Dracovix have basically no physical dimorphism outside of their reproductive equipment, and freely pair bond with one another regardless of their biological sex within the boundaries of their romantic and sexual preferences. When a female dracovix is pregnant and weeks away from giving birth, they will become heavily reclusive to avoid being bothered by anyone else. Only their partner, if they are close enough to them, will keep the pregnant dracovix company and help bring them food during this time, but many choose to do it alone and will hunt for themselves without issue.
Dracovix gestation lasts for one year. Dracovix usually have 1-2 kits in one pregnancy, but on rare occasions may have three. After giving birth, a female dracovix must rest and recover for a year before they are able to conceive again. This cool down has no effect in the game.
After the kits are born, the mother dracovix will raise them on milk in a small, snug, private lair for just themself and their kits, which they will have either dug out of the earth, found as a natural crevice, or come across as a nest lair that a previous dracovix used to birth kits in. The kits will be weaned off milk very quickly, usually no longer than two months, and during that time, the dracovix mother will have taught them to eat meat that they pre-shred for their offspring into much smaller pieces.
By the time the young dracovixen reach 8 months in age, they will have a decent handle on flying short distances, and during the 2-3 years afterwards, the mother will be able to take their kits back to the mother's home lair, introduce them to the local community, and join the community’s volunteers in helping to feed the kits, teach them how to hunt for themselves, as well as basic self defense combat techniques.
The kits will stay with their mother in their home lair until 5 years of age, then leave to live independently as young dracovixen in their community. They will seek out various dracovixen of the community who have specialized roles for teaching them basic education, intermediate self defense, as well as social intelligence.
At the age of 10 years old, they are considered “juveniles” and can do almost everything an adult dracovix can do, except not quite as skillfully due to their lack of experience and mastery, but can otherwise live normal lives, hunting, eating, and surviving. They will have laid claim to or constructed their own personal lair by now. Their growth slows down here as there is significantly less pressure to grow quickly in order to not be vulnerable to large predators. Most dracovix will begin exploring their own capabilities and practicing their mastery magic and combat arts under organized higher education systems within dracovix societies.
At the age of 40, they are considered adults and are now sexually mature, but most dracovix are continuing their education and training far past this point, and consider themselves to be truly “matured” in all aspects by the age of 100.
Dracovix lifespans are much longer than most humanoids, and they can expect to live to their 500s before slowing down. Dracovix cease being able to reproduce a handful of decades prior to this point, anywhere from age 420 to 450, and the rate at which they may finally perish of old age after reaching the 500th year varies greatly based on their health and mentality about their continued existence. Old dracovix will usually spend their remaining years and diminished energy trying to neatly tie up any loose ends so that they can disappear from this life with no regrets.
Diseases and chronic conditions which can shorten a dracovix’s lifespan are not very common, but not unheard of, and the more they expose themselves to humanoid societies or pass on their genes, the more genetic and non-genetic diseases are found each generation.