Of Feathers and Flames- WoF AU (Archives)

Pyrrhian Tribes

SkyWings:

Color: Red, orange, black, fiery.
Traits: Hot-tempered. They stick to their traditions, and can be cruel at times. They fight strongly, and enjoy a battle.
Abilities: SkyWings breathe fire, and are the fastest and most durable fliers in Pyrrhia. They’re strongly built, and one of the larger tribes.
Habitat: Mountains or open areas where they can fly.

SandWings:

Color: Gold, pale yellow, white.
Traits: Stubborn and crafty. They enjoy their treasure. They are accustom to very hot temperatures, and are weak in cold temperatures.
Abilities: SandWings have a barbed tail like a scorpion at the end of their tail. Only the juice of a brightsting cactus can cure SandWing venom. Their tounges and eyes are black, and they can withstand bright light. They can also breathe fire.
Habitat: They live in hot, sandy areas, and despise getting wet.

MudWings:

Color: Shades of brown, amber or muddy colors.
Traits: Thick, heftily built dragons, like alligators. They’re usually slow and dull. Unlike most of the Tribes, they stick with their siblings and fight, eat, and play together.
Abilities: MudWings can hold their breath for up to an hour, and are very powerful with their large muscles and thick tail. They can breathe fire only when they’re warm.
Habitat: Muddy areas or swamps. They enjoy warmth, and cool wetness. Mud helps their wounds heal.

IceWings:

Color: White, light blue or silvery.
Traits: Cold and calculating. They set rules and boundaries, and always follow them. They have ranking systems, and higher ranked dragons are treated with more respect. The IceWing animus’s are only allowed to used their powers once on a gift for the whole Tribe.
Abilities: They can breathe a frost breath can withstand intense cold and below zero temperatures. They have thin, sharp spikes at the ends of their tails. Their blood is blue.
Habitat: IceWings live in the snowy mountains or tundra areas with lots of ice and snow.

NightWings:

Colors: Black, dark blue or purple, with scattered silver scales under their wings.
Traits: Mysterious. They don’t tell the other Tribes what powers they have just to create and aura of mystery and power. They can be very deceptive.
Abilities: Rare NightWing eggs hatched under one full moon have the power of either mind-reading or future-seeing. Very rare eggs hatched under two full moons get both of these powers. Extraordinarily rare eggs that hatch under three full moons (aka: the Brightest Night, every 1,000 years) have both of these powers, but very enhanced. They have keen senses of smell, and can see well in the dark. They never stop growing as they age.
Habitat: Low areas of ground or caves, dark places. They are nocturnal.

SeaWings:

Color: Light or dark blue, green, aquamarine. They have scales that can flash light.
Traits: Calm and peaceful. They’re a very loyal and happy Tribe. They have an above-water palace and a secret under-water pavilion.
Abilities: SeaWings can breathe underwater through their gills, and are deadly to fight in water. Above water, they are typically poor fighters. They have powerful, flat tails, curved wings, and webbed talons. They can see in the dark and swim faster than any other Tribe. They have another language called Aquatic which they use by flashing certain patterns of light on their scales.
Habitat: Underwater, in the ocean or near the beach.

RainWings:

Color: Mad- red, orange, black. Happy- yellow, pink. Sad- blue. Calm- light blue, purple. Scared- green. In Pain- pale green, white, grey. Curious- orange. Bashful/Embarrassed- pink. They can blend in with their surroundings and become invisible.
Traits: Happy and usually oblivious to the wars and fights between other tribes. Called ‘stupid’ and ‘lazy’ by other Tribes for having ‘sun time’ and being careless. They’re vegetarians.
Abilities: RainWings can shoot a black, acidic venom from their fangs, although they hate to shoot it at other dragons. They don’t have families, but if a RainWing is related to another, their venom cancels the other’s out- the only way to stop being burned by a RainWing’s venom.
Habitat: They live in the jungle and are accustomed to steamy heat and humidity.


Pantalian Dragons

LeafWings:

Color: Light or dark green, light or dark brown. Yellowish and/or emerald.
Traits: Stubborn and calculating. They’re great fighters, and usually keep pouches of poisonous or venomous plants and insects around their neck to use against their enemies. They’re very clever thinkers, but hold a grudge against the HiveWings since their tribe was almost wiped out by them in the Tree Wars.
Abilities: Some LeafWings have what’s called ‘leafspeak’, which is the ability to influence a plant’s growth, and know the whereabouts of passing dragons or other plant’s whereabouts from them.
Habitat: Dense jungles and trees. They’re accustomed to steamy heat and carnivorous plants.

