Note on Colors
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All right, here's the deal. Pernsey has eleven basic colors, five common-ish (gold, bronze, brown, blue, green), five uncommon (female bronze, slate, pewter, silver, dun), and one truly rare (white). Only the two largest female ranks, or queens, are fertile, the more common greens and duns were engineered to be sterile. Whites are gender-neutral, but are referred to as having the same gender as their riders.
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Gold and Female Bronze are the 'queens'. They are the largest dragons, and, while they cannot flame, are incredibly useful to the Weir in that they are the only females that can produce eggs.

Bronze and Slate are the largest males, and are usually the ones to mate with the queens. A bronze or slate rider is usually a natural leader, and thus can rise very high in the ranks of the Weir, even aspiring to be Weiron (see note on Weir ranks).

Brown and Pewter riders are strong and steady, like their medium-sized dragons. A few might even succeed in flying a queen and becoming Weiron, though bronzes and slates usually win out.

Blue and Silver are the smallest males, only a little larger than duns and greens. They're flighty and skittish, but invaluable to the Weir's fighting wings - they have the speed and agility of their smaller sisters, but the staying power to last through an entire Fall.

Green and Dun are the smallest dragon colors, excepting white, and make up a majority of the Weir's population. They are very much female, although occasionally one will take a male rider.

Whites are sports, abnormally small and underdeveloped. They lack reproductive organs, and are considered to be gender-neutral. To make up for these shortcomings, white dragons are gifted with an uncanny intelligence, at times surpassing that of the queens.

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