Dragons

Dragons are a creature species featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. They are native to the Enchanted Forest, the Land Without Magic and Wonderland, and first appear in the first episode of the first season of Once Upon a Time.

Biology
Dragons are scaled, firespewing creatures that come in different shapes and colors. All dragons are capable of flight, even the one who don't have wings. Some dragons are capable of taking human form.

Dragons can mate with each other without knowing who their partner is. Lily refers to this as a "dragon thing". Therefore, a dragon mother can have no knowledge of who the father of her child is.

Dragons reproduce by laying eggs. The mother protects the egg by building a nest and curling her tail around the egg. A dragon capable of shapeshifting into a human, will produce offspring that look human when they're hatched, although the child still inherits the parent's ability to take on dragon form.

When a female dragon builds their nest, they seem to prefer to scorch all the earth around it to mark their territory and to fill the nest with silver treasures. This is what Maleficent did when she built her own nest in a cave.

The magic present in dragon egg shells allows people to stop aging. Dragonscales are used as an ingredient in memory potions and dragon breath from an unhatched dead dragon egg can be used for waking up a person who has lost their magic to Hrunting.

Dragon Breeds
There are at least three different breeds of dragons:

Known Dragons

 * The Dragon
 * Lily Page
 * Lily's father
 * Maleficent

Trivia
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On-Screen Notes

 * A dragon is featured in the title card for "The Shepherd", "Bad Blood", "Unforgiven" and "Mother".
 * There are at least three dragon breeds:
 * The six-limbed dragons (four legs and two wings) featured in several episodes of the show, have the traits of a European dragon.
 * The dragon that Alice, Will and Jafar encounter has only two legs, meaning that it's technically a wyvern. A wyvern is a legendary creature with a dragon's head and wings, a reptilian body, two legs and a tail. The most important difference between a dragon and a wyvern, is that dragons are depicted with four legs, or without legs, whereas a wyvern only has two legs and does not breathe fire, although they are known to breathe poison instead. However, the two-legged creature that Alice and the others encounters does indeed breathe fire making it a type of wing-armed dragon.
 * The Dragon's natural form is a Chinese dragon, which are depicted as quadrupeds with no wings.
 * Dragons are considered as animals, as Cruella magically smoothed the dragon Maleficent with persuasion magic which only works on animals according to Isaac's story.


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Props Notes

 * Maleficent's baby rattle is shaped like a dragon's foot holding an orb.

Set Dressing

 * The label on a bottle of lager on August's nightstand in Phuket has an illustration of a dragon.

Costume Notes

 * When Hook changes into his new Dark One outfit in the Enchanted Forest, the clasps on his vest are dragon-shaped, with their tails forming a trinity knot.