A giftie I drew for @tinyliltina’s bday, feat her grampa derg Foalan. I had some fun with the colors, and forgot how much I enjoy drawing older chars lol
Age: Somewhere around the early 500’s? He lost count after the third century.
Birthday: December 21st
APPEARANCE
Height: Just shy of 160 feet
Weight: L a r g e
Build: Husky in both his human and dragon form, with big paws/hands and a long, heavy tail. Very muscled arms and legs.
Hairstyle: Messy and unruly salt and pepper hair that he tries to tame in his human form. In his dragon form, this is replaced with two horns that curl out and upwards. The same goes for Foalan’s human beard, replaced by small horns/spikes in his dragon form.
Eye color: Ice blue
Freckles?: Nope, but he’s got a few scars from fights when he was younger
Piercings?: Nope
Tattoos?: Nope!
Clothing: Normally loose, comfy clothes. Generally fluffy shorts without socks or shoes in his human form.
PERSONALITY
Upon first meeting Foalan, he’s kind and gentle. Very much a dad-like personality, meshed with a playful puppy. He’s curious by nature, and inquisitive. Though he’s been around a long time, there's a lot Foalan doesn’t know. He’s more than happy to learn whatever he can!
When met with a challenge, Foalan’s normally confident he can handle the problem. That doesn’t mean he’s not humble, but Foalan is confident in himself. If he is unsure about something, Foalan will ask. He has no qualms looking for help if he needs it, though he gets embarrassed when he needs to bother or inconvenience someone.
Since Foalan is big and can be intimidating, he finds it hard to make friends. As such, he’s clingy. This is why Foalan will eat a person/several people and hold them for a long time. It gives him a feeling of closeness, and reassures him there are people who trust and enjoy being with him. The only time Foalan avoids people is in the heat of summer or spring, where he tends to hole up in a cool place until it cools down.
Hot drinks/soups, warm days, the sun, summer, spring, heat, salt, caffeine, still air, thinking about those he’s lost, people fearing him for his appearance, running
RELATIONSHIPS
Romantic: none
Friendship: Closest friend is Cy the toxic dragon! Other than that, Foalan tries to get along with everyone he meets.
Family: Long dead clan of ice dragons, though he wonders if he’s still got a few cousins around…
HISTORY
Foalan lived most of his life in the mountains with a large clan of ice dragons. When he got older, Foalan decided he wanted to see more of the world. Humans were just beginning to populate the mountains near his home. He wanted to learn about these strange little beings, and what they were all about. For centuries, he wandered the globe to try and study the strange, tiny lifeforms, and learned to live among them. Foalan saw wars, kings fall, kings rise, and empires built. Now he cruises along, making friends where he can, and avoiding fighting wherever possible.
INTERESTING FACTS
In verses where he is confined to/primarily uses his human form, Foalan is almost always a history teacher.
Foalan knows a lot of magic, but specializes in ice and water spells, healing spells, sleeping spells, and binding spells.
While he’s always wanted kids of his own, Foalan never got around to it. This is why he loves spending time with kids of his friends, and has told his closest companions he will keep an eye on their families if they pass away before he does.
In a fight, Foalan will rarely bite an opponent. (Read below on his “venom” to learn why.) Rather, Foalan prefers to use his sheer strength and body size to wear his opponent down. His thick hide makes him slow, but prevents him from taking extreme damage. Foalan’s preferred move is a dive bomb, where he flies incredibly high and dives, landing on his opponent with his entire weight. Foalan is also known to let an opponent land a few blows, assess the fight, then plan his counterattack.
Foalan doesn’t move quickly when fighting, as he tends to think each action out before executing a response. He keeps an opponent’s well-being in mind most of the time, and fights as respectfully as he can. However, if put into a corner, Foalan can and will fight dirty without question.
While his eyes are a weak spot, Foalan knows how to protect them when in a fight.
SPECIES INFO.
Ice dragons are known for their thick, powerful legs, as many of them live in more mountainous regions and must get around on foot. These legs are meant for gripping and staying close to the ground, not speed.
