Draken

Draken are large, apex predators, typically twice the length of a horse including their long tails and necks. The greatest of all the reptiles, they have incredibly resistant scale hides, making them difficult to kill. Living in packs dominated by one or two males, they hunt large game throughout the known world, appearing in half a dozen species. Though they normally avoid the five races, they occasionally attack if threatened or hungry. Draken were once used for the purposes of war by humans, elves, and orcs. However, the practice was mutually abandoned some five-hundred years ago.

- Imperic Encyclopedia, Volume III: Biology of Aarden