So, I decided to make this book for the purposes of describing and explaining the tribes that I have crafted. It will be spit by continents. Enjoy ; )!
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Brain-Hunters
Description: Brain-Hunters are tiny spiky dragons the size of scavenger/ humans with transparent scales and colour changing skin. They have two rows of spikes running from the base of the neck to the tail. The tip of their tail is covered in long sharp scales that form a cone of spikes that can be flattened onto the tail or stick out. They like their sister tribes have transparent wings with a single hooked claw at the end of each wings. They have a pair of small tusk like fangs and have teeth appearing from their jaws when closed. They are rather compact and low to the ground with curled segmented horns that branch out of the horn at each segment. They have a small axe like horn right above their ears. The females are larger then the males and have an extendable ovipositor that they use to lay eggs.
Abilities: Their fangs product a potent paralysing venom that they can use to paralysis prey far larger then the dragon. Their tail spikes can create deep wounds with a few slashes and can get embedded into whatever the dragon strikes at, similar to porcupines. They has a nearly supernatural ability to blend into their surroundings and can stalk silently. They have a very powerful healing factor on par with Death Serpents. They can spit a diluted sulphuric acid. Females can lay their eggs from the tip of their tails.
Weaknesses: They are weak to electricity, which will dispute their colour changing skin. They are generally frail and rather weak for their size, which leads to them avoiding direct confrontation and go for more sneaky approach. Like Death Serpents they are made vulnerable to a certain type of gemstone; Topaz. When near this gemstone, they have a much harder time controlling their skin colour and their regenerative abilities are weaken. If the gemstone is placed on the dragon, the area around the gemstone will cauterise, they will be unable to change skin colour and their regenerative abilities will be nullified. Brain-Hunters have large eyes which are vulnerable to bright flashes of lights, causing them to become disoriented and flailing around in pain.
Diet: Brain-Hunters are opportunistically carnivores, they will hunt most non-poisonous prey items with the exception of sloths, Cavern Guard, Cavern Tunnellers, Bone-Thieves and oddly enough moose. They will substitute their diet with berries, fruit and insects. They are often selective of what body parts they eat often only eating the brain and certain parts of their prey before leaving the rest of the carcass to rot.
Social Structure: Brain Hunters were mainly solitary dragons, before the formation of their leadership that took place during the Scorching, and even after that, they only form groups out of necessity. But when they find a mate, they will mate for life. They will work together to raise their young who will stay with their parents until they reach adulthood at which point they leave the family to live independent lives. Their leadership works through a voting system where the head Brain-Hunters from different regions of the continent vote to determine the main leader and the regional leaders. These regional leader are the most dominant and powerful of the Brain-Hunters in a region who command dragons under their rule. Female Brain-Hunters are the top dogs in the species and are often the regional lady of large areas.
Lifecycle: Adult Brain-Hunters will hunt down a large dragon or other large animal which they will paralysis and hide it in their den. When they have the body, the female will lay her eggs in the animal/s (depending on the size of the hosts they have). The paralysed host is used as an incubator (this was later sometimes replaced by specially made incubators). After 7 months, the dragonets rip their way out of the still alive host. Now depending on whether or not the parents are presence, the dragons will begin consuming the host or will use a mind control agent to make the host guard the dragonets. When the young feel safe, they will consume the host's body and then brain. After their first meal, the dragonets are raised by their parents until they reach sexual maturity at the age of 7, at this point the Brain-Hunter will spend their time in a solitary lifestyle until they find a mate, at which point they will make a den and work together, if they can't produce their own eggs, Brain-Hunter pairs will steal the eggs of other Brain-Hunters. But once a pair has eggs, they will nurture and raise the young until they reach independence, at which point the pair will have another batch of eggs. Brain-Hunters have been know to live for 156 years, though there are a few who lived to their 190s.
Relations with other tribes: Prior to the formation of the Brain-Hunter leadership and the Grim, Brain-Hunters were seen as monstrous devils who should be feared and slaughtered at sight. They were hunted by Triple-Slashers, Thunderhorns, Cavern Guards, Bone-Thieves, Death-Serpents and Cavern Tunnellers who were feared by the Brain-Hunters for their supernatural ability to kill the little dragons. While other tribes saw them with fear, often abandoning dens to the little critters.
Sub-tribes: There are only two types of Brain-Hunters; Island Brain-Hunter and Main land Brain-Hunters.
Island Brain-Hunter are as the name says, Brain-Hunter who live in the islands of the Bay of Thousand-Scales and the myriad of islands between Pyrrhia, Pantala and Vernica. Their size varies on the size of the islands they inhabit, though they are usually larger and have a more omnivorous diet of island flora and fauna then their mainland cousins, they are often the top predators of their islands and only fear the more aquatically inclined Triple-Slashers and Thunderhorns.
Main land Brain-Hunters are Brain-Hunters that live in Vernica and Pyrrhia and are smaller then their Island counterparts. They also have longer and stronger fangs that deliver a stronger dose of venom to their islander cousins with a more carnivorous diet and more timid behaviour. They are know for their ability to be elusive and hard to hunt.
Sister-Tribes: Brain-Hunters are closely related to the World-Enders and are more distantly related to Death-Serpents, Bone-Thieves and Nekas.
