The one constant between all such eggs is that they are sources of raw elemental power, and this makes them valuable. Even the gestation period isn't fixed, but instead depends on the frequency and intensity of elemental forces affecting the local environments they have been known to hatch in everything from a few months to decades after being formed.Ĭatastrophic dragon eggs appear as nodules of elemental whose size, shape, consistency and structure varies depending on the progenitor. Likewise, the viability is also unpredictable catastrophic dragons who imprint more frequently tend to have a lower success and survival rate. This process is known as 'imprinting'.Įach breed of catastrophic dragon reproduces at a different rate dragons who catastrophes occur on seasonal basis, such as avalanche and typhoon dragons, tend to reproduce yearly, whilst others reproduce at a far more intermittent schedule. In fact, they have been known to spontaneously form when a disaster of sufficient magnitude occurs. Instead, when a catastrophic dragon of at least adult age participates in an elemental cataclysm (aka, the disasters they take their names from), there is a chance that one or more catastrophic dragon eggs will form in the area. As discussed in the first half of this article, the elemental transition has stripped this family of dragons of biological genders. But first and foremost, they rampage to reproduce. I hope you folks will forgive me.Ĭatastrophic Dragons rampage for many reasons rage, avarice, sheer love of wanton destruction. Since we made a new page, I figured I could go ahead and post the other half of the Catastrophic Dragons article.

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