Dragons have fascinated me for a long time. I've especially enjoyed the
dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey and also those by her son
Todd McCaffrey. In the book I'm writing I've tried not to copy things I
read in their books but of course there will be similarities.
Some of my dragons have telepathy. Others don't. My dragons were
created magically and no natural equivalent existed before powerful
magic users made them. Each color has distinct abilities and different
breath weapons. I'll give some detail about many of them without giving
away everything as I feel some of it is better left to discovery while
reading the book.
Gold dragons breath fire and have no problem using this against
people that get in their way. White dragons have a chill breath that
freezes air and the water in the air as well as adding enough substance
to encase someone in ice or at the very least give them hypothermia very
fast. Silver dragons send out an ultra sonic blast when they open their
mouth that can pulverize just about anything. Blue dragons breath out
noxious fumes that is similar to tear gas. And then of course my dragons
can cast spells and have other magical abilities.
For the above mentioned dragons, one of their main enemies is the
red dragon, largest of all the dragons. They breath fire like the gold
do, but the similarity ends there. Their abilities are mental and they
are more intelligent than the gold and green dragons. They live on a
different continent than the other dragons until the time they decide to
move in and begin fighting against the others who are coming out of
their long period of hiding.
I've been thinking about dragon flight speeds recently and trying to
decide what they should be. I am thinking that the ride-able sized ones
should have a normal flying speed of 50 miles per hour. When pursuing
they can go as fast as 70 MPH and of course faster when diving or when
flying with the wind. I mostly needed to figure this out so as to get
flying times consistent in my novel as I have found a problem right now
that seems like it took them too long to arrive somewhere. I feel it
also makes sense to allow them to be able to fly two to four days
straight without sleeping and without stopping but that is subject to
change at this point.
With my dragons if they are out to get you and can see you, you are
in trouble. They have things far more devastating and greater range than
their breath weapons.
In my world these dragons want to live in
peace along side human and elf nations and so don't go out of their way
to hurt them. In fact their creators actually created plants and trees
that give them a much better food supply than any living thing could and
they tend to eat those things. So as my dragon's go about forming their
nation, building defenses, and planning for the worst they try to avoid
killing people. Then finally an alliance of enemy nations make them mad
enough and the dragons unleash a massive assault the like of which has
never before been seen in my world.
The main characters are humans that the dragons magically enhanced before they were born. One was raised by a silver dragon and the others were raised by humans with no knowledge of the dragons. When enemies launch a surprise attack and begin to track down their enhanced humans, now teenagers, the dragons are forced to recall them early. Humans who help the dragons care for the plants and animals in their forests are called foresters in my novel.
