According to the Practical Guide to Dragons, the fire dragons, reffered to as red dragons, are ferocious, cruel, and
merciless. They can reach twenty-two feet in height, and can weigh up to one million, two hundred eighty thousand pounds.
Their wingspan may reach one hundred and fifty feet total. These greedy dragons hoard anything that is worth money, and breathe
fire, of course. Their favorite foods are female humans and elven adolescents and children. They live on mountains and plains
and constantly fight a losing battle with the silver dragons.
They
have many distinct features, such as the horns, which point back towards the tail of the dragons, and the perse trim on the
bottom of the wings. Their skulls resemble those of a lizard, with both cheek and jaw horns, a forked tongue, and a frill
on the back of the neck. Their wingspan is the largest of all of the dragon's, according to this guide, and are also the
longest.
Eggs must be kept in an open flame until hatching (incubation
time not listed), when they are left alone to keep themselves alive at all costs. The wyrmling red dragons are as greedy,
selfish, and unrelenting as their parents are. They are about the size of a cat, and attack anything that moves. When they
bcome adults, they spend their primer years collecting treasures, and stop only when they are too slow to continue doing so.
They have a special talent for recognizing "the value of any object, from the largest bauble to the smallest trinket" and
enjoy wallowing in their collection when they are too aged to collect more.
Reds
are very tactical. They love to create battle strategies, waiting until the opportune moment to use them. They are quick,
clumsy fliers, but are continuosly confident in their fighting skills. Their clumsiness in the air causes them to prefer
fighting on land as opposed to in the sky.
In
a seperate reference book known as the Book of the Dragon, fire dragons are described as being the rarest of dragons. They
live in volcanoes and around lava rivers and caverns of fire, eating the ashes and charred remains of animals fallen prey
to their flames. They take a great deal of care in their scales' conditions, keepng an eye out for "scale corrosion," a disease
that can be fatal to fire dragons. They have an organized society within the volcanoes, their "monarch" of srts if the dragon
father. Dragon fathers give advice to other dragons and assist in certain rituals, but do not command the dragons in any
way. Fire dragon society is a matriarchal community, dragonesses being the most important of the dragons because there are
few female dragons to begin with and they are the most powerful of the fire dragons.
According
to Santharia.com, Fire Dragons are extremely territorial and their society is very patriarchal. Males being stornger and
larger had control over females. This contradicts the idea that females were in control, as stated in the Book of the Dragon.
Like lions, females do most of the hunting. Their main food source is oxen, deer, and possibly bears. They may consume lava
to give axtra power to their fire-breathing abilities. Mating occurs once every couple of centuries, and is decided by the
flow of magma in the earth. All of the males will fight each other until one male comes up at the top. This dominating male
will mate with all of the females. Each fertile female will lay one to four eggs, few of which will survive in the intense
heat of the volcano. The infrequency of the mating ritual combined with the small number of dragonlings who survive after
hatching keeps the draconic population very low. It is estimated that only about one thousand or so Fire dragons are in existence.
These are the theories of several individual sources of information.
