Dragon Breed Data
Breed Name: Yellow Reaper
National Loyalty: Britain
Physical Characteristics: Golden middle-weights; white stripes on side
Special Abilities:
Known Members: Immortalis, Messoria, Felicita, Chalcedony, Gladius, Cantarella, Ventiosa, Dirigion, Tharunka
Species Notes
Common British breed of dragons.
Sir Edward Howe has noted that the Yellow Reaper breed is unfairly maligned because of its familiarity. However they have some good qualities that recommend them to this much use: they are hardy (while not being picky eaters), unbothered by heat extremes, and almost always good humored. Ordinarily, they weigh between 12 and 15 tons, with extremes as low as ten and as high as seventeen; they have "nicely proportioned" dimensions of 50 feet length and 80 feet wingspan. Other dragons have noted that the Yellow Reapers beat their wings at the same speed as the Fleur-de-Nuit, making them indistinguishable in the dark.
Yellow Reapers are clannish and prefer to work in a group with other Yellow Reapers. However, the practice of the Aerial Corps is to distribute them among mixed groups of dragons for balance.
Messoria and Immortalis, the only two Yellow Reapers in Lily's formation, were also the only two formation members who displayed an instinctive and unavoidable tendency to drop when another dragon dived on them from above. This may indicate that this response is more common in Yellow Reapers than in other breeds.
Yellow Reapers are said to have contributed to almost every dragon bloodline in the British Isles.
Breed Name: Yellow Reaper
National Loyalty: Britain
Physical Characteristics: Golden middle-weights; white stripes on side
Special Abilities:
Known Members: Immortalis, Messoria, Felicita, Chalcedony, Gladius, Cantarella, Ventiosa, Dirigion, Tharunka
Species Notes
Common British breed of dragons.
Sir Edward Howe has noted that the Yellow Reaper breed is unfairly maligned because of its familiarity. However they have some good qualities that recommend them to this much use: they are hardy (while not being picky eaters), unbothered by heat extremes, and almost always good humored. Ordinarily, they weigh between 12 and 15 tons, with extremes as low as ten and as high as seventeen; they have "nicely proportioned" dimensions of 50 feet length and 80 feet wingspan. Other dragons have noted that the Yellow Reapers beat their wings at the same speed as the Fleur-de-Nuit, making them indistinguishable in the dark.
Yellow Reapers are clannish and prefer to work in a group with other Yellow Reapers. However, the practice of the Aerial Corps is to distribute them among mixed groups of dragons for balance.
Messoria and Immortalis, the only two Yellow Reapers in Lily's formation, were also the only two formation members who displayed an instinctive and unavoidable tendency to drop when another dragon dived on them from above. This may indicate that this response is more common in Yellow Reapers than in other breeds.
Yellow Reapers are said to have contributed to almost every dragon bloodline in the British Isles.
Breed Name: Imperial (Qin-Lung)
National Loyalty: China
Physical Characteristics: Coloration from black to blue; large
Special Abilities: They can hover in the air by beating their wings backward and forward
Known Members: Lung Qin Gao, Lung Qin Mei, Lung Qin Shu
Species Notes
A very intelligent breed, the Imperial is nearly identical to the prized Celestials, differing only in the Imperials' lack of ruff and tendrils. Occasionally the mating of two Imperials would result in the birth of a Celestial. Imperials had five talons and six-spined wings and can hover in the air by beating their wings backward and forward, a trait shared by the Celestials. Despite their obviously close relationship, the Imperial does not share the Celestials' ability to produce the Divine Wind.
The "Lung Qin" in all the names of Imperials means "Imperial Dragon".
Breed Name: Anglewing
National Loyalty: British
Physical Characteristics: Middle-weight; golden-yellow
Special Abilities: Maneuvering in tight circles
Known Members: Obversaria, Velocitas, Palliatia
Species Notes
Anglewings are a small breed of dragon known for adroit maneuvering. They are only a little bit larger than Yellow Reapers.
Anglewing eggs are golden-brown spotted with bright yellow.
Origin Of Name?
There are several butterfly species collectively known as "anglewings" for the irregularly angular outline of their wings, whose mottled greyish-brown undersides resemble a tattered dead leaf when the butterfy rests on a twig. Anglewings' topside patterns are more varied, but most are tawny orange-brown with narrow black edges and small (sometimes graduated) black spots.