Dragons are huge reptiles covered in black-green scales. They have four legs, long necks and tails, and a pair of fanlike wings with red and black patterns. Along the dragon's backback runs a red crest. Dragons are known to breathe fire or poisonous fog.
Tales abound of locquacious dragons, but there is no reliable report of anybody except sorcerers actually communicating with them. It is unknown whether they are in truth mute, or whether they simply do not bother to speak with humans.
Dragons breed in waves, some years are Dragon Years, when dozens or even hundreds of small dragons come forth from the wilderness, ranging in size from that of a pig to that of a horse, devouring all they can get to.
While young dragonkin is hunted vigorously, it is not unusual for older dragonkin to be discreetly left alone. The terrible perils and costs of fighting such a creature which can dismember a fully armoured knight with little effort, as well as the inefficiacy of most attacks targeted at them, often makes a weekly loss of two heads of cattle compartively small. The great problem of hunting mature dragons is that any missile weapon large enough to harm them significantly (i.e. a cannon or a ballistia) is also too large to be aimed at a swift-moving target. Dragonkin of middling size may fall to a lance, but will almost certainly take the brave lancer with them, as dragonkin are slow in dying.
These wyrms are huge green-scaled serpents, the most poisonous of all creatures. They spew caustic venom, and even their blood is lethal poison, lindwyrms are most commonly found in forested land.
The problems of hunting the marine species (seaserpent and orc) should be obvious).
Orcs, or sea dragons, are not unlike their terrestrial kin, but an orc lacks wings and have flippers in place of legs. An orc is capable of breathing poisonous fog, but its most feared weapon is a sharp, serrated ridge along its back, which is large and sharp enough to carve through the keel of a ship. Orcs are a constant threat to shipping, and are greatly feared by sailors. Orcs are the greatest of all dragons, and tales are told of old orcs that were mistaken for islands by unfortunate sailors.
A great, finned serpent. Seaserpents may attack ships and eat sailors straight of the deck, but will rarely actually sink the vessel. Seaserpents are considered the marine relatives of lindwyrms, much as orcs are considered relatives of the dragons.