Reptiles of Welt

There are multiple species of reptiles endemic to Welt and its system. This article focuses on species such as monitors, snakes, turtles, varanidae, lizards and serpents species that are endemic to the system.
As the article includes amphibiens, the more correct title is herpetologues of Welt.
== Species of reptiles in Welt ==
=== Tila Monster ===
Main article: Tila Monster
Despite the denomination, the lizard has no demonic influence. The Tila is a tail less, two legged predator common to grasslands and ash wastes. Best described as "mouths on legs". Tila attack using their teeth and claws, which can lead to poisonous infections. Tila monsters have a complex vocalization system. They use different calls for mating, for territorial disputes or when battling. 
While dangerous, Tila's are not immune to being hunted. Their neck-spines and plate armor is highly desired and fetches a good price on the market, while its blood is used in tonics. The claws often adorn belts.
The large reptile has the same uses as a horse and a hound. they are raised to be used as beasts of burden, trackers, and also for their meat and hide. They are however difficult to train and expensive to feed. 
=== City turtle ===
Main article: City turtle
Also called Fastitocalon, these giant sea turtles are often confused with islands, young members of this species are known as soft shelled grass turtles. Dozens of kilometers long, are the land equivalent of hibernating whales. These gargantuan turtles carry hundreds of square kilometers on their backs allowing them to carry a small city.
=== Coinshell ===
Main article: Coinshell
A turtle that dwells in the irradiated ponds and lakes of Liptic. Its adaptation to the area has caused these reptiles to grow shells on the joints of their legs.
They can be bipedal, to appear taller when fighting. they have adapted unusual blowhole like orifices on their shoulders, napes, elbows and knees complete with miniature bladders and pipe like extensions, allowing the Coinshell to regulate its weight underwater like ballast. they can also use these as cannons to repel their foes. These cannons grow and develop accordingly to the turtles age, the elbow cannons appearing first, then the knees, then the shoulders and finally the powerful nape cannon. Fairly large, these turtles are 50 cm long at birth, and can grow to 6 meters tall and weigh up to a ton.
=== Jinmen	===
Main article: Jinmen
Turtlemen that keep the faces of their victims on their shells. The faces can contort and whisper. They can project flames from their palms.
=== Juice Turtle	===
Main article: Juice turtle
A turtle who stores berries in its shell. It gathers berries whether it is hungry or not, and the decomposing berries create a very sweet wine that attracts prey.
=== Latcher’s toad	===
Main article: Latcher's toad
A species of toad whose eggs are embedded into the back, these can be hatched prematurely to allow the toad to flee.
=== Lily Tree Lizard	===
Main article: Lily tree lizard
Coinshell turtle who has been infected with the Lily tree parasite. These lizards can live their entire lives as a host to the plant who is planted on their back, constraining the lizard to a quadrupedal stance. 
When its flower is ready to bloom, it gives off a distinct, strong sweet-smelling aroma and starts swelling. This scent becomes stronger after a rainy day. The aroma attracts the isects that the lizard eats. as it grows the plant grows into a tree with vines, the lizard has a measure of control over these vines as whips.
The lizard uses its flower to catch the sun's rays to convert them into energy, which causes the flower to take on colors that are more vibrant.
These lizards exhibit pack behavior, moving around the land in packs from one pond to another and wandering the grasslands. they congregate to the most potent aroma from the onion lily tree lizard (ie the largest lizard in the vicinity) to mate."
=== Maid Lizard ===
Main article: Maid Lizard
Named for the flaps of black and white skin that resemble a maids uniform
=== Medusa spider snake	===
Main article: Medusa spider snake
Cocoons its prey and stores them in its skin folds to eat in its lair
Disorients its prey with flashing the bioluminescent lights located underneath its eyes.
=== Mushroom patrol snake ===
Main article: Mushroom patrol snake
Also known as Mupa Snakes, these creatures inhabit mushrooms by digging into the cap, and waiting for prey. This relation with the mushroom is considered symbiotic as the snake keeps other predators away. 
The snake sometimes leaves the mushroom to patrol the area around it, sometimes due to a lack of prey. 
The snakes size depends on the mushroom it inhabits, with towering mushroom trees giving place to monstrous Mupa Snakes, who will feed on cattle and sentient beings such as other races and Dalmer alike.
These snakes use their oversized fangs more as a climbing tool to get into the mushroom, and to some degree as a club to stun their prey. Their hunting method is unsophisticated, they simply fall upon their prey, crushing it outright, if not they simply choke it to death in its coils.
When on patrol, these creatures are seemingly shy, often fleeing back to their mushroom home if caught in the open, but once in their homes they are emboldened, hissing and snapping at any would be intruders.
They reproduce by laying eggs in their lairs, once the snakes hatch, they escape to avoid being eaten by their parent. 
A genetic mystery is that the newborns are propotionnaly sized to their parent, meaning a gigantic snake will give giant eggs, but when the newborn snake reaches a suitable mushroom to live in, it will shrink in size by fasting at an alarming rate to fit its mushroom, only to grow with it later on in its life.
The average lifespan of a Mupa Snake is unknown.
=== Noose Snake	===
Main article: Noose snake
The Noose snake is an entirely fructivore reptile whose diet is exclusively nuts, which it crushes open by coiling its body around them and squeeze them tightly to extract the kernel inside. 
Generally nonviolent, relying on its respectable size to deter smaller predators, the animal sometimes eats carrion to supplement its diet. 
If it encounters an enemy, it raises its head, and makes eerie sounds by expelling air from its mouth. It has been stated that if any part of the Noose Snake's body except for the head is cut off, it can regrow the rest of its body again in a matter of a few weeks. 
It also has the ability to detect vibrations and is known to be capable of spending long periods underwater."
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