Monstrous Beasts

"Where there is chance for life, be wary that death lurks nearby."

Such is the saying of the Desert dwelling people of the Upanna continent in regards to the Flower Spider.

Distantly related to other arachnids, it differents in that after it's able to successfully grow a flowering cacti, a special species of cactus found on the stable part of the Golden Wastes, they will bury themselves underground only exposing the part of the body where the flower grows.

In a unique symbiosis as the cacti grows so to does the spider it's thorax elongating and the Spider growing longer and large digging itself further until it reaches nearly 15 feet in lenth with a total body span with all legs splayed of 5 feet across.

From here, it will lie in wait just deep enough where it feels the vibrations of the sand being sensative enough to feel even the puttering steps of desert mice who come to nibble at the cacti for it's life nourishing water. They, like all other creatures including Foxes, buzzards and humans will all simiarly be grabbed as it raises up on it's elongated thorax and grasps the prey and quickly injects it with a poison that paralyzes and ultimately suffocates the prey although the last part matters not as the Flower spider will immediately begin to eat the prey, dead or alive.

Often it is told during quite nights one can hear the screams of men from under the sand as they are slowly devoured and denied a quick death.

Okay, writefagging aside can we talk about this spider for a second? This thing lives in South America where its hind end blends in perfectly with old Mesoamerican ruins. This thing seems to have evolved specifically for tricking adventurers into thinking they've found a piece of treasure.

I know, right? Evolution is an insane motherfucker when she wants to be, and she's always in a crazy mood.

Like the jewel bugs from Dungeon Meshi?

Duskscythe

It's no secret that there are things lurking in the dark. Vampires, werewolves, ghouls, chokers - the list goes on and on. But lurking in the darkest forests, the deepest caves, there is something that sends fear into even these nocturnal beasts' black hearts. That creature is the duskscythe.

The duskscythe is a breed of enormous mantis standing up to twelve feet tall, clad in smooth jet-black chitin plates. Each leg ends in a razor-sharp curved talon, while each front limb sports an immense blade, curved like the blade of a scythe and just as long and sharp, with serrations on the interior edge for even greater killing efficiency. The head is crowned with a pair of large orange eyes that seemingly look directly at the character of anyone they fall upon, with a pair of short but extremely sharp-looking mandibles stationed below.

Totally silent, duskscythes are solitary stalkers of the worst of the worst. The creature lurks in frequently traversed sections of towns and cities, all but melting into the shadows as it waits... and waits... and waits... for days on end. It waits and watches as hundreds, no, thousands, of people pass by it every hour, but it still never moves-they are not its prey. Then, when a concealed or unconcealed beast of the night passes it by, it strikes. No disguise can fool it, no spell is too subtle-all can be seen to the eyes of the duskscythe.

The massive insect only needs a few strikes to dispatch its prey, its massive blades almost invisible as they slice through the air. The hide of a lycanthrope, the foul flesh of a vampire - all part and split before the duskscythe's blade.

Many tales say that the duskscythes were created by the apathetic goddess of death, intended as a countermeasure against rival gods' perversions of the natural order. The legitimacy of such tales is dubious, but the fact remains that the enormous insects will never attack those of the goddess' followers, even bowing their heads to her high priests.

>with serrations on the interior edge for even greater killing efficiency.

Fun fact, Mantis limbs are "serrated" to better grip their prey, not kill it.

Read as "duckscythe" at first.

The similarly named "scytheduck," while indeed a dangerous predator, is not related to the duskscythe in any way.

I still have some notes on new monsters to introduce players to during a Monster Hunter tabletop game.

Dose Veeky Forums want, y/n?

Bone Dancers

Even as many cities have become more lustrious with modern advances, there is still a dark and terrible underside where the outcast and wastrels of society are forced to reside and so to are the predators who prey upon them.

Many people who have been driven to these parts of cities form small communities to help protect one another for often the authorities are apathetic to their suffering least the monsters that prey on them turn on the upper city proper.

