Dragon (race)

A Dragon (Draconis Rex) (English: King Dragon) is a monster with wings (though rarely seen flying) and the ability to use a breath attack of fire.

Dragons are often a very high combat level. Even the lowliest of dragons have a nasty dragon-breath attack. Only the adult dragons can breathe fire. As this attack can hit over 50 damage, an Anti-dragon shield, Anti-fire potion, or Dragonfire shield is almost always required to fight them. If both the shield and the potion are used, most of the damage is prevented, so that players will take about 20% of the damage.

Adult dragons drop Dragonhides of their particular colour (or metal bars in the case of Metallic Dragons) and Dragon bones. Babydragons drop Babydragon bones. The highest level adult dragons also share the Draconic visage as a rare drop (the likelihood of receiving the visage increases with regards to the strength of the dragon).

For the chromatic dragons, it is interesting to note that the combat level of the corresponding dragon increases with a trend similar to that of the rank of the colour of the karate belt. Metallic dragons increase in strength corresponding to that of the metal they are made from.

All dragons are classified as large monsters; thus, the dragon halberd special attack hits them twice.

There are three non-attackable dragons:
 * Mr. Mordaut is the teacher in the Surprise Exam! random event.
 * K'klik is a fairy dragon found in the Recipe for Disaster Quest
 * The un-named three headed dragon found in the tutorial-quest Learning the Ropes.

Chromatic Dragons
Chromatic dragons:
 * Green dragon - Brutal Green Dragon - Elvarg - Three-headed green dragon
 * Blue dragon - Baby Blue Dragon - K'klik (Fairy Dragon)
 * Red dragon - Baby Red Dragon - Mr. Mordaut
 * Black dragon - Baby Black Dragon - King Black Dragon

Metal Dragons
Metal Dragons:
 * Bronze dragon
 * Iron dragon
 * Steel dragon
 * Mithril dragon

Other

 * Revenant dragon



Levels

 * Baby Blue Dragon (48)
 * Baby Red Dragon (48)
 * Green dragon (79)
 * Baby Black Dragon (83)
 * Elvarg (83)
 * Blue dragon (111)
 * Bronze dragon (131)
 * Revenant dragon (135)
 * Red dragon (152)
 * Iron dragon (189)
 * Brutal Green Dragon (227)
 * Black dragon (227)
 * Steel dragon (246)
 * King Black Dragon (276)
 * Mithril dragon (304)



Trivia

 * In the 19th Postbag from the Hedge, a letter from a green dragon stated they CAN fly. They are not seen flying (except in cutscenes from Dragon Slayer) because they prefer to eat us on the ground. This is probably said because dragons would be hard to see by a player if they would attack from the sky.
 * In the same letter, they are also depicted as fairly dim-witted, talking in a dialect similar to ogres.
 * Dragons are thought to be the descendants of the powerful, supposedly extinct race known as Dragonkin.
 * White dragons seem to have existed at some point in RuneScape's history, as the examine option on Third age ranger armour implies.
 * Dragons must have been involved somehow in the God Wars, as the examine text for a Revenant Dragon says: "A ghost of a dragon slain during the god wars."