A Practical Guide To Dragons Ebook Edition
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This is an eBook transcription/summary of A Practical Guide to Dragons. This book is filled with everything we've learned about dragons- the fearsome chromatics, the dazzling metallics, it's all here!
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The Blue Dragon
Chapter 4
| Max. Height | 16 ft. |
| Max. Weight | 160,000 lbs. |
| Max. Wingspan | 80 ft. |
| Breath Weapon | Lightning |
| Food | Camels, snakes, lizards, occasionally plants |
| Habitat | Desert or stormy sea shores |
| Enemy | Brass dragons |
| Favorite Treasure | Sapphires |
Blue dragons are much more talkative and outgoing than black dragons, but they still serve the cause of darkness jest as willingly. Blue tend to live in the desert. They stick out like a sparkling sapphire in gritty pebbles of sand. Blues are especially well suited to aerial combat, with or without a rider. In battle blue dragons do not issue fire or some other noxious vapor, as other dragons do. No, instead, from its mouth, the blue dragon shoots forth a bolt of lightning!
Distinguishing Features
A blue dragon has one very distinctive horn on the top of its head, and the horn actually has two sharp points. One point is at the top of the horn, and the other is slightly below it. Another distinguishing feature is the blue dragon's ears, which are frilled like a morning glory flower. A blue also has a thing, bumpy tail, much like that of a caterpillar, and its wings are more pronounced and batlike, with a claw protruding from the top of each.
- Smell like electricity or sand.
- The hide of a blue dragon tends to crackle and hum with built-up electricity. These effects intensify when the dragon is about to attack. The horn features as a good warning sign; when electricity starts to hum and arc over it, the discharge is soon to follow.
- Older blue dragons may have completely yellow or, rarely, green eyes.
- Most teeth protrude when mouth is closed.
- Ears can furl shut, nostrils can seal, and dorsal spines can flatten when burrowing.
Eggs, Wyrmlings, and Adults
Despite their evilness towards others, blue dragons are actually very good parents. They rarely leave a next of eggs, which they bury in the sand. Once the eggs hatch, the blue dragon parents protect the wyrmlings.
A young blue dragon is adorable! They have big soft eyes and a slightly rounded head. However, even though it is no bigger than a large bird, it can be extremely aggressive. It taunts and teases others into giving up their treasures, and it hunts small creatures to fill its belly.
Blue dragons like everything well ordered and that includes their own society. An older, mature blue dragon usually presides over the younger blue dragons. It is very rare for one blue to challenge another for this position. Blue dragons know their place, and if they are unhappy, they will simply leave and find their own territories.
As with all dragons, older blue dragons are quite clever, and they have an additional skill in their arsenal of tricks: hallucination. An older blue can make the land appear to be something it is not, such as a fresh lake of water. However, the older a blue dragon becomes, the more loud and obnoxious its character. It may have many tricks to fool you, but you will also hear it laughing- a sound that makes most creatures freeze in their tracks.
The Blue Dragon's Lair
Blue dragons dig tunnels beneath the desert ground and high up into towering rock formations. Such a construction gives the blue dragon several advantages. The blue dragon can slink out of its cave along the ground, the opening of which is hidden by sand, or it can perch high up on a ledge and survey its territory.
Inside, the blue dragon's lair has many tunnels and several chamber. An upper chamber can be found within the rocky mountain, and a middle chamber can be found beneath the desert ground. A tunnel winds even farther down, where the blue dragon has found the water that runs below ground. The water forms a pool, in which the blue dragon will wallow and rest and drink.
Combat
An attack from a blue dragon can come from above- or from below! A blue dragon will burrow beneath the sand and wait there for its next victims. Its horn might protrude from the desert sand, but some mistake this horn for a spiky desert rock. Seeking the shade cast by this supposed "rock", and adventurer will rest beside it only to have the ground rumble and come alive. So if you want to find a blue dragon, watch out for any pointy rocky protrusions you might see in the desert- they might not be rocks at all!
