• Draco Splendens
• amourous
• very picky
• everything has to be beautiful
• shy
• cannot bear to have chains or bonds around his neck (he'd been captured long long ago)
• Could and would come up on towns and ports with great stealth
• Found in both salt and fresh water
• Can only eat virgins, or get indigestion
• Lives in dry caves with submerged entrances, interior decorated

• Back legs have been finned to adapt to swimming
• Can store oxygen in his stomach and transfer it to his lungs as needed
• Soft, pleasing voice
• Young are hatched on beaches and watched from a distance by the father
• 7 meters long

• Diary of Expeditions and Discoveries of the New World, De Silva, 1612

  Paulo and the young Andre Do Gao disembarked on the lush island, which seemed to be inhabited only by birds and crabs. Paulo saw a huge brilliantly colored water lizard which appeared to be quite tame but very timid. He called his companion and they managed to catch the animal.

  When the two naturalists wanted to bring him on board, the animal let out a series of howls and from the sea appeared an enormous lizard which threw itself on the unfortunate pair. Andre' died in the fray, with his head virtually torn from his body, and Paulo managed to survive because he threw the basket with the young lizard into the sea. Immediately, the sea monster abandoned the pursuit to save the drowning animal.

  We were so overwhelmed by this incident that we did not dare return to the island to recover Andre's body and bury him.

clarkson.edu/~sargenrw/dragons/bookofdragon/waterdgn.htm, clarkson.edu/~sargenrw/dragons/bookofdragon/water1.htm, White Tygre

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