Lesser Dragons

Lesser Dragons are Dragons that usually do not grow as old or Powerful as True Dragons. There are 3 types of Lesser Dragons: Wyverns, Wyrms, and Drakes.

## Wyverns

Wyverns have two legs and pair of wings. Some are seen with relatively small arms that have little to no use, while others have no extra limbs. These creatures varied in length from 15​ to ​65  feet weighed around 1-2 tons. Some exceptions of larger Wyverns exist. Wyverns only had a pair of hind legs instead of a set four. Their wingspan could get over 50 feet in length. Their tails were often quite long, comprising almost half of their bodies, yet very mobile. These ended in a thick cartilage knot with a stinger protruding out of it, similar to a scorpion.

### Types of Wyverns

#### ***Wyvern***

* Wyvern, Wyrmling
* Wyvern, Young
* Wyvern, Adult

Travelers in the wild sometimes look to the skies to see the dark-winged shape of a wyvern carrying its prey. These cousins to the great dragons hunt the same tangled forests and caverns as their kin. Their appearance sends ripples of alarm through the borderlands of civilization.

A wyvern has two scaly legs, leathery wings, and a sinewy tail topped with its most potent weapon: a poison stinger. The poison in a wyvern's stinger can kill a creature in seconds. Extremely potent, wyvern poison burns through its victim's bloodstream, disintegrating veins and arteries on its way to the heart. As deadly as wyverns can be, however, hunters and adventurers often track them to claim the venom, which is used in alchemical compounds and to coat weapons.

***Aerial Hunters.*** A wyvern doesn't fight on the ground unless it can't reach its prey by any other means, or if it has been fooled into a position from which aerial combat isn't an option. If forced into a confrontation on the ground, a wyvern crouches low, keeping its stinger poised above its head as it hisses and growls.

***Aggressive and Reckless.*** A wyvern intent on its prey backs down only if it sustains serious injury, or if its prey eludes it long enough for another easier potential meal to wander along. If it corners a fleeing creature in an enclosure too small to enter, a wyvern guards where the quarry hides, lashing with its stinger whenever opportunity allows.

Although they possess more cunning than ordinary beasts, wyverns lack the intelligence of their draconic cousins. As such, creatures that maintain their composure as a wyvern hunts them from the air can often elude or trick it. Wyverns follow a direct path to their prey, with no thought given to possible ambushes.

***Tamed Wyverns.*** A wyvern can be tamed for use as a mount, but doing so presents a difficult and deadly challenge. Raising one as a hatchling offers the best results. However, a wyvern's violent temperament has cost the life of many a would-be master.

#### ***Burst Wyvern***

* Burst Wyvern, Wyrmling
* Burst Wyvern, Young
* Burst Wyvern, Adult (Finish this HB)

Burst wyverns, like their larger counterparts, have very deadly stingers. However, instead of high doses of poison, the burst wyverns use explosive stingers at the end of their long tails that regrow rapidly, as well as darker and harder scales. Its newfound abilities and hardened scales come from a firey core due to being a closer relative to proper dragons, though they cannot use the same breath attacks as their cousins, that can use them to power their abilities to a lesser extent. Setting them further apart from a normal wyvern, they tend to be fairly intelligent and have been known to form pacts with people to act as a companion.

#### ***Horned Wyvern***

* Horned Wyvern, Wyrmling
* Horned Wyvern, Young
* Horned Wyvern, Adult

The powerful horned wyverns that dwell on the high mountains are brutish flying terrors and distantly related to sea drakes and cockatrices. These powerful adversaries enjoy charging their enemies and trampling them, especially off cliffs as well as using their potent fire breath to set dry wild grasses on fire to create wildfires to engulf stubborn enemies hiding in their mountainous homes. Their hides are generally a mixture of incredibly bright scarlet red scales with thick black or golden manes of fur on the back of their necks and hanging from their throats.

## Wyrms

Wyrms are long snake like creature with or without legs/wings. If they have legs they are usally extremely small relative to their bodies and have a very minor Function

### Types of Wyrms

#### Basilisk

* Basilisk, Wyrmling
* Basilisk, Young
* Basilisk, Adult
* Basilisk, Ancient

Travelers sometimes find objects that look like pieces of remarkably lifelike stone carvings of wildlife. Missing parts appear to have been bitten off. Seasoned explorers regard such relics as warnings, knowing that the basilisk that created them is likely to be nearby.

***Adaptable Predators.*** Basilisks thrive in arid, temperate, or tropical climates. They lair in caves or other sheltered sites. Most often, basilisks are encountered underground.

A basilisk born and raised in captivity can be domesticated and trained. Such a trained basilisk knows how to avoid meeting the eyes of those its master wishes to protect from its gaze, but it makes a daunting guardian beast. Because of this use, basilisk eggs are highly prized.

***Gaze of Stone.*** Basilisks are ponderous for hunting creatures, but they needn't chase prey. Meeting a basilisk's supernatural gaze can be enough to affect a rapid transformation, transforming a victim into porous stone. Basilisks, with their strong jaws, are able to consume the stone. The stone returns to organic form in the basilisk's gullet.

Some alchemists are said to know how to process the basilisk's gullet and the fluids contained within. Properly handled, the gullet produces an oil that can return petrified creatures to flesh and life. Unfortunately for such a victim, any parts lost in stone form remain absent if the creature revives. Revivification using the oil is impossible if a vital part of the petrified creature, such as its head, is detached.

## Drakes

Drakes have four legs, and no wings, The typical Drake were often used as guards by dragons or as mounts by humanoids, however some formed tribes, and some more powerful drakes hold Status similar to True Dragons. These dragons varied in size depending on their race. Some matched that of Gargantuan Dragons, while others simply stayed in the Huge or Large category.

### Types of Drakes

#### ***Dragon Turtle***

* Dragon Turtle, Wyrmling
* Dragon Turtle, Young
* Dragon Turtle, Adult
* Dragon Turtle, Ancient
* Dragon Turtle, Great Wyrm

Dragon turtles are among the most fearsome creatures of the oceans. As large and voracious as the oldest of its land-based dragon kin, a dragon turtle strikes with its deadly jaws, steaming breath, and crushing tail. They are only Considered Lesser Dragons due to their Inability to Fly, however they are just as Mighty as the true dragons.

A dragon turtle's rough shell is the same dark green color as the deep water where this monster dwells. Silver highlights lining the shell resemble light dancing on open water, and a surfacing dragon turtle is sometimes mistaken for the reflection of the sun or moon on the waves.

***Dragons of the Deep.*** Like true dragons, dragon turtles collect treasure, first by sinking ships and then by sifting through the wreckage for coins and other precious items. A dragon turtle swallows treasure for transport, then regurgitates it when it reaches its lair.

Dragon turtles dwell in caves hidden in coral reefs or beneath the seafloor, or along rugged stretches of coastline. If a choice cave is already inhabited, a dragon turtle attacks its current residents in an attempt to take over.

***Mercenary Monsters.*** A dragon turtle is smart enough to be bribed, and pirates sailing seas patrolled by these creatures quickly learn to offer them treasure in exchange for safe passage. Clever sahuagin sometimes ally with dragon turtles, enticing them with treasure to use their blistering breath weapons in sahuagin raids against ships and coastal settlements.

##### **A Turtle Dragon's Lair**

Describe the typical lair of the dragon here.

**Lair Actions**

Describe the dragon's lair actions here. Chromatic dragons typically have three lair actions to choose from, while metallic dragons have two.

**Regional Effects**

Describe the regional effects of the dragon here.

Describe how long it takes for the regional effects to end if the dragon dies here

#### ***Hydra***

* Hydra

A legendary beast created by the gods for some nefarious purpose and it's location is generally unknown, Hydra has spoken to the imagination of countless mortals. This dragon possesses overflowing vitality, endlessly regrowing as long as just one of its heads remains. Poison strong enough to induce hallucinations, a frightful presence that can make a man drop dead from fear, and a massive body that few blades can pierce. This many-headed gigantic beast bears some similarities to dragons and serpents.

Hydra ravenously assaults anything within its territory, softening up threats with its poisonous miasma cloud and then going in to devour them with its heads.

Hydra's body is roughly 80 feet from the tip of its heads to the tip of its tail, and weighs about 75 tons.

#### ***Dragon Ogre***

* Dragon Ogre, Wyrmling
* Dragon Ogre, Young
* Dragon Ogre, Adult
* Dragon Ogre, Ancient

Either a leader of an Ogre group, or as a singular Ruler

#### ***Pseudodragon***

* Psudodragon

The elusive pseudodragon dwells in the quiet places of the world, making its home in the hollows of trees and small caves. With its red-brown scales, horns, and a maw filled with sharp teeth, a pseudodragon resembles a tiny red dragon but its disposition is playful.

