The Silkspanner appeared in 2016 comic book called Burning Midnight. The Silkspanner is a medium-sized Mystery Class dragon that first appeared in Burning Midnight.
The Silkspanner is a six-legged wingless dragon that somewhat resembles an iguana or a chameleon. It has four eyes; a bigger pair in front and a smaller pair in the back. It has chelicerates, similar to a spider's, and its body is green with yellow underbelly and light purple legs. It has a row of long sharp spines along its back and a long tail, as well as long thin claws and a small membrane between its toes. It also possesses numerous thin spines on its head and under its chin.
A Titan Wing Silkspanner is not very different from the adult form. The most notable change is that there are many more spikes on its back, head, and legs. It turns sea blue in color, with pale white belly.
Silkspanners are highly territorial dragons and are protective of their eggs towards any they those consider as intruders. However, they will come to aid those that are being affected by their primary food source: dragonvine, and it is their species’ role to make sure that the aforementioned toxic plants don’t spread to other parts of the world.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Spitting Silk: Just like real life spiders, Silkspanners can shoot silk to create webs and trap their prey in them. They can launch these silks from their mouths and their rear ends. The webs are so powerful that not even the strongest of dragons can break through it using brute force.
- Climbing: Silkspanners are able to climb vertical rock walls and trees using their long claws. They can even climb facing downwards without any difficulties.
- Wingless Flight: Silkspanners are able to fly and glide for relatively short distances (i.e. between islands, but not across the archipelago) by weaving webbing between their three pairs of legs. With these, they are able to catch the wind currents. This leaves them somewhat vulnerable to the whims of wind direction. Additionally, they fill their stomachs with air to add some buoyancy, according to Dragons: Rise of Berk.
- Immunity to Dragonvine: Silkspanners are immune to dragonvine and can eat them without showing any form of side effects.
- Dragonvine Poison Removal: Baby Silkspanners have demonstrated the ability to suck out the toxic component of the dragonvine plants that infect both dragons and humans in a seemingly painless process. It is not divulged if adult Silkspanners can also do this.
- Strength and Stamina: Silkspanners appear to be strong dragons, for the hatchlings are able to use their webbing to grab and lift full-grown humans with minimal effort, and two of them are able to carry Bayana without any signs of struggle. One Silkspanner also had a arrow in him and was able to keep moving like it was nothing proving Silkspanners have incredible endurance.
- Floating on Water: In order to cross over water when the conditions are not favorable for gliding, Silkspanners are able to float on the surface using strands of fine silk, as mentioned in Dragons: Rise of Berk.
Weaknesses[]
- Fire: As shown in Dragonvine, Silkspanners do not like fire, similar to Slitherwings.