radioactive_dragon

Test obsidian publish… just as a fun way to write and have things online
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• sub section of high wizard?

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The #maw_dragon

Explore the M.AW dragons that ride in the sky.

• They are in conflict with the sky riders, who use a bunch of #analog technology, because MAW creatures will sometimes "hunt" electronic signals and power sources.
• The titanium serrations of it's jaws
• The radioactive fires of it's maw

The

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A wizard walks the path, a diminutive drakeling at his side. The draekelings were creations of the biohackers in the mid 3600s… looking to find a way to fill the avian gap in the foodchain, now that the environment was hotter, warmer more chaotic. Cold blooded lizards did better, able to regulate their bodily activity over longer lapsing periods of food. The drakeling, about 18 inches long from tip to tail - had a lithe scaled body, brown with flecks of red and orange. Its wings, were almost vestigial in earlier generations. But after time, they grew strong enough to support not merely gliding descents down through swarms of bugs, but flapping, and catching aerials to traverse greater distances.

And then of course… the larger, more long lives drakes began to find more abundant prey in the radioactive zones. Over several hundred years, a scant few, that had been bred for size and longevity mutated. They lived in the radioactive wastes, enjoying the heat that bubbled and escaped from underground fires burning for centuries.

They lived as apex predators of land and sky. The dragons of the nuclear wastes.

Authors note: It’s a common misconception that dragons can breathe fire however, these specific beasts are quite comfortable with radiation, and indeed, consume such a larger quantity of the stuffs as it increases in concentration moving up the food chain. Their breath itself, their spite and bile WILL wilt, melt and occasionally burn through substance. More of an ‘acid or poison spit’ than a specific fire breathe. Certain subspecies developed the habit of regurgitating the stomach bile out, to partially decompose their prey after a hunt. Indeed, a pile of flesh that has been marked by the radioactive bile of a dragon will NOT be touched by any other hunting beast in quite a large vicinity.