Nightly #2 by Rip-Tooth

BAAAD SKETCH, used up a majority of my time working on something else that can't be done in one night. This was supposed to be of one of the species inhabiting my mostly private headworld but mmm it really doesn't look like them aside from having two pairs of wings. Frankly I forgot how to draw them it's been so long; this'll just be some rando critter.

INSTEAD, TO MAKE UP FOR THIS, I'll write about the species in the comments.

#riptooth #xNightly #desertfriends

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painted on a Nintendo 3DS
29 Jul, 2016, 6:08 am
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BloodHybrid

29 Jul, 2016, 6:17 am

Ooh wow I love the pose! *O*

Rip-Tooth

29 Jul, 2016, 6:38 am

(Will be replacing the names of some things with "[name]" because I'm probably going to change them)

[name] wyverns are one of two massive species known to live within the dry biomes of the [name] region, and are easily recognized by their dual pairs of wings if their size hasn't made their identity clear first. Other defining features of these wyverns include forward facing, knife-like teeth, brilliant blue accents on top of sandy or earthen tones, and barbed tail tips.

The [name] wyvern's social lives are complex ones; they're certainly wild animals but have developed intelligent adaptions such as wide vocal ranges for conveying intricate thoughts to other wyverns. One such way they take advantage of this is by gathering in flocks to hunt the [name] region's other largest inhabitants: gigantic sand worms referred to as burrowers. Interestingly enough, burrowers also hunt wyverns, but do so solo like nearly everything else in their solitary lives.

Rip-Tooth

29 Jul, 2016, 7:04 am

Two of the multiple deities worshipped in the [name] region share the defining features of these species; Hirch, the gales, and Xotl, the shifting sands, a wyvern and a burrower respectively. While they are widely known as unseen forces in present day, it's said that they were once physical beings who fought each other often, resulting in sandstorms lasting for days on end. It's true that the two species that they resemble kick up sandstorms one way or another, but not to the proportion of those said to have been caused by the deities.

In time their physical bodies were lost while their energy remained, and still it clashes throughout the land, be it the wind blowing against the dunes sounding the barren desert's eerie, humming song, or by the worst of the sandstorms that continue to crop up and bury any attempts at taming the land.

Rip-Tooth

29 Jul, 2016, 7:22 am

There are actually two species of [name] wyvern, the lesser wyverns and the greater wyverns. The greater wyverns are what Hirch is said to resemble the closest, and as their name suggests they're the larger of the two species. They're also lankier and pointier in overall appearences, and tend to be of lighter sandy tones accented with intensely vibrant blues. Greater wyverns mainly inhabit the sandy dunes and some mountainous areas, and are the ones to go after burrowers.

Lesser wyverns actually branched off of the greaters into their own species from the groups of greaters who lived within different biomes than the current ones. Lessers are smaller, rounder, and stockier; they tend to have darker, earthy tones and less intense blues. They do, however, exhibit some very bright red accents for certain occasions.

The two species interact with each other sparingly, both are about equally smart but live in such different areas that they don't cross paths all that often.

Rip-Tooth

29 Jul, 2016, 7:27 am

How these interactions play out varies depending on the circumstances, they could be positive or negative.

I'm done writing now but let me just say THEY LOOK LIKE RIDICULOUSLY HUGE DRAGONFLIES WHEN FLYING, IT'S COOL. LIKE MAN WE'RE TALKIN' BIGGER THAN AIRPLANE DRAGONFLIES. And then we have longer than football stadium snakeworms. rip @ anyone who tries to live around these things

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