Crimsonhoard dragons are a species of dragon that live in underground caverns and in the deep hollows of mountains, that they occasionally borrow through using their powerful fire breath. These dragons have crimson-colored scales, hence their name, and are know for their tendency to be as rapacious, if not more so, than a common red dragon, as their hoards are often larger than a dragon of their size and intelligence would be. The hides of crimsonhoard are covered in numerous small, nightsky-black spikes and spines that are their largest along the length of the dragon's back and tail, though older males also have a few spines hanging from their throats or on their cheeks. Crimsonhoard dragons have long, somewhat thin horns that grow longer as the dragon ages, often to the point that the dragon is forced to break them off due to their cumbersomeness. After breaking off their overgrown horns, crimsonhoard dragons must then go on a eating rampage, devouring just about anything from elephants, other dragons, wooden houses, boulders, and sometimes even elemental creatures that they catch the scent of. This is because these rapacious beasts have a unnaturally blazing flame within themselves that cannot be quelled, causing their fiery abilities to be maximized. However, the dragons themselves do somewhat struggle with fully controlling this fire, resulting n them not being able to use their fire breath breath weapon as often as other species of dragon would. But when the dragon does use its breath, the result is spectacularly powerful, beautiful, and eve more painful. The dragonflame spewed by an angered crimsonhoard dragon are a bluish-purple colored when first exhaled, but slowly cool to a more yellow-orange-blue mix color as the cone of flame the dragon roars out expands, gains much more area, and therefore cools a bit from the lack of being condensed into a singular place or area. The presence of a constant burning flame within them causes these dragons, once they become old enough to fly, causes the small dulaps that they have right below their throats to dimly glow a fiery yellow-orange color. This overpowered fire is slightly more easily controlled by the older members of the species, who use a bit of sorcerous magic to better unleash more controlled blasts of flame and power.  Crimsonhoard dragons are also known for a rather peculiar feature, that being their non-wing limbs. The arms and legs of crimsonhoard dragons have noticeably smaller scales than on the rest of the dragon's body, which, combined with the human-like composition of them, makes those limbs seem actually somewhat humanoid in appearance. This has sparked quite a few debates among dragonologists on why this is and the possible relations it has to other similar dragons and draconic creatures. Many scholars believe that just about all crimsonhoard dragons descended from either a human who was transformed into a dragon as divine punishment for his greed, or, slightly less likely, these rapacious creatures could be in some way related to the very first lindwyrm Fafnir, a dwarf who was turned into his current form for the same reason. Due to their massive hoards and interlocking scales and spines, many coins and small gems get trapped within the hide of these dragons, and sometimes, though rarely, these treasures will drop down from the dragon's scales as they fly through the sky.