Thinking about anti tg bias of hotd as another season is approaching its so ridiculous that original characters like dyana, kat, sylvi, certain tb randoms got more character development and screen space than canon daeron targaryen in TWO seasons. The screen time of his dragon tessarion, one of the most important green dragons in the dance, is equivalent to what the tiny dragon of aegon iii got meanwhile useless syrax has piled more than sunfyre, dreamfyre and tessarion COMBINED. And. For. What? She was painfully irrelevant in canon so naturally ryan condal decided to give Her Yellowness half the space and stolen traits of other dragons all the while throwing mere crumbs to canon mvp dragons sunfyre and tessarion.
While watching "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (it's a surprisingly good show, I really enjoyed it), I'm redesigning the "Green Dragons" from another World of Ice and Fire series.
There will also be a redesign of the "Black Dragons."
Hmmm… I haven't decided on Helaena and Aegon yet...
+ found last year's sketch with Luceris, I should finish it too ( ´ ▽ ` )
The Stormserpent, scientific name: Somnupluvis inunduvenator, “flood-hunter that-sleeps-until-the-rain”; from “Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds.” Artwork by Dylan Bajda.
290 Million Years Post-Establishment
“There is another unrivaled predator of the stormveld, one which has no allies, but it has only a small range around Split River. The stormserpent is a large predatory skuorc that is absent from the western stormveld, but common here. Stormserpents, a type of ratsnake closely related to the aukoconda, are the world's largest skuwyrms, and can reach a length of 30 feet. They are not merely long, but truly massive; their bodies can reach 3 feet across, and the biggest specimens will tip the scales at around 2,000 lbs. These virtually legless skuorcs, which have only small hind claws used to help them line up to mate, are too heavy in adulthood to move overland except in an extremely laborious barrel roll. But they do not need to. They can wait for the land to disappear. A stormserpent can go as long as 30 months between meals, slowing its heartbeat to just a few beats an hour, in an incredibly long and sleepy torpor until conditions are just right. It wakes only in the midst of large scale flooding, enough to submerge vast stretches of the veld underwater for days or even weeks at a time. Such brief but expansive floods occur between twice a year and every two years along the west fork of Split River in most decades, depending on how much rain has fallen to fill its central drainage. This is just often enough for this serpent to endure the dry periods. And when the deluge of floodwater arrives, the hunt is on.
The stormserpent is fast and powerful with water to support its bulk, and is a constrictor that squeezes the life from its prey by wrapping other animals in the grip of their long bodies and tightening their coils. As the waters rise and the grazing herds rush to higher ground, the serpent ambushes them as they become concentrated on what little land is left emersed, like a fridge stocked with morsels. It capitalizes on the chaos of natural disasters that most animals flee, in its element as the land is temporarily transformed into a delta. For as long as the water covers the land the serpent gorges itself, eating itself to the point of distention. It has only a short time to get enough calories stored to last potentially two more years, if the next flood is delayed, and it makes the most of it. Soon though, the floods drain off across the landscape, and the water will soon disappear. It is then that the stormserpent will begin to burrow itself down into the mud, dislodging the roosts of the grasses that hold the soil together in less saturated times and jostling its huge body side to side to create a deep groove in the muck. It does this for several days, sinking below the substrate up to nine feet deep. When the flood is over and the ground has dried, it will be entombed, and not able to escape even if it wanted to - not until the next flood turns the soil back to loose mud, and allows it to push its way back to the world of the living.
Only the adult stormserpent can live this way. Its young cannot afford to go so long without a meal, and are small and light enough to slither over land and hunt from the day they emerge; it will take at least ten years for them to begin to hibernate for short periods between floods, and even then they may take another 10 years more before they are truly too big to move on land at all and are then entirely reliant on this strategy to survive other predators. Stormserpents mate during flood cycles and then, remarkably, do not give birth again until the next one, even if it takes two years to come. Their young are connected to the parent via an umbilical, and once fully developed will enter a torpor state while being nourished by the mother, waiting until conditions suit her emergence and their subsequent ejection into the outside world. She provides them no further care once they are born, though they may spend a day with her before they adjust to the wider world now before them and go off their separate ways; the adult's diet of large warm-blooded vertebrates means that her young are safe from her appetite; she may not be maternal, but at least she doesn't recognize them as food.”
The forest-loving green dragons sometimes compete for territory with black dragons in marshy woods and with white dragons in subarctic taiga. However, a forest controlled by a green dragon is easy to spot. A perpetual fog hangs in the air in a legendary green dragon’s wood, carrying an acrid whiff of the creature’s poison breath.
