Kazilik

Species Notes

Kaziliks are a highly valuable breed of dragon. This is mostly because of the coveted ability to breathe fire, but also because they are heavyweight dragons when most fire breathers are light to middleweight. They are native to Turkey, and the government lets very few out of their possession. Although, Kaziliks cannot be decoyed the way other fire breathing dragons can, because of their distinctive horns.

William Laurence saw the destructive power of the Kaziliks at the Battle of the Nile when he saw many ships destroyed by their flames. He describes the experience in His Majesty's Dragon:

He fell silent, remembering: the sails all ablaze and trailing thick plumes of black smoke; the great orange-and-black beast diving down and pouring still more fire from its jaws upon them, its wings fanning the flames; the terrible roaring which was only drowned out at last by the explosion, and the way all sound had been muted for nearly a day thereafter. He had been in Rome once as a boy, and there seen in the Vatican a painting of Hell by Michelangelo, with dragons roasting the damned souls with fire, it had been very like. (HMD, 43)