Drake

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**Drakes** were draconic creatures that were distantly related to wyverns.[*citation needed*] They were smaller and not as powerful as dragons but were much easier to train, so they were commonly used as mounts.

They were often used as guards by dragons, or they were given to the dragons' humanoid servants.

## Types of drakes

### Elemental drakes

* Air drake
* Earth drake
* Fire drake
* Ice drake
* Magma drake
* Ooze drake
* Smoke drake
* Water drake

### Other drakes

* Abyssal drake
* Ambush drake
* Battle drake
* Bloodseeker drake
* Fang titan drake
* Ghost drake
* Guard drake
* Hive drake
* Horned drake
* Liondrake
* Muck drake
* Portal drake
* Rage drake
* Sea drake
* Scytheclaw drake
* Steam drake
* Storm drake
* Vulture drake

## Appendix

### Appearances

* *Annihilation*
* *Hoard of the Dragon Queen*
* *The Rise of Tiamat*

### Further reading

* Johnathan M. Richards (June 1999). “Greater Drakes”. In Dave Gross ed. *Dragon* #260 (TSR, Inc.), pp. {{#regex:29–39|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}.
* Andrew Finch, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Chris Perkins (August 2004). *Monster Manual III*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 8. ISBN 0-7869-3430-1.
* Rob Heinsoo, Stephen Schubert (May 19, 2009). *Monster Manual 2 4th edition*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:88–89|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0786995101.
* "Wizards RPG team" (November 2009). *Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:194–195|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 978-0786952489.
* Bruce R. Cordell, Ari Marmell and Robert J. Schwalb (November 2008). *Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:222–223|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 978-0786949809.

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mike Mearls, *et al*. (November 2016). *Volo's Guide to Monsters*. Edited by Jeremy Crawford, *et al*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 158. ISBN 978-0786966011.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wolfgang Baur, Steve Winter (August 2014). *Hoard of the Dragon Queen*. Edited by Miranda Horner. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 88. ISBN 978-0786965649.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Rob Heinsoo, Stephen Schubert (May 19, 2009). *Monster Manual 2 4th edition*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:88–89|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0786995101.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andrew Finch, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Chris Perkins (August 2004). *Monster Manual III*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:8, 130–131|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0-7869-3430-1. Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name "MM.III-p8" defined multiple times with different content
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Wizards RPG team" (November 2009). *Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 194. ISBN 978-0786952489.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Andy Collins, James Wyatt, and Skip Williams (November 2003). *Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-2884-0.
7. ↑ Bruce R. Cordell, Ari Marmell and Robert J. Schwalb (November 2008). *Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:222–223|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 978-0786949809.
8. ↑ Bruce R. Cordell, Ari Marmell and Robert J. Schwalb (November 2008). *Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 223. ISBN 978-0786949809.
9. ↑ Andrew Finch, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Chris Perkins (August 2004). *Monster Manual III*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:130–131|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0-7869-3430-1.

### Connections

Dragonkind
The Family of Dragons

True dragons**Metallic dragons:** Gold • Silver • Bronze • Copper • Brass • Iron • Mercury • Platinum • Steel
**Chromatic dragons:** Red • Black • Blue • Green • White • Brown • Gray • Purple • Yellow
**Gem dragons:** Amethyst • Emerald • Sapphire • Topaz • Crystal • Obsidian
**Lung dragons**: Chiang lung • Li lung • Lung wang • Pan lung • Shen lung • T'ien lung • Tun mi lung • Yu lung
**Planar dragons**: Astral • Battle • Chaos • Ethereal • Faerie • Howling • Mirage • Oceanus • Pyroclastic • Radiant • Rust • Shadow • Styx • Tarterian
**Miscellaneous dragons:** Air • Ascendant • Brainstealer • Dzalmus • Force • Mist • Prismatic • Radiant • Rattelyr • Song • Vishap

**Lesser dragons**Dragon turtle • Hellfire wyrm • Pseudodragon • Rock wyrm • Scalamagdrion • Sea wyrm • Sunwyrm • Wyvern
****Drakes**:** Guard • Portal • Smoke • Vulture

**Related creatures**Abishai • Dracon • Dracosphinx • Dragonborn • Dragonkin
**Dragonbloods:** Draconic creature • Dragonborn of Bahamut • Dragonspawn • Dragonwrought kobold • Drow-dragon (shadow) • Drow-dragon (deep) • Half-dragon • Kobold • Urd • Zar'ithra • Zekyl
**Undead dragons:** Dracolich • Vampiric