Unique Dragons of Awe and Horror
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- This one is not yet in its prime, but still is to be feared— its head is a frilled thing, a mixture of reptilian savageness and the vanity of fishes and a tight curl of goatish horns. Its body is like a snake’s, but akin to a centipede, with human arms writhing furiously as legs. Its shiny black carapace is like an abominable crab or beetle. Its tail is barbed like a scorpion’s. It is the size of an elephant. Its breath is a shimmering wave in space, and then all is melting and desiccation. Avoid prolonged eye contact, lest it learn the faces of all you love. It can blink in and out of space. it resides deep underground, pray you don’t meet it there. It prefers to feast upon gold.
- Old, scarred, and horrible, its head is that of a haughty raptor, with a cruel scythe of a beak as well as a pair of horns, like long lances, to gut the heavens. Its body is like a snake’s, but akin to a centipede, with human arms writhing furiously as legs. Fine, delicate, opalescent scales are its skin. Its tail lashes back and forth like an angry cat’s. It is the size of a large dog, or a small horse. It can spit balls of fire, lightning fast, of strange hue, and foe chasing. It has no organs nor vitals, only pestilence. A piercing attack will do little to it. Ever roaming the land, when the moon is dark. It prefers to feast upon innocents.
- Vastly ancient, but having grown only stronger through its strife, its head is less of a head, and more a cage of long teeth, like some freak fish from the ocean’s sunless depths. Its body resembles the common imagined wyrm, but with three pairs of eagle’s wings. It has a skin of living stone. Held aloft, its tail is delicately scaled with poisonous frills. It is the size of a bear. From deep within its gullet, it belches forth a great deadly cloud of flame. it resides deep underground, pray you don’t meet it there. It prefers to feast upon blood.
- Bestial and savage, its head is that of the maligned slothful crocodile. Its body resembles the common imagined wyrm, but with three pairs of eagle’s wings. Great scales, that would shatter any blade raised against it, adorn its hide. Held aloft, its tail is delicately scaled with poisonous frills. It is the size of a horse. It may breathe forth a blazing cone of fire. Avoid prolonged eye contact, lest it learn the faces of all you love. It will strike at minstrels above all other targets. It is found in the ruins of people. It prefers to feast upon rare books.
- Warped, and possessing of witchery, its head is that of the maligned slothful crocodile, and a ring of other mouths ring its face, softly singing worship. Its body resembles the common imagined wyrm, but with three pairs of eagle’s wings. Thick bony plates, with bone studs arrayed regularly between them, protect it. Its tail lashes back and forth like an angry cat’s. It is the size to devour elephants. Its very breath is death on the air, wilting plant life and filling lungs with vile fluid. Its claws are long, insinuations of glass, that suck a man’s blood dry in moments. Ever roaming the land, when the moon is dark. It prefers to feast upon the substances of Carp.