Dengizen drake
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Introduced in Fun-Day Fridays 89.
'Dengiz' means 'ocean' in Ilithic, with an '-en' ending making it an adjective.
Description
Small but thick scaled plates cover the drake from head to claws while thicker, angular plates descend along the creature's back. Her tail swishes from side to side, leaving flickering sparks of electricity in its wake. With a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth and quill-like barbs protruding menacingly from the tip of her tail, the drake is built for survival -- either by overpowering her foes or enduring and outlasting their attacks.
Recall
Long feared by sailors that ply the eastern oceans, the crackling hiss and yowl of the dengizen drake's flight means certain death for all but the most prepared or evasive of seafarers. These creatures of the sky are ferocious predators, and rumors of ever larger marine life being carried away in their claws remains one of the few agreed upon, not exaggerated observations claimed by seafarers.
Charged with wind and lightning and willing to fight for any meal or infringement of their territory, the drakes are thought to be distant relatives of mountain-dwelling wyverns. They spend much of their time aloft, coasting on thermals and soaring within and between the clouds. Migrating with the seasonal monsoons, the drakes have been observed dancing and diving around waterspouts and the edges of typhoons.
Though recently settling on the Pivilho volcano, the drakes have largely left the islanders alone, seemingly preferring to hunt over water. However, repeatedly corroborated claims of seeing drakes flying while carrying fully grown oxen suggest that they are more than able to hunt terrestrial prey.
The dengizen drakes are known to cast the Swirling Winds, Vertigo, Mark of Arhat, Lightning Bolt, and Chain Lightning spells.
They are not known to carry loot in locked boxes.
In Depth
Special Attacks
An unbalancing attack that can be performed at range:
The dengizen drake rears up, his throat expanding dramatically as he unfurls his wings! Thrusting his snout forward with a screeching roar and beating the air violently, the dengizen drake blasts you with impossibly powerful blasts of air! You're unable to avoid the blasts as they slam into your left eye! The currents continue to swirl menacingly about you long after the beast stops his attack, leaving you unbalanced and hindering your movements!
Equipment/Loot
None
Messaging
- Spawn: The dengizen drake crashes down from above, arresting his descent with a powerful flap of his wings which he quickly furls to his sides.
- Entrance:
- Exit:
- Death1:
- Death2:
- Decay:
- Standing:
- Searching:
- Webbed:
- Sleeping:
- Stunned: