Marbletail Dragon

* Juvenile
* Baby
* Egg

*Famed Vale artist and inventor Kassan once tried to enlist the help of a **marbletail dragon** with a new painting technique inspired by the dragon's aptly named tail. Unfortunately, **marbletail dragons** aren't exactly helpful studio assistants -- the final result was less marbled and more just paint splattered on a canvas. Maybe this dragon is more of a pollocktail at heart.*
    —Nogard's description of the **Marbletail Dragon** in The Book of Dragons
The **Marbletail Dragon** is an Epic dragon of the Chrysalis element.

## Abilities

### Weapons

The **marbletail dragon** may have a very soft tail and soft horns, but it can use it to whip enemies away. When provoked it can also use its breath.

### Defenses

The **marbletail dragon** can camouflage itself very well, even with its blue-purple color between the green plants. It can also move without any noise.

### Other Abilities

Like most Chrysalis dragons, the **marbletail dragon** is an excellent flier, and it can move itself very silently.

### Breath Weapon

The **marbletail dragon** produces a special sort of slime used as paint by wizards. However, when it is in your face, you will be unable to see until you wash it away. Not to worry, it doesn't cause any permanent eye damage but it does sting a little.

### Weaknesses

**Marbletail dragons** will usually lose if attacked by other excellent fliers with multiple pairs of eyes.

## Habitat

### Regions

**Marbletail dragons** are known to live in The Great Forest. Maybe they live somewhere else too, but they were only recently discovered and not studied much.

### Preferred Home

They prefer living in places with a lot of plants.

### Sheltering/Nesting

**Marbletail dragons** build their nests out of plants they find. This nest is not permanent and it rebuilds its nest every night.

## Diet

**Marbletail dragons** survive on eating small insects, like fireflies and ZINCs.

## Lifestyle

### Behavior and Personality

**Marbletail dragons** are very playful and like painting things with their paint breath, though most humans don't see the result as beautiful.

### Social Order

**Marbletail dragons** live a solitary life as long as they don't have a mate, however they all gather in the center of The Great Forest during mating season, even those who are already mates (those will just sit on top of trees watching the others).

### Relationship to Wizards

**Marbletail dragons** like "painting" wizard robes. Wizards avoid them because their painted robes look ugly, according to them.

## When in a park

### Breeding

**Marbletail dragons** can be breed by breeding a lacewing dragon to a swallowtail dragon.

### Habitats

Marbletail dragons can live in Omnitats and Chrysalis habitats.

### Favorite Treat

**Marbletail dragons** eat any treat given to them.

## Life Cycle

### Mating

**Marbletail dragons** all gather during mating season, which is during the month of April. Males impress females by painting the ground and standing in the center. Females then enter the painting they think is the most beautiful. Females will sometimes fight if two of them like the same painting.

### Birth

The **marbletail dragon** egg is colorless, but the parents paint it as soon as it is laid. They usually hide the egg inside hollow trees and leave the egg after to live a new life as mates.

### Infancy

The infant **marbletail dragon** is one of the three Chrysalis dragons that can already fly in its baby stage. It will usually hide and cannot paint yet, so it will do not much more than eating.

### Adolescence

Like all Chrysalis dragons, the adolescence of the **marbletail dragon** consists of being inside a cocoon. Before turning adolescent, the **marbletail dragon** seeks a hollow tree (usually the tree it was born in, if possible) to offer protection from predators, as it has only limited movement in this stage. The cocoon period lasts about a year for this Chrysalis dragon.

### Adulthood

The **marbletail dragon** will come out of its cocoon and get its magnificent wings. They live a solitary life until they find a mate.

### Life Span

**Marbletail dragons** are about the age of 80 the moment they die.

## History

### Discovery

They were discovered by Kaleni The Grower when he was searching for monolith dragons, but instead he discovered the majestic family of Chrysalis dragons.

### Origin of Name

They were named after the marks on their tail, which looks marbled.

## Magic

**Marbletail dragons**, like all Chrysalis dragons, have Petaloudamancy, a magic that allows them to grow cocoons in their adolescence to later gain magnificent adaptions in their adulthood. One of these adaptions is minor control over Frescomancy though the dragons are not aware of that and never use it without being bonded to a wizard.

## Notable Dragons

* Flitter (Astrid the Breezer)
* Gogh (Kassan de Vego)