The Stoneskin

The Stoneskin

Class: Earth

Appearance: Mostly gray with a black belly and black stripes along wing bones and legs, horns, forest green wing webbing

Sleeping Habits: Sleep like humans

Habitats: Usually forests or jungles

Abilities: Scales as hard as stone, spit has minor healing properties

Strengths: Hard scales, healing spit, fire, good at camouflage

Weaknesses: Slower than most dragons, not the best fighters

Size: About the size of a horse

Egg: The striped color pattern is grey, black, green, black, grey, black, green, black

Bio: Stoneskins are solitary dragons, but are very friendly. They don't eat much, just a badgerberry bush here and a deer there. They have a few select friends, but prefer to stay as loners. If someone attacks them, they will roll into a ball and imitate a boulder rather than use flame out of fear of burning down their precious forest.

Diet: Lots of fruit and vegetables, but meats, too

Trainable: Yes

How to Train a Stoneskin: Start going to a forest where a Stoneskin lives. Allow it to get used to you hanging out in its forest before trying to get too close. Once it accepts you, approach the Stoneskin and let it smell you. If it growls, back away slowly and go somewhere else. As long as it doesn't snap at you, then you can try again tomorrow. If it does snap, then leave and don't return. Just let its trust in you grow until it lets you touch it, and then things will fall into place after that.

Facts:
 * The Stonefrost is a close relative of the Stoneskin.
 * Whereas some dragons like to collect treasure or seashells, Stoneskins like to collect rocks. The more grey, the better.
 * Female Stoneskins usually bury their eggs in rocks and moss to disguise them from predators.
 * Like most dragons of the Plant Class, Stoneskins are very good gardeners.
 * Sometimes Stoneskins choose to hibernate for a long period of time. When they do, they end up with moss growing on their scales.