What color will be the children of dragons of different colors?
Googled today, for some reason I always thought that Alexstrasza was Nozdormu’s wife, it turned out that Alexstrasza had many husbands, and Nozdormu has another main wife? I just wanted to know the color of their children.
In any case, I’m very glad that we dragons practice polygamy and I can create my own harem.
It seems to me that if, for example, a black dragon and a blue one fall in love with each other, they have a 50% chance that the female will lay a black or blue egg, right?
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Dragon eggs have spikes on them for protection. Now, logically those are made from keratin and during egg laying they are probably softened due to the pH of the dragon’s womb. But I like to imagine that female dragons just have armored cloacas
If the latter is false though, then pH imbalance during pregnancy would be a severe medical emergency for dragons. Gonna need some Living Flames, Dream Breaths, and Reversions.
What if the egg color is uniquely from the female? Their color is byproduct of their magic source, could depend on their environment not their DNA. The red dragon lays red eggs?
The punnett square would probably have blue a recessive trait to black as the dominant. It would likely be almost 100% chance of being black.
I am not sure that dragons have DNA in that way since they are magical beings. I don’t know if there is much lore on dragons breeding outside of their flight other than Neltherian… “experimenting” but his dragons were all black, even from Alexstraza to my understanding.
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It can be assumed that dragon eggs harden after they are laid, when exposed to air (oxygen), light and the external environment, respectively, in the womb of the mother they are soft and slippery.
I thought about this too, but where do the father’s genes go in that case? Right, they are inside in the baby dragon.
Wait, we dracthyrs are his experement too… but we have all different dragonflights gens and mortal’s once.
Per the novel Night of the Dragon, different dragonflights can interbreed but they usually do not crossbreed. Dragon eggs have traditionally been the color of their Mother in WoW; I can’t think of a single example where the whelpling was not their mother’s color (excluding Twilight / Chromatic scientific/magical experiments).
You should read Day of The Dragon and The Well of Eternity trilogy. Richard A. Knaak pretty much created the entire Warcraft dragon lore from scratch.
Krasus/Korialstrasz is basically the reason Visage form is such an entrenched part of the lore.
As for your question about dragon traits being passed on. Canonically they tend to keep to their own flight, but there’s no reason why mixing flights wouldn’t result in offspring with mixed traits.
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