Kyushi are probably the most unique of the bond species. They are wingless draconic creatures about eight feet tall at the shoulder and thirty feet long--larger than a horse or kraenon, but smaller than their ryuuki cousins. They're built something like a cheetah, long and low with high speed and stamina. The top speed of a kyushi is somewhere around 120mph, but this is a sprinting speed and cannot be kept up at long distance. They have opposable thumbs which aid in picking things up or maintaining a good grip and their claws can grab into stone or wood, so they're very good climbers, able to scale walls or buildings. Kyushi are also great diggers. Kyushi, like other draconic bondcreatures, have the ability to breathe an elemental weapon; theirs is a dustcloud. Kyushi have a gizzard, not unlike that of birds, and often swallow rocks for both minor mineral content and aid in grinding food, although their draconic teeth allow for the tearing of food into digestible chunks without the aid of gizzard stones. This habit of eating rocks has led some to connect the habit with their dustbreath.

They can change from furred to scaled and back at will. Royals have prismatic fur and scales and seem almost like walking prisms, though this is just an illusion - yes they do have internal organs and if a royal is white, one could possibly see vague outlines of what lies inside if the light was good enough, but otherwise they just seem as if they're made of glass. Their eyes are polygonal in shape, with jewel-like facets. The pupils can be round or become slitted like cat eyes in different levels of light. These slits do not have to be vertical and can change to any angle to aid in seeing different types of energy or in filtering different parts of the spectrum. They are not limited to just visible light and can change the angle of the pupil's slit to filter out certain types of light or see more than most can. These abilities make them quite comfortable in utter darkness or unfavorable conditions by using everything from infrared to low-level x-ray. They are, however, limited to whatever energy is in the area. Their irises change color depending on mood, while the pupil maintains the color of a gemstone.

Females typically lay small clutches of one to four eggs and have a habit of smuggling their eggs in with the eggs of other dragons, not unlike a cuckoo. Their names end in "SH".