Name: Arctic Dragon (Draco glacies)
Element: Ice
Size: 7 feet (2.134 meters) tall, 10 feet (3.048 meters) long, and 300-350 pounds (136.078-158.757 kilograms)
Diet: Small mammals, sometimes foxes, birds, bird eggs, sometimes fish
Habitat: Arctic Circle
Description:
This is the most common Ice-elemental. They live in the far northern Arctic Circle, which could be anywhere from Alaska, Norway, Russia, etc. In winter, they scrape out whatever they can find. Small mammals, such as rabbits or rodents, are usual. If they're lucky, they might even get a bear cub or a fox. When summer arrives, they feed on the migrants, such as snow geese, their chicks and eggs are a favorite. If no food can be found, they resort to eating fish.
Since it's hard to find a mate, Arctic dragons mate for life. They will fight to the death to protect the other, and for their chicks. Arctic dragons lay 1-4 eggs in early winter, when most predators are leaving or gone. The parents work together in finding food and raising the chicks. The chicks stay with their parents until they are roughly three years old. By that time, they are big enough to survive, but the siblings will stay together in a group for safety until they're about ten years old.
Arctic dragons are (so far) the only dragons known to be able to make their wings from their element. Their actual wing isn't much of a wing, and they aren't great flyers, since they make their wings out of solid ice. However, their wings are a beautiful thing to look at, and sometimes people used to try and hunt this species for its wings. Unfortunately for them, that didn't go well.
Another unique thing about this species is its tail. At the tip of its tail is a blue tuft of hair, which is too small to really be used to warm the dragon. We're not entirely sure what its purpose is.
This dragon also has two pairs of nostrils. This is used to regulate the air they breathe, and makes it warmer so it doesn't hurt the dragon's lungs.
Arctic dragons don't mind humans, or other dragons, because there aren't very many. The few dragons they do run across they tend to ignore, and the same goes for humans.
If this dragon does attack you, best thing you can do is run. The icicles they shoot can easily impale a person.
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