Lizard, Fire

This creature, which resembles a small drake, is graycolored with a mottled red and brown back and reddish undersides.

Combat
Fire lizards are aggressive and attack with their claws and bite. They also breathe a cone of fire on anyone that is within range, but usually save it for their first attack until they close, after which they resort to their physical attacks.

Description
Fire lizards prefer subterranean lairs but come out every fortnight to hunt for fresh game. They haul their prey back to their lairs and feast.

Fire lizards sleep half of the time and are slow movers. Their lairs may have 1-4 eggs with a market value of 5,000 Cp each. Hatchlings immediately leave to begin hunting on their own.

Shiny objects like gems and metals form the bulk of the fire lizard's horde, which is found in their den. Fire lizards are perhaps an ancestral offshoot of fire drakes or some extinct draconic beast, according to most sages. Also called false dragons, these lizards live to be 50-100 years of age. While fire lizards' eggs are valuable, getting hold of a live hatchling and selling it is worth even more; at most one can get around 7,500 Cp for one.