Purple Dragon

The purple dragon is about as common as the blue dragon, they are unsocial when it comes to beings outside of their immediate subspecies, living in small groups of purple dragons within the mountain-tops as far from other civilization they can be.

## Physical Information

### Resistance

* Lightning damage
* Force damage

## Sociocultural Information

### Place of Origin

Sokyal

*"The purple dragon, quiet boring really... oh those are the ones that breathe lightning? I retract my statement!"* - Dr. Kilagam Kraham

## Description

Purple dragons are extremely social when it comes to other purple dragons. They will live in small communities, if you will, of about 4 dragons with it most commonly being two pairs of mated dragons which will also raise their children together with. When it comes to outsiders though, purple dragons are far less friendly, aggressive and territorial; almost on par with the infamous red dragon; especially with those of the Achromatic variety of dragon. However, unlike the red dragon, a purple dragon is a coward, if the fight begins to look as if it is in the favor of their enemy, the purple dragon will swiftly retreat and return with their group in order to ensure a win. This is why when dragon hunters are targeting purple dragons they will route out members of a group one by one and do their best to make sure that during battle the purple dragon cannot escape or it will surely mean death.

### Abilities

Purple dragons have thick and flat scales in a more circular shape like the scales of a fish, with a crown of horns atop their head with the two on the outerside of the head being the longer horns. They generally will keep themselves quite clean through their favored activity of swimming, while they are not very good at swimming they enjoy doing it and as such most have shimmering clean scales at nearly all times.

They are significantly lighter than most of the other chromatic dragons and because of this, are able to move at an improved speed which they use to their advantage, always being the first to strike and striking in quick rapid blows.

#### Lair

A purple dragon will form their lair on a spacious mountain-top which they will share with the other members of the group freely. They often prefer for their lair to be close to a body a water that can at least somewhat submerge them in, though if this is not available it will certainly not be the end for the dragon.

There are no noticeable differences in the area around a purple dragons lair after they move in, though it is typically noted that their are commonly more storms which may not even rain but just be lighting and thunder; it is unknown if this is entirely correlated to the presence of a purple dragon nearby.

#### Breath Weapon

The purple dragons breath weapon is a strike of lightning in a direct line. It can only target one individual but because of this it is strengthened in power and force with the ability to completely fry small creatures like a dog, they will prefer to target spellcasters first, as they typically pose the most threat to a purple dragon.

## Reproduction

A purple dragon will often have a set mate for 200-340 years with them often getting bored of their current partner and opting out of the relationship, however before that point a purple dragon may foster several batches of eggs; the hatching rate, though, is quite low. In order for a purple dragon to hatch, they must be struck by naturally occurring lightning but in this process their is a chance that the embryo can be cooked instead. Not entirely a loss as the purple dragon will then promptly consume the egg, shell and all, to preserve energy and resources.

Due to this need for the egg to even hatch, purple dragons are quickly growing closer and closer to falling into history. There is little that anyone but the dragons themselves can do about it though there is really nothing even the dragons can do to aid in the hatching of their children as it needs to be purely naturally occurring and not aiding by the dragon at all.

## Harvesting

Purple dragons are fill to the brim with valuable articles for alchemy, spellcasting, and food making. A purple dragon will most be valued for its scales which many like to use in basic fashion and armor with their teeth being a close second in order to create various blades. Purple dragon horns are used in spellcasting but also to create lightning rods which have a better chance of attracting lightning than normal metal lightning rods.