Drakes
Smaller, more bestial, and less intelligent cousins of true dragons, drakes are nonetheless dangerous to settlements around where they dwell. While they lack the awesome power of a true dragon's breath weapon, drakes do all have some sort of breath attack.
River Drakes
River drakes can dwell abover or below the water, and are equipped with fins allowing them to swim with ease. Their Breath Weapon is a ball of acidic mucus.Flame Drakes
Flame drakes can be found anywhere, but prefer to live in fiery volcanoes. They sometimes share territory with more powerful groups or creatures to avoid being forced out. Their breath weapon is a ball of fire.Jungle Drakes
Jungle drakes are well adapted to moving through the trees, either while flying or climbing. They have a potent venom in the stingers on the ends of their tails, and their saliva breath weapon is poisonous.Frost Drakes
Frost drakes dwell in the coldest and most remote regions of the world, and they travel vast distances across their territories to hunt. They are more prideful than most drakes, and more likely to hunt alone. Their breath weapon is an exploding ball of freezing mist.Desert Drakes
Like frost drakes, desert drakes claim large territories. They are known to hunt any living thing in the desert visible from the air. They can burrow as well as fly, and their breath weapon is a ball of slashing sand.Shadow Drakes
One of the smallest varieties of drake, about the size of a housecat, shadow drakes rely more on trickery than brute force. Their breath weapon is a ball of cold shadow that snuffs out light.Sea Drakes
More adapted to life in the open water than river drakes, sea drakes are mostly solitary, and their hunting environment under the waves makes them a much smaller problem for land-dwelling humanoids. Their breath weapon is a ball of lightning.Wyverns
Scholars disagree on whether wyverns are really drakes at all, as they lack some commonalities to all other drakes, such as a breath attack. Instead, they have a venomous stinger and the strangth to carry their prey short distances. They are not generally social, but can be entertained with tales of cruelty, and may agree to help another creature if they are properly compensated, but these arrangements don't tend to last long due to wyverns' prideful natures.Basic Information
Anatomy
Drakes have two legs and a pair of wings at their shoulders, unlike true dragons which have four legs and wings on their backs.
Genetics and Reproduction
Drakes lay a clutch of 2-8 eggs every five years. The eggs incubate in the drake's natural environment and hatch after 3-6 weeks. A drake reaches full maturity after 2 years.
Behaviour
Like dragons, drakes also make hoards of treasure they find, but, due to their lower intelligence, they sometimes keep worthless pieces of junk in their collections.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Drakes of the same variety are much more inclined to living together and forming groups than true dragons. Humanoids call these small raiding parties "rampages" for their ferocity and destructiveness.
Uses, Products & Exploitation
Drake eggs are highly valued for spells and as a rare delicacy, but especially for raising drakes as mounts.
Average Intelligence
Drakes are far less intelligent than true dragons, and are driven mostly by instinct. They are not entirely animalistic, however, and are still capable of simple speech in draconic.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Like dragons, drakes all have darkvision and a strong sense of smell.
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