Scientific Name: Draco Sepulcrum
Common Name: Grave dragon
Habitat: Cemeteries and graveyards
General Description
There is probably not a single graveyard or cemetery anywhere which does not harbor at least one Grave dragon. Even so, they are not often seen by human eyes. Grave dragons are a secretive and unfriendly sort, living, as they do, with the damp earth and cold stone markers of life passed into another world. They sleep silently through each day and begin to stir only as midnight approaches, moving stealthily from grave to mausoleum to sepulcher, stopping occasionally to hiss or moan as in anger or despair. No one knows why Grave dragons live as they do, isolated within this ghostly world of ivy-draped marble and forgotten dreams, and the dragons will not say. There is no proof that these creatures are evil, but best beware. Stories are told of lost or foolhardy children who have walked into graveyards on cold and moonless nights never to been seen again. Their footprints wander the frosty grass and then stop short. And with the gray light of morning, even these disappear.