Firecrested Nightdweller
/img] Male Variation
Female Variation
Species Name: Firecested Nightdweller
Discovered By: An unlucky Miner.
Trainability: Unknown, Females Exceeding Hostile, Males Territorial
Rarity: 2
Class: Stoker
Appearance of Adult: Females are Red-scaled with black plating coating their stomach, knuckles and sides. The males are black scaled with red plating. Both varieties have feathers, fur, and layered scales coating their back, head, and tails, imitating fire. Both genders have a bone-like plate which covers their face, which emits a soft glow in the darkness. The tip of their tail produces an almost constant flame, allowing the dragons to see when flying at night, or when exploring their cave homes.
Approximate Weight:1000-1500 lbs.
Approximate Size:Females Firecrested Nightdwellers are twice as big as males, the male firecrests being between 6 and eight feet in height, while a female is between 12 and 16.
Approximate Wingspan: guessed at 18 feet.
Scale Color and Description: Mostly reds, oranges, and blacks, coloring can vary also including yellows and blues. Albino of this species have been recorded, but that number is few, and most died before adolesense.
Build: typically, a Firecrested Nightdweller will be well sculpted in the front, and less muscular in the rear.
Other: The wings of a Firecrested Nightdweller are coated in a series of scales which fall off during flight, but regrow in a few short hours in order to protect the wings from deebre
Appearance of baby to juvenile: A deep scarlet, fading to the apropriate gender coloring, gaining the markings as it grows.
Approximate Weight: 100 lbs
Approximate Size: between 5 and 8 feet in length, with a girth of up to 4 feet
Approximate Wingspan: Between 8 and 12 feet.
Scale Color and Description: the scales resemble embers towards adolensece, and lack to give off the glow the face plate will in adulthood
Build: A young firecrested knightdweller is very well build all around, being most sculpted towards the tail and fore arms.
Other: young Firecrested Nightdwellers are more well known than adults, as they often die as young, leaving their carcasses outside the caves as the only evidence this species exists.
Personality: Loyal, protective, ferocious. Will normally attack a human if a weapon it recognizes is seen. It is recorded that they will die for their young and possibly their trainer.
Likes: Fires, and is one of the few known omnivorous dragons, favoring berries and rotting vegetables.
Dislikes: Does not like brightly light areas or water.
Fears: This species tends to fear rain and water.
Weaknesses: Water inhibits the regrowth ability of the dragon's scales, as well as its ability to produce light and heat waves from its face and tail.
Other: Species is very Territorial. Does not like approach.
Attacks: Flame attacks from the tail, used like a scorpion. Can "shoot" scales from its wings, also will bash with head, legs, and body.
Special Abilities: Firecrested Nightdewellers have an ability to produce light in bone-like mask structures attached to the front of their face.
Habitat: Firecrested Nightdwellers live in underground cave systems, inside which they will often dig individual homes for themselves and their young." />
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