Afturganga Dragon

**Afterganga dragons** are an open Vodros subspecies created by [~Sinema~].

**Afturganga Dragon (english translation: Again-Walker)**

The Afturganga Dragon‘s used to be peaceful non-violent creatures, but due to centuries of being easy prey to other creature‘s and almost being completely wiped out, the Afturganga Dragon‘s evolved in a violent manner from eating the Sulphur ridden bodies of there Kin and other dragon‘s and were secluded to living in cave‘s and hotsprings close to volcano‘s. In order to survive near extinction they were driven to near insanity and unpredictable, they gave up there flame‘s to manipulate the shadows and flesh of there own or others they consumed and adjusting there own bodies for fighting and protection of there nest‘s.

In retrospect these dragon‘s are not a big fan of light but tolerate it, there preference is to hunt in dark dank places or at night into the mainland's and normally wander back to a nearby hotspring or or volcanic area to sleep through the day. Due to there violent evolution traits there scales are rather small and incased in extremely durable and agile bone like a carapace protecting there viable organs, these dragon‘s don‘t normally breath a shadow flame but have a capability to do so but under normal circumstances they would normally combine there shadow breath into there saliva and let it drip onto there talon‘s using them for close combat brawling to increase there chances of inflicting more viable bleeding upon there targets or slowly melt away and armor that would halt there attack.

When there old scales shed or clawed off by them the Aftuganga tend to throw there scales into water or lava due to the Carapace surrounding the scale is a mixture compound of bone and sulfur. If the substance was place under enough pressure would explode like a cannonball shooting shrapnel of the scale everywhere this can not be aimed.

These creatures are not friendly and only a few have common sense and logic but are always paired with a split personality of insanity no two are ever a like, so these dragons tend to be left alone to there own devices but if something does tend to come into contact with this dragon it will fight it instantly for they do not like to be seen by unwelcome eye‘s.

These creatures aren‘t complete lone dragons they do sometimes in rare cases make packs with other dragons, but are always tend share there food which has some profound affects on other dragons due to it‘s saliva, warping there minds and changing small details about them such as a darker color and effect of a slight shadow over there abilities making them more potent to bleeding.

They are medium build dragon built for endurance and and quick agility so they can place there venomous bite into there foe which doesn‘t work instantly but over time causing fatigue, hallucinations, black outs and inevitably blind rage. With the Blind Rage the effects of this have no control of who they attack or if they keep going if the foe has injured themselves gravely, the effects of this venom kick into full effect to blind rage takes 5 hours and can last 12 hours. This time can be shortened if multiple injections of this bite are done.

If the foe survives the bite the effects of fatigue and hallucinations will remain for three days till the venom is completely out of the foes system.

The Afturganga Dragon‘s have a peculiar ability of flesh manipulation so instance if there leg was severed from there body and they ate it they could regrow the leg mind you the damage and pain will remain until healed. But the true baffling is they proportion there body around there head will able to move along there body to the end of there tail if they desired, but being such straining ability it takes time and a fair amount of stamina to do this which can exhaust them quickly.

But wait there is more on this ability if there opponent lose a limb or a comrades body is nearby the Afturgana can devour it and temporary add it to there own body for 1 hour. For example a second head completely under there control, the draw back of this ability is the drain and they must remove the foreign appendage within an hour before the necrosis sets in turning the foreign appendage to sulfuric acid upon themselves or others.

## Community

The Afturganga Dragon have their own way of communication with hisses and high-pitched cracks of the scale ‘s on there tail. But have the ability to use the shadows of there breath alter the sounds they make, making them to mimic other dragon‘s. There intrigued on learning as many sounds as they can and watch other dragons whilst out of site listening and learning quickly. With this mechanism allows them to lure other dragons or there offspring to them. The Afturganga are not a very social creature but it isn‘t unheard of them speaking to another if they find that other worthy in there eye‘s. Normally when another creature approaches there territory or kill they will warn with a constant vibrate of there unique scales that can sound like like shaking broken glass. The only time to worry is when you here a constant thud on the ground by the hind legs of this dragon which is battle cry of the Afturganga and is ready to go berserk and attack everything.

The Afturganga Dragon do not attack juveniles and will look after them for a time till that juvi is big enough to survive it will then proceed to lure it to a forest and leave it there if the juvi follow‘s the Afturganga back to it‘s lair the Afturganga will give it‘s own meal infecting it with its peculiar saliva taking it into it‘s pack.

