Aeria Gloris Dragon

Appearance/Basic Anatomy

• Technically amphipteres, have seven sets of wings lining the body and six sets of fins along the tail.
• Outer layer extremely smooth and almost velvety-feeling, highly sensitive, and outer layer is shed in one piece regularly.
• Neck is long and flexible, orbited by a ring of bright blue crystals.
• Crystals are mostly composed of excess minerals in the dragon’s diet along with traces of mana, and are produced in the dragon’s body and spit out.
• Orbiting crystals can be removed from the ring, and the dragon may consume them to replenish depleted minerals.

Hatchling Behavior

• Eggs are hardy and typically hidden, left to hatch on their own.
• Wing buds are present at hatching but hidden under outer layer of skin while they develop.
• Alert and relatively mobile at a young age, able to hunt small prey.
• Around the time spatial magic begins to develop, wings are exposed during shedding. This reduces ground mobility and forces the hatchling to learn to fly.
• Hatchlings raised among other dragons or by humans are very skittish at first but become sociable and form deep attachments to their family.
• Fins develop on maturity.

Adult Behavior

• Perceptive, typically non-confrontational unless hungry, and not social unless raised around others. Hard to find as a result.
• Often teleport away when approached, or if agitated, may teleport their attacker or fling them via manipulation of gravity.
• Physically rather fragile and well aware of it; avoid physical contact even if socialized when young.
• Unsocialized individuals breed opportunistically on locating the scent of a compatible mate.
• Socialized individuals are not terribly picky about mates either, and are almost never monogamous.
• Blue glow from eyes and markings on side and wings is bioelectrical in nature.
• Will shock any predator that does manage to grab on in hopes of dislodging it so the dragon can teleport to safety.

Habitat

• Not necessarily confined to any one habitat, but seem to prefer higher elevations.
• When not hunting, tend to wander about seemingly at random.
• Not territorial, will not even acknowledge others of their own breed unless they are a compatible mate or they are very hungry.
• Tend to hide their eggs in crevices on rocky mountaintops or loosely buried in ravines just below the treeline.

Diet

• Carnivorous, prefer to eat prey whole.
• Land-bound prey is killed by teleporting it high into the air, while flying prey is usually constricted and shocked with electricity.
• Hatchlings tend to eat rodents and other small animals.
• Sources of mana will also be consumed, including the mana-heavy flora and fauna.
• Will eat humans and even other dragons unless taught not to as a hatchling.