Earth

Category: Physical

Characteristics: A green dragon with scales that range from murky, swampy green to a foresty green. They have a brown, rocky underbelly and large scales that are extremely hard. They are often considered the biggest dragon, the oldest being as big as small hills. They have small brown spikes on their back, ranging from their neck to their tail. At the end of their tail is a large spiked ball that can be used to crush and break most objects. On the back of their head are two ram-like horns. Like most dragons, their eyes are a piercing yellow. 

Powers: Earth is often considered the most diverse element, because of the number of things it can do. These include, but are not limited to: breathing rock in different forms, using and breathing sand and dirt, manipulation of plants and trees. Powerful earth dragons can manipulate and change the ground around them and make it do their bidding.

Strengths: Earth dragons are often very strong and steadfast, as hard to move as the earth around them. Because of this, they are often very difficult to defeat in battle, as they are incredibly strong. The diversity of their element also allows them to continue to surprise their opponent in multiple ways.

Weaknesses: Because they are so large it also makes them very heavy and far more awkward in the air than other dragons. They are also the slowest dragon, making them easy targets for attack. The dragon that would be considered its weakness would be dragons that can take an unphysical form, such as shadow or spirit dragons.

Equilibrium: At this point, an earth dragon becomes one with the ground. It is considered the easiest equilibrium to control, some even manage it on the first try. They have destructive capabilities and can create massive earthquakes or rise into the air as mountains, and create ravines. When they are in equilibrium, anything touching the ground is in danger.

Mastery: Earth is considered the most difficult element to master, simply because of how diverse it is. A master of earth would be able to do pretty much anything to earth around him/her, and also use anything inside the earth. This includes anything from lava and even metal. They could create forests in an instant and the earth itself would obey them.

Other: Most earth dragons are content to learn only one aspect of their element, and can be quite dull at times. They are often considered the most dangerous dragon to fight head-on.

Wind

Category: Physical

Characteristics: A very light, creamy brown dragon that is one of the smaller species. They have the largest wings of any dragon, allowing them great ability in the sky. They have a long tail and are rather wirily. As far as scales go, they are relatively weak and are very smooth, making them more aerodynamic. They don't have any spines on their back and have two straight horns on their head. Their eyes are yellow.

Powers: Wind dragons can breath large gusts of wind that can reach very high speeds and strength, enough to knock planes and other dragons out of the sky. Powerful wind dragons can create gusts of wind with parts of their body and can even manipulate it to create tornados and hurricanes.

Strengths: Wind dragons are very fast, the second-fastest species of dragon. They are very aerodynamic and can often perform manoeuvres other dragons can't. This makes them very difficult to hit and attack. Their control of the wind also makes it hard for other dragons to pursue and fight them in the air.

Weaknesses: The nature of their element makes it very difficult for them to kill other dragons... most of the time. Their softer scales also makes them susceptible to injuries and if a dragon is able to catch them, they are rather easy to take down as they lack natural strength. Their weakness is steadfast elements that are difficult to move, such as earth and metal.

Equilibrium: At this point, a wind dragon becomes the sky. They are practically an invisible force of wind, that can create major devastation. It is impossible to escape this equilibrium, as air is everywhere. They can become a massive tornado, or a wind storm, or a hurricane of wind. The wind strength is unending and is has been known for dragons that have reached this point to uproot mountains and send them crumbling through the air.

Mastery: A master of wind would be able to control the element to its utmost. This would involve being able to create sharp slashes of wind that could cut through most objects. They would be able to create a wind strong enough to crush creatures and they would be able to take the oxygen one breathes, causing it to suffocate. They would also be able to separate the particles that are in the air and used each one in certain ways.

Other: Wind dragons are considered by most to be the weakest species of dragon, but they are also usually rather intelligent, using what they know of their element to great advantage.

Water

Category: Physical

Characteristics: The colour of their scales range from sea blue to a deep dark blue. They are a medium-sized dragon but are far more slender with large wings, a long almost eel-like tail with a rather smooth back, with small spines running to the end of their tail. Their feet are webbed and their eyes are often a blue colour instead of the usual yellow. They have two 'S' shaped horns on the back of their head.

Powers: A water dragon can breathe a torrent of water that can vary in what it does depending on the dragon's goal. They can be fired at high enough pressures to cut through wood and some metals, or breath a large torrent that can not back and even drown enemies. Powerful water dragons can control water around them and breath a very high pressured water stream. They can also breathe underwater.

