Drakes
Drakes are the landbound cousins of wyverns and chimeric dragons, thriving in environments where flight is unnecessary, impractical, or evolutionarily inefficient. Unlike their airborne kin, drakes have four powerful limbs and no wings, relying on speed, endurance, and raw strength to dominate their ecosystems.
While they may lack the majesty of the great skyborne beasts, drakes have carved out their own place in the world, adapting to nearly every terrain—from the thick jungles of the south to the frozen tundras of the north, from winding cavern networks to the blistering volcanic plains where only the hardiest creatures can survive.
Drakes are highly varied in both form and function. Some are fleet-footed ambush predators, lurking in deep forests or high grasslands, where their muscular frames allow for short, explosive bursts of speed. Others are massive, armored juggernauts, built to shrug off attacks as they plow through their prey with crushing force. Some have vestigial wing structures, remnants of their ancient ancestry, while others have developed thickened hides, bony ridges, or reinforced jaws to compensate for their lack of aerial mobility.
What all drakes share is an undeniable resilience—a stubbornness that makes them some of the most enduring predators in Fanterath. Where wyverns may be fragile in their need for the skies and chimeric dragons require vast resources to sustain their size and magic, drakes persist. They run, they hunt, they endure, and no matter how harsh the environment, they refuse to be driven out.
Wherever the land remains untamed, drakes will be there—stalking, lurking, surviving.
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