The Nightlurker

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The Nightlurker is a rare, nocturnal dragon which lives in dark forests. They make their nest in shallow caves, their eggs are coated in their slime spit as protection, as the slime smells and tastes rather abhorrent, the eggs will hatch in 36 days. The adults primarily prey on large mammals and other dragons, while the larvae hunt down and feed on other dragon larvae, their true limbs being adapted for grasping their soft flesh. They can spit globs of foul slime that is mainly used to blind or gum up the wings of other dragons, though is also used in nestbuilding. The voice of this dragon is hissing and feels as if the dragon is speaking into one's ears, no matter where the dragon actually is.

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a quadrupedal, wingless dragon, as well as its life stages and some miscellaneous information about it. The adult dragon is entirely dark purple, though its claws, tail spines, and horns are black. Its face is rectangular, with pale eyes near the front of its head, and two pairs of short horns at the back. Its body is stocky and its tail is thin, ending in small, thin spines. The larva is black and purple, with plates of armored skin along its back, it stands on three pairs of legs and has three more pairs it holds off the ground, the former are long and thick, while the latter are pointed, it also bears a short, nubby tail. The egg is black and round, it is also coated in a greenish slime. There are two additional drawings depicting the adult dragon's head, the first is a head-on view and the second is a side profile with its mouth open. There are also two sketches, the first is a stylized hunk of meat labeled 'diet' and the second is the dragon spitting out a lump of slime, labeled 'Slime Glob'.

Drawn in 2024

Notes

The concept for this dragon originated from a sketch I drew in 2018, the same sketch that resulted in the Cavecreep as well. I originally gave them acid spit, but I changed it to slime after I imagined them making a nest out of it.