Triple Stryke
Lifespan: 50 – 60 years
Diet: They mainly hunt dragons of their own size, but will go after smaller species, yak, sheep or even fish if regular prey is scarce.
Fire type: Continuous streams of flames
Closest relative: Speed Stinger. Their species split from the same ancestor that possessed a venomous stinger, which both species inherited.
Predators: Large flocks of Deathgrippers. Not many other dragons are willing to get into fights with them even if it’s a flock against an individual.
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Triple Strykes, much like every Strike class species (excluding Deathgrippers) are almost fully solitary. Only forming pairs during breeding season. Triple Strykes are mates for life and will not find other mates if their first one dies.
There aren’t almost any differences between males and females. They are the same size and their coloring doesn’t depend on sex. The only surefire way to tell which sex a dragon is, is by seeing how it reacts to what they assume is a threat. Females will immediately become aggressive and defensive. Males will approach with curiosity. This is mainly because females are the ones taking care of hatchlings while males go off to live alone until the next breeding season comes around.
This is also why most tamed Triple Strykes are male. The only tamed females being those that were abandoned or stolen from their mothers.
Triple Strykes will usually be colored more earthly colors such as brown, dark green, muted blue tones and oranges. Some are still very brightly colored because their lineage of strong, long surviving predecessors allowed them to fly around fearlessly, their color reflecting their lacking need to hide in their surroundings.
A general rule that Triple Stryke coloration follows is that their primary color will always be darker than its secondary color. And that the middle tail of the three will always be the dragon's primary color.
Hatchlings are born with their scales lacking pigment, which develops as they age. So, a hatchling might look beige, but as it ages it will turn brown, Titanwings being the most saturated.
Outside of their coloring, Titanwings also have an additional pair of “horns” and their spines are bigger, and now also growing on their “arms”.
Triple Strykes are very sleek, therefore very fast. They are considered almost as deadly as Night Furies, twice as painful to get attacked by. They kill slowly unlike other Strike class dragons, paralyzing their prey and toying with it until they get bored or too hungry.
The paralyzing venom in their tail being the only thing allowing them to take down prey their own size without putting them in danger.
