#tergeryz

[dragoncarrion]

Mountain glider and coast striker. I think they're my favorite shapes

[dragonskulls]

two guys from my head. one is evil and will kill you. the other is also evil and will kill you as well

[dragoncarrion]

Look at my doctor bruh 😭

Rogue poisoner who used to be a healer in the Silent Swamp, exiled and defanged after the suspicious deaths of several of their patients. Lucky for them, that spur in their right wrist still has that ever deadly violet tint venom

[dragoncarrion]

Getting myself to care more about these guys via the tried and true method of "just make them birds"

[dragoncarrion]

Three species of sea serpents, each adapted to varying degrees to life in the frigid oceans of the north. The great bowhead and the fathomstreak are the only sea serpents that spend their whole lives in arctic waters, while the sunglint racer only does so half a year before migrating south for breeding. The colorful streaks on the two smaller species appear only on the males during mating season, after which they fade away. Besides that, both sexes are hard to tell apart.

[dragoncarrion]

atp you're gonna get the detailed journal style full bodies of each kin in like 30 years so these sketchy ones will do for now el oh el

[dragoncarrion]

Above are shown the differences between females (top) and males (bottom).

Wyverns in Tergeryz are one of the most diverse clades within Pseudodracomorpha, occupying a wide variety of ecological niches and displaying many shapes and sizes. A family in particular that stands out for their unique morphology is Therovenatoridae, or the giant ground wyverns, the largest and heaviest of the wyvern clade. It is a fairly small family, having only four extant members: the great butcher (Crassionyx ferox), the painted gorecrest (Lythrocephalus vercicolor), the dwarf puruk (Crassionyx minor) and the windchaser (Fulmenura bicrestata bicrestata), along with its subspecies, the bluehills windchaser (Fulmenura bicrestata borealis). Their main characteristic is their complete lack of flight and remarkable size, some being as big as –or bigger than– an adult dragon.

They are primarily carnivorous, with the exception of Crassionyx minor, which feeds almost exclusively on hard shelled nuts. Despite the vestigial appearance of their wings –reduced length of the phalanges of digit IV and of the patagium–, they still have several uses, such as thermoregulation and as display to impress mates or ward off threats. The rest of the digits have a substantial range of movement, particularly digit I.

These giant wyverns are also unique in that the males are larger than the females, something seldom seen in the rest of pseudodracomorphs; this is likely due to the fact that males are often the ones that care for their offspring, and have established territories that they must defend from other males. F. bicrestata and C. minor have a particular way to go about chick rearing, as the latter form monogamous couples that protect one territory, and F. bicrestata males sometimes form long lasting homosexual pairings, increasing the chances of their chicks' survival.

Interspecific competition is rare, as even though they all inhabit the Vast Moor, each species has a preferred biome, meaning their ranges barely overlap. Their enormous size and aggressive, solitary nature make them a considerable threat to dragons, since their claws can easily shred wings and leave a dragon defenseless. Deadly interactions between giant wyverns and dragons increase during the first half of the year, as that is when wyverns are competing for a mate or looking over their eggs and young.

Size comparison between both sexes of all species, a human, and a moor runner.

[dragoncarrion]

The plains bullhawk is a medium sized wyvern that inhabits open plains and scrubby grasslands. While preferring to hunt alone, they've been observed occasionally cooperating to take down larger prey. Like many other wyvern species, moor runners have learned how to tame and train them; they're popular amongst beast wranglers for their spirited personalities and sturdy builds, which makes them great for hunting large game and fending off knife tooth drakes. Males and females look near identical, save for the bigger bulk of females and the green streak on the nasal crest and tail of males. They are not domesticated nor bred as extensively as milk wyverns or pygmy wyverns, as such, there's only one alternative color morph, that being the moonstone morph, which is a mutation that affects the production of yellow pigments.