Decay Dragon

* Juvenile
* Baby
* Egg

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*The **decay dragon** is the star of spooky bedtime story in the Vale, giving it somewhat of an unfair reputation. Parents tell their children not to play tricks, or else the **decay dragon** will drag them from their beds and bring them to a horrible land without candy! In reality, though, the **decay dragon's** interests are more about eating treats, and less about dragging little witches and wizards off into the night.*
    —Nogard's description of the **Decay Dragon** in The Book of Dragons
The **Decay Dragon** is a rare triple hybrid of the Fire, Earth, and Cold elements. It's main element is Fire. It is also categorized under the Spooky element as well.

## Abilities

### Other Abilities

The **decay dragon** doesn't even need its weapons, its scary look scares everyone, including wraith dragons, away. They even seem to be resistant to the freezing eyes of the wraith dragon. As if it wasn't scary enough, the **decay dragon** can remove it's head and re-attach it at will.

## Habitat

### Regions

**Decay dragons** can be found in the regions surrounding Bocartes and Taphon. The are said to live in the Land Without Candy but that's just an old wives tail.

## Lifestyle

### Social Order

**Decay dragons** are solitary and normally live on their own.

## When in a park

### Habitats

**Decay dragons** don't have preferences on habitats but they can only be placed in Fire, Earth, Cold, Spooky, or Omnitats.

## Life Cycle

### Mating

Since **decay dragons** are so isolated from others of their species, they will immediately mate if they meet another of the sex. The male will tailor to his pregnant mate's need, as pregnant **decay dragons** go into hibernation during their pregnancy. The male collects food for his mate, until the egg is laid, and the female leaves for the male to care for the infant.

### Birth

After the egg is given to the male, he will bury it halfway into the ground. It collects the rotting flesh of other animals and puts it into a pile. A little more than three quarters through its incubation, the father will crack the egg prematurely.

### Infancy

After the baby is born, it will start feeding on the dead flesh the father gathered. This will hopefully sustain the baby until adolescence.

### Adolescence

After the pile is finished, the juvenile **decay dragon** will set off to find more food.

### Life Span

**Decay dragons** grow up rather quickly, but have a long life after that, living to up to 90 years.

## History

### Discovery

In the southern town of Taphon, there was lore about a monstrous creature who roamed the streets of Taphon and feasted on the flesh of children. Horrified by this gruesome thought, wizards shrugged this off as a story to scare children. It was found that the **decay dragon** was, in fact, real, when it attacked the candy supply of Enzik IV, who, naturally, thought the dragon was there to kill him. Enzik ran out of the forest, screaming, until a group of wizards came to where he encountered the dragon and registered it as an official dragon. That **decay dragon** is now under the care of Whitbee in his dragon park, under the name Carry-on. The story about the **decay dragons** has also become a bit less terrifying, as the decay **dragons** are now said to take children to a land without candy. Problem is, children are much more horrified by that!

### Origin of Name

**Decay dragons** are one of the only detritivorous dragons in the world, and thus get their name from their food preference of decaying matter.