The Death Song is a Mystery Class dragon introduced in the DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
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The Death Song uses a siren-like song to lure it's prey. The secret behind this amazing feat is the Death Song's extra cervical vertebrate. When the Death Song calls, its extra vertebrae expand into its frills, and its song is able to be projected to specific targets up to a mile away.
After striking its prey, the Death Song covers it in a yellow, liquid substance which traps and preserves victims as it hardens into a stiff amber cocoon. This cocoon is so strong, it is only penetrable by flame. The Death Song's amber can only be penetrated by flame. Slitherwing venom prevents the amber from solidifying upon contact and causes the amber to slide right off before it dries up. Afterwards, the Death Song returns to finish it's prey off. It does this by breaking the prey out of the amber and then eating them. As they can consume medium size dragons like Gronckles in few minutes.
Trivia[]
- The Death Song is the fifth dragon to have "death" in its name, and the first dragon to have the word "death" at the beginning of the name.
- This is the third dragon that appears to eat other dragons, the first being the Red Death and the second being the Scauldron. The others are the Changewing, the Cavern Crasher, the Slitherwing, the Grim Gnasher, the male Razorwhip, the Skrill, and the Deathgripper.
- In Rise of Berk, this dragon is known as the Slithersong. The dragon seems to be of a different color scheme then the Death Song, but Ludia has confirmed that they are the same species. A model of the Death Song does appear in Rise of Berk, but it is unknown if it will appear in the game or not.
- This dragon's name was believed to be the Deathsong, but the name is actually split into two words.
- It has a strange plate on its under belly. This plate's use is unknown.
- The Death Song has a distant Jurassic ancestor that has expandable frills, which could be referring to the Dilophosaurus from the Jurassic Park franchise.
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