Emerald The Water Dragon
A description of what my particular water dragon looks like...
A special thank you goes out to Alysia from Dragonwings Collective & Moonrise Mystic for creating the artwork for this post!
-Alysia also has interactions with dragons. (She has an earth dragon named Shasta.) You can check out either of her publications by clicking it’s name above, or using the links at the bottom of this post. (AI was used to assist in creating this art.)
Click to listen to one of Emerald's favorite songs from the concert that night.
Note: I combined excerpts from several of my dive experiences to create a fuller picture of Emerald. If you have read my dragon content there may be portions that feel familiar to you, while other sections have not been published here before.
I saw a dragon coming through the huge concert screen that lined the back of the stage, it was obvious she was coming through from behind it – not out of it. She began moving into the stage onto the plank-like extension in the center that entered the middle of the “mosh-pit.” She was enormous, even bigger than the entire stage, with her body taking up most of the “plank,” her tail still mostly behind the screen and her long neck hovering above the masses of people in attendance. Her body was a dark green color and when she stretched out her bat-like wings the webbing between the green finger-like extensions was either a dark gray-blue or an eggplant purple. The dim lighting of the concert made it hard to tell which color I was seeing.
After a few songs watching her doing this, she seemed to become aware that I was observing her, she slithered her long neck over the crowd and spun her face towards me, revealing that the front of it was black.
She stopped when her forehead nearly touched mine. Then she breathed two tiny puffs of smoke out of her nostrils, “it is a greeting,” she told me, in a hoarse, gravelly sounding voice.
I looked at her. In the same way that some horses have a wide, white stripe down the front of their face between their eyes, Emerald had black scales on the front of her face, but the sides of her head were a forest green, matching her body. The black scales were different than the scales on the rest of her, there were horizontal bands or seams across the black, and after some time I realized it looked like the belly on the snake with it’s nearly rectangular scales and the lines I was seeing were the overlapping of the scales. While the rest of her was covered in the kind of scales you see on the upper body of a snake.
Two black horns, also with “bands” or seams across them came off the top of her head and went straight back, curving mostly forward only near the ends. I looked into her eyes, studying her in response to what she just told me and I saw large snake eyes that were gemstone purple while a forked tongue flicked in and out of her mouth.
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...As Emerald walked through a forest she breathed out making first an exhale sound, then the crackling of fire could be heard rising from her throat. A gentle wind left her mouth and the dry branches on a forest floor lit spontaneously into flame.
There was no fire in her mouth, only wind and perhaps steam in her exhale, yet almost immediately smoke began rising from the twigs and soon the orange laps of fire appeared amongst the litter of the forest floor…
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Not long after our first meeting, Emerald appeared to me, this time she was a vibrant gem-stone blue. Her hide glittered and glistened under the moonlight.
When I asked her about it she told me that water dragons can change colors similarly to the way that geckos do.
"All water dragons have two colors, we are the colors of the water, blue and green, and sometimes when it is stirred up, black. Occasionally you will see a gray water dragon, but those are rare. All water dragons are two of these four colors, though usually it is two of the first three colors I mentioned, it is rare for gray to be one of those colors..."
I thought of brown rivers and asked her about that. She laughed and said, "no, no, not brown that is the color of mud, not of water. We water dragons are the colors of the sea…”
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Written by Willow Lothlórien
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This is such a beautiful post. Thank you for letting me be part of creating these images for Emerald. It was a truly magical experience. 🐉✨
The images are beautiful, but also the words describing your interaction make me want to meet Emerald or one of her family! I still remember being surprised when you introduced the idea of a Water Dragon and I realized that there are dragons from all 4 elemental kingdoms!