## Faith

The Afturganga believe themselves descendants ‘s of the Great Dragon Níðhöggr the Norse Dragon God Devouring the root’s of the Wisdom tree.

The Afturganga believe they must devour all those below them and guilty and always fight the enemy affront of them.

They have a tradition of once a month on Hunter‘s moon they must find dishonorable or evil creature‘s alike through the day and keep them till the night as the light shine‘s upon there scales resulting them beginning to glow as there flesh begins to absorb the victims within them believing this will give them all the power that being will ever possesses (shadows). This will be one of the unlikely times you see a Afturganga in the daylight if so run before they see you.

## **Physiology**

The Physiology maybe different on location and preferred diet but there is always the one same design every time, these dragon’s bone spike upon there tail. (Go nuts just be sure to add the Spike bone tail, a bone spine and Black Tongue)

In most regards on the physical appearance of the Afturganga Dragon, they are a medium build built for endurance and brawling against other foes. With there diet of eating mass quantities of meat from carcass‘s and Sulphur deposits these dragon‘s have developed unique scales that cover majority of it vital body point‘s and majority of it‘s tale, these tails are incased in durable bone carapace and a mixture of small amounts Sulphur which over time as the scales age become sepitable to exploding the carapace under immense pressure so normally the Afturganga Dragon will thoroughly groom itself removing these scales by disposing them in nearby volcano or into oceans.

As for there tail be long and narrow and layed with there carapace scales, these particular scale‘s are loose and more durable then the rest of the scales upon it‘s body which curve up with spikes varying towards the end of the tail which can vary in number. But these scales are tend to vibrate the most on it‘s body as an indication of a mobile drum as it uses to scare it‘s foe, in rare cases the Afturganga will stiffen scales into a hardened lance as it will use the spikes of its tail as mace throwing it at an enemy for a fatal blow.

The claw‘s of the Afturganga are surprisingly retractable as each knuckle is incases with a double the amount of carapace on its knuckles than it does on it‘s body due to this the claw‘s retract back so the Afturganga can then make a fist for brawling and close combat. With the claws of the Afturganga they have small hollow points through out them which are able to hold properties within in them using it‘s rather vile shadow breath to fill them for slashing a gashing at its enemies to cause more bleeding effects.

Due to eon's of evolution and living in Sulphur and darkness of cave‘s the Afturganga has developed the ability to breath a shadow like darkness from it‘s mouth which in turn is a corrosive substance against normal flesh. Unlike other dragons the Afturganga is rather hesitant of using it‘s breath for projectiles but doesn‘t stop from shooting the odd shadow bolt if needed, but instead it uses its breath to either drool upon its victim or use‘s its retractable claws and smothers them in shadow. Whilst doing this the Afturganga uses and ability called a shadow strike which infects any wound made to make them bleed greatly, the affects of this strike normally only last for hour or two it all depends on how deep the gash is and where of course if it were a vital point this would be rather dangerous for its victim.

The Afturganga has a rather odd second ability known as flesh manipulation which allows it shift it‘s body parts and organs at will around it‘s body and also absorb in a restrictive manner, for example if say a claw leg was cut off the Afturganga would continue to eat the body part and begin to regrow it over time depending on the body part for how complex the time is, now this isn‘t a form of vitality recovery it uses great amount of stamina and cause fatigue over time feeling the injury in-depth internally.

But this doesn‘t stop the Afturganga from fighting or using this ability to its advantage it also can consume another dragons body part if available to for a very small window of time and grow it out and attack it‘s enemy, this only lasts for an hour before the foreign body part begins to slowly break down into sulfuric acid which the Afturganga must remove before it cause itself grievous harm. But to put in an example of using another dragon‘s body part would be if the Afturganga were in a fight and the carcass of another dragon is nearby and decided to eat the head of that carcass it can grow the head upon it‘s body say the neck and will use that heads own breath against it‘s foe, once done the Afturganga will then turn to rip the head off its body.

The wings of the Afturganga are thin and long designed for fast and silent flying on the outline of the back of the wing‘s it has thin lining of it‘s carpaced scaling along and when need to go at maximum velocity for dive bombing its victims from above it will smack each of its wings together whilst in flight a sudden loud crack of a concentrated explosion will erupt from the wings giving the Afturganga extra boost in its dive bombing capabilities pinning the victim from behind attempting to force them to the ground.

