The first in a series of dragon guide books that goes deeper into the know information about the dragons of Calluncia. Published in the year 1958 D.E. (Dragonotic Era) this book is considerably old, however is the only guide about dragons.
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The infamous Hollow Sword Dragon has been given the name "Flaseblade" due to its false appearance as one of its cousins. It's name's original meaning was attributed to the hollow blade-like spines that cover its body, but now and days it is more for it's unique ability to alter its young's appearance. Imagine a Shadowblade, Iceblade, or even a Ridgeback with skinny long legs, petite bodies, and thin, hollow spines. That's basically what a Flaseblade is. As for their preferable habitat, well they can live anywhere it's cousins live in.
Coloration is something that is highly varied among the Falseblade breed. Young hatched in an arctic environment are born with the same appearance as the Iceblade while young born near the foot of a mountain resemble Ridgebacks, and you get the idea. Eggs are colored depending on the region: Arctic equals light blue, Peaks equals black, and slopes equals brown.
Falseblades lead an exceptionally unique lifecycle. Females first find several mated pairs of their cousin species before searching for a mate within the vicinity of the nesting zone. The male will then distract the parents while the female lays one or two eggs inside of the nest. Once the eggs are planted, the pair move onto another nest and repeat the process. The eggs will incubate for three months before hatching as "runts" of the nest. Their mother will occasionally check up on them when the foster parents are gone, sometimes even feeding the brood, including the host's young, recently caught prey. When the young are a year old, their mother returns to reclaim her young, normally spiriting them whilst the foster pair are away, and raise them for the next year.
By their second year, they are fully grown adults with all the skills to survive as an frail species of dragon. It is actually around the time that they are adults that the majority of these dragons die off from starvation, predation, natural forces, and human interaction. To combat most of these, Falseblades of the ages two to three live in groups. Females and males split into two groups by the age of three, and by four years the males have joined a local batchelor flock while the females are off by themselves. Male Falseblades do not rear the young, they only stick around long enough for the females to have laid all of their eggs, though there are occasionally males who stick around for longer.
What Falseblades lack in size and power, they make up for in their evasive skills. The breed lacks the ability to breathe fire or a jet of insta-freeze, however can shoot a cloud of colored smoke. Arctic breeds have white smoke that resemble ice clouds, Peak breeds have a black smoke, while Slopes have the usual greyish whitish smudgy smoke that is the usual case for fires. But one unique feature that none of its cousins have is the eerie rattles they can make by raising their spines and shaking their bodies, a different part makes an different sound.
Tips! Falseblades are skittish, however fierce defenders of their allies and themselves. Many expert dragon mages keep two or three of these dragons around for that reason. Falseblades have individual favorite foods, however the usual depends on which type you encounter. Bring penguin or seal meat when traveling through snowy regions, while boar, deer, duck, and goat through the slopes and peaks of mountains. Out of the four spined mountain dragons, Falseblades are the most common.
