Dragon Turtle

Born from the Maelstrom Cauldron, the dragon turtles absorbed the heat expelled from the Ice Dragons. Their bodies are furnaces, and they can vent the heat as a breath of scalding steam from their massive, fiercely beaked jaws. They are entirely aquatic marine dwellers and some of the most massive creatures on Galath, the largest of them sometimes being mistaken for islands. Although they lack the keen intellect of the True Dragons, they are more than mere beasts.
  Younger dragon turtles are acquisitive, gathering treasures - usually a mix of shiny things and cached carcasses - to decorate their underwater lairs. As young adults, female dragon turtles use these lairs to attract a mate, nesting in the lair and protecting their eggs. They lay large clutches of eggs, but once hatched the mother's care for their seal-sized, mobile offspring ends and many fall prey to sharks and other predators before becoming too large to fear any other marine creature.
  Older individuals outgrow both the mating instinct and the hoarding habit, but will grind their favourites treasures against the seabed in order to embed them in their carapace and plastron. The oldest dragon turtles, those wandering islands of legend, have shells studded with shipwrecks and ruined buildings.