Red deaths were not the largest dragons. That title belonged to the different variant, the ones that appeared maybe once a generation and rewrote whatever region they settled in. Red deaths were not even the most destructive in terms of raw breath capacity. A fully mature blue could generate enough sustained electrical output to flatten a city district in a single pass.
But red deaths were feared above every other classification, and the reason was simple and consistent across every account ever written about them.
They hunted by making you afraid first.
