Species Notes
Grouping: Reptilian, Elemental
Fulminifers are hostile, aggressive dragons that normally live at high altitudes such as mountain peaks, but nest closer to sea level in the summer. Though of similar intelligence to their Lightcatcher cousins, these creatures are ornery and extremely difficult to train, even out of the egg. They are covered in metallic scales which they maintain and replenish by eating metals, anything from scraps to a researcher's misplaced tools to even adult Knuttes, though wild individuals are more likely to dig out ores from their rocky territories. Fulminifers are also apex predators which hunt by unleashing either fire or lightning at their prey, or even simply dive-bombing the target and grabbing it in their foreclaws. Because of their scales, these dragons act as living lightning rods, attracting electric strikes from the storms common in their breeding season, and seeming to receive energy from those strikes. Fulminifers are extremely fast and agile fliers due to their large wings and whip-like tails, and have been seen flitting in and out of thunderheads during intense storms.
Because of their ill-tempered natures, it is generally not advised to keep too many adult Fulminifers unless they've been properly trained. They can be reward-motivated to at least stop unwanted behaviors, but must be regularly reminded of these lessons or they will eventually return to their natural hostility. In the wild, their aggression and volatile tempers are what keep other apex predators from engaging with them—even other Fulminifers, as the species has been noted to be cannibalistic under the right circumstances. A breeding pair will immediately separate after copulation, and the mother will abandon the nest as it begins to hatch; it's not unheard of for the nestlings to attack each other until all but one or two are dead or too injured to survive.
Artwork:
Keileon
Owner's Notes
[Seid], actually ['Sade].
Obsidian scales in the anthracite sky, sapphire wings of twilight and eyes' yellow glow.
This, no doubt, is Sade. He is invisible, fast, elusive.
The supersonic night racer... You'd call him. But he doesn't do that for fun, and usually flies slow.
His favourite place will probably have a lot of metal, some geodes and such things.
Character of this dragon is just a little tricky - he may challenge someone as strong as him for a silly reason. Also, he is rather fun and happy.
But after getting a goal he'll do anything any way he can to achieve it. He is just stubborn.
He, though, would like not to be naughty to other, not dragon-like creatures; the handler and Iswunn, a friend of him, a battle partner whom he would never fight against. Just as the handler.
He is protective towards the handler, whom he is watching over even during peacetime.
My first creature here.
raos = soar!