HiveWings -A hybrid Tribe:

Colors: Yellow or gold, with black or dark brown stripes/spots/markings. They have translucent wings.
Traits: HiveWings are usually vicious and cruel, willing to bite first and ask questions later. They used to control the SilkWings and use them for their silk. HiveWings have four wings instead of two.
Abilities: (Varies from dragon to dragon) Stingers in their wrists that can paralyze, stingers in their tails that cause extreme pain, toxin in their teeth that can make someone sick and weak. Some are able to make a noxious spray like a skunk. Some have no abilities.
Habitat: Grassy plains and the Hives (build by HiveWings and SilkWings) where they live.

SilkWings:

Color: Any colors except black.
Traits: Calm and peaceable. They’re tame, and take orders well. Sometimes called stupid just for being so submissive. They used to live under HiveWings, and built the Hives. SilkWings don’t have wings before the age of six. When they turn seven, they go into a metamorphosis and spin a cocoon. They stay in the cocoon for three weeks while their wingbuds transform into four butterfly-shaped wings.
Abilities: They can spin a grey silk from their wrists, and rare SilkWings known as firesilks can spin five types of silk. Gold silk, which shimmers with a faint gold color. Firefly silk, which glows a little bit, but gives off no heat. Glow silk, which is a little warm and glows brighter. Blaze silk, which is very hot and can burn things. And Sun silk, which can only be made a little at a time, is hard to look at, and is able to burn through stone. It must be drowned to be put out. SilkWings have four wings like HiveWings, and can sense vibrations in the air with their antenna.
Habitat: The grassy plains and lightly wooded forests top left of Pantala.

CloudWings:

Color: CloudWings’ colors are usually based off of real-life birds.
Traits: CloudWings are tall, feathered dragons.
Abilities: They can breath a cloudlike vapor for camouflage, and some are rumored to have unusual control over the weather.
Habitat: In clouds and in cool, high-altitude skies.

SolarWings:

Color: SolarWings are gold and coppery, with warm chrome colors.
Traits: SolarWings are bipedal dragons. Their wings replacing and functioning as their arms. They have frills on their heads and tails.
Abilities: Their scales give off a warmth like SandWings, and the temperature corresponds with their temper. They can breath fire, and their wings joins can lock for long-distant soaring. They have razor-sharp spikes at the tips of their wings, and are rumored to have control over flames.
Habitat: They live in warm, dry climates and hate getting wet and cold.

LunarWings:

Color: An ethereal silver color.
Traits: LunarWings are rarely seen and rumored by many to not really exist at all. Their eggs are silver, and appear like a smooth lump of metal.
Abilities: LunarWings can secrete a silver liquid that can be manipulated with their minds into thing such as weapons, called ‘warping.’ They also have glowing tendril-like appendages that get more prominent as the dragon ages.
Habitat:

RiverWings:

Color: RiverWing’ colors are usually based off of real-life fish.
Traits: RiverWings don’t have back legs, but instead have fishlike fins. They have fins down their backs and webbed talons, and also armored sturgeon-like scales. They don’t have an organized society, but instead live in solitude. They also have fishlike tails. RiverWing parents typically don’t take care of their eggs or dragonets.
Abilities: RiverWings are dangerous in water, but are unwieldy on land, especially since they don’t have wings.
Habitat: Rivers and lakes in solitude.

SnowWings:

Color: Usually white, but are also grey, black, and brownish colors.
Traits: SnowWings are flightless, furred, wolf like dragons that live in separate packs that run through the forests separate from the other dragon societies.
Abilities: SnowWings have wings, but they are small and weak, and can do no more than glide.
Habitat: Snowy, wooded forests.

Keep in mind most humans have two opinions on the dragons: “keep them away from me,” and “make money off of them.” There’s a lucrative trade with dragons, involving fighting rings and poaching. So dragons usually tend to stay out of humans way, and when they cross paths the results can be disastrous.

(Art credit belongs to @-Kiwi- except for the second SnowWing ref; art credit goes to @Blue Raptor for that one)