Copper Dragon

Copper Dragon were the fifth released dragons of the one week long "7th Birthday" release on Dragon Cave. Every single day from May 22, 2013 - May 28, 2013 a new dragon was released to the cave.

 The other 7th Birthday dragons were:  (in order of their release)


 * Day 1 - Black Capped Teimarr
 * Day 2 - Gilded Bloodscales
 * Day 3 - Black Teas
 * Day 4 - Hellhorses
 * Day 5 - Coppers
 * Day 6 - Blacktips
 * Day 7 - Seragamma Wyvern

Egg
"This egg gleams with a reddish shine."

Hatchling
"Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends a lot of time stalking and pouncing playfully on the tails of adult dragons nearby."

Mature Hatchling
"Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends a lot of time stalking and pouncing playfully on the tails of adult dragons nearby. And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing."

Adult
"Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise."

Breeding Results
The color of a Copper egg depends on these factors: Information was taken from Fiona BlueFire's post.
 * The biome the CB Copper egg was picked up from.
 * [[File:Male.png]] Male Copper x any female dragon = Egg color of its mother's biome.
 * If the mother has no biome or was caught BEFORE the biomes were added (June 10, 2011), it will be the color of the Copper father.
 * [[File:Female.png]] Female Copper x any male dragon = Egg color of the female Copper.
 * Random (should never happen)

As many users stated, there still seem to be some errors with the breeding of the Coppers. Read more in the Copper Dragon Breeding topic on the forums.

Sprite Artists

 * Fiona BlueFire (All)
 * Nakase (All)

Additional Information
Fiona BlueFire stated in a forum post that these dragons will not be classed as rare, they will most likely be uncommon. "Fiona BlueFire"

- I"m just going to go on record now and say these are not classed as rares. They were never intended to be rare, despite what some think they remember seeing. They were intended to be fairly common (not cave blocker common) and I checked with TJ to make sure I was allowed to say that THEY ARE NOT RARE! Cuz they're not. A bit uncommon, maybe. I can't control how hard they become to catch due to popularity, but they are not gold/silver rare.

Fiona BlueFire stated in an other post that: "Fiona BlueFire"

- The descriptions for these were written when there was only one color planned. I guess neither of us thought about changing that when we added the other colors. But they'll continue to drop in all biomes as they were during the release.

Fiona BlueFire further explained the colorations of the dragons: "Fiona BlueFire"

- Actually, the colors are rainbow, verdigris and liver of sulfur. A rainbow patina on copper is achieved with heat. We decided to use that as the normal coloration of the dragons, rather than a shiny plain copper, mostly because we both liked how they looked so much. Verdigris is another name for oxidized copper. If you look at the American Statue of Liberty, you see a fine example of verdigris. Salt and high humidity are conditions that speed up the oxidation. The Coast and the Jungle seemed like the places where those conditions would be found. Liver of sulfur is an acid that can be applied to copper to create a particular coloration. In this case we chose it for places where conditions are particularly harsh, like the Volcanoes and the Desert.

Fiona BlueFire explained which coloration is assigned to which Copper dragon here: "Fiona BlueFire"

- *Red - rainbow - normal → ''"3 alts" meaning 3 versions of the same dragon. There are only 3. There is no mystery 4th. Yes, it's a metal. But not rare!
 * Green - verdigris - oxidized - corroded → [[File:Copper_Dragon3_male.png]]
 * Brown - liver of sulfur - tarnished → [[File:Copper_Dragon1_male.png]]''

Fiona BlueFire revealed that there used to be four color variations: "Fiona BlueFire"

- Just for your historical pleasure, there was a fourth color originally - bright shiny new copper. It was the base for the other colors. Originally we were going to have that be the main color and also have however many of the "alt" colors TJ let us get away with, but when we put it next to the new colors we decided it didn't make the cut. Trust us, it was a good decision.

Nakase here: The Copper dragons were first drawn when the Cave had no wyverns. If Golds had western anatomy, Silvers with asian anatomy, then Coppers should be wyverns to collect the three major anatomy styles. My plan was to make metalic dragons more accessible, so when the option of multiple colors became available it was seriously awesome. Originally when I designed Coppers they were grumpy combative creatures, and had many battle scars. Once the spriting commenced, we had to clean them up because it was way too busy, and it clashed with Fiona's breed description. -Nakase out