One such threat is the Corpse Slug, an amorphous slug like creature that makes its home on the corpse of any creature it can crawl on where it secretes various tendrils into the body and vitlizes once dead tissue under it's own command.

If you find yourself in the back corners of the city and see several people in shoddy cloths staring silently and hungarly at you, you may be seeing several such bone dancers, given that name for their shambling gate along with their partially rotted faces with their skulls masked behind a thin film of sticky flesh.

A corpse slug will use it's undead host to feed replacing the hosts' organs with facsimiles of it's own so most people unfamiliar with a corpse slug will often see people dragged into dark and shadowy places being canniballized by another person

For the love of all things holy, yes. It would fit really well with the stuff that we have here.

Sure. This may take a little bit; I keep stuff in a notebook rather than on a word file. A bit old-fashioned, I know, but I've had laptops lose juice or restart at the worst times.

Ghillibolg (Wyvern subtype-leviathan)

The ghillibolg somewhat resembles a terrestrial gharial crocodile, with a long, thin snout and needle-like teeth adapted to snaring fish. They share a dark-green, tough, leathery hide and a long, powerful tail adapted to oar the creature forward through the water towards prey.

All resemblance ends there, however; Ghillibolg have six legs and two rows of tentacular protrusions along their back, webbed together with a fleshy membrane not unlike the rubbery skin of a squid or octopus. These fan out and allow the creature to glide through the air for short distances after it leaps from the water.

In addition, Ghilibolg secrete ink that contains a powerful neurotoxin that causes rapid paralysis when introduced to the bloodstream; Ghillibolg will emit clouds of it to deter larger predators or to incapacitate wounded prey. Hunters should take care; while the ink itself is not harmful directly, it will impair vision, and if a hunter is struck while coated, they may become paralyzed.

Ghillibolg live in temperate and tropical climates, and a mature ghillibolg can grow to sizes close to 25 meters.

Yolmaga (wyvern subtype-Flying Wyvern)

Despite being classified as a flying wyvern, yolmaga are flightless. Their wings are vestigial and are mostly used to steer the creature through the sand where it makes its home.

Yolmaga are striped, dark brown and dark blue; making their hide popular for fashionable garments. Their bodies are roughly wedge-shaped, with a short tail that terminates in a crescent-shaped tail blade, and their hind legs are powerfully developed to allow them to put immense pressure on the sand dunes they prowl in order to do something truly unusual: make glass. Yolmaga are unique in that they are capable of transforming sand into glass through a combination of pressure and an innate ability to expel superheated gasses from their body. By plowing themselves forward through the sand, they can create swathes of glass they can either skate across at high speed, or shatter with their tails to create fields of dangerous, razor-sharp debris.

Yolmaga's favored prey is apceros, and they can grow to be nearly 35 meters long.

Chrona Devora (Wyvern subtype-Elder Dragon)

Chrona Devora is a long, striking elder dragon that resembles a chinese long or lung dragon; with a long, sinuous body, and four relatively short legs. It sports a long, whip-like bifurcated tail, and has a frilled neck whose surface is covered in a beautiful, hypnotic eye-spot pattern. It is covered in scintillating scales that change color as light strikes them, going from a pearly, opalescent pink to a dark, vibrant orange.

Chrona Devora seems to posses the power to manipulate probability or time in some manner; when it hunts, it casts ghostly images of itself forward, attack prey from multiple angles or dodging in more than one direction, and then collapsing its actually location to the duplicate in the position in considers most favorable. This has made capturing one for study impossible, as any time one has wound up in a cage it has dissolved into a whisper as the creature finds a timeline in which it manages to avoid capture.

Chrona Devora is aid to make its home in the Starscraper Peaks; a series of steep, sharp spires of mountainous rock that jut high into the night sky. This makes the perfect hunting ground for the creature; as it can pounce down upon prey from risky perches without fear; each failed attack tumbling down onto rocky stalagmites vanishing into the ether as the creature reverses poor strikes. Chrona Devora is relatively small for an Elder Dragon, only said to reach lengths of 30 meters, head to tail.

