Stratos Dragon 斯特拉托斯龍

資料來源：龍洞百科
發佈時間：2020/03/20
棲息地：高山、沙漠、叢林。

This egg is very large, but light for its size.
這蛋雖大，卻沒那麼重。

Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It looks like it would be a good swimmer, but it doesn’t like being placed in water.

噢……是個可愛龍寶寶呢。雖然牠看上去會是個游泳健將，卻一點也不喜歡待在水裡。

Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It looks like it would be a good swimmer, but it doesn’t like being placed in water. And look! It has grown larger and started to fly! It must be close to maturing.

噢……是個可愛龍寶寶呢。雖然牠看上去會是個游泳健將，卻一點也不喜歡待在水裡。而且你看！牠的長得更大還開始飛了！牠肯定快要長大成龍了！

Stratos Dragons resemble sea dragons, but these massive creatures are far too buoyant to swim in the water. Instead, Stratos Dragons use air mana accumulated in their scales to live high up in the skies from the moment they mature enough to leave the ground, only ever returning to the ground in open spaces or very high elevations to lay their eggs. The underside of a Stratos is covered in reflective scales that slowly shift colors throughout the day to mirror the sky and the clouds above, serving as camouflage. Young Stratos consume anything that will fit in their mouths, and are especially drawn to air mana, but adult Stratos are difficult to observe and not much is known about what they eat or where they continue to gain mana. Corpses of grown Stratos dragons have been found with an incredible amount of crystallized light and air mana embedded in their backs, and it is thought that they fly so high up as they would otherwise be a delicacy to many of the more mana-hungry dragon breeds.

斯特拉托斯龍雖是海洋龍種的象徵，但這種巨型生物卻完全無法靠浮力在水中游泳；因此，斯特拉托斯龍自成年能遠離地面起，就改透過累積在鱗片內的大氣魔力生活在高空中，只在下蛋的時候才會降落到空曠或高海拔的地方。斯特拉托斯龍的下側佈滿能反光的鱗片，會隨著一天不同時段所映照出的天空及雲彩緩慢變化色調，以充偽裝之用。年幼的斯特拉托斯龍只要是能放入嘴裡的都會吃下去，且特別會被大氣魔力給吸引；然而成年的斯特拉托斯龍因難以遇見，所以無法確認牠們的飲食習慣，及如何繼續獲取該種魔力。目前已發現的成龍屍體背上能找到數量可觀的光明和大氣魔力結晶，這同時也被認為是牠們得身處高處的原因，以避免淪為眾多渴望魔力的龍種的佳餚。

※ 斯特拉托斯龍一天會有四種變化，時間分別是：
清晨──凌晨3點～上午9點
白天──上午9點～下午3點
黃昏──下午3點～晚上9點
夜間──晚上9點～凌晨3點

※ Stratos 在拉丁文中有「群眾的領導者」的涵義，另外也是希臘神廟中供奉宙斯的那座……然而我沒GET到跟這龍有什麼關係orz