Brown Dragon Wyrmling

The brown or sand dragon is typical of its chromatic brethren with an inherent tendency towards evil. As long rivals of blue dragons, many human desert tribes have romanticized them into an almost positive light. By chromatic standards of evil alignment, there may be some degrees of truth to these stories. Individual browns most certainly vary and the most notorious browns even keep slaves in caverns that double as larders.

Where most dragons are  concerned with amassing a large material horde, the brown is foremost interested in epicurean experience followed by hording as a close second favorite vice. This leads to two vastly different expressions in a brown dragon with roughly half being incredibly gluttonous and another half being decidedly sophisticated about their choice of meals. Brown dragons are capable of eating minerals and sands, but tend to prefer horsemeat.  Browns are known to avoid using their breath weapon on mounted humans just to keep the horse in the best condition for consumption.

Brown dragons tend to see other creatures merely as a source of food.  So much so that nearly half don't even bother to learn any language other than the smattering of draconic they learned as wyrmlings; why talk to one's food?  Typically, a brown will lead a mostly animalistic life, focused on hunting, comfort and security. Exposure to spices and other human fare can lead a brown down a different path causing the normally reclusive creatures to express a curiosity and sociability otherwise lacking.

Browns are especially large dragons at all ages, rivaling even reds in size. A wyrmling reaches 'large' size long before it is fully a young category dragon. It is unknown whether this is a cause or result of their exceptional appetites. This size helps keep the brown from being prey to their natural rival, the blue. Blue dragons tend to be more cunning and devious hunters as brown dragons are naturally camouflaged in their environment and inherently better burrowers. Browns are able to blend in completely with the natural desert environment when sunbathing or awaiting unsuspecting prey... a feat that blues envy. 

Hatchling and young browns tend to grow wide before they grow long. Towards the middle of their young stage they begin to grow dramatically in length. Browns typically do not have the ability to fly until the late young or early adult stage and often lose that ability as ancient wyrms (who may have focused far more on consumption than hording and started growing round again.) Surprisingly, a fit adult dragon can be a nimble flyer given their relative lack of experience. Their abilities at flight largely relate to their age and stage of development of their body-length ridged wings.

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