Brass dragon

Brass dragons where the weakest of the metallic dragons, and also of the most benign of all species of dragon. They loved to talk, to the exclusion of much else. They love to engage friends and foes alike in hours of long-winded conversation. It was not unusual for a brass dragon to be fluent in several hundred different languages, although they obviously prefer to converse in Draconic whenever possible.

Physical description
Physically, the brass dragon was highly distinctive. From below, its outstretched wings form a triangular shape, as they are attached to its body all the way to the tip of its tail. The wings where longest at the shoulder, and taper gently as they reach the tail. Their scales seem to radiate heat and light. As their name implies, brass dragons tend to have brass-colored scales. Their scales where a dull brown at a young age, becoming more glossy and brass in appearance as they get older. The shape of the head is quite unusual, as it included a large, curved plate that extends from the dragon's eyes and cheeks on either side and curves upwards into two points. They had two sharp horns on the chin, which become steadily pointier as the dragon ages. They smell like metal.

Combat
Brass dragons very rarely engaged in combat, preferring to talk rather than fight. If they consider a creature threatening, they will subdue it with their sleeping gas. In the face of true danger, a brass dragon would have most likely fly away and hid in the sand. It would have fought and use its fire breath only as an absolute last resort.

Breath weapon
Brass dragons had two separate breath weapons. The first is a narrow line of fire, and the second was a cone of sleep gas.

Lair
Brass dragons where native to arid regions; they share many similar habitats with blue dragons, which often lead to conflict. The brass dragon prefers to dig its lair inside a desert peak or spire. They also preferred to have the bulk of their lairs face eastwards, so that the rising sun will warm the lair for the bulk of the day. A brass dragon's lair was well-constructed and quite extensive, with many twisting corridors and dead ends to confuse and discourage hostile intruders. The centerpiece of any brass dragon's lair is the Grand Conversation Hall, where it spends the majority of its time entertaining friends and visitors. A typical lair will also contain an elegant foyer, a gallery for the artwork the dragon has collected, a sleeping chamber, and a storage room. All brass dragon lairs had several small entrances, known as bolt holes. These multiple entrances allowed a brass dragon to easily escape an attack by a blue dragon or other predator.

Parenting and development
Brass dragon eggs must be incubated in a nest of open flames. Incubation takes approximately 480 days. The eggs where typically tended by both parents, so that they can talk together as they maintain their vigil. The newhatched brass wyrmling is not remarkable in appearance; its scales where a dull brown. The scales become lighter and more brilliant as the dragon matured. Brass wyrmlings probably learn to talk more quickly than the young of any other sentient species. They talk constantly about anything and everything, and they will talk to anybody: friends, family, enemies, small creatures that cannot talk back, or even to itself if nobody else is near. When exposed to a new language, a brass wyrmling would usually become fluent in under an hour.