[Species] Pernese Dragons

[Danikat]

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Type: Dragon. (Reptillian and mammalian physiology)
They vary in size from about twice the size of a large horse in the 1st generation to 42m long at their biggest. The smallest are green, followed by blue, brown and bronze with the biggest being gold. The green and gold are female but only golds are fertile, all the other colours are male and fertile. All Pernese dragons have six limbs (four legs, 2 wings) a long neck and tail, essentially they resemble traditional European dragons.

Place of Origin: Pern, 3rd planet of the Rukbat system in the Sagittarius sector.

Biologically Granted Abilites: - Teleportation, a process commonly known as going between. A dragon can move itself and any cargo or passengers it's carrying to any point in space or time that they can visulise. That requirement places certain limitations on the ability; it is possible to travel into the future but only if that future can be visulised accurately, any mistakes will result in staying between forever and dying from asphyxiation (as there is no air there). For the same reason dragons can't go to a place in the present or past they haven't seen or been shown. It is however possible for them to teleport into lethal environments such as a vacume or solid rock but this usually results in death not long after. All dragons are born able to teleport but it takes practice and careful training to be able to do it safely.

- Telepathy. Dragons do have vocal cords and can communicate to some extent by making noises but they don't have a spoken language as such. Instead most of their communication, with each other and with other species, is done through telepathy, sharing both words and images or emotions. All dragons are born with this ability fully developed, it is believed they are able to speak to anyone they wish but in order for them to 'hear' someone that person needs to have some degree of telepathic ability of their own.

- Telekeneis. This ability has never been fully explored and not a lot is known about it but it is believed that the dragons ability to carry passengers and cargo when teleporting is in fact a latent form of telekenesis, which would also explain their belief that they can carry anything, regardless of size or weight, as long as they think it can be done. It is possible that they may be able to learn to move objects without touching them but only one dragon is on record as having done so.

- Breathing Fire. Aside from the golds all Pern dragons can breathe fire after ingesting a special type of rock known as fire-stone. They digest it in a 2nd stomach and produce a phosphorous gas which ignites on contract with the air.