Gawk Dragon

*"A friend to any wizard, captain or wizard-captain, the gawk dragons make for life-long companions. They are well-known for their speed, loyalty, intelligence and tendency to screeeam for no reason in the middle of the night. Not to mention how seamlessly they join in whenever sea shanties are sung. Just be mindful of their presence when having a private conversation, they will hear the most inappropriate part and will repeat it at the most awkward moment."*
    —Nogard's description of the **Gawk Dragon** in The Book of Dragons

The **Gawk Dragon** is an epic hybrid of the Treasure and Air elements.

## Subvariants

### Common Gawk Dragon

As the name suggests, this is the most common variant and the kind usually held in parks. This variant is mostly blue with splashes of bright red, purple, white, and other colors all over it's body.

### Neotenous Gawk Dragon

This variant is less of a subvariant more then it is a "sub-subvariant" of the Common Gawk Dragon. This variant keeps the coloration and fluffy down of a baby Common Gawk Dragon it's whole life, and is much smaller then most other types of Gawk Dragon.

### Blue-and-Gold Gawk Dragon

This variant is mostly turquoise in color, with a gold underbelly, wings, and tail plumage, as well as green head plumage and yellow and green horns.

### Hyacinth Gawk Dragon

This variant is almost entirely dark blue in color, with no variance in pattern aside from the yellow markings around it's eyes and the yellow stripes on it's beak. This variant's arms, beak, horns, and legs are bluish black instead of the usual bright orange.

### Cockatiel Gawk Dragon

This variant is mostly grey in color, with it's head, tail plumage, and head plumage being pastel yellow. It's wings are dark grey and white. It's head plumage is also bigger then unusual and it has orange spots on it's cheeks.

### Sulphur-Crested Gawk Dragon

This variant is almost completely white in color aside from it's horns, it's head plumage, and it's tail plumage, which are bright yellow, and it's beak, arms, and legs, which are orange as usual. The plumage on it's head and tail are absolutely massive compared to the plumage of other variants.

## Abilities

### Weapons

Gawk dragons dislike fighting, instead preferring to use trickery. That being said, they have a shockingly strong bite force do to being petrivores, and they can bite off human fingers with a snap. Their scratches are also rather painful.

### Defenses

The gawk dragon's main defense mechanism is intimidation. When threatened by an opponent, they fluff up their feathers to make themselves look bigger and let out a blood-curdling, ear-hurting scream.

### Other Abilities

Gawk dragons are very fast and agile, and they are excellent fliers. They're also very intelligent; while they're far from as smart as, say, a wyrmwood dragon, there have been reports of gawk dragons that are as smart as the average human. Thanks to their unusually shaped tongues, they can create a variety of vocalizations, ranging from growls, squawks, chirps, roars, and even human speech.

### Weaknesses

Gawk dragons have very fragile builds; if an opponent actually manages to land a hit on a gawk dragon, the gawk dragon will go down instantly. While they do have powerful bites, their bites can't snap through everything; they can't bite their way through particularly hard metals, so they have trouble fighting against heavily armored opponents.

## Diet

Gawk dragons are petrivores, and primarily eat metals. They are especially fond of pure gold and silver, as these metals are rather soft and therefore easy for them to chew through.