Dragon

Name: Rikuzaq (REE koo zawk)
Gender: Female, probably capable of self-generating viable offspring
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Long (as shown neck curve to flat body 12') / ~100' long / 75' ws (+18' and 12')
Colors: body from face to beween tail wings medium graphite grey, with brilliant orange jagged stripes growing large on tail; end of tail snowy white; wings and feathers similar shades; horns lighter grey with orange tips; eyes glowing aqua
Breed: Amphiptere, feathered
Features: Extremely long slender noodle with no legs, two main large feathered wings, and two smaller pairs of feathered wings along tail; skin is scaled on face only, blending in with short and thick feathers starting just behind eyes; face is blunt-nosed with very snake-like sensory pits as well as nostrils, but more canine forward facing eyes and join to neck; Head has feather fluff on jaw, two multi-pointed horns curving over neck, pupiled eyes; head shown below has split tongue for sniffing, massive gripping upper teeth that fold out when attacking, and lower teeth have extremely potent neurotoxin distributed at will; prefers live, warm prey. Neck has tall feather crest that can raise and lower with mood; main flight wings have a shoulder joint and where the body goes flat Rikuzaq can slither with her head up from that point; tail wings help keep the long body aloft and when speeding along will make minor corrections in direction or speed; tail ends in diamond shaped plume that can splay or contract as needed for speed and maneuvering. Is an egg layer, highly protective of eggs until they are hatched, and can as above probably generate her own little cloned daughters if truly needed; will be able to breed with virtually any similarly configured dragons, and could certainly hold her own among hydra or AAM beasts. Is warm blooded, but prefers warm settings and is sluggish in snow or very chill air
Powers: Winged Flight, Rikuzaq is quite large but is also entirely silent on the wing, at most you'd hear a swoosh of wind or the falling leaves or sticks as she moves through a thick forest canopy. She can, like many snake-adjacent creatures, hold herself almost entirely stiff and straight, moving only her wings and being extremely lawn-dart until pouncing on prey at which point her whole body can limply drape over things and then tightly wind around it. She is not necessarily a constrictor type of snake, but her body is at minimum at least as thick around as a full-grown 6' tall humanoid, that much muscle will definitely squeeze the life out of anything she's got a hold of. She can carry things if a harness is made, but she's unlikely to do this, instead preferring to hold whatever she's killed to bring it back with her tail
Stealth, the creaking of branches or the soft shuffle of leaf litter might be all you hear, she herself makes virtually no sound on the ground, in the air, through the canopy, or even in water though she doesn't tend to swim a lot with the feathers waterlogging easily
Senses, her snake-like head does have ears though they are mainly internal, so she has hearing but nothing special. Her eyes are able to see in extremely low light, or flashing, brightness, or whatever other unusual lighting with equal ease, and they do glow slightly if it's very dark around her. She has exceptional eyesight beyond low lighting, and while she tracks using her tongue and sniffer, she hunts with her eyes, detecting motion and shapes at half a mile. Her sense of smell is beyond compare, she can distinguish between individuals in a group such as deer that are in heat or injured, old and damaged, or young, just on the wind, at up to 2 miles and at least a full day later in good weather. Her sense of taste is poor, but she can tell whether water is stagnant and undrinkable with just a little wave of her tongue anyway. She could sense poisons in a person or animal though not in plants, by their smell. The pits along her mouth help her determine proximity and heat, serving equal duty with temperature and electrical senses, though only at about 20' around her head. She does have the ability to know what direction and altitude she's at, possibly due to pressure sensitivity and magnetism detection.
Speech, while Rikuzaq hardly ever speaks, she can utter fairly simple syllables and communicate if she knows who is listening and a bit of their speech. She can understand quite a lot of different things said by a variety of creatures, people, and dragons, so unless the discussion is going by very rapidly she can always drop a couple words here and there to make it known she's not just an animal dumbly observing...
Venom, as mentioned above, her venom can be distributed with or without a bite, and can not be injected if she just wants to hold on to a thing to drag it around, as well. This neurotoxin is capable of felling a cow in minutes, though it won't outright kill it, it will render the being immobilized and actually pain-free, though it won't stop them from panicking silently while she starts opening her face up to eat. She can digest a whole cow though she prefers smaller things (down to about the size of a large goat or small pig) since she does feel like a big meal will weigh her down and also looks really silly as a big ol' lump in her long long noodle body. She needs to eat about a cow every 10 or 12 days, but can go without eating for at least two months provided she's in good health before then
Shedding / Molting, from hatching until her full adult size here, Rikuzaq shed her entire body worth of skin and feathers, leaving her extraordinarily vulnerable. This also sheds the horns, as they also grew in this manner. It's not clear exactly how old she is, nor whether she's going to shed and grow again, but should that happen she may grow to be over 150' long in her ancient years. Also no one knows how long that lifespan is, but certainly in the hundreds
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Origin and Art By: adopted from and art by Zyklin on Deviantart
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