Blue Wyrm

Blue wyrms are a legless and wingless species of dragons usually found soaring through the sand below deserts, preying on caravans and plundering herds and settlements in the verdant lands beyond the desert'sreach. These dragons can also be found in dry steppes, searing badlands, and rocky coasts. They guard their territories against all potential competitors, especially the recntly arived elemntal worms.

Polished Blue Scales. A blue wyrm is recognized by the massive ridged horn atop its blunt head. Rows of spikes extend back from its nostrils to line its brow, and cluster on its jutting lower jaw. A blue wyrm's scales vary in color from an iridescent azure to a deep indigo, polished to a glossy finish by the desert sands. As the dragon ages, its ·scales become thicker and harder, and its hide hums and crackles with static electricity. These effects intensify when the wyrm is angry or about to attack, giving off an odor of ozone and dusty air.

Deadly Hunters. A blue wyrm is a patient and methodical combatant. When fighting on its own terms, it turns combat into an extended affair of hours or even days, attacking from the undeground, then burrowing well out of harm's reach as it waits to attack again.

Desert Predators. Though they sometimes eat cacti and other desert plants to sate their great hunger, blue wyrms are carnivores. They prefer to dine on herd animals, eating their prei whiel it is still fresh. Their dining habits make blue wyrms an enormous threat to desert caravans and nomadic tribes, which become convenient collections of food to a wyrm. When it hunts, a blue wyrm buries itself in the desert sand so that only the horn on its nose pokes above the surface, appearing to be an outcropping of stone. When prey draws near, the wyrm rises up, sand flying in all directions as it attacks.