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Compatability: All Sandpainters
The Common painters are the most abundant group of Painters and the ancestral form for all other painter species. They are peaceful and bountiful all across Hai’li. Most live in communities in the painter canyon dwelling in the cliffs and cave systems. Each are around 7 feet tall. Theirs is a carefree race, wild and free.
What is a Painter: A Painter is a medium sized dragon, about 7 feet tall and 12 feet long fully grown, that can give a powerful bite when provoked but typically friendly, playful, and highly intelligent. They have excellent hearing and eyesight during the day. Similar to birds of prey but they can see no better than humans during the night. Their powers include being able to breathe fire like most dragons, amazing speed and grace when flying and simple magic powers. Each painter has different abilities such as healing, wind, fire, or levitation.
They have Long necks, fins on the sides of their heads and spines down the length of their backs. They come in every color and patterns, but it can also relate to where they live. Mild colored painters are found in the deserts while vibrant painters can be found in the forest. They have sharp claws for climbing and grasping along with sharp teeth.
Compatability: All Sandpainters
The Aviadracus are the closest relative to the Common Painters and as such they are able to interbreed with them. They are peaceful and can be found in higher numbers than their cousins the Merdracs but are rarer than the Common Painter. The Aviadracus are mainly nocturnal preferring to spend their time flying under the stars. They are some of the best Astronomers, using the stars and position of the moon to navigate around the globe. During the day they roost in large old forest and in cliffs.
What is a Aviadracus: A Aviadracus is a small sized dragon, roughly 6 feet in height when fully grown, that has feathered wings and smaller feathered wings around the head area on females, friendly, playful, and highly intelligent. They have excellent eyesight for seeing in the dark and above human eyesight for during the day. Their powers include breathing fire, and they have control over the air currents around them allowing them to fly at greater speeds and heights.
Compatability: All Sandpainters
The Wyvern Painters are one of the more unfriendly residences on Hal’ia. Few painters will interact with them since they are known to get into fights with other species and within their own. Little are seen of them since they spend the majority of their time in the air only landing when they need rest or to eat. Since they lack front arms they walk on their hind legs using their wings as support when traveling on the ground. Most have tattered wings, ripping the fragile membranes on rocks and bushes as they walk. Wyverns live in small groupings in the Painters canyons but spend little time there, preferring their solitude in the air.
What is a Wyvern: are average size dragons with only 4 limbs compared to the common painters which have 6, including the wings. Many consider wyverns to be ugly and aggressive, but they come in vibrant colors and patterns and have been known to be caring and loving parents. They have broad wings to catch as much wind as they can to stay airborne for longer spans of time. They are also known as storm painters since they are often found following larger thunder heads across the sky. They find nothing more fun than flying around the clouds dodging lightning and using the winds from the storm to create daring aerobatics displays.
They have Long necks and long serpent like bodies. Their tails end with a large flap used for steering and quick maneuvers. They have strong hind limbs to support their bodies are they walk on the ground. The skin of a wyvern is very smooth and slick with the smallest of scales to reduce drag in the air.
Compatability: All Sandpainters
The P’an-lun Painters are an ancient group of Painters who live in the foggy mountains that ring around Crater Lake. Very few are seen in this difficult to reach area. Most live in communities and temples at the top of the peaks and cliffs over looking the crater. They average around 20 feet in length and 5-6 feet tall. Theirs is a peaceful race with rituals and enlightenment. Little threats them since few come to the temples.
What is a P’an-lun: A P’an-lun is a medium sized coiling dragon, averaging around 20 feet in length and 5-6 feet tall when fully grown. They are highly intelligent, peaceful, and placid. They prefer enlightenment to wars and fighting. They are experts on Astronomy and physics and most anything to do with science. The powers include floating and flying despite lacking wings. They have control over wind and mist, using it to their advantage to keeping their temples hidden from prying eyes.
They have Long necks, long hair on their heads, chins, tails and elbows. Colors can range to just about any thing in every shade. They are covered in small scales that are smooth against the sides of their skin to give them a smooth and shiny appearance. They also have larger plate like scales over their heads and eyes to protect their heads from impacts of falling rocks around the cliffs and mountain sides. The body is long and serpent like to coil around branches and float on the breeze that whips up through the Sandpainters Canyon that divides the mountain range.
What do P’an-Lun do?: P’an-lun’s are scientists, believing in a greater existence in the universe and following the paths to enlightenment. They have great observatory temples that they use to map the stars and study the universe to better understand how it works. If there is a mystery to be solved they will try to understand it. They are also the masters of Silk Making and Jade Carving, and have been using silken pillows as Nests for thousands of years!
Compatability: All Sandpainters
The Chi’ lin Painters are more unusual group of Painters that can be found in the western grasslands of Hal’ia. They are very social creatures keeping in small herds. They have a long lasting alliance with the P'an Lun and will often Mine Jade for the P'an Lun to work with, in exchange for items since they lack hands such as shelters, silk and carpentry.
