Wyvern

A flying reptile carnivour that inhabits most of Karadia popularly serving as an apex of local food chain. Gladly hunting everything smaller than it, which includes sentient species - though they aren't their preferred meat. They also have several subspecies, most of them even more annoying than baseline wyverns.
The 'general' wyverns, too, have many internal subspecies that vary minimally - for example in their scale colour or small details like lenght of their mouth.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Several metres long reptiles clad in quite resistant scales and leather. Two legs at the back and two legs (fused with their leathery wings). Long mouth filled with sharp teeth.

Genetics and Reproduction

Wyverns have a mating season in summer. During it males fight for the right to copulate with females which then lay 5 to 10 eggs, in most cases in or near their winter lair. After few weeks younglings hatch, very soon hunting for their own.

Ecology and Habitats

Wyverns are widespread especially in hotter climate - as reptiles they are coldblooded, meaning they prefer living in hot environment. While there are still some of them in the central-eastern Karathia (where they are still far less widespread than griffins), it is only because they can hibernate through winter.
They prefer lands with thriving megafauna and general wildlife, in most cases getting closer to settlements only when they lack food or there is too many of them.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Meat, especially of large herbivores. Hunt by flying and then diving (with its claws at the front), preferably killing the target instantly and then devouring it. If not, it will proceed either to fighting on a ground, or retreats back to air, either to another dive attack or to retreat altogether and search for another prey.

Biological Cycle

Wiverns are surprisingly good diggers, capable of digging out lairs in soft ground when they hide (and hibernate) through the winter. When found they are easy to kill, on the other fact they mostly hide during the first snows meaning that it quickly covers their lairs, making it very hard to discover (not to mention that it mostly occurs in the far away places so that it isn't disturbed).

ITCS

Name: Wyvern
Sentient: No.
Type: Beast
Category: Reptilian
Subcategory: Wyverns
Grade: Silver IV-X (if young or during winter), otherwise Gold I-V

Traits

Movements: Flight Capable, Moderate Speed.
Dangers: Blunt Damage [Tail, Bodymass], Lacerations [Teeth], Cuts [Claws].
Perception: Sight [Great], Hearing [Average], Smell [Average], Taste [Average]
Magic: None.
Poison: None.
Quirks: None.

Defenses

Armour: Leather V, Scale V.
Magic Resistance: No.
Magic Shield: No.
Sanity Resistance: Average.
Willpower: Average.
Other: No.

Loot

Skin: Wyvern Leather, Wyvern Scale.
Bone: Wyvern Bone, Wyvern Claws, Wyvern Teeth.
Food: Wyvern Meat.
Alchemical Ingredients: Multiple.
Aether: None.
Other: None.

Appearance

Shapeshifting: No.
Posture: Quadruped.
Lifespan: ~20 years.
Height: 2-4 metres.
Lenght: 5-6 metres.
Weight: 400-500kg.

Others

Tamable: No.
Rarity: Uncommon.
Occurence: Whole Karadia beside North, uncommon.
Environment: Forests.
Ferocity: Moderate.
Created by: Beast