Watch Dragon

* Juvenile
* Baby
* Egg

***Watch dragons** rarely sleep. Instead, these alert guardians look after parks night and day. We're not quite sure what they need to protect us from, but their tenacity and courage are admirable.*
    —Nogard's description of the **Watch Dragon** in The Book of Dragons
The **Watch Dragon** is a hybrid dragon with the elements Fire and Dark. It's main element is Dark.

## Appearance

One of the smallest known dragons, the **watch dragon** is about the size of a mid-sized dog. Some **watch dragons** barely come up to an average wizard's knees when standing.

## Abilities

### Weapons

**Watch dragons** have more bite force relative to their body size than any other dragon. They use their horns to duel each other and their sharp teeth to attack their prey.

### Defenses

**Watch dragons** are incredibly tough for such tiny dragons. Their size also makes larger dragons or wizards underestimate them, which can give them an advantage.

### Other Abilities

Like most dark hybrid dragons, **watch dragons** have a great sense of smell to the point that they can smell your emotions. Some sources say their eyes have hypnotic abilities, but they're probably confusing it for something else. It's eyesight is dangerously sharp, able to spot any critical details in its environment.

### Breath Weapon

**Watch dragons** breathe fire. It's not super hot or has any special properties, just plain old fire.

### Weaknesses

Their size is often a disadvantage when confronting larger dragons by themselves.

## Habitat

### Regions

**Watch dragons** stand as guards around the Scar of the World but a large group of **watch dragons** live in the Gulf of the Guardian.

### Preferred Home

They live anywhere with a sustainable environment.

### Sheltering/Nesting

They do not sleep, and instead protect [[[Scar of the World|the Scar]] from... well, we will find out that one day. Dragons know more than humans do, that fact has been proven by wizards everywhere.

## Diet

**Watch dragons** rarely eat. They will only eat when they don't have to move far from their guarding location to hunt. It will mostly be a mouse or a squirrel what they eat. When away from a guarding position, however, they can eat up to three times their size (which isn't really that much).

## Lifestyle

### Behavior and Personality

**Watch dragons** are very patient. It is a very logical dragon, able to deduct when something isn't supposed to be there. It also has a habit of suspecting everybody, even wizards they are bonded to. They are also very determined and persistent.

### Social Order

**Watch dragons** guard the Scar in large groups.

### Relationship to Wizards

**Watch dragons** are revered for their tenacity and courage. They are extremely protective, even when there's nothing to protect or nothing to protect the nothing from. Unfortunately, this trait has led to the cruel practice of clipping their wings and chaining them outside building to protect them from intruders, but fortunately this practice has been banned and has mostly vanished.

## Life Cycle

### Mating

**Watch dragons** only mate during summer, and they will do so in turns, to make sure there will always be a large group protecting the Scar.

### Birth

The egg will be put behind the guard line, giving one more thing to protect. Its mother will be especially protective of it, showing hostility to her fellow **watch dragons**.

### Infancy

Instantly after birth, the infant will go to a random location and guard the Scar along with the others. They do this their whole lifetime.

### Adolescence

It will guard the Scar during its whole lifetime.

### Adulthood

It will guard the Scar during its whole lifetime.

### Life Span

**Watch dragons** usually reach an age of about 50 years.

## History

### Discovery

Instantly after the opening of the Rift, all watch dragons instantly flew to the Scar of the World to protect it. As they were standing still all the time and did not see the humans as dangerous to the Scar, they were easy to be studied.

### Origin of Name

They are named after the fact that they always watch after danger. In the time of the Burcadians, before Dark Magic was banned from our world, their shadows also were used as watches, and the fact that they don't move to shady locations was very helpful to this.

## Magic

**Watch dragons** are associated with Pyromancy, Erebomancy, and Umbramancy.

## Notable Dragons

TBA

**Primary**
*Dark Dragon*

**Hybrids**
*Fungus Dragon* - *Nightshade Dragon* - ***Watch Dragon*** - *Dungeon Dragon* - *Root Dragon* - *Cave Dragon* - *Ruin Dragon* - *Crypt Dragon* - *Spark Dragon* - *Wraith Dragon* - *Abyss Dragon* - *Ooze Dragon* - *Miasma Dragon* - *Howl Dragon* - *Promethium Dragon* - *Acid Dragon* - *Mirage Dragon* - *Shadow Dragon*

 **Golden Hybrids**
*Bramble Dragon* - *Frostbite Dragon* - *Wisp Dragon* - *Darkling Dragon* - *Trench Dragon*

**Primary**
*Fire Dragon*

**Hybrids**
*Poison Dragon* - *Flower Dragon* - *Lava Dragon* - *Obsidian Dragon* - *Blue Fire Dragon* - *Frostfire Dragon* - *Scorch Dragon* - *Firefly Dragon* - *Salamander Dragon* - *Coral Dragon* - *Smoke Dragon* - *Blazing Dragon* - *Forge Dragon* - *Brass Dragon* - *Ember Dragon* - *Heat Dragon* - *Dungeon Dragon* - ***Watch Dragon***

 **Golden Hybrids**
*Pepper Dragon* - *Soot Dragon* - *Inferno Dragon* - *Smolder Dragon* - *Molten Dragon* - *Sulfur Dragon*