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ZeWqt — Inktober 2019 Day 26 - Dark
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Published: 2019-10-26 10:42:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 1532; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 1
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Un Traqueur (j'ai pas de meilleur nom pour lui pour l'instant) en chasse la nuit. C'est un cousin proche du machin dragon pitaya du jour 12 , mais d'une longueur de 6 mètres et avec des piquants creux et facilement détachables qui se cassent en bouts tranchants dans la chair des potentiels prédateurs (parce qu'il y a des trucs plus gros et plus méchants dans son environnement). Il fait figure de croque-mitaine dans les régions où ils vit, principalement parce qu'il a la fâcheuse habitude de s'introduire dans les maisons.
A Nightstalker (I don't have a better name for it yet) on the hunt at night. It's a close relative of the dragonfruit critter thingy from Day 12 , but with a lengh of 6 meters and with hollow and easily detachable quills that broke into sharp bits in the flesh of would be predators (because there's bigger and badder things in its environment). It is more or less a bogeyman on the places it lives, mainly because it has the bad habit for breaking into houses.
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Looks like a deadly raptor with wings, I like it.
This is definitely a guy you wouldn`t want to come across in a dark forest...
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A raptor with skin wings then, because raptors already have wings.
You certainly wouldn't want to encounter a Nightstalker in a forest, at any hour of the day or night.
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This one is amlost totally flightless, but yes, most of my "true Dragons" do fly, the Wyverns and the Drakes don't.
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What exactly makes Drakes, Wyverns and "True Dragons" distinct from each other?
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That's a list of what generally differentiates them from each other, it's non-exhaustive cause it's like 3 in the morning and I haven't completely figured them yet:
My "true Dragons", or flying Dragons (or "Eudraconoidea") have a pteroid bone, the most pneumatized skeleton of my dragons, big, bird-like sternum, more developed pectoral muscles than the other dragons (even the flightless ones), the third finger on their wing is clawless and more elongated, a higher metabolic rate, their wing membranes are more resistant and heals faster.
My Wyverns (or "Dromaeodraconoiea"), the group in which there is the most species, have an hypertrophied fourth teeth on their dentary, more developped legs and caudofemoralis than the Eudraconoids, a lot of them also have venom, seemingly an encestral trait of Wyverns.
My Drakes (or "Barydraconoidae") have the least pneumatized skeleton, they are really robust, their styliform bone is atrophied or absent and so are their wing membranes, developed forelimbs and most of them are at least facultatively quadrupedal, all of them have osteoderms. A lot of my Drakes are vegetarian, and some of them look like Sauropods and Ceratopsians.
In short, flying bois, running bois and beefy bois...
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This dragon was partially inspired by tigers (specifically the hyper aggressive ones from the Sundarbans) and the pic in question was inspired by the nightcam wildlife footage, so it being a bit creepy is a win in my book.
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