Jurassic Guardian Sand Dragon.
Monster Prompts: Kaiju Edition
Deep in the Sahara Desert, where the sands seem to swallow things alive, dwells a ruin of a civilization once so grand it inspired Mu and Atlantis’s foundations. It’s name long lost to time, it sits in the center of vast dunes, protected by a beast that seems to be more at home in a natural history museum than ancient ruins.
Torarak is the guardian “dragon” of the ruins, but in form resembles more of the earlier lines of armored goliaths. With a single row of trapezoidal plates running down the back, bright green hide, eight tail spikes, and bright red eyes, it’s no surprise that most people that dare to visit the ruins think it a dragon. Able to swim through the sands like water, it’s not uncommon for passerby’s to find themselves drowning in sand from it’s massive breaches. And as if that wasn’t enough, Torarak has a fiery breath that can cook the sand to glass, trapping intruders in glassy tombs or flambeed to death. While not the standard derivative of a dragon from retrosaur ancestry, most researchers easily lump Torarak into the clan by honor and distinction.