Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.

Dragons don’t communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.

When Water dragons mature, they lose the ability to survive on land, entering the water permanently. They are adept swimmers and eat whatever fish are in the lake they live in. They tend to inhabit the same lake for their entire lives, although a few live in the ocean and swim all over the world.

Unlike her mate Vanius, Luvenna hatched on a beach right alongside the sea and has never known any of other waters. A rarer sight than Vanius she spends more time out at sea hunting and exploring the ocean depths before returning once more to the bay where she first found him upside down and fast asleep bobbing gently up and down in the waves. Fascinated by the newcomer she promptly bumped into him startling him awake and sending him plunging down onto the seabed in surprise. Inseparable ever since she can still be seen on the odd occasion lurking a little further of shore waiting for Vanius to move himself.