WENGE DRAGON

Ancient even among dragonkind, Wenge Dragons make their homes in the deepest parts of dense old-growth forests, where the multilayered canopy admits only the barest flickers of sunlight and the bark of trees both fallen and thriving are streaked with moss and shadows. They are archivists and chroniclers, strategists and philosophers, collectors of polished wooden instruments, chess pieces, iron keys, petrified wood, dried mushrooms, and jet beads. Their nearly-black scales smell of wood ash, cacao, smoked tabac, patchouli root, hemlock needles, and ancient bark.