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[In an attempt to make the dragons of my setting more interesting, I have been attempting to make them more distinguishable visually beyond just scale colors. Here are my ideas.]
Black: Black dragons accentuate their already skeletal appearance with bony protrusions and white coloration appears and yellows with age that, to the untrained eye, look like rotting carcasses submerged in swamp muck.
Blue: Rather than scales, blue dragons sport rough hide akin to the real-world komodo dragons. They have top-set nostrils and their notable large horn have a rock-like texture, allowing them to hide below the sands of their desert homes to ambush traveling herders, caravans, and other creatures of the desert.
Brass: Taking suggestions.
Bronze: Taking inspiration from the Monster Hunter franchise’s Royal Ludroth, my bronze dragons sport a larger tail with flatter ends to help propel them through the water, and have “manes” of natural sponge that both grows with age and its upkeep promotes their marine lifestyles.
Copper: There is not much change physically, save for a strong emphasis on their scales turning green as they age; the oldest of which being dubbed “Malachite Dragons” because of it.
Gold: When first born, gold dragons betray their namesake and are a dull gray, and are fairly unimpressive. Their grandeur comes with age and the consumption of the precious metal that they are so deceptively named after. They are essentially divining rods for gold, and before the arrival of man to coin gold into currency in mass amounts, gold dragons would sniff out ore veins to consume. As they consumed more, the gold would begin to layer onto their scales, giving them their brilliant golden hue, and making them one of the purest sources of gold on the planet’s surface.
Green: Inspired by the “iconic” Jurassic Park dilophosaurus and Monster Hunter’s (similarly colored) Rathian, green dragons sport hidden frills on top of a mane of poisonous quills.
Red: Red dragons sport, on top of their trademark red scales, sport beautiful mane-like plumage, light feathering on their wings, and large feathers on their tails on fiery golden yellows and oranges. They take great pride in their down, almost as much as their hordes, and to insult or damage them is to provoke their wrath until either party expires. The thick oils that coat these feathers allow red dragons to literally erupt into flames without needing to worry about singeing their beautiful displays.
Silver: Taking suggestions.
White: To protect them from the frigid cold and freezing waters of the arctic lands they call home, white dragons are covered in layered, oily, downy feathers (similar to penguins). They also sport nostrils on top of their heads so that they can ambush prey from the water (and with their natural strength, below ice as well). Imagine how fully wyrmlings are!
[Dragons, in my eyes, are not only massive, powerful, and magical creatures, but also majestic and unique enough amongst themselves to warrant some interesting traits.]
I mean, the official D&D art already has pretty distinctive looks for the different types of dragon. These are all cool ideas, but it’s not like they were just boring and samey to begin with.
[I recognize well and truly that they were varied to begin with, but I wanted to give them a more personal touch that pushed the differences between them further. It’ll definitely bring some more interesting reactions and interactions to my tables when i introduce them.]
I see Silver Dragons as being kind of like a mix of Monster Hunter’s Legiana and Kushala Daora in terms of look and general feel. They just look super awesome and together their main things (flying really well and ice breath) really have an awesome feel to them!
[As I mentioned when talking about Kulve Taroth and my gold dragons, I know very little about MH:W, ironically, given my love of the franchise, but I do like the imagery Kushala Daora inspires and Legiana too for what little I know.]
Black dragons: they might live in giant goopy pools of black acid, and thus when they appear they may be more drippy goop than visible flesh and scales.
[Well, black dragons already make their homes in mucky swamps. Like the idea for a jewelry-adorned silver dragon, a black dragon in a specigically acidic swamp is more an individual rather than an overarching feature, but I’m definitely gonna keep this idea in mind.]
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