, their power grows, and so does their magic. Dragons have two main magics, fire breath, and transformation. These are actually the two main components of dragon power progression. The first , fire breath, is the one that spans most of a dragons life, and only once they have mastered this, can they attain their transformation abilities.
The flame stages allow the dragon to conjure flammable substances, and ignite them with the ignition gland on the roof of their mouths. Because they are conjured substances, they must obey the rules of conjuration, and they cannot stay permanently outside of the dragon's body.

Stage 1: Liquid Fire	The first stage is the one they discover when they are but tiny hatchlings, they aren't born with the ability to spew flame, but they quickly find this power as they get older, and start exploring themselves. Liquid fire starts as a light watery substance, that burns relatively cooly, compared to regular flames of course, and over time, as the dragon masters this ability, and becomes more flammable, more viscous, and it becomes hotter. The viscosity of the liquid is important because it allows for the flame to sustain ignition for longer, and it better sticks to surfaces.
Stage 2: Gaseous Fire	The second stage is the gaseous flame, it doesn't have as much range as the liquid flame, but it burns much hotter, and it is even able to melt metal, given enough focus and time. over the course of a dragons life, they learn to channel their gass in the optimal manner, making it burn more efficiently, and thus, much hotter.
Stage 3: Solid Fire	The final of the flame stages allows for the burning of a solid powder, creating a flame so hot, it can easily burn through most rocks and metals, the only metals armors capable of holding such a flame at bay for more than a few seconds, are Mithril and Jet plates, Mithril is able to keep from melting for up to three minutes of sustained exposure to a dragons solid flame, research has shown that the person inside the armor can only survive this process for no more than ten seconds, before they are cooked alive. As a much better thermal insulator, Jet is a more reliable option, it is able to withstand up to ten minutes of sustained fire, they arent used as armor tho, Dragon hunters use large, thin Jet shields. which they can easily hide behind. While this flame is the hottest of them all by far, it has only a very short range, and it burns so bright, even the dragon itself has trouble seeing what it is setting on fire.
Stage 4: Transformation	The oldest and strongest of dragons obtain the ability to choose a corporeal form, a single corporeal form, which they can transform in and out of at will. A dragon in their corporeal form is impossible to distinguish by sight alone.

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Social Life

Dragons are solitary, and only meet up to mate. They sometimes stay together, and they do also form long-term relationships, but for dragons that means meeting up with each other every few years, and not having children with any other dragons. They do stay around each other when they have hatchlings.

Reproduction

Dragons lay large smooth eggs, with thick shells, that can weigh up to twenty kilos. The collorations reflect the type of dragon that they will give birth to, and even the patterns on blood dragon eggs reflect the patters the dragon will later have. They can lay from two to five eggs at a time, and from the moment they hatch, it takes about twenty-five, to thirty years before they become fully independent. During this time, the male will stick around to make sure they aren't attacked, but the female will do most of the raising, when the children are old enough, they will each go their own ways.

The Greatest

Due to their rarity, there are only four known greater dragons who live on Veskar, on of them on the Mystic isle of Reianmye, one on the northernmost island in the sea of a thousand isles, another in the mountains of Quianmye, and the last on the volcano on Sekhanmye.

Living Habits

All dragons like to live in holes in the ground, but many of them in the modern day are associated with mountains, this is less due to their liking of those places, and more because the corporeals hunted them incessantly for the past few thousand years. Now, dragons generally live in caves, or they will make a burrow under the ground, water dragons still like caves, and they will find their underwater caves to live in.