As for size and build for the Afturganga is of a medium sized with light carpacing scales along its body allowing for short bursts of powers as it moves, as it‘s it‘s throat can glow when it be angry depending on the color of the Afturganga. It can steadily move around on it‘s hind leg‘s and has more developed arm‘s on the front to focus on powerful blows, as there snouts and face a rigged with heavy carpacing with a pultruding horn in most cases but not always it tends protect its face  as much as possible particularly its eyes so it has evolved to the point that it has retractable carapace eye lid that drops down over its eyes when in battle with small slits to see. With there short snouts they have excellent smelling and hearing capabilities due to being that these dragons normally travel at night there vision is not the best in the daylight and have there slits down so they really on the near vision for medial tasks but for traveling and navigating the hearing and smell are there greatest assets.

·      Now for into the mouth of the Afturganga, it ‘s is tongue is pitch black due to the shadow it cast‘s with it breath. The teeth are amazingly white with black lines swirling through them 4 sets of long serrated teeth at the front of its mouth similar to the Orca Killer Whale, with the remain back teeth being serrated and flat with extra strengthened muscle resembling the Cichlidae teeth of a Chimera for a much strong bite to break down armor and bone.

·      The throat and neck are rather large for the Afturganga are able to bring up their stomach contents up at will containing mass amounts ammonia and sulfuric which it uses to assist in digesting particularly tough meals. Unlike most dragon‘s the Afturganga have a more heavily concentrated amount of scales on the front of there neck compared to the back of there neck allowing it be able front offensive attacks from the front never taking its eyes off its foe.

As for the Chest of the Afturganga it has an outline of scales around their rib cage scaled pointed and covering the most important organ location, as they shape out to an external boney look rib cage. As they wrap around the chest they meet to the spine where most Afturganga have boney spikes going down the spine and reform into dual layed armor coat protecting its back.

With each scale on the body has a tiny slit between them which allows the Afturganga to temperament it‘s own temperature by vibrating them vigorously, also it uses this vibration to make the sounds of a heavy repeatedly hitting drum when the Afturganga initiates a fight. The Afturganga isn‘t the biggest fan of cold climate and is rather susceptible to ice so normally the Afturganga tries not to venture to cold environments or deters to going underground using the shifting vibrations of its scales to assist it in digging and moving underground rather fast use the minerals around it to keep warmth and store any Sulphur it finds through out the minerals between its scales for later use.

As a passive countermeasure of the Afturganga if needs to retreat or stalk it‘s prey the Afturganga will breath its shadow onto it‘s wings and then, using it‘s wing smother itself with the substance which begins to counter react with its scales making it nearly invisible. As long as the Afturganga doesn‘t move it may stay camouflaged for hours at a time as long as it doesn‘t have visible wounds our characteristics to make it stand out. If the Afturganga decides to move the camo begins fade rapidly showing a silhouette of it‘s body to the naked eye. To assist with it‘s camouflage it will concentrate on it‘s breath to exhale small amounts of Ammonia to conceal it‘s scent from other predators as it stalks in unsuspecting prey.

There bones and carapace scale‘s develop constantly over time becoming more resilient over time, and the more they practice shedding and vibrating there scales the Afturganga develop a keen sense of movement from the smallest vibration in the air which is an excellent way to track and detect prey at night or in caves.

Afturganga tend to eat other creature‘s than there own kind but it isn‘t unheard of if there is to be trouble, but normally when there are disputes between Afturganga they fight till the other is completely incapacitated majority of the time ends in severed limb‘s which takes weeks of healing after the ordeal. But on a brighter note as villainous and barbaric as the Afturganga sound they tend to not be interesting in eating Juveniles or Hatchlings they normally keep an eye on them for awhile and if the feel to adopt the juvenile till it is old enough to look after itself as it will then lead the Late-Stage Juvenile to a nearby forest where it then leaves it. If the Late-Stage Juvenile happens to wonder back to the territory of the Afturganga it will not attack but yet feed it an infected meal changing it to be apart if its own pack.

The mating of Afturganga is rather complex since they do not just keep to there own species to reproduce all the time since they are a rather blank slate to have there eggs imprinted on but to reproduce another Afturganga, the Afturganga will take the egg and many bones of other creatures and encase it then proceed to use it shadow breath to incubate over the period of one moon cycle. The amount eggs a Afturganga can produce vary 1-5 eggs at a time.

