The Dragon's Body
| Hide | Length
| Internal Systems | Skeleton
| Muscles |
Hide
- Dragon hide is smooth, soft to the touch, strong, and hairless. A healthy
hide is glossy with no hint of gray. Sick hide also tends to be chalky
to the touch.
- The five colors of dragons are:
- gold (pale yellow to dark antique gold)
- bronze (golden-green sheen, though some can be more brown in coloring)
- brown (tan to chocolate)
- blue
- green
- Female dragons (gold and green) change color tone during their proddy
(sexually aroused) period before mating. Just before, they may even
seem to glow.
- As dragons age, their hide changes color tone. Browns get green, while
golds tend to bronze as they get older.
Internal Systems
- They can hold their breath for up to 10 minutes. When the dorsally-placed
lungs are fully inflated, the dragon's chest can swell twice its normal
size.
- Dragons have two stomachs. One for digestion of food (when a weyrling
they eat 7-8 times a day, then at one turn twice a sevenday) , and one
for the firestone to be made into fuel for fire.
- Warm blooded, with a green ichor. This ichor, like human blood, is
based on metal, copper, which makes the hide a greenish tint instead of
human pink.
- Their several hearts are place in comparible in their ribcage like
ours.
Skeleton
- There are 10 vertebra in the neck, and 56 in the back with an extremely
strong endoskeleton.
- This skeleton is made up of light, flexible plates, with a fused ribcage
of one piece.
- Their joints are ball and socket for strength, and less likelihood
of dislocation, during landings and flights.
- A line of ridges run along a dragon's spine from just behind the
headknobs down to the shoulder muscles of the wings, where they grow less
prominent. Then they continue down to the forked tail.
Muscles
- Dragons have extremely muscled back legs for power during take-off.
- Muscles are shiny silver-grey.
Length
- A dragonlength is the size of the most common dragons, the greens.
There are so many that they number the sum of blue, brown and bronzes.
- Reaching full growth at 18 months, the dragon can reach up to 45 meters
at its largest (Gold Ramoth). The growth increment is shown in the following
chart (in meters):
|
Color
|
2 mos.
|
4 mos.
|
6 mos.
|
12 mos.
|
18 mos.
|
|
Green
|
9-12
|
12-15
|
15-19
|
18-23
|
20-25
|
|
Blue
|
12-14
|
15-18
|
19-23
|
23-28
|
25-30
|
|
Brown
|
14-15
|
18-21
|
23-27
|
28-33
|
30-35
|
|
Bronze
|
15-16
|
21-22
|
27-28
|
33-35
|
35-38
|
|
Gold
|
16-19
|
22-24
|
28-31
|
35-39
|
38-42
|
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