Saurians of Welt

Saurians are a diverse group of Herpetons that include many different species of herbivores and carnivores. Saurians include archosaurs found of Welt.
== Species of Saurians found on Welt ==
===Crag pest===
Main article: Crag pest
Crag pests are large flying creatures. They are very aggressive and will attack any prey in sight. Crag pests have good vision range, and will often detect and follow prey without being noticed. This can result in swarms of them descending upon the unwary.
Their flight patterns and tactics can be rather flawed at times; for example they often go towards their prey using non-linear routes, similar to zig-zag flying, and can get stuck in trees.
===Castelsaurus===
Main article: Castelsaurus
Large bipedal reptiles who ressemble frill lizards. They are about the size of a triceratops, has four legs, but they have no tail. They have a soft, delicate skin covered in thick, coarse scales, which is usually either white or dark bronze or a combination of these colors. Its name comes from their plated frill, and its discovery in a castle. They make sounds ranging from relatively low pitched to high pitched and have a fairly wide range of sounds they make to indicate discoveries, dangers and otherwise communicate with each other.
These creatures are timid and their nomadic lifestyle has made them placid in terms of defending territory. They mate once a year and they mate with multiple partners throughout life. 
=== Pellet Lizard ===
Main article: Pellet lizard
A two legged saurus that swallows its prey whole thanks to its elastic tongue. after digesting its prey they spit out pellets made of bones and fur of its victims. they deject these pellets always in the same area, creating "natural graveyards". These graveyards are also egg laying sites, they are often full of gas to which the Lizards are immune. the gas from rotting pellets keep egg poachers away. The Dalmer sometimes set these creatures loose in unknown terrritories  so that they will hunt local wildlife and create graveyards. These graveyards allow the Dalmer to have a first impression of what lives in hte area, and if no graveyards are created, they know there is considerable danger in the area.
=== Cropduster Pleurodon ===
Main article: Cropduster Pleurodon
A predatory creature that hunts by expelling gas over its victim in while flying above it, like a bomber executing a bombing run. Once the prey is dead or unable to fight back the Cropduster uses its tentacles to bring the prey to its mouth.
Cropdusters resemble large aquatic lizards that float in the air. They move around using their fins and tails like paddles and are kept aloft from the mysterious intoxicating gas they use as their main weapon.
The Cropduster possesses two large pairs of fins, two pairs of tentacles that it uses to grab its unconscious prey to feed, six udder like glands that expel the gas, and a flat tail. The Cropduster possesses a pair of forward facing eyes, and another pair underneath its lower jawline
Cropdusters hunt on typically large and slow herbivores such as cattle and mammoth, thanks to their powerful gas.
Cropdusters are not immune to their gas, thick mucus is produced in their buccal and nasal cavities to counteract the gas before it reaches the lungs. Cropduster mucus, if applied to the face of victims within the gas will not fall unconscious.
They are however completely vulnerable to any creature that can land atop  it, as such they are often host to small birds that rid it of parasites and potential skin infections.
Cropdusters are crepuscular creatures as they need sunlight to function like most reptiles, they have poor eyesight but a comparatively good sense of smell and hearing, they move relatively silently through the air and are a bane to livestock herders everywhere.
There is another species of Pleurodon called Cloudbreachers whose gas is inert and opaque, they hunt by enveloping themselves in their own gas before striking. A group of these creatures are known as a Fog.
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