**Physiology at each stage of life**

·      **Newly Hatched –** completely silver at birth wish no carapace encasing scales yet, there claws are not developed properly looking like little fingers as there snouts look bright orange. There stomachs are slightly translucent. The parent will rip off parts of its own scales crushing them up in its regurgitating them into each individual hatchling. **1 week**

·      **Hatchling –** As they progress the hatchlings eyes will open and teeth will begin to develop over a weeks time, as this happens the hatchling will begin to slowly gnaw at the shell of its old eggs as solid base food to get use along with receiving regurgitated scales from the parent. Its it will have one bone horn develop on its nose and have a shadow aura around its silver body as as the top of it slowly begins to change darker shades its wings are not yet developed enough to fly but can use them to wrap itself up to camouflage and retain a warm body temperature. **3 weeks**

·      **Early-Stage Juvenile –** After 3 weeks time the Afturganga will hit it‘s Early Juvenile stage, it‘s claws begin to develop steadily as it will claw at its own scales and its siblings to assist each other in conditioning them for later encasing of carapace. It‘s wing are developed enough to give it lift and gliding capabilities but flight in general is not yet capable. The parents begin to start to feed them whole scales in small whole fragments for them to strengthen and develop there teeth working out there lock jaw muscles. **3 weeks**

·      **Late-Stage Juvenile –** This is where the parents begin to have small issues with naughty children as the Juvenile Afturganga begins to develop its shadow breath and has to begin its diet of sulfur and meat. And this when there a stages of rage happen in the juveniles unable to contain this trait as of yet where the become increasingly violent and have been known to attack and littermate and the odd occasional times of cannibalisms will arise and even attempt to attack the parents whilst feeding them. There scales begin to carapace which is a painful process so they begin make a high pitch squeal as they progress with there scales vibrating profusely. There muscular posture and outline begin to arise and there core color begin to out line on there body with a pitch black base and silver outline‘s the orange sometimes completely disappearing off there snout. They will continue to blast there shadow breath at everything so at times the parents would separate the litter if proven to be too violent. The ridges of its back spines begin to protrude and the nubs of its horns begin to become more noticeable. **2 weeks**

·      **Sub-Adult –** The Sub-Adult is now more tolerant of its beserking rage and control its glow as its distinguish colors begin show more through the black and silver outlines. The horns more developed along with its spine, the tail begins to sport long identifying spikes out of it. It‘s scales rough and serrated with carapace around them the sub-adult begins to claw and maintain them more as the identifying features of the bone and knuckles show as its rib cage design shows through its scales. It‘s wings are now more developed and able to fly unassisted as the carapace outlines there structure. The young Afturganga begins to continuously spar with its Kin and other adults. The Sub-adult leaves the nest under the watchful eye of the Apex of the pack as they teach it to hunt and kill efficiently at night and to practice digging to show how to identify each mineral. With these vigorous lessons the sub-adult will begin to learn on its own how to use the shadow to manipulate the muscles within its own throat to mimic other sounds it hears and to become more efficient hunter. As there traditions of faith begin the sub-adult Afturganga will be taken with the adults on the fresh hunters moon and be given a rite of passage to absorb flesh for the first time through its scales, this will be the first time it uses flesh manipulation which is a very dangerous practice which can end with death if the sub-adult isn‘t ready. If it does pass this trial it is on the urge of adult hood. **1 month**

·      **Adult –** It‘s carapace scales fully developed, black tongue and shadow breath this beserking dragon is ready with its long wing span and armored front it is now fit to venture on it‘s own. It‘s diet consists of Sulphur and creatures whole “even the bones“. Being more adapted in close combat from fighting within its own raising habitat this medium dragon has a particular nasty attitude and picks fights with most creatures till over time gains more experience and tactical experience. Having its carapace lids developed now on odd occasions travels in the daylight looking for unsuspecting prey. Being fresh adult it has been known these dragons to wear the blood of its victims on its wings as a sign of victor and to honor its prey. **Undetermined Faith Based**