Wooba and Lesser Wooba (Wyvern subtype-neopteron)

The wooba (and its, amusingly, much larger cousin, the lesser wooba) is a fuzzy, reddish caterpillar-like neopteron that feeds on dead leaves and forest detritus. It's covered in soft, silky fur that is highly prized as armor lining and clothing material for it's surprising durability and luxurious feel. Harvesting it, however, is a bit difficult; wooba fur is like high-tensile strength titanium wire, and it's notorious for snaring weapons in it. Many a hunter has swung hteir sword at a wooba, only to find their blade caught; a brave (or foolsih) hunter who hangs on after that will find themselves tossed around as the wooba thrashes in self defense, either freeing the weapon or further entangling the hunter.

The lesser wooba has a much brighter, crimson color to its hairs, and it's protective fuzz also grows longer, giving the appearance of a rather large, rather fuzzy hot dog.

wooba grow to approximately half a meter long; lesser wooba approach three to five meters.

Scythraxid (wyvern subtype-??????/Elder Dragon/Temnoceran)

The actual classification of the Scythraxid is hotly contested among researchers, as it exhibits a wide variety of features, some interesting, some baffling. Most hunters consider it's exact classification to be of secondary importance to the thing being insanely dangerous.

If satan crossed a bobbit worm, a praying mantis, and a camel spider, and then abandoned the resulting creation in a cave somewhere to grow large on the hatred of mankind, you might roughly approximate the appearance of a Scythraxid.

Covered in spine-laden, overlapping chitinous plates that conceal wide, razor sharp mandibles and several pairs of scything claws, Scythraxid make their home in cave systems in temperate mountains, slaying and eating anything that comes too close to their territory without regard as to the size or fighting prowess of the invader. Scythraxid have many, many rows of sharp legs, and move with disturbing quiet, save for the clicking of chitin as they position themselves for ambush.

Scythraxid secrete powerful venom, their spines are poisonous, their blood is highly caustic, they are capable of burrowing, weaving spider-like webs, thier shells have chameleon-like abilities that allow them to blend into dark spaces, and they have a well-developed sense of infra-red vision, allowing them to hunt prey in perfect darkness. They are capable of molting on demand, and are fond of leaving old shells around as 'bait', hoping to counterattack unsuspecting creatures that try to fight back.

Scythraxid theoretically have no upper limit to their growth, but most adult specimens are nearly fifty meters long. Favored food: Deviljho.

Galaang (Wyvern subtype-Fanged Beast)

Galaang resemble gorillas, but they have a vaguely lupine bent to their body shape; large, dog-like ears and digitigrade legs give it a somewhat ungainly appearance. Galaang are capable of storing static electricity in their fur, releasing it as blasts of lightning when it slams the ground.

Galaang are whitish-gray, with blue spots. They are as agile as their monkey-like appearance would suggest; often hopping and flipping around in fights in order to disorient it's opponent.

Galaang live in tropical forests, concealing bowers high among the trees where they lounge, eating and sleeping until their territory is disturbed. Galaang grow to be roughly 10 meters long.

Dispatros (Wyvern subtype-Flying Wyvern)

Dispatros are large, flying wyverns that live in arctic climates. They have dark scales, characterized by streaks of brilliant, yellow. They resemble their cousins from warmer climates; the Rathalos, although their bodies are considerably more lithe and streamlined (compare a lion to a leapord) and their tails narrow down to a single, large spike.

Dispatros are capable of super-shilling their body fluids, causing the moisture in the air to instantly crystalize onto their bodies. In this manner, they can build up ablative layers of ice on their bodies, both to ward away incoming blows, and to serve as an offensive attack. By flexing it's wings at the nadir of a midair dive, the dispatros can shatter the ice coating its wings, showering attackers with a hail of razor-sharp icicles, or by swinging it's tail, it can lauch massive shards of ice with laser-like precision.

Dispatros prey upon Popo and Anteka, and grow to be approximately twenty meters long.

Aaaaand that concludes the readable portion of my MonHun notes. Somebody (not me, I treat my notes with care) spilled root beer on it at some point; the rest is blurry, dark-brown illegibility. Hope that's interesting enough for you, Veeky Forums.