What is a Chi'Lin: A Chi'Lin is a medium sized dragon, averaging around 7-8 feet in height and 12-13 feet tall when fully grown. They are highly intelligent, peaceful, and placid, but will defend their young with tremendous strength and numbers. the females have spurrs to help construct and defend their nests. Their bodies are covered in thick scales for protection and long lush hair. They have a single horn which males use to defend territories and in courtship displays. Females have slightly smaller horns that they use only in defense.
They have relatively long necks and long hair on their heads (Males have Lion Like Manes and females are more horse like), tails and elbows. Colors can range to just about any thing in every shade. They also have larger plate like scales eyes to protect their heads from impacts of each others horns in courtships displays. Unlike other painters they lack the ability to fly but they make up for this with amazing speeds and agility on the ground.
The powers of a Chi’ lin is earth based. They have great control over wood, earth and rock elements. It’s rumored that having a chi’lin around causes plants and trees to grow more lush and provide good earth for farming.
What do Chi'Lin do?: One of their main jobs is to mine for minerals and gems such as Jade to trade for goods they can not create them selves. They also are philosophers, exploring the meanings of reality. Like the P'an Lun they are for expanding their minds and enlightenment, but tend to practice using their minds to increase abilities such as healing, Telekinesis, and the other Psionic abilities.
MERDRAC
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Compatability: Only Other Merdracs
The Merdrac's are an ancient group of Dragons distantly related to The Sandpainters who over time lost their wings and evolved to live in the Sea. They are peaceful but very few in numbers. Most live in communities on coral flats off the coast and in other tropical waters of the Oceans. Each are around the size of a typical killer whale. Theirs is a carefree race, wild and free. The only threats they have are deterred by their powers of poisons and sonic stunning, and camouflage. They come in a variety of different colors. The Merdracs are a peaceful, playful species that don’t mind being seen.
What is a Merdrac: A Merdrac is a medium sized aquatic dragon, about the size of an orca when fully grown, that is toxic when provoked, friendly, playful, and highly intelligent. They have echolocation and the ability to change colors and textures. Their powers include being able to stun with sonar and they have control over the currents around them. Alone its minor, but as a pod they can turn calm seas into a raging torrent of waves, often affecting the weather above it. It’s almost always calm, warm, and sunny where they live because of this power.
They have Long necks, a frill crown around their head, and frills down their back, tipped with little poisonous dart spines. Colors are usually vibrant and tropical, though since they live all over the waters, they can come in almost any shade. Usually their skin is smooth, rubbery, and silky, with a thick layer of blubber underneath. Different clans have different hand types most common being paws with retractable claws, digger hands with large, spade like nails, and gripping hands with talons. Eyes have a transparent lid that closes over like goggles to keep eyesight clear underwater, though they see mostly through echolocation, so their heads have a slight budge to them. Usually hidden by the frill.
What do Merdrac's do?:A Merdrac is sort of a grounds keeper for the ocean, keeping the balance right in the fragile ecosystems for the fish and vegetation. They also are a highly mystic breed, often used as healers and shamans. Part of the pod breaks away to harvest kelp and hunt fish, but usually raise it around their homes so they can leave the reefs to nature. They also are guardians to sailors, the traveling pods usually following ships to make sure they stay safe but also cause no trouble. If a ship is known to cause destruction to nature, it will eventually find itself sunk as a makeshift reef and its crew are found scattered on islands with no memories but for giant, tentacles monsters with hard bumpy skin attacking. A guise they take in order to have their bodies safe from the spears and cannons, but also to keep themselves from being caught as the attackers. Unless they are seen as a trusted friend, then they will go away with a life time of memories and an invitation to return.
Abilities: Able to swim with top speeds of 70-80 miles per hour, excellent eyesight for both in and out of water, toxic fin tips with a highly toxic poison that could take down a whale (Only poisonous if provoked) echolocation; they can stun prey with a sonic discharge that also disrupts electronics, Octopus like skin, allowing them to change color and texture at will. They have the ability to make the water They have the ability to make the water breathable to land dwellers down to 100 feet for short periods of time
GROWTH PROCESS
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The Nest
This is the very beginning of a growing SandPainter. Painters often produce two eggs but there have been know to be twins born from a single egg. As eggs, the gender of the painter is not known but hints of the color and pattern can be found by examining the brightly colored egg shells.
While in the Egg stage the painters are cared for in a nest by a nursery SandPainter who cares for them until they are ready to hatch. Once hatched, they will reach a hatchling stage and be read for your care.
A note about eggs: The egg matches the mother, not the breed of painter inside. One may find themselves with a common egg, and end up with a baby P'an Lun
Hatchling
As hatchlings, painters are already hunting for their selves but still need tender care to be sure they don’t run into trouble. At this time they are still unable to fly with their small wings but that never keeps them from trying. Better be sure there is nothing that can be easily climbed or its going to start raining mini dragons.
Teens
Welcome to the hardest part of parenthood. Raging hormones and rebellious streaks. Don’t threat, its only a stage, and it will pass soon enough. Now they are nearly fully developed and will start to try to attract the opposite sex but they are not ready to breed yet.
Adults
At last they are adults and are at the breeding age. For most Painters this is the final stage of development. Only few with high magical powers and strong ancestry have been know to continue on to the elder and stage.
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