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Dark Scales:
Egg color: ink black/navy blue/deep purple, sometimes a swirl of 2 or 3 colors or with scattered spots of silver, grey, light yellow, or white
Scale color: black/dark blue/dark purple, with silver star patterns under wings
Eye color: different shades of purple, indigo, and dark blue
Flight age: year and a half
Fire manifestation: 14,
Full size/Shifting age: 17
Notes: excellent night vision, fastest learner according to intelligence tests.
Fire Scales:
Egg color: red/orange/yellow, sometimes a touch of light blue at the top of the egg, flame pattern
Scale color: red/orange/yellow
Eye color: scarlet/red/yellow/orange, some reports of bright fiery blue eyes
Flight age: year and a half
Fire manifestation: 13
Full size/Shifting age: 17
Notes: develop fire half a year before other shifters, can withstand up to (500°F/260°C), scales, wings, and skin are warm to the touch, run a higher temperature than other shifters.
Earth Scales:
Egg color: brown/dark leaf green/mahogany
Scale color: brown/green, specks of red brown on brown, gold on brown or green, dark green on green
Eye color: brown/dark green
Flight age: year and a half
Fire manifestation: 15
Full size/Shifting age: 16
Notes: Earth Scales are also known as Forest Scales because they tend to live in/near mud lands in/near forests so that both green and brown scaled shifters have a place they camouflage in, Earth Scales are known for their strong connection to plants and their knowledge in agriculture.
Water Scales:
Egg color: sea greens/sea glass blue, pink or green/any shade of blue, most eggs have a pattern that looks like light refracting through water, and some have a pattern of pebbles/rocks/across the top of egg, but some have no pattern (see: Ice Scales**)
Scale color: blue/coral pink/teal/sea green
Eye color: blue/teal/green/grey/silver
Flight age: two years
Fire manifestation: none
Full size/Shifting age: 16
Notes: can breathe underwater, they have special pouches inside their throats/mouth that allows them to collect water to spray out at high speed, flight age is around half a year later than most shifters, wings have a more scoop-like shape to them to move water easier, wings have more rotation than most, allowing them to have wings tipped forward or backward enough to catch currents coming from in front or behind.
Sky Scales:
Egg color: grey/silver/sometimes pale blue, rock pattern, *
Scale color: sky blue/grey/silverish
Eye color: blue/grey/silver, **
Flight age: one year
Fire manifestation: 14
Full size/Shifting age: 16
Notes: excellent eyesight but not at night, fastest in the air, biggest wingspan, flight age is around half a year earlier than most shifters, records suggest they may have had larger lungs that may have enabled them to blow out a strong gust of air and to help breathe easier as they live/ed in high places where the air is thinner, thought to be extinct but unsure if just in hiding, very secluded. ***
*There is not enough data to list any other pattern that may or may have appeared on Sky Scale eggs as they have not been seen or heard from in recent times and there is insufficient records on them of before their disappearance.
**There are old records of Sky Scales having pink, yellow, orange or a mix of three colored eyes, apparently comparable to, ‘the sunset or sunrise’ (Hymn to the Sky of my Life) though it is unsure if this is creative liberty, and if not, if this affects their vision, or it is simply a mutation like blue eyes on a Fire Scale.
***There is not enough data to list or confirm any other defining characteristics as Sky Scales have not been seen or heard from in recent times and there is insufficient records on them of before their disappearance.
Ice Scales:
Egg color: white/ice blue, many eggs have a cracked pattern*, though some eggs have been ice water blue**, most eggs have tiny ridges on the bottom that keep the egg from slipping on ice, but some eggs do not have this**
Scale color: ice blue/white/ice teal/sometimes touches of purple
Eye color: ice blue/pale blue/ice teal
Flight age: year and a half
Fire manifestation: none
Full size/Shifting age: 17
Notes: they can breathe cold air by five years of age, by 14 they can give you frostbite and after they grow to full size at 17, they can breathe ice,
*To check if it the egg is cracked or if is the pattern on the egg run a claw/finger over cracks, if a chill escapes, then it is cracked (and might be hatching!)
**To distinguish if an egg is an Ice Scale egg or a Water Scale egg, feel the temperature of the egg, Water Scale eggs are not significantly cold or warm whereas an Ice Scale will be cool to the touch.