To be honest, that's not to bad of a stretch for those fuckers.

Moon Dragons - ''Draco Fengari''

All Moon Dragons start their livecycle as foot long larvae, called Earth Moreys. These silver-grey, eyeless and eerie eel-like critters crawl out from the carcasses of animals and swiftly burrow deep in to the cthonian depths of the earth, where they'll spend their larvae-lifestage by voraciously hunting anything alive with their pharyngeal jaws and feeding in preparation to the next stage of their lifecycle.

Once an Earth Morey has fed and grown enough, reaching the length of three to four feet in size, it finds a secluded spot and crawls it's body into a ball and begins to cocoon itself. Inside this cocoon the Earth Morey metamorphoses into a completely different creature, the nymph stage of it's lifecycle: the Night Gaunt.

Night Gaunts are terrifying, eyeless and faceless winged hunters that fly on gulfs of cool air from the stygian depths of the eternally dark earth, emerging from their otherwordly caverns in flocks of hundreds or thousands, to snatch hapless animals or bystanders admiring the nights sky and drag them back to their lair before dawn, never uttering a sound.

As Night Gaunts mature and grow stronger and more skilled flyers, they slowly leave the safety of their lairs and company of their kin to become more solitary and more dangerous winged fiends called simply as Gargoyles.

Gargoyles are Night Gaunts reaching towards the last stage of their livecycle, that of a fully mature Moon Dragon. They hunt alone by climbing on top of cliffsides and peaks, and remaining completely immoble, blending in with their environment and waiting for unsuspecting prey to walk, crawl or fly by or underneath their cyclopean observation post. Using a form of echolocation and other more outlandish sensory means to detect a potential prey, Gargoyles soundlessly swoop down on top of their kill, in perfect darkness, as light would provide no assistance at all to these eyeless hellions.

Over time a Gargoyle grows bigger, it's wings grow larger and it grows a barbed tail to store water and fat and develops sexually into an adult Moon Dragon. Now at last it is ready to enter it's final lifestage and begin it's inexpicable flight through the airless and freezing void that separates the earth and moon in order to reach it's mating grounds.

On the moon the now fully adult male Moon Dragons quickly pick and fight over the most prosperous mating sites; the pinnacles of lunar hills or the small craters left by meteorites, as they display their fitness by beating their black wings, trying to impress any female Moon Dragon flying by. Once a male Moon Dragon begins it's mating signalling it no longer feed or sleep, it's only focus being on attracting and mating as many females as possible, until it dies from hunger or exhaustion.

The females, once fertilized by a male, begin gather their strenght and prepate for another awesome flight from the moon back to earth where they hatched, this time with their bellies full of eggs. Upon earth the female Moon Dragons will search for a body of a large animal, living or otherwise, to plant their eggs in; the perfect incubator and first meal for the larvaes that will hatch from them.

Mastodonts and the carcasses of beached whales are particularly favoured as likely vessels for the eggs, each cabable of housing as much as a hunred eggs, but when pickings are slim smaller animals, such as cattle, can house as many as a dozen eggs. When a Moon Dragon mother finally finds a fitting vessel to plant it's eggs, it coates the body a tar-like substance which both prevents the body from decomposing too rapidly, preserving the edible flesh, as well as wards off potential carrion eaters that would otherwise consume it and the eggs with it. After a short while the eggs hatch, the larvae or Earth Morays feed on the carcass from the inside and finally burst out from it, and thus the cycle continues.

Bollocks, scytheducks are the worst!

>wyvern subtype
>Elder Dragon

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

You magnificent motherfucker. You somehow made a species of xenomorph dragons.

Applause to you, my friend.

Megalania?

>Scytheducks

Nah, in-between that and a Komodo dragon.

Holy shit, I forgot about All Todays! I was thinking more along the lines of pic related crossed with a terror bird and a scythe-like beak.