Their wings are strong and nearly impenetrable. This is where an ice dragon’s power and speed comes from. They are able to fly at incredible heights, and can swoop into almost 90 degree nose dives when flying parallel to the ground. Don’t let their size fool you, these dragons are adept flyers.
Ice dragon eyes can see well in rain or shine, and are meant to pick small animals out among rough terrain. Seeing on a flat surface is like a cake walk for them.
Though their nose is powerful, an ice dragon will rely more on their eyes than nose. This is because mountain dragons must accommodate for the wind, which can change and shift, throwing scents off without warning. At night, an ice dragon’s eyes glow brightly, reflecting off snow and illuminating their prey. Ice dragons also rely heavily on their hearing, and will use this if their eyesight is compromised. All ice dragons can hear pitches far lower than a human can, though struggle to hear pitches higher than a canine can.
Thick feet pads allow ice dragons to climb up and maneuver rough terrains. When pouncing on a prey or challenger, their paws will give without crushing whatever is underfoot. This is due to the thick tissue buildup on the paw pads, insulating heat to prevent frostbite and ensuring the dragon’s feet are not cut.
Ice dragons often have spikes/horns covering their bodies. This allows them to better handle attacks on their person. The horns/spikes always point away from the dragon’s head, and are shaped like hooks so they tear and rip when digging into flesh or bone. When angry, these horns/spikes shift so they are more exposed, and the dragon will move so they act like a serrated knife. This helps ice dragons when fighting, as an ice dragon will use their body as a weapon before using their ice.
While they do not have venom, ice dragon’s spit can serve as an accelerant for their freezing breath. This means, when an ice dragon bites down and exhales, the victim’s blood may freeze and the victim will suffer from mild to severe frostbite. Imagine getting liquid nitrogen injected into your bloodstream.
An ice dragon’s roar is deep and foreboding, and can echo for hundreds of thousands of miles. Another adaptation having to deal with winds.
Ice dragons’ internals are cool, but not cold. This allows the ice dragon to tolerate extreme temperature drops, and consume frozen meat without harming their insides. The internals have a low bioluminescent quality, which allows the dragons to see as they eat at night. Many ice dragons’ drool will glitter or shine in certain lights, due to the specialized ice crystals embedded in their drool. Don’t worry! These crystals aren’t activated until the dragon breathes over them and exposes them to oxygen (so being in an ice dragon’s mouth while they breathe won’t freeze you). The drool doesn’t feel cold unless the dragon wants it to feel cold.
The internals of an ice dragon are very soft. This is a sign of the dragon’s insulated body, and prevents their internals from freezing over.
An ice dragon will eat almost anything available, but have a preference for cold or raw meat when hunting. They prefer not to chew, and will consume most animals whole. This prevents the dragon from wasting energy on tearing and chewing, and allows them to get the most out of all that they eat. Ice dragons must consume at least a third of their body weight in water per day. This water fills a crop-like sack above their stomach, and is used to form the ice the dragons breathe. The water sack is NOT the ice dragon’s crop, and is an entirely different organ. Both the water sack and crop look like smaller stomachs, but both are oxygenated and do not contain any acid.
Many ice dragons, especially those with powerful magic, have human forms. These forms are primarily used in the summer and spring, when it becomes too hot to maintain the heat of a dragon form. The same anatomy rules apply to the human form as the dragon form: stocky build, thick legs, good eyesight, cool internals, glowing eyes, and soft hands/feet. Most ice dragons prefer to walk around barefoot, and despise wearing shoes. (Granted, it is very difficult for an ice dragon to find shoes that fit.)
All ice dragons can maintain their human forms for months at a time, but must eat extremely fat and protein-rich foods to keep their energy up. If they cannot eat enough to hold their forms, they will resort back to dragon proportions. Their water intake can slack, as their body doesn’t need to store as much water in this form.
Heat, salt, and blindness are an ice dragon’s primary weaknesses. Heat prevents their ice from forming, and salt dehydrates their water supply. Taking out their wings is another good way to prevent them from fleeing or using their divebomb fighting style.
Okay quick doodle of Foalan the best guy
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Am I complaining? No I just would like enough time to write the idea down before the next one raises it's hand.
