Description
The badlanders ride these giant gryphons around. The clan leader’s heir soulbinds with a cockatrice as soon as they are able.
Cockatrices are browsing herbivores (with potential for scavenging etc) and potentially a bit unpredictable. They need to be carefully tamed or they’ll be just trouble when they’re adults.
During the mating time males honk and bellow loudly and demonstrate their brightly colored chests and wattles for the females. Sometimes the males peck t each other, but altercations are relatively few.
Most of the animals used as mounts are female.
The female selects a mate for itself and they stay together until the hatchlings are able to follow the female. Then the male loses interest.
The clan stays put for the duration of the pair nesting. Hatchlings can be transported in little fenced platforms that are mounted on some of the adults’ backs.
People bonded with cockatrices are commonly brave, severe and humorless.
Comments: 17
FancystacheArts [2016-04-24 12:02:31 +0000 UTC]
I have a feeling they have a distrust of weasels and are agitated by the call of a rooster
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FancystacheArts In reply to umbbe [2016-04-29 21:17:43 +0000 UTC]
I've always loved that sort of work, like designing monsters and creatures and saying what they do and live as if they were real. Very Spiderwick
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FancystacheArts In reply to umbbe [2016-04-30 14:52:09 +0000 UTC]
It was a favourite of mine. I used to try to replicate my own when I was younger. Do you know if this type of stuff has a particular name?
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umbbe In reply to FancystacheArts [2016-04-30 19:18:23 +0000 UTC]
Hmm, well, there's speculative biology, but that's more science-based. That's probably the closest thing tho.
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Orionide5 [2015-01-14 20:30:05 +0000 UTC]
Nice pterosauroid creatures! Do they have the power of fear magic, or are they just scary?
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MuseTerra [2014-12-20 02:01:56 +0000 UTC]
Awesome design!
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umbbe In reply to MuseTerra [2014-12-20 10:50:26 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! ;u;
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MuseTerra In reply to umbbe [2014-12-22 04:08:53 +0000 UTC]
Welcome ;v;
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lonelynightrain [2014-12-18 06:10:19 +0000 UTC]
Beautiful concept design and excellent information.
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