Please note that this character is still a WIP, so more minor details of this profile may change!
Description:
Vellrime is a quadrupedal frost dragon, standing about 10 feet tall at the shoulders. Her scales are a snowy white color, with a faint glittering texture to them that looks almost exactly like fresh powder, while her underbelly has a white-grey color to it. Her eyes are ????. The membrane on her wings is a translucent, shimmering cyan. She has a fairly standard build for a dragon, with a sleek but broad muzzle. She has four horns - the inside pair longer than the outer pair, all pointing straight back with a slight spread - that appear to be crystallized, fading to a clear cyan at the tips. A row of similarly-crystalline spikes run down her spine, reaching just past the base of her tail. Her scales are cool to the touch, and can be downright frigid if she’s been in the cold lately. In fact, most of her body is is cool, even the wings… or at least, the outside is.
Internals:
Velle’s insides burn as hot as any mammal’s, and this extends to her digestive tract. Almost every breath visibly steams in the winter air of her home regions, billowing from powerful lungs.
Food can be scarce high up in the mountains, and her digestive tract is able to make the most of what she can find. An efficient metabolism digests food slowly - even small ones - in order to extract as much energy and nutrition from them as possible. Larger meals can take days to fully digest. In order to accommodate this, her stomach is separated into multiple separate chambers.
Her first stomach is a mid-sized one, nestled against her larger main gut. Relatively weak, it’s best at digesting fibers and artificial materials, and is oddly well-suited to digesting clothes and garments. Beyond that, it usually serves to soften up and prepare meals for the next chamber. Her second stomach is far less forgiving, designed to digest meat. The majority of her digestion is handled here, on live prey or otherwise. It’s also the largest of her stomachs, and with difficulty can even handle meals her own size. Her third stomach is the smallest, but even more powerful, and serves to digest scales and bones or finish off particularly stubborn meals. Capable of grinding even metal into dust, it’s only sometimes active, digesting excess materials for additional energy in times where food is scarce.
An alt of
Kayleen.