History Website / DragonCave

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Suspiciously Yoshi-like Dino eggs appear very rarely in the jungle. They were originally actual Yoshis, but this was changed for obvious copyright related reasons. Until an update in 2016, Dinos sorted as "Yoshis" if a scroll was sorted by breed.

* ActualPacifist: [[PlanetOfHats Every single white dragon.]] (Unless you write a description for your dragon and make it be something else. Though going too far from a dragon's breed description in their personal description is often frowned upon.)

* UpToEleven: On the forum, users are marked with a number of eggs to represent the number of posts they have, up to ten eggs. The moderators' accounts all have eleven eggs, and TJ's has twelve.

* CluckingFunny: Inexplicably, a rare chicken egg can be found in the Cave. The rainbow chicken has also became a RunningGag.

* SimpleStaff: White dragons have wooden staves through which they channel magic.

-->"OHHHHH RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR BABY I'VE ONLY GOT EYES FOR YOU RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR!"

* SecondPersonNarration: A lot of text is written in second-person, since you're the adventurous human who's taking care of dragons and exploring the wild. Evidently, the text demonstrates you're not a blank slate by describing how you feel about some eggs and some of your actions around hatchlings.

* AnachronismStew: The time period is supposed to be vaguely medieval, so overtly anachronistic concepts such as airplanes are not allowed. Still, the site has introduced or mentioned spectacles, various dog breeds, germ theory, knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum, and other anachronisms, so it's more like "things that the creators don't know aren't medieval are allowed".

* BalloonBelly: The [[MeaningfulName Balloon Dragons]].
* BigEater: Harvest dragons during autumn, and Spotted Greenwings. Plated colossi are enormous, dimwitted dragons who frequently think about food.
* BloodKnight: Tri-Horn Wyverns and Seragamma Wyverns.
* {{Brainwashed}}:
** Averted with Daydream dragons. Many people assumed this, but the creator has said many times that all Daydreams can do is distract someone, not control someone's mind.
** Brainwashing and replacing memories are a favorite tactic of Desipis dragons.

* PowerCrystal: Solid mana (magic stuff) can come in crystalline form.

* SimpleStaff: White dragons have staves.

** '''Always male:''' Sweetlings, Heartseekers, Radiant Angels, Mutamores, Floral-Crowned, Yulebucks, Winter Magis, Wrapping-Wings, Aegides, and Snows.
** '''Always female:''' Chickens, Rosebuds, '09 Valentines, Arsani, Heartstealing, Soulstones, Snow Angels, Ribbon Dancers, Solstices, and Garlands.

*** Holly: All male the year they were released and in subsequent releases, but able to breed offspring of either gender
*** Mistletoe: All female the year they were released and in subsequent releases, but able to breed offspring of either gender

* CombatTentacles: The Dark Green or [[FanNickname "Vine"]] dragons use their masses of vines to attack and eat anything around them.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: With a few exceptions, almost every dragon type can breed with almost every other type. This leads to some odd combinations such as Skywings (dragons with wings but no legs that spend all their time in the air) and Water/Deep Sea dragons (basically sea serpents).
** Now they're just encouraging it, too, with several breeds of dragons that can only be obtained by crossbreeding. Dragons such as Striped Dragons, Avatars, and Xenowyrms can be bred this way to produce different forms or colors.

* AnIcePerson: The aptly-named ice dragons and frostbite dragons.
* ImAHumanitarian: A few breeds are explicitly stated to eat dragons.

* {{GIFT}}: The 2010 Christmas event involved decorating trees and rating other people's trees on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest score a tree could get; 30 users would win a new "prize" breed. (These were highly desired, since, with only 5, 10, or 15 of the respective dragon on the site at the start, they would be the rarest dragons on the site at the time of their release and their offspring would be extremely valuable.) The results imply that when given anonymity, people were willing to rate others low in order to hurt everyone else's chances of winning the contest, or just to troll: out of almost 2.3 million votes cast, the average vote was only 3.74, and even the highest-rated tree had a score of 6.23.

* AlienSky: The world of Valkemare has two moons, Aurax and and Cirion, which are gold and blue respectively. The phases of the moons affect which colour of Lunar Herald dragon (out of four possibilities) is available, along with other, less noticeable effects.

* IncestIsRelative: You should see some family trees. A lot of players frown on inbred dragons, but some lineages are based on it including a [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire 'Rise of the Targaryens']] group lineage.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: "The Guardians of Nature" which are the personifications (or should that be [[LamePun dragonification]]?) of... well, guess.

