MY DRAGON LAIR

Dragons begin life inside of eggs. Where the eggs are laid depends on the kind of dragon. For example, the egg of a black dragon must be kept in strong acid. The egg of a white dragon must be buried in the snow. The color of the eggs match the color of the dragon who laid them. A mother dragon will lay a clutch of two to five eggs in a nest in her lair.

A young dragon is called a wyrmling. The wyrmling hatches from the egg, fully formed. At first they appear tiny and helpless. Their bodies are wet from the liquid inside the egg. After an hour, the wyrmlings dry off and they are able to fly. Wyrmlings inherit a vast amount of knowledge from their parents. Flying, hunting, reasoning-- it is all the instinctive and hereditary.

A newly hatched wyrmling is small-- no larger than a cat. Its instincts are to hunt for food and find a lair where it can live. For the next five years, the wyrmling will grow and learn. A dragon becomes a fully mature adult after about a hundred years. At the end of this entry, there will be a chart to show the age range of various stages of a dragon's life.

Dragons can live for more than a thousand years. Even an old dragon is still very active, and sometimes even more dangerous. Only when it reaches the great wyrm stage of its life do its body and mine finally stop developing. The dragon at this age is at the peak of its physical, mental, and magical abilities.

Age ................................................................ Dragon

0-5 years ....................................................... Wyrmling

6-15 years ..................................................... Very Young

26-50 years ................................................... Juvenile

51-100 years ................................................ Young Adult

101-200 years ............................................... Adult

201-400 years ............................................... Mature Adult

401-600 years ............................................... Old

601-800 years ............................................... Very Old

801-1, 000 years ........................................... Ancient

1, 001-1, 200 years ...................................... Wyrm

1, 200 + years ............................................... Great Wyrm

Dragons have a range of indredible natural weapons that they can use at any time to incapitate their enemies. Dragons are built for combat. 

BREATH WEAPON

The most exciting is the dragon's breath weapon. The type of weapon is different from dragon to dragon, ranging from the chlorine gas of a green dragon to the slow gas from a copper. To use this weapon, a dragon takes a deep breath. If a dragon has enough chemicals in its lungs, then it can immediately blow out the breath weapon onto its victims.

DRAGONFEAR

I've only heard of this natural weapon. Dragonfear turns your muscles to ice, sends your heart racing, and makes your stomach feel as if it's clutched by a vice. It sounds fascinating... NOT!

MAGIC

Dragons are born with a natural talent for spellcasting. The spells they cast depend on their own unique personality. No scholar knows exactly how they come by this magicaal ability, but one day, someone will find out.

Dragons love to hoard treasure. Some believe their love for treasure is similar to a kender's instinct to hoard bright, shiny objects. At any moment a dragon will know the exact contents of its treasure pile and exactly how much its worth. Wow, I wish I could do that.

Dragon Food

Dragons aren't picky eaters. They mostly like to eat meat - including kender, humans, dwarves, an eleves! But anything (including rocks and dirt) will do. They can easily eat more than half their own weight (unlike some people XD) in meat every day. Best of all, they never worry about getting fat. (Damn them... I want to be a dragon!)

Dragons are usually very solitary creatures. I don't know how they stand it, but hey I have to agree with them. Dragons prefer their own company, and they often live alone in their lairs. The only exception might be when they are mating or perhaps raising wyrmlings. Although it has happened, it is very rare for dragons to unite and fight together against a foe. That is why you will usually encounter one dragon at a time... If only they were real... Well then again, maye they are. Dragons sometimes fight one another, most often treasure, lairs, or mates. 

Many people think that dragons are just oversized lizards. Well I'm sorry to say to those that thought this, but you are so WRONG! There are many differences between the dragon and lizard. The lizard is a far more inferior species. They do not live to be hundreds of years old, as a dragon does. They do not have wings, as a dragon does. The thing that the lizard doesn't have the most is the sheer power and intelligence of the dragonkind. There are other differences as well. At first, many people thoughtthat dragon wings were like a bird's wings. However, when some looked even closer (which is the hardest thing to do!), they saw that the dragon's wings were more of a resemblence to a bat's wings. Bats, you see, have very long fingers, which form the frame of the wing. I'm sure you know that the fingers are actually visible. The wings of a dragon are very much the same.The tail of a dragon has three or more uses. The first use is to help the dragon steer as it flies through the air. The second use is to propel the dragon through water when swimming. The last use is to be the perfect weapon for combat or battle. A dragon's body is covered with hundreds or thousands of hard scales, as I'm sure you know. The scales work like a suit of armor, overlapping each other to protect the body beneath. The scales continue to grow and multiply as the dragon grows and matures. The scales never fall off, and the dragon never sheds its skin. The dragon's foot has three or four toes facing the front and one facing sideways, kind of like the human thumb. The toes are topped with very, very sharp claws. A dragon can grasp objects, including wands and weapons, with its feet. A dragon has a very strong jaw and sharp teeth. The amount of teeth it has depends on its age and what it eats. All the dragons have two fangs on the top jaw and two fangs on the bottom jaw. As you can probably imagine, the fangs are extremely sharp and perfect for piercing the hide of a dragon's prey. A dragon's horn can serve many functions. Horns that point back from the head can be used for grooming. Other horns are used for defense, beware of the horns. A dragon's spine sticks straight  up along the dragon's back and tail. It is attached to the dragon's spine skeleton. Spines can also move. Although sturdy, they are not as hard or sharp as the dragon's horns.