Wyrms are a diverse group of draconic creatures. They consist of true wyrms, dragons, drakes, hydras, and more. Drakes have 4 limbs and no wings, and have more erect and longer legs than most reptiles, they are thought to be related to ancient crocodilians. A dragon is similar to a drake, with the notable exception of its front limbs doubling as wings. Wyverns are two legged, and possess two clawless wings, with a similar body plan to avians. A hydra is a rare form of wyrm similar to a drake, in which rampant growth domain magic has given it multiple limbs and heads. True wyrms are harder to pin down, but possess two to four limbs, are often wingless, and always elongated when compared to most other wyrms. An amphithere is similar to a true wyrm, but is always limbless and winged. Serpents lack limbs and wings.
Wyrms are rather intelligent, often as much as crows, or higher in the case of the Pale Wyrm. Many wyrms, particularly dragons, share tendencies with birds such as magpies, and love to hoard all manner of shiny objects, gold included.
Blood Dragon (AKA Red Dragon): The most aggressive of dragons, their dark red scales are more often than not covered in dried blood. Males are known to fight each other during mating season. Blood dragons have two long, black horns, a somewhat short face, and muscular limbs. Their wings are broad and corrugated. Their tails are average length, and fairly bulky.
Pale Wyrm (AKA Subterranean Dragon): Intelligent and blind, they appear similar to that of an Olm, but with a pink frill, and sharp teeth, as well as scales. They live in the depths of the Below, feeding off of lichen and small creatures.
Storm Dragon (AKA Blue Dragon): A dragon with scales which range from the dark blue of the night sky, to the gray of an oncoming storm. Its long head is backed by a spiny frill. With its broad wings and lithe form, it flies through the skies with ease.
Water Dragon: Thaumic water in the form of a wyrm. Its long head has a crest of freely moving water. Though weak, it is hard to kill without magic. Its water, if captured in its pure form, is a
thaumic essence powerful enough to create a
savant artifact. Most artifacts made with this are similar to potion daggers, absorbing the essence rather than having them forged together.
- Sub-Category: Wyrm
- Categories: Arcane/Wyrm
Ocean Water Dragon (AKA Abyss Dragon, AKA Sea Tyrant): An oversized water dragon, found in the open ocean. They are massive, and far more dangerous than their inland cousins.
- Categories: Arcane/Wyrm
- Sub-Categories: Arcanomorph
- Domain(s): Water
Earth Dragon(AKA Mountain Wyrm): A large lumbering beast known to burrow throughout the world. No one knows how large they can get. They have small vestigial wings on their backs. They are incredibly rare, and their claws can be made into
thaumic earth essence, and their hearts into gravity thaumic essence. It is believed they are capable of achieving their massive sizes without being crushed with the use of gravity magic.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Giant to Colossal
Windwyrm: A four-winged wyrm that soars through the sky with the help of storm magic. Its tail ends in a fin.
Hydra: A multi-headed wyrm with the capability to regrow cut off limbs and even heads. The number of heads varies, usually 1 to 3. The number of legs can vary from 4 to 6. If slain, the heart of a hydra can be dried and powdered into a powerful growth thaumic essence.
Hyper-Hydra: A typical hydra, but with a hazardous mutation; if a limb or head is cut off, two more will grow in its place. These hydras rarely survive multiple limb losses. The heart can be dried and powdered into a powerful growth thaumic essence, and their blood into a regular growth thaumic essence.
Phaser Hydra: Can create portals, which it uses to move its heads around its lair. They’re quite rare, and make themselves large dens far away from other wyrms. Their dens are often cave-like and labyrinthine, allowing them to ensnare adventurers with heads that can close in from all directions. Their hearts can be dried and powdered into powerful
void essence.
Thermal Hydra: A hydra with flame and frost magic, each head having one or the other.
Blizzard Hydra: A hydra with frost and storm magic, each head having one or the other.
Delver Dragon (AKA Purple Dragon): A dragon with a long neck and armored skull, it can use its magic to pierce armor and stone with its head. It is thought to be related to the Stone-Swimmer. Its brain can be powdered into a powerful force thaumic essence.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Huge
Common Wyvern: A two-legged winged creature, their scales are usually a dull brown or gray. Capable of breathing fire. Upon death their corpses burst into flames.
Golden wyvern: 1 in every 200 common wyverns is born golden. They are immune to fire and lightning.
Peak Drake:A wingless creature that can withstand temperatures below freezing. Their four clawed limbs make them capable of scaling cliffs with ease. Their stubby tails and small stature help them retain body heat, and their bluish gray scales allow them to blend in with mountainous terrain. Their heads are fairly short, with a small spike ridge along the back. They live only on high mountain peaks, and are noticeably smaller than the majority of wyrms. Two to three meters long.
Pack Drake: A domesticated relative of the Peak Drake, used as a pack animal in
mountainous regions. Two to three meters long.
Lesser Swamp Drake: Found in the eastern mires of
Arris. They bite through shells and membranes of prey, feasting on their soft innards. Though larger than peak drakes, they’re small enough to be mistaken for patches of pondscum. Three to five meters long.
Greater Swamp Drake: Found in the western mires of
Arris. Larger than their eastern cousins, they prey on alligators and other larger swamp dwellers. Their sharp teeth can slice through tough leather, and their clawed limbs can shred through undergrowth and flesh alike. Rather than camouflaging as pond scum, they resemble entire small islands in the mire. They stand at one to two meters tall, and are five to eight meters long.