* PurpleIsPowerful: The legendary Guardian of Nature and Sinomorph are both predominantly purple.

* SeriousBusiness: People are '''killing''' pixel dragons? The murderers!

** Members are free to name their own dragons, and often the lists of their dragons names can end up like this, or else pass into the bizarre and the surreal.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: "The Guardians of Nature" which are the personifications (or should that be [[LamePun dragonification]]?) of....well, guess.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Everything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: Suspiciously Yoshi-like dragon eggs appear very rarely. They were originally actual Yoshis, but this was changed for obvious copyright related reasons. Until an update in 2016, they sorted as "Yoshis" if a scroll was sorted by breed.

* ShoulderSizedDragon: All pygmy dragons. Sweetlings as well. The non-dragon but similar drakes are also bat- to cat-sized.

** '''Always male:''' Sweetlings, Heartseekers, Radiant Angels, Winter Magi, Yulebucks, Wrapping-Wings, Aegides, Mutamores, and Snows.
** '''Always female:''' Chickens, Snow Angels, Ribbon Dancers, Solstices, Rosebuds, '09 Valentines, Arsani, Heartstealing, and Soulstones.

*** Holly: All male the year they were released, but able to breed offspring of either gender
*** Mistletoe: All female the year they were released but able to breed offspring of either gender

* TechnicolorFire: Falconiform Wyverns, Spitfires, and female Hellfire wyverns have brilliant blue flames, and Magelight pygmy wyverns have purple fires on their tails. The spriter's alt Desipis also breathes green or blue flames, depending on which spriter it belongs to.
* {{Telepathy}}: All dragons use telepathy to communicate, though they can make the usual squeaks and growls.
** Averted with the Drake species, who can only breed among themselves and have an animal-level intelligence.

** The Tinsel and Shimmer-scale breeds are only available as contest prizes or having it bred. For a long time all Tinsels and Shimmer-scales on the site were descended from the 5 gold/10 silver/15 bronze Tinsels and 10 gold/20 silver/30 bronze Shimmer-scales given to the original winners of their respective contests, but they have since been made much more obtainable (e.g. monthly raffle).
** For Valentine's Day, Halloween, and Christmas, there's a new limited-time release each year that drops only for 24-72 hours depending on the event. The only way to obtain these breeds in subsequent years is to get one that was bred by another user.

* {{Emoticon}}: There is an entire [[http://dragcave.net/%E0%B2%A0_%E0%B2%A0 hidden page]] devoted to these, which shows a different face each time you refresh it.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Some of the dragon species run into this, especially those named after a colour. For example, the Cheese Dragon is.... a dragon made of cheese.

** '''Always female:''' Chickens, Snow Angels, Ribbon Dancers, Solstices, Rosebuds, '09 Valentines, Arsani, and Heartstealing

* AlienSky: The world of Valkemare has two moons, Aurax and and Cirion, which are gold and blue respectively. The phases of the moons affect which colour of Lunar Herald dragon (out of four possibilities) is available.

* AnachronismStew: The time period is supposed to be vaguely medieval, so overtly anachronistic concepts such as airplanes are not allowed. Still, the site has introduced or mentioned spectacles, various dog breeds, germ theory, Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme, knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum, and other anachronisms, so it's more like "things that the creators don't know aren't medieval are allowed".

* BigEater: Harvest dragons during autumn, and Spotted Greenwings.

* CallBack: The 2015 Christmas game has a few, due to it being set a year after the snowstorm event in 2014.

* {{Lunacy}}: Valkemare has two moons a gold one called Aurax and a blue one called Cirion, and some dragon breeds get their energy from the moons, are active when one or both are full, etc. The color of Lunar Herald depends on the phases of both moons at once.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampire dragons were originally introduced on Halloween '09, and cannot breed but can bite eggs to turn them into vampire eggs.

* AnachronismStew: The time period is supposed to be vaguely medieval, so overtly anachronistic concepts such as airplanes are not allowed. Still, the site has introduced or mentioned spectacles, various dog breeds, germ theory, knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum, and other anachronisms, so it's more like "things that the creators don't know aren't medieval are allowed".

* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: The Green Dragon, a tavern in the Halloween 2012 "Haunting in Aliset" story.

* InformedAttribute: Some eggs are described as massive, heavy, very large etc., but the egg sprite is the same size as every other non-pygmy dragon egg.

** '''Always male:''' Sweetlings, Heartseekers, Radiant Angels, Winter Magi, Yulebucks, Wrapping-Wings, Aegides, and Mutamores.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires and Cavern Lurkers avoid venturing into sunlight.