Strengths: Water can be used in many ways, allowing a water dragon to trick, blind and kill any opponent in multiple ways. Their ability to breath underwater makes the ocean their natural habitat, and while under the water they have a huge advantage.

Weaknesses: Water can be difficult to control, because of its wild ways. Also, like fire, it is well known and easy to counter. Dragon's such as ice dragons can easily counter its ways. They also aren't incredibly strong in a physical fight, often making them easy to fight head-on. They are also weak against electricity, as it passes through water rather easily.

Equilibrium: A water dragon becomes as dangerous as the ocean. They become a large body of water that can even float in the air and can be guided in many ways. They can create whirlpools and tidal waves, and if a water dragon of equilibrium enters the ocean, they have near unlimited access across the entire globe. It would be as though the ocean fell from the sky.

Mastery: A master of water would be as dangerous as the ocean itself. They would control the most powerful force on the face of the earth, beings able to create tidal waves with a flick of their wings. They would also be able to control any drop of water around them, no matter what form it took, from ice to vapour. They would also be able to breathe water in any form. This also includes the blood inside other beings.

Other: Water dragons, despite how common they are, are often a quite elusive species, choosing the safety of the ocean over the land. This often makes them hard to track and even harder to find.

Ice

Category: Physical 

Characteristics: An ice dragon's scales are a very light, icy blue colour that can make one feel cold just by looking at them. They are a medium-sized dragon and have a line of long, dangerous-looking spikes on their back. A frill of horns occupies their head, almost like a crown and they usually have eyes that match the colour of their scales. They often have a lighter underbelly that is almost white. Their eyes are yellow. 

Powers: An ice dragon uses its ability to steal energy from its surroundings and create solid chunks of ice that it can use to its advantage. They can breathe a very cold wind as well as icicles and snow. They are able to freeze most liquids and powerful ice dragons are capable of freezing gases and particles in the air, as well as hardening their scales with ice. They can throw spikes and other things from their body as well.

Strengths: Ice is another very diverse element and it can be used to continually surprise and confuse opponents. It has a great defence and a strong offence, allowing an ice dragon to switch between the two quickly and efficiently. They can weaken dragons by freezing limbs or can kill them quickly with sharp blades. Their element can be both physical and non-physical, allowing them to use their element to the weakness of others quite well.

Weaknesses: An ice dragon's weakness is heat, in any way, shape or form. This makes them far weaker in hot and humid climates and also makes them very susceptible to both fire and light dragons.

Equilibrium: An ice dragon's equilibrium is a mass of snow, ice and wind. It would be like a living snowstorm, but instead of snow, it would have chunks of ice and freezing winds rushing through it. If under control an ice dragon can choose to have a solid or none solid form and is able to move much like a wind equilibrium. Temperatures drop to quite near the coldest temperature possible, and any living thing that enters doesn't usually survive.

Mastery: A master of ice would be able to freeze anything at any time with their thoughts. Everything around them would be cold, ice cold. They would be able to create icicles from the air around them and move these objects with ease. A master of ice could look at a dragon and freeze them in a nearly unbreakable cacoon, or even freezing a dragon's blood.

Other: There is a rare species of ice dragon that is pure white and often is able to use their powers to a far higher level than most other ice dragons.

Acid

Category: Physical

Characteristics: These dragons have dark green scales, a similar colour to moss. They are a smaller species of dragon, around the same size as a wind dragon. They usually have splashes of colour around their legs, either yellow, red, light green, purple and pink. They have two smaller horns on the back of their head and a scorpion-like barb on the end of their tail, and yellow eyes. 

Powers: Acid dragons have the ability to spit a green acid that can melt through most anything. They can vary the strength of the acid so that it just causes pain or burns instead of melting anything it touches. Powerful acid dragons can control acid around them, able to move the liquids with their mind instead of breathing them. Also, they can inject a potent poison through their tail if given the chance. It can kill if enough is ejected.

Strengths: Acid dragons are considered one of the more dangerous species of dragon, and even if they are defeated their poison and acid can cause large amounts of damage over time. This makes many others very cautious in battle. Their acid is quite strong and causes extreme pain, and also can weaken other dragons very easily.

Weaknesses: Despite their dangerous element, acid dragons have very little defence and can often be defeated quite easily if they make a mistake. Also, if they come across a dragon that makes their poison and acid useless, they are rather easy. This makes them weak toward metal, shadow and spirit dragons.

