Prism Dragon

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*The **Prism Dragon** is as rare as it is beautiful. Its dark hide absorbs light and magic alike. Its crystalline spines shine with energy that ranges from a rainbow of colors to pure elemental magic! Truly a majestic creature, this dragon's mere existence reveals much that is otherwise hidden.*
    —Nogard's description of the **prism dragon** in The Book of Dragons
The **Prism Dragon** is an epic dragon of the Rainbow element.

## Appearance

The Prism Dragon is a lithe wyvern, with deep orange sclera, three black talons on each of its feet, and a sharklike facial structure. It possesses black scales that are lustrous from a irradiation of a strong Rainbow magic. This is more pronounced in its wings, tail flare, and leg flares, in which pure Rainbow magic projected from the Prism Dragon's elemental core. Special crystal growths are its equivalent of spurs and horns seen on the typical dragon; however their origin is unknown. The composition of these crystals seems to be similar to the Glass Dragon's wings, but more in the sense of convergent evolution.

## Abilities

### Weapons

The Prism Dragon has a pair of diamond-sharp fangs and a strong bite power, as well as penetrating, hooked talons.

### Defenses

Its scales are imbued with a thin layer of defencive-category Rainbow Magic, which absorbs and negates any kind of magic projected at it.

### Other Abilities

If magic is projected onto its horns, it can harness that kind of magic for a few seconds. Depending on its power level, it can proportionally damage with that element as it would with its own elements.

### Breath Weapon

The Prism Dragon shoots out streaks of light, which phase into large rainbow embers and sparks as they travel through the air. These are noted to be incredibly hot, heat absorbed directly from the sun itself.

### Weaknesses

Prism Dragons are easily subdued by the simple trance of a Hypnotic Dragon. Inexplicably, when put in the vicinity of a Storm Dragon, the Prison Dragon will freeze and stare, as if awestruck by its presence.

## Habitat

### Regions

It is not known where the dragons come from, but analysis of magical signatures that they leave behind suggests a oddly specific origin. The hypothesis developed from this proposes that Prism Dragons come from another universe altogether, in a completely different forme. The 'wild' species observed are actually draconic manifestations of this trans-universe concept. Or, they might just be hyperelusive, considering their Epic status. No one is actually certain.

### Preferred Home

It is not known where the Prism Dragon resides, as all encounters of the dragon... well, have been from the dragon encountering the documentator. This dragon was first known from being accidentally bred, but it has yet to be observed in the wild. Prism dragons are a coveted trade, as it's only a specific time of year and a specific combination of Light and Water-element dragons that create this particular species.

### Sheltering/Nesting

Since Prism Dragons have not been observed in the wild, it is not known how they nest. In Dragon Parks, they are dissatisfied in all habitats except Light and Rainbow.

## Diet

From what has been observed from Prism Dragons in captivity, they refuse all food offered to them. Instead, this species prefers to lie in the sun and fan their scales, seeming to photosynthesise instead of consume nutrients orally.

## Lifestyle

### Behavior and Personality

The Prism Dragon does not seem to have a unifying (again, as observed in captivity,) personality, and most of the time remains inert, soaking up the sun. It prefers to be solitary on an entire island (or with an empty Sun habitat alongside it), and its rarity ensures that any aspiring park keeper will follow protocol to keep it satisfied. Failure to follow these containment procedures was found within the first few years of the Prism Dragon's discovery:

A Prism Dragon and a Double Rainbow Dragon were placed together in a Large Rainbow Habitat. The first few days, it was noted that the Prism Dragon was irritable and snappish towards the Double Rainbow, but as the weeks followed, it seemed to calm down. However, on Day 36 of containment, the Park owner checked in on their habitats and found the magical barriers to the Large Rainbow Habitat shattered, Double Rainbow mutilated and Prism missing. The surrounding island was ruined, dragons running amok. The teeth marks in the Double Rainbow's heads, necks, and faces matched that of a Prism's. Not long afterwards, the same attacks were directly observed, in broad daylight, between a Party and a Prism. The parkgoers and owner attempted to intervene, only to result in six deaths between wizards and witches. Since then, keeping the dragon in a habitat has been highly controversial.

However, there is a less expensive way of keeping a Prism Dragon, and that is placing it with a Storm Dragon. For some reason, when the latter is placated within a hundred metres of the former, the Prism Dragon will go into a reverie-like state.

The third option is to do the same thing with a Hypnotic Dragon. If the Hypnotic Dragon has been trained in subduation on command, the witch or wizard commanding it can easily put the Prism Dragon into a state of trance. This, strangely enough, produces another behvioural phenomenon known as the Thorgeson Effect (named after the dragon who performed hypnosis on the Prism). Once hypnotised, the Prism Dragon will proceed to sit, turn its head to the sky, open its mouth, and produce dissonant vocalisations. These involve crackling and screeching for hours on end, slowly driving those in the area mad. However, this is not the effect itself. One intrepid witch, Audrey Po, was determined to investigate the long-term effects of this noise, and sat around for hours listening to the noise with a magical barrier around her and her trusty Hypnotic Dragon accomplice, Thorgeson (known locally in Ulster Meadows for possessing what seems like sapience). On the thirty-third second of the thirty-third minute of the thirty-third hour of this noise, Po reported that the Prism went silent, going limp. The creature began to glow, then 'went up in a contained explosion- leaving nothing behind but a strange disc'.

Nobody knows what this disc is, but it is known that Audrey Po deteriorated into an incurable state of insanity, disappearing with her Hypnotic Dragon into the Sandara Desert... And hasn't been seen since.

### Social Order

Prism dragons seem to be purely solitary, refusing contact with any dragons (even of its own species) or wizards.

### Relationship to Wizards

Prism Dragons are highly controversial and little is known about them outside of their violently idiosyncratic nature.

## Life Cycle

### Mating

Prism dragons do not mate, instead somehow bred by any dragons containing the light and water elements in their combination. This can only be done in a certain range of dates, but those dates vary from year to year and are absent altogether in some.

### Birth

In captivity, the newborns seem to be absent, still and unstaring. Inexperienced wizards may mistake this for a still-hatch, but from a few minutes to a few hours, the hatchling animates.

### Infancy

Prism dragons tend to be quite docile as babies, often seen directly requesting attention. It has been noted that they appreciate strokes on their rainbow flares, and enjoy attention. Baby Prisms are noted to be one of the friendliest of dragon babies.

### Adolescence

In early adolescence, the tameness continues, but soon the dragon will start to show its first signs of hostility. Its behaviour may become unpredictable as it vacillates between wanting company and wanting to attack.

### Adulthood

The adult no longer wants to socialise with anything around it, no matter how acclimated to other dragons and wizards it previously was. Its magic also dramatically strengthens, and if let out of its habitat, it will easily escape.

### Life Span

It is unknown how long a Prism Dragon lives, since no specimen has been kept long enough in captivity to be observed.

## History

### Discovery

The Bard Sid was breeding his Water Dragon, Rogers, with his Spellmason Dragon, Berkeley, and felt some dissatisfaction from the combination. He then re-tried with a Rigel Dragon named Wright and a Gildamane named Jon, which immediately procured a strange breeding length- which turned out to be a new dragon.

### Origin of Name

Sid, as a bit of an eccentric and scholar studying Light Magic, made a connection to the optical effects of glass prisms; promptly naming the new dragon after it.

## Magic

Judging from its elements, physical properties, and observed magic, the Prism Dragon has great control over Luximancy, Phytomancy, and Chromamancy. It is speculated to have Crysalimancy and Frescomancy magic.

## Notable Dragons

There are no notable dragons of this species.