>You somehow made a species of xenomorph dragons

The artist came up with them first to be quite honest

And the lifecycle-thing is just a direct rip-off from the actual ayyy-lien xenomorphs

Still impressive. Don't sell yourself short.

Dirge Reaper

In the dark swamps of the cold country of Pyotyr, everything from the bandits that hide from the arm of the law to the venomous serpents of the mud know to flee when they hear the mournful cry of the surreal predator known as the dirge reaper.

Tall as a man, its long serpentine neck adding another five feet or so to its height, this avian monster's emaciated-looking body is covered in fine, sooty grey waterproof feathers, keeping the creature warm in even the coldest of nights. Its thin hind legs end in viciously clawed three-toed webbed feet, and its small head sports a sharp vulture-like beak and a pair of bulging yellow eyes. But by far the strangest feature of the dirge reaper is its arms: in the place of wings, it has a pair of long, thin arms ending in a long, thin, razor-sharp bony blade, covered in a jet-black horny sheath that makes the blade itself look as if it was hewn from pure obsidian.

Lurking in the treeline of the swamps and venturing out at dusk, nighttime, and the cold winter months, dire reapers stalk the marshes with cold, calculating precision, blades raised and ready to impale whatever comes its way, sounding its mournful cry periodically.

All who hear the heart-rending sound find their hearts and souls suddenly awash with crushing sadness. Guilt for past sins, no matter how small; the pain of losing long-lost loved ones; the heartbreak of rejection-all this and more fall upon the victim with the force of a hammer blow. Even the strongest wills are hard press not to break down into a sobbing heap as their inner demons start to bite and claw.
Lured in by the sobbing of its victims, the dirge reaper stalks up to its quarry in total silence, one blade raised. One strike is all it needs to put the unlucky being out of its misery with a single clean cut of the spinal cord.

Bumping with a cool shark to give people ideas.

Dubs confirm new frightening fauna

I thought acid dragons were already a thing?

That's in one iPhone app, dude. Granted, it's a *good* app, but it's only in one game.

Is this from the game?

Doesn't have wings, but yeah.

You're saying mother nature is one giant troll?

Yep, essentially.

Gloom Gulper

There are many dangers in the thick jungles; jaguars and tigers, infection, blistering heat, venomous creatures of all sizes. But out of all the rainforest's dangers, there is one threat that the inexperienced never see coming.

Gloom gulpers are colossal toads, sometimes growing to the size of a small elephant, with an enormous corpulent body, covered in sticky slime that is itself covered in moss and leaf litter, short stubby legs just barely strong enough to heft the beast's great bulk, and an immense maw almost as wide as the creature's head. Bulging eyes with horizontal pupils sit above the mouth, with a pair of large fleshy 'horns' above.

Gloom gulpers are ambush predators that dwell on the forest floor, staying totally silent and totally still as they patiently wait. As roots and vines stick to the creature's slimy skin, the gloom gulper's sight becomes ever stronger-like a spider's web, it can detect the presence of any creature that touches the vines it touches. It waits patiently for its meal to come closer... closer... and it strikes.

The monster's mouth snaps open fast enough to suck in any plants, insects, and small animals nearby as the toad lunges forwards, its jaws slamming shut on its unfortunate prey with the finality of a coffin being shut. Far-off targets are snagged with an impossibly long, elastic tongue that rockets out of the toad's mouth at blinding speeds, slamming into the creature and reeling it in. The entire process usually takes less than a minute.

As soon as the mouth closes, digestion begins: mildly caustic saliva that contains a potent paralytic toxin begins to slowly eat away at clothing, and once in the stomach, swallowed prey items are unceremoniously dumped into a pool of the same. These digestive juices are extremely dense, allowing for victims to float atop it: while they are slowly eaten, they are kept alive the entire time, unable to move as they feel the acid eating away at their forms.

Forgot the pic of what it's based on.

Broodback

The murky waters of the Marsh with No End are home to many things: crocodiles and serpents of immense size, tribes of feral lizardfolk, and mutated monstrosities with far too many tentacles. Out of them all, however, one creature stands out in its nauseating form of defense.

