Dragon wings can vary greatly. Usually, they have a design somewhat similar to a bat's wing. There are usually five wing fingers, like a bat, but these can be in many different positions. Typically, and this is a large gerneralization, four of the dragon's wing fingers are very tough, thin webbing stretched between them. The fifth wing finger (the "thumb") is smaller and has no webbing so it is not actually a wing finger. It is usually called a wing claw becuase it resembles a large claw at the front of the wing. Perneese dragons' wings have an interesting adaption. The last two winger fingers are so close together that they are almost fused. This provides support to the front of the wing in flight. All dragons' wings are different. Some have as many as ten wing fingers and claws per wing, some have as few as two. Some dragons have an extra winger finger coming from the "elbow" of their wing. Fairy dragons have four fairy-like wings (hence their name). It is also possible for a dragon to have more, sometimes many more, than two wings.
Dragons, with very few exceptions, have either tough, leathery hide, or very hard scales. When dragons have scales, they are almost always U-shaped and overlapping. Other types of scales include iguana-like, hexagonal, non-overlapping scales, and square, overlapping, shingle-like scales. Some have a combination of these. Scales and hide can come in many different colors. These colors usually mean something. Sex, age, health, mood, breed, or type of breath can sometimes be determined simply by the color and pattern of a dragon. Also, the color of some dragons changes with his surroundings, like a chameleon, and some can change their color at will. For example, there are five colors of Perneese dragons, green, blue, brown, bronze, and gold. Greens and golds are females, and blues, bronzes, and browns are male. Perneese dragons turn grayish when they feel neglected or distressed, or are old or sick. Their eyes change color according to their mood. Red means hunger, orange and yellow mean distress, agitation, and annoyance, and green and blue mean contentment and sleepiness. Therefore, the sex, mood, and overall physical and mental health can be determined simply by looking at a Perneese dragon.
Dragons' eyes come in different forms. Some are reptilian, some are quite human. Some, like those of Perneese dragons, are multifaceted. There is very commonly something special about a dragon's eyes. Sometimes, they have a hypnotic affect. Sometimes, they can put great fear into the mind of an attacker. In a couple of examples, they have turned attackers into stone. And of course, they sometimes do nothing at all. The word dragon comes from the greek word darc, meaning to see, or to see clearly, so there is definitely a sense of someting more about a dragon's eyes.
Dragon tails are generally very long and slender, but they certainly aren't always so. An average tail length seems to be about the same length of the rest of the dragon. Dragons with thicker tails, and even some without, can use them as very nasty weapons. It is usually not very hard for those dragons to swing a tail and slam some unsuspecting prey against a hard object like the trunk of a tree or cave wall. More often than not, dragons have some object at the end of their tail, usually hard, and usually spade-shaped. Dragons can use these as nasty weapons, too. One kind of dragon actually has a ball of spikes at the end of their tails, making their advantage even greater.
