This effectively leaves them a veritable "Sitting Duck" for the Drake.
#PEREGRIN DRAKE SERIES#
Birds, having a complex series of sinus canals within their skull, find this sonic sound to be disorienting, leaving them confused and unable to tell where the sound is coming from and utterly confused as to what to do about it. One might think that this would be harmful to the hunting habits of the Peregrine Drake - but it's food is mostly fowl and raptors. However, the air flowing through the cheeks so rapidly also emits a high pitched scream that can quite literally be heard for miles. Air flowing through these slits, or gills, is directed over the sides and back in such a way to force the folded wings closer to the body to keep a rigid bullet shape to best cut through the air during a dive. On each side of it's mouth, are two wide slits in it's cheeks. It's mouth is a wide open maw, lined with two rows of razor sharp teeth. It's head is bullet shaped, with two large eyes, mounted forwardly on the sides of it's head. Peregrine Drakes do not have a long, prehensile neck, like many of their kin, and their tail is short and fanned, much more like a bird's tail than a dragon's. Diving from high altitudes, the Peregrine Drake can reach speeds of well over 300 miles per hour by folding it's wings close to it's body. The Peregrine Drake, or sometimes called "the Screaming Drake" is well known for the high pitched, ear splitting sonic emission that it makes when it dives. This is especially true for the Peregrine Drake. And if they aren't used for flying, they are often time used in combat. All Drakes, flightless or otherwise, have wings. Unearthed Dragon skeletons have proved that not all Dragons had wings, some even lacking in any sort of vestigial organs or bones indicating they might have had wings at one time. Most Drakes (the Peregrine Drake not included) are also pack animals, and have the ability to stand and walk on their rear legs, bipedally, a feat that most dragons would probably have found daunting.ĭrakes, however, are much more aerodynamically adept. Unlike Dragons, Drakes have no ability to breathe fire or ice or any other manner of breath weapon, and the largest Drake is little more than a half the size of a youngling Dragon. Drakes are distant cousins of the Dragons of myth, which are assumed to be long gone from New Terra. Peregrine Drakes are about the size of a small dog, covered in glimmering scales, mostly of white, but with the underbelly and feet being primarily black.
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Simply because so few people see the little beasts living.
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So rare is the Peregrine Drake, it is considered a great fortune to hear this Drake in the distance. One of the smaller, rarer species of Drakae, is the Peregrine Drake. And for the most part, the Acarids have done a pretty good job of coping with their natural cohabitants. Ranging in size from miniscule to dragon-esque, Drakes come in shapes and varieties as numerous as stars in the sky.
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Acary has, for as long as humans have existed on New Terra, been the home to more species of Drake than all the other Drake Habitats on Greatland combined.