The broodback is an immense form of mud-brown, purely aquatic frog the size of a small boat, with a strange flattened body and horizontally aligned limbs, as well as a wedge-shaped triangular head. Its eyes are small and nearly completely useless, only able to see a few inches in front of it; the creature uses a 'beard' of catfish-like whiskers on its chin to navigate. They typically swim with their mouths wide open, filtering small organisms out from the water; indeed, they seemingly have no real way to harm large animals.

But the novelty of these creatures quickly changes to horror once they get a lock on prey. When broodbacks sense prey, they don't make a move towards the creature-instead, the toad's back begins to swell and bubble, rising higher and higher until it finally bursts open, revealing a thousands-strong swarm of tiny killer tadpoles.

These monstrous tadpoles are each about the size of a human hand, with vicious jaws that would put a shark to shame mounted on their eyeless heads and a pair of forearms ending in razor-sharp slashing talons. Zipping through the water like tiny rockets, guided by a little-understood link they have with their progenitor, these little monsters quickly swarm their prey en masse, tearing into it with teeth and claws and reducing the victim to a skeleton within minutes. After feeding, the swarm piles into their 'parent's' maw, who swallows them whole to digest the meat in their stomachs and reusing the energy needed to spawn their brood swarms to impregnate themselves again with young.

Ffff

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C'mon, writefags, making terrifying shit out of already scary animals is practically a hallmark of Veeky Forums! I thought we were the board that got shit done.

I'm hesitant to try this shit. Do I just pick a random animal and try to make it spooky, or do I exaggerate their features to make it a monster, or what

A little of both, to be honest. The thread I linked above can provide you with some examples, if you need 'em.

So, thought of anything yet?

Nope. I was thinking about doing a sheep, but fuck if I'm creative enough to make that work

Easy: take a page out of The Far Side and give it organic steel wool.

Too drunk to come up with something for this but the combo of a leopard seal and a wolf is absolutely terrifying to me

It should be. It also existed at one point. Primitive whales could be summed up pretty nicely as 'if seals and wolves fucked'.

Desert Kings

Feared throughout the arid deserts these large terrorbird relatives are considered an apex predator of their territories. Nearly seven feet tall these large birds are deceptively fast for their size, easily outracing their preferred prey of peccaries but have been known to hunt down coyotes, pumas, and even humans. While capable of short bursts of flight their great size and weight means their attempts to stay in the air are comically awkward.

Their large beaks are specially adapted to punching through thick bone, their hunting patterns mainly dealing with them chasing down prey and tripping them up before pinning them down long enough to punch their beaks through skull or throats. Known to play with their prey they will take injured and crippled prey and either dash them repeatedly against the ground or tossing them into the air and catching them.

Typically solitary hunters mated pairs will stay together to raise a clutch of chicks that are able to join the hunt mere weeks after hatching. Males and females will compete with members of their own sex when determining their mates and some pairs are known to seek each other out each mating season while others will choose new partners each time. Males and females take turns incubating the eggs and watching the new hatchlings while the other hunts.

Legends abound of heroes and villains managing to tame a Desert King to use as their mount though all modern attempts to do so have proved fatal to those attempting such folly.

Hell yes. Fun fact about how roadrunners kill: it's got a wrestling name. The Centrifugal Slam. Yes, really.

Yeah I live in the southwest and seeing Roadrunners play and kill was what inspired that whole thing lol

Their beaks are meant to punch through the skulls of rattlesnakes

River Dragon

Giant snapping turtles that instead of breathing fire like normal dragons instead breath out jets of scalding steam. Whip fast snapping bites with their freakishly long necks.

Nice start, but could be better. What if it could control the flow of currents, causing boats to be dead in the water and pulling fish into its mouth?

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Bandit Lords

Among the most feared denizens of the toxic Great Swamp these halfling sized insects are a scourge against all who travel or dwell within it. It fears few things, even the great predatory dragonflies nearly five times their size are free from their predation.

