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The third family of archetiposaurs are the spirit drakes. Though still mostly herbivorous, they are the most predatory of thescelosaurs, with fish and small game making up as much as fifty percent of their diet. Adults have a high degree of binocular vision thanks to a wide skull and narrow snout. While they are proficient swimmers, thick skin makes them quite dense, which is helpful while grazing on wetland vegetation.

  Their largest and most famous member is the jugashen. These are the largest thescelosaur after the qotaur, with males often reaching nine tons and a length of twelve meters. They are quite robust, and their adults have the highest degree of binocular vision of any thescelosaur. They aren’t predators of large game, but they readily wade in shallows and grab fish up to several meters in length. Their beaks are strong and quite sharp, able to dismember fish with impressive speed. The jaw strength comes at the cost of flexibility, but they still have enough cranial kinesis to swallow prey up to several hundred pounds.

  Unfortunately, to an animal this large, small game includes people. Zentaur and kurajaku might raid a village to seek out livestock, yet jugashen are much more interested in the villagers themselves. Jugashen are quiet stalkers, and it is not unheard of for them to sneak into a settlement, kill and collect a few people, and depart undetected. Only when people are missing and great webbed footprints are discovered in the morning is the attack known. There are many reasons for the walls and elevated huts that Seridic peoples construct, but the jugashen is certainly a frequent culprit.

  Jugashen take up to five years to reach adulthood, the longest childhood of any thescelosaur. They also have the largest eggs of any dinosaur in Kaimere. Like common drakes, they have crop milk. Jugashen are generally solitary, though young will live with their mother until the next year hatches, then with siblings until adolescence. In their first year they are fairly vulnerable and have many predators, though as adults, jugashen wise enough to avoid the heavily forested regions with more zentaur or deeper channels home to bull kurajaku and giant crocodiles generally have little to fear from predation. When near water or their dens, they can be extremely aggressive. They have a dense coat of feathers until the end of their first year, at which point their feathers lack thermoregulatory benefits and they only have a thin coat on their backs and a mane, which can grow over two meters in large bulls. Jugashen are most famous in the Seridic wetlands, though the species are found in less abundance throughout the wetlands of Ni’Khar and northern Arvel.

Description
The third family of archetiposaurs are the spirit drakes. Though still mostly herbivorous, they are the most predatory of thescelosaurs, with fish and small game making up as much as fifty percent of their diet. Adults have a high degree of binocular vision thanks to a wide skull and narrow snout. While they are proficient swimmers, thick skin makes them quite dense, which is helpful while grazing on wetland vegetation.

  Their largest and most famous member is the jugashen. These are the largest thescelosaur after the qotaur, with males often reaching nine tons and a length of twelve meters. They are quite robust, and their adults have the highest degree of binocular vision of any thescelosaur. They aren’t predators of large game, but they readily wade in shallows and grab fish up to several meters in length. Their beaks are strong and quite sharp, able to dismember fish with impressive speed. The jaw strength comes at the cost of flexibility, but they still have enough cranial kinesis to swallow prey up to several hundred pounds.

  Unfortunately, to an animal this large, small game includes people. Zentaur and kurajaku might raid a village to seek out livestock, yet jugashen are much more interested in the villagers themselves. Jugashen are quiet stalkers, and it is not unheard of for them to sneak into a settlement, kill and collect a few people, and depart undetected. Only when people are missing and great webbed footprints are discovered in the morning is the attack known. There are many reasons for the walls and elevated huts that Seridic peoples construct, but the jugashen is certainly a frequent culprit.

  Jugashen take up to five years to reach adulthood, the longest childhood of any thescelosaur. They also have the largest eggs of any dinosaur in Kaimere. Like common drakes, they have crop milk. Jugashen are generally solitary, though young will live with their mother until the next year hatches, then with siblings until adolescence. In their first year they are fairly vulnerable and have many predators, though as adults, jugashen wise enough to avoid the heavily forested regions with more zentaur or deeper channels home to bull kurajaku and giant crocodiles generally have little to fear from predation. When near water or their dens, they can be extremely aggressive. They have a dense coat of feathers until the end of their first year, at which point their feathers lack thermoregulatory benefits and they only have a thin coat on their backs and a mane, which can grow over two meters in large bulls. Jugashen are most famous in the Seridic wetlands, though the species are found in less abundance throughout the wetlands of Ni’Khar and northern Arvel.