Dragons



Giant fire breathing lizards that never stop growing. These intelligent beasts used to rule a large portion of the continent, before the uprising of the merpeople. Long had the dragons reigned, and were not expecting any rebellion. Faced with spears that could pierce their scaly iron hard armour that were covered with a decaying poison, the dragons were losing the war quickly. In an attempt to throw the merpeople back, the dragons created the ogres as idiotic shock troops who never question orders. This did nothing to deter the merpeople. Falling back to their island caves and volcanoes, the dragons prepared to fight for their lives. The merpeople never came, but the fear of them remained in every living dragon, and so they rarely leave their islands. Of the four dragons left, three were female, so their race lived on, but barely. No longer recognized as a major, and often real, race, the dragons enjoy the low key life they now live. They range in colour from radiant red to emerald green to deep blues. They come with an array of facial horns that grow based on the physical strength of the dragon, not it's age. Spikes along their backs vary in size depending on how much magic the dragon uses.
 * Feared
 * breathe fire
 * hate merpeople
 * rarely leave their islands
 * >5 feet tall
 * est. pop. 350
 * life expectancy 3791.8 years
 * dominate mid and close range combat
 * cannot fight at long ranges

Growth curve:
 * 1) born at 1.5 meters in height, 2 meters long, .5 meters wide
 * 2) neck and tail makes up a quarter of body length
 * 3) in the first five years of life, each parameter increases tenfold
 * 4) every ten years for next fifty the parameters increase twofold
 * 5) every hundred years after that the parameters increase twofold