Drakes

Drake is a type of creature to appear newly in the upcoming videogame Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Descriptions


Drake is a type of fire drakes or Urulóki albeit might be smaller in size. It is unclear how big drakes will grow up to and are there any differences to dragons.

Notable characteristics of drakes include to have spiky protrusions on lower jaw, upper and underbodies, and on tip of tails. Additionally, skull-like boney crest covering upper jaw and face with small, rather blanky eyes. Drakes do not have vivid horns on the heads, and have large jaws resembling those of crocdiles.

Being scaly and spiky than Fell beasts, and drakes may have stronger built especially tails and hind legs, but has slightly shorter necks and tails than Fell beasts. Along with Fell beasts, one or more of these creatures were ridden by Nazgûl.

Abilities
As being a kin of dragons, drake has high potential in terms of engaging and attacking enemies, and flying.

Drake can use two types of breaths; flamethrower like fires and fire balls.

Despite being seemingly slim than other land-dwelling monsters, drakes may be surprisingly durable and powerful.

Trivia

 * One of the drakes seen in the game is the first dragon to face off the darkside. Another example of dragon to align with free folks is Urgost, but he doesn't directly battle against neither servants of Sauron nor Sauron himself.
 * The individual to carry Talion is also the first dragon to be mounted by any of men, free folks, or Nazgûl. In older descriptions, Gothmog, the king of balrogs was seen to ride on a dragon, possibly the fire-drake of Gondolin.