Name: Taniwha
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium-small (long) 55' long at adulthood, around 6'6" 'wing'span
Colors: body mainly white with a faintly lavender tint, with purple stripes, and heliotrope with purple fins; claws dark, eyes glowing yellow
Features: Sea Demon hybrid, very narrow sinuous body with two arm flippers and added fins behind them, no legs, no other wings; head is long and narrow with a forward-jutting maw and obvious chompers, long jaw feelers, and a high segmented webbed crest; fin crests alternate with claw on ends and without; tail is vertically oriented and has two added feelers; do not require a bond, can sponsor or bond other dragons
Powers: Water Adapted - obviously unable to fly or move about very easily on land, Taniwha keeps herself busy deep below the waves... or near the shore, she's discovered how interesting the waters are here on the 'West Coast' of Twoarth. She is capable of descending to the bottom of a very deep ocean, or remaining near its shallows, and as such her tolerance for a variety of conditions is obvious - pressure, chill or warm water, darkness, and obviously being able to breathe under the sea - all of these are 'nothing special' to her. She does enjoy swimming against a strong current, and the odd turbulance below some of this odd world's waves are a thrill to her.
Telepathic Communication able to sense and communicate with other intelligent minds, though most of the time this is limited to the shoreline where she finds all manner of those minds. But deep below those waves there are definitely others, and perhaps she'll meet them some day. Whales, dolphins, superintelligent but short-lived octos, and even water-adapted humanoids from the 'fur-side' of this world, all show up on her mental radar. She seems quite smart but not particularly educated, and has begun lingering near the Ontogeny Dome by Crescent City, where scientists from other planets and dimensions teach classes.
Parentage: mother Lernaea, father Typhon
Origin: hatched at Tris'Hath, by Phe
Other Info: She seems to take strongly after her mother in attitude and intelligence, her fierce appearance is tempered by her curiosity and protective nature. There have been ships damaged or thought lost at sea, which she's helped nudge their crew to safety, so she's begun making a name for herself out in the ocean as well as nearer the shores.