Post by Rouxy on Feb 6, 2009 8:40:07 GMT -5
Fire-lizards, or Flitters average around 3-4 feet from nose to tail, with size variations for age and color. The female fire-lizards can be gold or green in color while the males are bronze, brown or blue. While both gold and green fire-lizards lay eggs, only the gold or queen fire-lizards devote enough time and energy to protecting their clutch from predators to allow the eggs to hatch. In size the golden queens are the largest followed by the bronze, brown and blue males to the greens which are the smallest. They have six limbs: four legs and two wings.
The size of a golden clutch can range from anywhere around 15 eggs, and have a single gold egg and one or two bronzes, but a Green clutch will not have a gold or bronze, and is much smaller, usually less than 10 eggs. If not found by someone soon after being laid, a green nest will often be abandoned and die due to the disinterest of the green in tending it. Gold nests will be guarded and tended though until hatching, the queen often being very protective of her clutch, even to her bonded in captivity. Gold firelizards will first rise to mate at approximately six months of age, while greens may rise anywhere from two to four months of age. Flitters are mature at 4 months of age, and keep growing till 6.
Flitters vary in intelligence, though in most the intelligence is enough to train them in delivering messages and to understand general words and phrases. They communicate through feelings and colors, sometimes able to send a mental image, but they cannot speak in the way that dragons do. Often riders will ask their dragons to relay messages to their firelizards, as the larger cousins are able to speak directly to them.
Flights for firelizards are not nearly as controlling for their bonded as dragon Flights. Their humanpets might feel some increased urges to find someone to cozy up with for a bit, but they are in no way overwhelming. The bonded may choose to accept or deny the urges with little distress, though a gold's flight might give a bit more incentive.
-Colors-
Gold - The main egg layer, gold flitts are the largest as around 38-40 inches in length from nose to tail. They rise about once a year, and their clutches have about 15+ eggs, depending on age, and which male caught her in flight. The queen flitts will zealously guard their nests, driving away predators and other animals to keep them safe. Often laid in a sandy area, she will sometimes disguise the nest with pieces of wood, grass and leaves. Usually more intelligent than the smaller colors, a gold flitt can easily be sent on errands for letters, to search for someone, or any other number of useful tasks.
Bronze - Second in size, and the largest male, the bronze flitts are usually the ones to catch the gold when she rises. Slightly smaller at around 36-38 inches in length, they usually are fairly intelligent seconded only by the gold in ability to understand. They are protective of their chosen queen, but their loyalties are sometimes easily swayed and they will chase any female rising, to sometimes stay with said female afterward be it Green or Gold.
Brown - Third largest overall, and the second largest male, there is a bigger jump in size difference between brown and bronze than between gold and bronze. At around 34-36 inches in length, they also chase queen flitts, though they will often go after Greens as well. Mildly intelligent in general, browns make good companions due to their loyalty streak, both to their bonded and to any chosen female. They will chase any female that rises, but will afterward often return to their chosen queen.
Blue - The third largest male, blues are more common in a clutch than either of the three larger colors. Flighty and spontaneous, blues will most often chase Greens, as they cant keep up to a Gold flitt's chase. Of the same intelligence as a brown, blue flitts make good message delivery creatures, being smaller at around 32-34 inches in length.
Green - The smallest flitt of the five, and the smallest female at 30-32 inches in length, Greens are the most common flitt to see in a clutch, totaling about 50% of the population, much like dragons. Green flitts rise about twice a year, laying clutches with less than 10 eggs. They will often abandon these nests once they're laid, which most times means the hatchlings will not survive unless they are found by a person and cared for.
The size of a golden clutch can range from anywhere around 15 eggs, and have a single gold egg and one or two bronzes, but a Green clutch will not have a gold or bronze, and is much smaller, usually less than 10 eggs. If not found by someone soon after being laid, a green nest will often be abandoned and die due to the disinterest of the green in tending it. Gold nests will be guarded and tended though until hatching, the queen often being very protective of her clutch, even to her bonded in captivity. Gold firelizards will first rise to mate at approximately six months of age, while greens may rise anywhere from two to four months of age. Flitters are mature at 4 months of age, and keep growing till 6.
Flitters vary in intelligence, though in most the intelligence is enough to train them in delivering messages and to understand general words and phrases. They communicate through feelings and colors, sometimes able to send a mental image, but they cannot speak in the way that dragons do. Often riders will ask their dragons to relay messages to their firelizards, as the larger cousins are able to speak directly to them.
Flights for firelizards are not nearly as controlling for their bonded as dragon Flights. Their humanpets might feel some increased urges to find someone to cozy up with for a bit, but they are in no way overwhelming. The bonded may choose to accept or deny the urges with little distress, though a gold's flight might give a bit more incentive.
-Colors-
Gold - The main egg layer, gold flitts are the largest as around 38-40 inches in length from nose to tail. They rise about once a year, and their clutches have about 15+ eggs, depending on age, and which male caught her in flight. The queen flitts will zealously guard their nests, driving away predators and other animals to keep them safe. Often laid in a sandy area, she will sometimes disguise the nest with pieces of wood, grass and leaves. Usually more intelligent than the smaller colors, a gold flitt can easily be sent on errands for letters, to search for someone, or any other number of useful tasks.
Bronze - Second in size, and the largest male, the bronze flitts are usually the ones to catch the gold when she rises. Slightly smaller at around 36-38 inches in length, they usually are fairly intelligent seconded only by the gold in ability to understand. They are protective of their chosen queen, but their loyalties are sometimes easily swayed and they will chase any female rising, to sometimes stay with said female afterward be it Green or Gold.
Brown - Third largest overall, and the second largest male, there is a bigger jump in size difference between brown and bronze than between gold and bronze. At around 34-36 inches in length, they also chase queen flitts, though they will often go after Greens as well. Mildly intelligent in general, browns make good companions due to their loyalty streak, both to their bonded and to any chosen female. They will chase any female that rises, but will afterward often return to their chosen queen.
Blue - The third largest male, blues are more common in a clutch than either of the three larger colors. Flighty and spontaneous, blues will most often chase Greens, as they cant keep up to a Gold flitt's chase. Of the same intelligence as a brown, blue flitts make good message delivery creatures, being smaller at around 32-34 inches in length.
Green - The smallest flitt of the five, and the smallest female at 30-32 inches in length, Greens are the most common flitt to see in a clutch, totaling about 50% of the population, much like dragons. Green flitts rise about twice a year, laying clutches with less than 10 eggs. They will often abandon these nests once they're laid, which most times means the hatchlings will not survive unless they are found by a person and cared for.