With an unparalleled mastery of speed and maneuverability when in flight they are able to pluck other flying creatures from the sky or snatching them from the ground or trees. Stronger than their forms would suggest they are easily able to grapple with adult humanoids long enough for their knife-like proboscis to pump paralytic venom and digestive juices into them.

They are frighteningly cunning, so much so it is theorized they are more than mindless beasts but possibly possessing a primitive intelligence. Reports of them opening doors or undoing locks in total silence to get at their prey are common but commonly dismissed as well. While they will eat anything living they seem to prefer humanoids, especially the children, that dwell in the Swamps.

>It fears few things, even the great predatory dragonflies nearly five times their size aren't free from their predation.*

Attacks in swarms of hundreds and has razor sharp teeth.

>Anyone got ideas for pic related?

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That looks like a super comfy mount.

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From a slightly different angle that photo would look like the komodo was saying "What?! I won the lottery? I'm so happy!" Or photoshop some anime eyes on there and say something about senpai noticing me.

Ever heard of Alfred Hitchcock?

>River Dragon

I'm sure you meant Blastoise

An entire species of that bird is called "Neuntöter" in german because the story was that it only ate after killing and impaling nine victims.
It's hard to be edgier than the bird family with a latin name that means "butcher".

Pedantry corner: Flying wyverns, leviathans, brute wyverns, etc are all subgroups of wyverns. Pelagi/Fanged beasts, neopterons, temnocerans, and so on are completely separate groups, without their own subgroups (yet). "Elder dragons" are a catch-all term for weird shit that hasn't been grouped, from wyvern-like creatures with too many limbs (Fatalis) to things with tentacles (Yama Tsukami) to things that might be classifiable as serpentine wyverns if not for the fact that they're a quarter-mile from head to tail (Dalamadur).

>Pepe's first moments

Surinam toads are really weird motherfuckers. They're one of the very few types of frog that spend all of their lives in the water, they hatch as tiny frogs, not tadpoles, and they look like they've been run over by a car.

The way they reproduce honestly reminds me of pic related.

>Monstrous Beasts

Am I the only one who read that as monstrous breasts?

But why call it a River Dragon, when Steam Turtle sounds better...

Ooh, what about Whippingsnapper?

>Whippingsnapper?

Also known as ''wife'' in common tongue

>Dispatros are capable of super-shilling
>super-shilling

wow, /pol/-monsters

That is better. Specially since the setting i'm going to be using them in Dragons are not the typical big scaley reptile

How about Rippersnapper for a name?

Not these ones, obviously.

Hitchcocks

Even the smallest of creatures can deal death.

Hitchcocks are a species of carnivorous songbirds that typically gather around areas where the land has been tainted by fell magics or the presence of a powerful undead. While they at first glance appear to be quite normal birds, a closer look quickly proves the observer wrong: their sharp little beaks contain dozens of tiny needle-like teeth, the claws on the feet are surprisingly large and vicious.

Individually, a hitchcock is hardly a threat-it is, after all, still a very small bird. Unfortunately, they're never found individually; hitchcocks live in flocks of hundreds to thousands.

When attacking, hitchcocks prefer to go after either lone victims or obviously wounded members of large groups; they sit and silently watch from the branches when traveling parties pass them by, waiting for just the right moment and then lifting off as one and falling upon their chosen victim like a malevolent cloud of claws and feathers.

Hitchcock victims are easily recognizable: their bodies are marred with hundreds of thousands of rapidly cuts, their bodies despoiled with rancid and slightly corrosive feces. The eyes and tongues are almost always missing - the birds have a particular taste for those parts.
Some rumors exist, however, of emaciated-looking hitchcocks with enormous owl-like eyes and hooked claws on their wings, and needle-like beaks that drain the life from their victims with every peck.

TL;DR Pull an Alfred Hitchcock. Also made a reference to vampire finches with the variant.

Pic related; it's a real-life vampire finch.

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So, a little op, but how about a creature that already existed at one point? Long legged crocodile.

>how about a creature that already existed at one point?

nigga don't get me started with them

She always regenerates except from fire or acid damage?

Pepes truely are the monsters of our time