Origin: Prussia
Weight class: heavy-weight (b.3,ch.11,p.220), Eroica: 23 tons (presumably not full fighting weight) (b.9,ch.6,p.89)
very big, Eroica is nearly as big as Maximus (b.3,ch.11,p.220)
yellow eyes (b.9,ch.6,p.91)
overlapping plates of bone around the neck and along the ridges of the shoulders and wings, giving an armoured appearance (b.3,ch.11,p.227), later called heavy scales (b.8,ch.16,p.315)
Eroica is stouter than a Grand Chevalier but thinner around the shoulders (b.3,ch.14,p.267), still generally broad-shouldered (b.9,ch.6,p.93); very different configuration from Temeraire due to breadth and the bony plates (Temeraire’s harness only fits Eroica badly) (b.9,ch.6,p.97)
a description of Prussian heavy-weights in general, potentially also referencing this one breed: “eighteen tons, spiked and plated in the bony armour common among Prussian heavy-weights” (b.9,ch.15,p.257), grey and brown (b.9,ch.5,p.88)
Real world inspiration: name of breed unknown
Lien thinks very little of the Prussian lines in general and keeps male and female dragons of their breeds apart (b.9,ch.6,p.91)
Eroica (m.) – Dyhern (m.)