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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