Realized I forgot to uplooad these here! This was my other entry for Subjectively’s Mazah Region contest, their region based on Mexico. Researching, I fell in love with the Mexican Mole Lizard
This thing already looks like a pokemon! Perfect for a first form. The other thing I wanted to reference I decided was the Culebron, a Mexican/South American hairy dragon-like creature said to be able to hunt out treasure, eat that treasure...and also anything else in it’s path. Treasure hunting reminded me of metal detectors, so, I combined all of those together!
Tesquiro (Tesoror-Spanish for Treasure and Quirote, supposedly the Aztec word for Mole Lizard, though I’ve had trouble verifying that so if anyone knows better, let me know). The Metal Detector Pokmeon. Tesquiro are normally very nice and docile by nature, unless treasure is involved. The end of their tails work like metal detectors, helping them to find the best bits of metal, and their are very good at digging despite their size to collect it. They will get VERY territorial over their collected treasures as well. Slowly they try to consume the best bits they can because it’s said to help them evolve.
Culeboros (Culebron,see above, and Oroboros, a famous serpent alchemical symbol). Culeboros evolve from Tesquiro at level 35 or above after consuming a perfect gold nugget. Culeboros are very powerful, and very hard to control as they’re territorial and greedy nature has shot up 10x from their previous form. Their steel jaws are like excavators to dig through the earth in search for any treasure their tail senses. They will sometimes even submerge most of their body wait to spring out and trap those trying to steal their treasure. If they get very hungry for metal, they may even gnaw on the end of their tails!
I thought about making Culebron a dragon type as well, but I wanted to stick with the ground type and bring in steel. so he’s just dragon-like. But I did reference a pick of a two legged dragon, as well as a cute picture of Ekans, for the two.