·      **Corrupted –** Unlike most dragons becoming Elders the Afturganga become something known as the Corrupted which is extremely rare and only happens to an Apex of a pack on there Hunters moon ritual. If this is to happen the Apex will become engulfed in complete black as a shadow aura follows it with gleaming orange eye‘s it will then progress to dig itself underground for 3 weeks for it‘s massive transformation. Over this period the pack will continuously over gauge themselves in food and bring it to the site of where the Apex buried themselves and bring up there complete stomach contents even with the odd occasion of some sacrificing themselves, as this happens the ground become extremely acidic absorbing all nutrients. After three weeks the Corrupted will arise, no longer a medium build but becoming a slender behemoth with its carapace scales replaced with serrated black plates over its entire back and the outline of it‘s wings. The front scales of its torso are still carapace but more defined and shrink size with actual bone show the rib cage which become the core color of the dragon. It‘s front claws become more hand like with its claws now jagged and secreting its own Sulfuric acid as a deadly slash towards its victim, it grows to smaller wings below its large wing span to give it more lift on its body and to assist with tighter turn‘s but with this the Corrupted loses a mass amount of it flight speed so to make up for this the two smaller wings release a powerful aroma of Ammonia in the air as it trails and using its now improved shadow bolt lights the sky with black flame trailing behind using enough impact to knock everything away from it as a deterrent. It‘s face sport an extra set nostril‘s which now blows a mighty horn noise enraging all of its pack and kin in the vicinity. When the scales of this behemoth vibrate it sends a wave out connecting all those infected by this dragon have a somewhat hive mind connection planning tactical fights for large clusters of prey or new living provenance. It‘s tale is now two times longer and doesn‘t sport a mace but is treated like a whip with a sword on the hacking and slashing anything the Afturganga Corrupted swings it at. This only happens on extremely rare cases and more studies will be needed to see the full affects of this dragon. **Undetermined Faith Based**

### Colors and Patterns

Depending on the where about of where the Afturganga is choosing home the colors and patterns can change but one thing is distinguished, they always have the black palate on there hide with silver accent, a lot of the Afturganga do sport a unique third color to identify each other which can be anywhere upon the body.

Additionally the way these colours are distriputed along these creatures body is all dependent of where the are allocated in living wise.

### Lairs

The Afturganga prefer to live at the edges of volcano or hot springs where there is an abundant amounts of Sulphur and ammonia for it to harvest, if theses conditions are met this is the time where they will sleep above ground level enjoying the warmth and smells, but in most instances, they burrow out their own underground oasis or caves with Sulphur never to far for them to engulge in. They tend to make sure that there is nearby forest land near there homes so they have away to teach there young how to hunt.

There are odd occasions when a rogue Afturganga will venture more inland and decide to live in forests but due to low amounts of Sulphur to be accessed it will constantly surround its home with bones of its victims.

### Behavior

Can be extremely aggressive specially when hungry, but taking into note that if you are dealing with seasoned adult they will seem angry majority of their time but the odd occasion you will find a fine-tuned adult that will be speak but to do this one of course would not hungry or bespeaking, two would the dragon wishing to speak to Afturganga will have to show its weakest points to it whilst banging its tale upon the ground until they speak which can be rarely.

When a seasoned adult is of mind they will usually be exploring for tactical advantage and depending if it‘s alone or in a pack may seek hatchlings juviniles to look after as a surrogate parent. But in retrospect it will also digging and filling itself with sulphur at least twice a day.

If you manage to meet an adult in beserking insanity stage I would recommend hide and not be seen these mood swings can be particularly violent and only happen in cases of severe hunger, pain or pure rage and in case its rage the throats will glow violently. They will continuously smash boulders and trees till they find away to alleviate its symptoms but saying that now all Afturganga are like in there alt personality.

With the Afturganga being at a seasoned age it will having more control over its impulses it will be more prone to be anti-social to other creature‘s for it‘s past impulsive rages. But will be able to plan and hold more conversation and be more conserved with its hunting and brawling habits.

There are times when Afturganga does not become able to stay one freight of mind at time and will become completely wild it‘s den will constantly have carcass‘s in them for it over gorge on. Normally when this happens these tend not to last long on there own but in rare cases more of these Afturganga will horde together and will attack everything when this happens these Afturganga „“Does not breed“. With this in mind the life expectancy of these Wildling Beserkers are not very long and can last only a couple of months.

### Diet

The Afturganga has a steady diet of Sulphur with eating the corpses of creatures and dragons alike (including the bones).

It wills also absorb any ammonia deposits it can find,

It isn‘t it the biggest fan of Griffin meat and will rather leave them alone then go near them unless provoked.