#dragon sheep

[beangal-does-something]

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[skycowboys]

This here is a male nymbak. They have boney heads, like a ram's horn was flattened over his skull so they can bash things in the air. Their fluff contains buoyant gasses. They normally roost on the sides of cliffs, hanging on with their wing claws.  

I'm thinking the fluff can be oily near the skin - the oil gives off natural fumes which collect in air-tight pockets near the body and naturally filters out slowly through the rest of the fluff. The fumes/gasses give the nymbak some buoyancy - allowing flight for an animal that would not normally be able to lift off. Baby nymbak have SO much fluff - they look like little cottonwood seeds floating along in the air. 

The people of the world cultivate nymbak for their fluff/wool to be spun into cloth, and for their natural oils to be used to make lamp oil and such. The oily fluff near the body can even be spun into waterproof fibers. Pilots who ride pegasi drive swarms of nymbak south across the land each summer like areal cattle drives.

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[wyztereo]

I…I needed long sheep.

[hiccstridparadise]

You were thinking it too. :P

[krocodilian]

happy Smaugust Sheeptember erybody! 🐉🐏

[rateater2000]

curious on the sheep dragon!?!

Alright

So the main reason they look like sheep so closely is so they can blend in with sheep herds, which they live in to both evade dragon hunters and find prey. (they kill any predator that threatens the herd, their relationship with sheep are symbiotic.)

Their diet is omnivorous, with sharp canines in the front of their mouth and flatter molars in the back to grind down plant matter. Their diet mainly consists of grass and other plants that their herds feed on, since predators will often avoid herds suspected to have shagons in them. (They don’t know what a Shagon is actually, they just know that any predator that attacks a specific flock of sheep goes missing with their bones being found once the herd has moved from that area.

The only way to distinguish an adult shagon from a sheep is by looking at their eyes and mouth, with shagons having slit pupils and the teeth of an omnivore along with a split tongue that they use to better smell the air. Shagons are one of the few draconics that have live births, with a shagon “ewe” having a pregnancy period of around 6 months opposed to the sheep’s usual 5 month gestation period. Shagon young are easier to distinguish from other lambs, as their eyes are not covered by their wool and their wool is black unlike a usual lamb’s white wool.

Shepherds will often have a few shagons in their herds, as they are protection for the herds and don’t attack unprovoked. Shagon wool is thick and coarse unprocessed, along with being hydrophobic and maintaining a comfortable temperature very well. If one were to butcher a shagon they’d find the meat very tough and unpleasant to consume, along with being very bitter and tangy in flavor; for this reason shagon meat is very unpopular and rarely eaten.

Shagons live in colder climates, with some living in climates with below freezing temperatures year round. There are breeds of shagons specifically bred to withstand warmer climates, but those breeds are much more expensive and often times inbred.

They do have a high IQ like all dragons, but it’s considerably lower than most dragon species. They possess a ice breath, with its effects and behavior similar to frostbreath (from wings of fire)

[starfate]

Dragon sheep (Dreep)