#### ***Dracos***

* Draco

The dracos were created by the dragons as their servants. Most dragons will usually have a few dracos to make mundane tasks in its place. Even metallic dragons have dracos, although they treat theirs in a much nicer way than chromatic dragons. The dracos greatly resemble their creators, but they are visible not the same as a much smaller than usual dragon, their bodies are thinner than a wyrmling dragon, and their legs and tails are a bit longer.

#### ***Airdrake***

* Air Drake, Wyrmling
* Air Drake, Young
* Air Drake, Adult

Airdrakes are often seen in the sky. They are often confused for dragons from a distance, but one will notice that they are often surrounded by clouds.

#### ***Broil Drake***

* Broil Drake, Wyrmling
* Broil Drake, Young
* Broil Drake, Adult

A broiling drake is a stocky, wingless variety of dragon known for its incredible sturdiness and its scales that are almost indistinguishable from stones, lending a broiling drake a boulder-like appearance.

Broiling drakes are slow and cumbersome creatures that hunt from ambush, spewing flame at their prey and eating their scorched flesh, though a broiling drake can survive by eating plants and even stones.

A broiling drake's body is incredibly warm to the touch and when it dies, its body remains at these temperatures for several hours.

#### ***Chaos Drake***

* Chaos Drake, Wyrmling
* Chaos Drake, Young
* Chaos Drake, Adult

Chaos drakes are dragon-like creatures hailing from The Force of Chaos. They are without exception dangerously unpredictable and completely mad. Their scales are a dark blackish-green in color, and they glow from within with the multicolored glow of seething chaos.

#### ***Crystal Drake***

* Crystal Drake, Wyrmling
* Crystal Drake, Young
* Crystal Drake, Adult

Covered in shimmering ablative scales composed of a tough crystalline substance, crystal drakes are wise and typically live underground, where they live among others of their own kind, though they welcome other psionic creatures of good heart into their lairs. The crystals in their scales act to amplify psionic energy, and their shed scales are much sought after by creatures with psionic abilities.

#### ***Furred Drake***

* Furred Drake, Wyrmling
* Furred Drake, Young
* Furred Drake, Adult

Furred drakes are a versatile type of wingless, quadruped dragon that are cloaked in fur and do not breathe fire. They live in solitary or in small packs in temperate or tundra forest. They are quick, cunning and adaptable hunter-scavengers that will defend their young, pack members and territory.

#### ***Sea Drake***

* Sea Drake, Wyrmling
* Sea Drake, Young
* Sea Drake, Adult

Sea drakes are strange draconian creatures that are known for hiding in oceans, bays and rivers to spring out and ambush their prey. When prowling in the water below the waves they look like a swarm of manta rays and they generally descend on schools of fish, using their lightning breath to kill scores of them and feed. They generally harass fishing ships so they can get some fish thrown at them as food.

#### ***Web Drake***

* Web Drake, Wyrmling
* Web Drake, Young
* Web Drake, Adult

A web drake is a spider-like dragon with eight limbs and the ability to hurl webs at its victims. Its head has eight eyes and its mouth drips with poisonous saliva.

A web drake constructs a large web in a dark place, then waits for an unlucky creature to pass by, restrains it with webbing and devours it. A web drake can go for weeks without food, so it doesn't always eat its kills immediately. Instead, the drake cocoons its kill in silk and leaves it dangling from its web to be consumed at a later date.

#### ***Cold Drake***

* Cold Drake, Wyrmling
* Cold Drake, Young
* Cold Drake, Adult

#### ***Earthdrake***

* Earthdrake, Wyrmling
* Earthdrake, Young
* Earthdrake, Adult

Earthdrakes are some of the less-seen drakes, though they are just as common as other alchedrakes (firedrakes, waterdrakes, and airdrakes). They live in large caves and have evolved in darkness, making sunlight harmful to them. Because of this, they can actually see in the dark slightly better than most other drakes.

#### ***Poisondrake***

* Poisondrake, Wyrmling
* Poisondrake, Young
* Poisondrake, Adult

Poisondrakes are uncommon but not unheard of. They tend to have a bad reputation outside of the drake society due to their poisonous nature, but like all intelligent creatures, they can be friend or foe. However, one should not forget their power. Always show friendship to a kindly poisondrake, lest you make yourself their enemy.

#### ***Waterdrake***

* Waterdrake, Wyrmling
* Waterdrake, Young
* Waterdrake, Adult

Waterdrakes are often seen beneath ships, typically in small groups. They are often confused with sea serpents, due to their water-themed attacks and their aquatic residence, though they are distinguished by their four legs and fins. They can survive normally on land for up to twelve hours. They do not have wings, and therefore cannot fly.