Equilibrium: At this point, an acid dragon becomes an ocean of acid. Much like a water equilibrium, the acid is able to move and flow anywhere, melting anything and anyone in its way. It makes it rather destructive and whenever this happens it is not uncommon for the land afterwards to be completely devoid of life. The acid is also able to form into a mist, allowing it to travel into almost any area, not that the acid couldn't eat its way anywhere it wanted to go either.

Mastery: A master of acid would be able to create it from nothing, and wield it with deadly precision. They would be able to create a mist from the acid and spread it over large areas, killing anything that enters. They would also be able to control the acidity of their element, making it so it is barely an acid to stronger than any acid known to man.

Other: The colours presented by an acid dragon are usually worn by poisonous animals as a way to warn off other creatures of their danger.

Metal

Category: Physical

Characteristics: Metallic dragons are slightly larger than average species of dragon. They have soft pale yellow scales, transparent wings and a long flimsy body, but most of this is protected by a metallic 'shell' on their back, the shell usually covering their tail, wings, back and the top half of their neck and head. They have two horns on their head. The metal on their wings is naturally razor-sharp, and their eyes are yellow. 

Powers: A metal dragon is able to breathe a liquid metal that solidifies on impact, often seen as the strongest substance on earth. They can also breath small 'bullets' and 'cannonballs' at will. Their metal shell can expand and contract to either cover their whole body or cover nothing at all. Powerful metal dragons can warp their shell to create blades and other objects that they may need.

Strengths: A metal dragon's shell is made from the strongest material on the earth, and is nearly indestructible. This makes them incredibly difficult to take down, able to withstand a lot of damage. Their element is also quite diverse, allowing them to trick up their opponents constantly with different and innovative techniques.

Weaknesses: Despite the strength of their metal shells, their scales are considered the weakest of all dragons, and can be pieced rather easily. Also, their shell, while able to withstand a lot, readily conducts heat. This makes them vulnerable to extreme temperatures, making them weak to fire and light dragons, as well as rift and ice dragons.

Equilibrium: At this point, a metal dragon becomes the metal that they breathe. It looks much like a water equilibrium, a sea of liquid metal, but instead, it is able to solidify and move incredibly quickly. It can grow and expand and is also very difficult to destroy. Metallic equilibriums are able to travel through natural metal as well, making it apart of themselves, and have been known to whip out and rip apart entire mountains, as nothing is able to stand in its way.

Mastery: A master of metal would be able to control any and all metal under their command. They would be able to sift through the elements that make up their shell and use each metal separately as well as a hole. They would be able to draw metal from the earth and make it into anything they would need, as well as heat it up and cool it down.

Other: Metal is considered the most useful element, as it can be used to build and create nearly anything, and the metal itself is able to withstand nearly anything. 

Crystal

Category: Physical

Characteristics: These dragons are a medium-sized species of dragon. They have gem-like scales that look as though they should be transparent. Their scales are very sharp if stroked the wrong way, and they glitter like diamonds in the sunlight. They have no spikes on their back and two small curved horns on their head. Their wings and claws are often quite sharp as well. Their scales are extremely strong, the hardest of any dragon.

Powers: They are very similar to ice and metal dragons, able to breathe spikes of crystals as well as streams of a crystal with a liquid quality, allowing them to freeze other things in place. They are able to warp their crystal-like scales to create different shapes and weapons. Powerful crystal dragons are able to call upon crystals from the earth.

Strengths: The hardness of their scales make crystal dragons very difficult to harm in any way, and their sharp wings and tail, as well as rather lithe bodies, make them a terror in close combat. Their crystal breath can be used to trap and maim, as well as be used for many other things. Their dazzling scales can often be quite blinding as well.

Weaknesses: Despite the hardness of their crystals, it is also very brittle and if a large blunt object is used with enough force it can often shatter either a crystal dragon's crystal or even their scales. They also lack large amounts of physical strength. This makes them weak against dragons that have enormous strength, such as earth dragons, as well as metal dragons with their ability to create blunt objects with their tails.

Equilibrium: A crystal dragons equilibrium is considered one of the most beautiful, but no less dangerous. They become an ocean of liquid crystal, which can become solid at will. They are able to expand and contract, covering massive areas in crystal-like substances, and they are able to enter into the earth and draw power from the many crystals underneath them.

Mastery: A master of crystals would be able to use each and every piece of crystal available, everything from quartz to diamond. They would be able to draw out the element from the earth in an instant, as well as create crystals out of nothing. They would have complete control of their bodies, able to morph into nearly any form they would want to and change the colour of their scales to different types of crystals.

Other: A crystal dragon is often said to have the sharpest element of all, though a skilled metal dragon would be able to match the sharpness of crystal.