Scientific Name: Draco urbus
Common Name: City Dragon
Habitat: Any city large enough to have more than one apartment or office
building over five stories tall
General Description
Close relatives of the roof dragons found in smaller towns and large suburban areas, City dragons frequent the alleyways, storm drains, subways and pipe-covered rooftops of large urban areas. Most are constantly on the move within the city, never staying in one place more than a few nights at most, although a few have been known to set up semi-permanent housekeeping on the roofs of buildings where they can keep a watchful eye on the streets below. In terms of personality the best that can be said of City dragons is that they are unpredictable--often happy and helpful but at times prone to fits of depression. When depressed they can cause no end of trouble by clogging up vents with wads of old newspaper, short-circuiting elevator motors, and, in Winter, knocking great slabs of snow off building ledges to fall in a bothersome white flurry upon passersby below. The voices of City dragons have come to mimic many of the city's own sounds, and one can never be quite sure that those clatterings, chatterings and thumps are the noises of human workers down the street or the calls of a dragon just around the corner.