Just some info I wanted to write down about my dragon, Anirapio, before her summoning to the Endless Forest by Iugulare. Enjoy!

In a nearby solar system lies a terran planet called Ibuzon. Much like Earth, Ibuzon began with the spark of life, and soon countless species thrived on the planet, each adapting to new changes and challenges with their environment.

One species grew superior to the others - the Daog. These creatures were dragons - scaly green and white skin, great wings used for both flight and hunting, mantis-like forelimbs used to grip their prey. Their bodies changed and grew accordingly, sometimes they lacked limbs, other times they had legs and feet but no forelimbs, and sometimes the other way around. But unlike any other species, they never developed mouths on their faces, but instead had a slit on their chest and a tube that ran the length of their belly to the tip of their tail. These creatures devoured their food whole, absorbing liquids and nutrients from it as it traveled down their stomach. They eventually would expel the unused remainder through the tip of their tail. The Daog were superior in intelligence than most of the other species, and were able to communicate to one another through telepathy as they had no mouth to speak with.

The Daog began their species as scavengers, feeding on plants, berries, fruit...occasionally insects. But they found that they were becoming malnourished from these meals, they could not sustain their high metabolism and many of them died from it. So the Daog tried a different approach - they hunted small creatures, stuffing them into their chest slots and absorbing their blood and energy. This worked much better, they were able to sustain their bodies, and soon as the species as a whole adapted to this new change in diet, they disregarded any sense of pity or remorse for causing pain to other creatures.

And thus the chain started - the Daog became stronger, faster, and deadlier while the other species on the planet were slowly meeting their extinction. The Daog could not stop feeding, their bodies were flawed to where anything they ate was used up quickly. Even hunting the larger species on Ibuzon proved futile.

One by one, the other species were hunted down and devoured to extinction. The Daog realized they were running out of resources, and one of them rose to lead the others - Anirapio. She tried desperately to think of a way to cure their high metabolic bodies, but she had no ideas. She then fell to the conclusion that her species would either need to find a new home full of more prey for them to eat, or they would wipe out all other life on Ibuzon and perish from cannibalism and malnourishment.

Anirapio one day saw a black object streak through the sky. She would later meet this object, who was the terrible infection, Iugulare, in later years. On one fateful day, Anirapio heard words of summoning, ancient magic known and used by few who would dare try. She felt her body compress and vanish, reappearing on a new world where she saw a sleek creature stare at her. "The great...and terrible...Anirapio. You have been brought here to aid in my quest to claim this world.", Iugulare said to her.

Anirapio would soon become Iugulare's servant, aiding the infection unwillingly. She knew that her own species was suffering on Ibuzon, and Anirapio planned soon to rebel against Iugulare and claim Earth for the Daog to harvest.

But for the moment, she would be patient and obey Iugulare's every command.

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Additional fun facts on the Daog species:

Female Daog are superior to males on the planet, and an instinctual 'rule' for the species is that a female will choose a suitable male and mate with him. However, after mating, the male Daog must surrender himself to the female. He is quickly devoured by the female to provide sustenance for the newly forming baby Daog. Those males who disobey this rule will be hunted down and killed by other Daog and the body is given to the female who mated with him. The process seems brutal, but it keeps the Daog species from growing too quickly, as one new baby is born, one member of the species must be killed.

In addition, the process of devouring the female's mate keeps her body from eating away at the fetus, since their high metabolism often results in accidental fetal mortality. Their bodies will literally eat at the fetus growing inside them if there is not immediate sustenance in the female Daog's body.