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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:43 pm
To the north, on the glaciers, where winter never entirely deserts the land, live the Northern Godar dragons.
In comparison to their cousins elsewhere, they have thicker fur, a thicker mane, a more ursoid build, thicker mustaches along the upper lip, and more extensive fur on the jowls and at the neck than any other Godar dragons, to keep them warm in the depths of winter. Surprisingly, they have no elbow tufts, perhaps because the environment doesn't demand it, or because the coat makes up for it's absence. They are very, very shaggy, and it's not infrequent to see some genes that allow for exceptional shagginess in the population. Aside from these obvious environmental differences lie less explicable differences.
Unlike any of the others, Northern dragons have horns tightly curled like bighorn sheep horns, long claws like a kodiak bear, and long, curved incisors like a saber-toothed cat's incisors. The claws seem to allow them to maintain a greater grip on icy surfaces, but the teeth seem to have developed based on behavior. It is yet unclear why the horns differ so greatly from other species.
A fully grown Northern Godar dragon is the same height at the shoulder as a polar bear, at least 4 feet tall.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:29 pm
Northern dragons often hunt by far the largest prey of all dragons. Since they go for the jugular vein, the saber-like incisors help catch at the throat for a quick death. Unlike many other animals who den who live on or around glaciers, the Northern dragons do not hibernate. They do have great fat stores like polar bears and brown bears, who do hibernate in the right climes, though a portion of their bulk is also muscle. Irritating a Northern dragon is often a very painful and fatal mistake.
Like other Godar dragons, they are pack hunters, though the exact structure and dynamics of a pack vary by pack. Mating habits are also subject to variation based on the individual.
They carry one or two special kinds of magic possessed by Northern dragons and a very few Mountain dragons: the ice-bringer magic, perhaps the most poorly understood magic; and earth-reading, a form of magic that allows a dragon to sense events like earthquakes and avalanches.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:17 am
The diet of the Northerners is, as has been stated before, very large prey, for the most part. Elk, caribou, and the periodic moose are staple prey in their diet, though it has been occasionally rumored that a Northerner on the coast with a talent and penchant for fishing may catch a young seal with little difficulty. Whether this is truth or not is unknown and greatly subject to rumor and discussion. Fish is also fairly common, as in the Mountain diet, and both catch trout and salmon for preference, though fish tends to be a greater treat to Northerners, as fish are a summer food and to be greatly valued for their rarity.
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