Dune-Wyrm: A burrowing creature, known to dig warrens and tunnels in the hot steppe of Lefferington. Its scales can be powdered into a thaumic earth essence.
- Sub-Category: Wyrm
- Size: Huge
Spine Beast: This bulky draconic creature almost resembles a giant spider, and can be found in dark caves and heavily forested regions. Its venomous spines are deadly, and it uses its piercing shriek to confuse enemies. Its venom can be dried and made into decay essence.
- Sub-Category: Drake
- Size: Large
Amps: A small (and cute) legless wyrm with a pair of wings. Often kept as pets, though only by those with the know-how to do so.
- Sub-Category: Amphithere
- Size: Tiny
Lesser Sea Serpent:
- Sub-Category: Serpent
- Size: Huge
Greater Sea Serpent: A truly massive creature, longer than the greatest of vessels, though relatively narrow in width.
- Sub-Category: Serpent
- Size: Colossal
Renvin’s Sea Serpent: A highly venomous sea creature, it is fairly small and quite agile.
- Sub-Category: Serpent
- Size: Large
Dungeoneer: A slimy serpent, known for living in caves and other subterranean places near the surface, particularly dungeons.
- Sub-Category: Serpent
- Size: Large
- Slippery: This creature is immune to slashing damage
Hoarder (AKA Gold Dragon): Unlike most, this dragon keeps its hoard with it, welding it to its body with its fiery breath. As such, the richer individuals are incapable of flight, but boast an impressive set of armor. They are closely related to molten dragons, and upon death their corpses burst into flames.
Stormstalker: A lithe and long wyrm, its broad wings and its armored body are lined with external skeletal structures, making it a sight to behold. Its thunderous shriek can drive fear into the strongest of enemies. Its dark blue wings render it near-invisible against a backdrop of thunderclouds, keeping only its bone ridges visible. It is thought to be the origin of many myths about flying spirits.
Stone-swimmer: A strange serpent with a beak capable of piercing stone, it can swim through sand and soil by inducing liquefaction with its force magic. Its heart can be powdered into a powerful force thaumic essence.
- Sub-Category: Serpent
- Size: Large
Chameleon Dragon (AKA Rainbow Dragon): Chameleon dragons are a highly variable and intelligent variety of wyrm. Upon hatching, they are pale and lacking any sort of pigment, being similar in appearance to an albino individual. As they grow from hatchlings to juveniles, their diet dictates their coloration as a form of camouflage. As a juvenile, their wings begin to grow in, and their coloration becomes permanent. Their diet influences their magical abilities at this age, in a similar manner to potion brewing. Much research has been done on this phenomenon, and it has been found that quite a few never develop magic at all. As an adult, a chameleon dragon’s wings fully grow in, and its magical abilities solidify. Interestingly enough, their stomachs rather than their heart can be powdered into a thaumic essence. This essence varies by the individual’s magic, and—in the case of Spirit domain magic—can be powerful enough to forge a thaumic artifact.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Huge
Flesh Wyrm (AKA Incarnadine Grub): A small creature with scrawny limbs and weak flesh, they burrow into the skin of larger creatures and subsist off of their blood. They’ve been known to do this to smaller creatures too, including humans. The variety that prefers smaller prey has been known to influence the minds of their hosts, inducing a state of simultaneous paranoia and euphoria which prevents them from revealing the wyrm’s presence.
- Sub-Category: Drake
- Size: Small
Bearded Wyvern: A medium-large wyrm with a broad, triangular head, backed by an elaborate frill. Their frills are naturally pale, however males coat theirs with the blood of prey in order to impress potential mates. They consume all parts of their prey, even consuming entire skeletons. They are often found at higher elevations in dry areas.
- Sub-Category: Wyvern
- Size: Large, 4 meters
Hummingbird Wyvern: An iridescent wyrm known for its quick flight.
- Sub-Category: Wyvern
- Size: Large, 3 meters
Pine Tail: A small wyrm with horns and a spiked tail. They are found in forested mountain regions, and their scales are the same color of pine needles. They are nocturnal, and feed mainly on fish, boars, and other wildlife.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Medium
Thunder Dragon: A large dragon with a ferocious roar, capable of accelerating itself to incredible speeds via force magic.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Large
Basilisk (AKA Kingling): A somewhat small form of wyrm, with two forelimbs and a crown-like frill. When opened, this frill glows with light powerful enough to blind anything nearby. When not glowing, the frills are brightly colored, and have intricate patterns unique to each individual. Basilisks also possess a highly concentrated heat breath, which may reduce any creature to cinders in but an instant. Because of this, it is believed to be able to kill with a simple look.
- Sub-Category: Wyrm
- Size: Large, ~3 meters
Rock Wyrm (AKA Bone Drake): A distant cousin of the Dune-Wyrm, they are found in the steppes of eastern Lower Arris. They are small drakes with heavy bone armor made from sections of fused scales. They burrow throughout the steppe, making cool warrens to escape from the heat of the steppe. Their claws can be powdered into earth thaumic essence.
- Sub-Category: Drake
- Size: Medium
Lava Drake: A distant cousin of peak drakes, found in volcanically active regions. They are capable of consuming and regurgitating molten lava as a defense mechanism, using flame magic to keep it heated. Upon death they combust.
- Sub-Category: Drake
- Size: Medium
Molten Dragon (AKA Fire Dragon): A dragon with a strong, fiery breath. They have metallic scales, thanks to their iron rich diet. They consume iron rich rocks by melting them down with their breath. Upon death they combust.
- Sub-Category: Dragon
- Size: Huge
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