Dragons

**Status:** | Extant

**Dragons** are a variety of large lizard-like dragons is featured. One of them, Spike, is one of the main characters in the series. A prominent dragon-like creature whom Rarity helped is referred to as a sea serpent, and there is another dragon-like creature referred to as a hydra. The other dragons resemble classical European dragons, with large bodies, long necks and tails, scales, and bat-like wings.

## Characteristics

Dragons are fire-breathing lizards (most of them) with the bodies covered by hard scales and with sharp spikes on their backs and claws. They are known for their greed and fonding for gems that are also what they love to eat. It's known that if a dragon's greed grows up, the dragon will also grow up. They are also allergic to dragon sneeze flowers. In the presence of these flowers, their eyes become red, bloodshot, and puffy, and they sneezes uncontrollably.

Although reckless in behavior, dragons do have some kind of hierarchy.

### Order and Chaos Saga

The dragons are between the first magical creatures in all Creation, existing in most of the magical realities created by the Lord of Chaos.

At the top of their hiearchy, there is the Dragon King, who is elected during the Gauntlet of Fire, where the participants must reclaim the bloodstone scepter. The Dragon King then nominates the Dragon Lord, who acts as his second-in-command.

Despite dragons of the Pony Reality grow in size when their greed grows, they can revert to their original size once their greed is put under control. It has been also revealed that their greed can take many forms, being related to the obsession for something.

#### Dragon Tribes

Dragons possess the power to control the very elements of Nature. Because of that, different tribes were formed according to the element they command.

* **Fire Tribe**: the Fire Dragons are the inhabitants of the Pony World, living in volcanic envirements with active volcanos. They command the element of fire, being capable of melting most of the hardest materials and they possess scales which are fireproof and basic lava resilient and sharp talons and fangs. Of all the tribes, they are the most inclined to greed.
* **Mountain Tribe**: the Mountain Dragons are the inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest, living inside its mountains. They possess tough scales capable of enduring hotter lava than the other dragons and also a brutal strength. Instead of fire, they spit lava, resulting from the rocks they eat and then melt inside their stomachs. According to Flame, they are vicious.

## Skills

Dragons essently relies on their own size, body and fire-breathing to attack and to defend. Their fire is so powerful that can open the prison-book, before the Generals had taken precausions and turned it fire-proofing. Some, like Spike, can throw the spikes at the end of their tails, with them growing back after that.

### Order and Chaos Saga

Each dragon tribe is capable of using one single element. The Dragon King has a special ability that allows them to control every dragon, at least the ones belonging to their respective tribe, through a telephatic link.

## Known Dragons

### Order and Chaos Saga

#### Fire Tribe

2. Dragon King
3. Flambeau
4. Nitelite
5. Smokewing
6. Hardscale
7. Toothy
8. Torch
9. Princess Ember
10. Garble

## Appearances

### Order & Chaos Saga

Bloom's New Life

Apple Wedding

The Light Kingdom

Finding True Love

The Hidden Prince

The Prince of the Cursed Kingdom

### Shining Sparkle Saga

The Hidden Princess of Equestria

Legends:

* Y - Appear and have an active role
* N - Do not appears and is not mentioned directly by the characters.
* B - Appear, but have a passive role or their appearance is implicit
* M - Mentioned directly by the characters.