Lastovar

==Appearance==
A surprisingly small Brute Wyvern with a mostly blue-green coloration. Lastovar has a not very muscular body apart from its front limbs and tail. The lime-green tail is quite long with three barbed, grey spikes on the upside in the form of a grappling hook. The claws on the monster's limbs are also barbed. Unlike many other Brute Wyverns, it has plantigrade feet, that have a darker shade, and a more upright stance. Lastovar possesses relatively long arms with three fingers spread quite wide from another. The monster's back has a light-green coloration with smooth scales, the upper chest and front nech area is vibrant orange. The head is covered in a olive-green mask-like shell with only the eyes visible in sockets and the snout expanding beneath it. Lastovar has a flat face, with spikes growing to the back out of the mask on each side at the furthest apart points and a little closer to the top. With its long and flexible, bright green snout the Brute Wyvern is able to aim the tip at 360° around it in all directions. It doesn't possess any teeth but the muzzle consists mostly of muscles shaping a pipe. The jaws are fixated, so a special muscle in the snout closes the mouth orifice completely.
==Habitat and Ecology==
Lastovar is endemic to the Plagued Meadows and because of its fire element, hardly any monster inhabiting this area is able to stand up to it despite its size. The main prey of the Brute Wyvern is an equally strong monster, Lidonkyai, but it also feeds on a lot of other monsters in the area. Lastovar isn't purely carnivorous as it also feeds on the honey made by Vombeols on occasion, whose hive it often lightly vandalizes in the process. At night it withdraws in a cave where it sleeps hanging on the wall.
The Brute Wyvern has a preference for invertebrates for its diet as they are easier to devour. With its burning hot saliva it melts the insides of its prey to slowly suck up the paste with its pipe-like snout. While feeding, On bigger monsters like Lidonkyai Lastovar climbs upon them and does the same to ingest it alive while clawing itself with the barbed claws and tail at the body of its victim. The saliva is hot enough to melt even the armor of the Mollusk leaving it helpless to the attacks of the predator. Such hunts are sometimes performed by a small group of individuals. The temperature required for this is achieved by a combination of muscle contractions and special bacteria in the lower jaw which produce heat when supplied with a nutritious substance. This is an automatic response of its body when it starts salivating at the sight of a prey item. This system gets inhibited by moisture which is the reason why the monster is rarely seen outside on rainy days.
Due to its great smell and good eye sight Lastovar is able to find prey quite reliably, so it can survive several days without problems when the rain prevents it from hunting. As its main prey isn't very fast, the monster doesn't need to rely on speed as well, its strong points are its agility and reaction speed If the moisture rises too high the Brute Wyvern gets instinctively sleepy to keep its energy consumption at a minimum when it is unable to resupply its resources. Only when a rain period drags on too long over two weeks the monster will search for smaller prey it can devour whole or break into pieces, so it can still its hunger. Those cases are rare and an individual generally only experiences this situation once at most.
Because of its size Lastovar often is target to assaults by bigger monsters, but it is able to fend off most of the opponents of the same strength. The flexible muzzle as well as the ability to infuse its saliva with an inflammable agent help the Brute Wyvern to defeat or dissuade other threats from attacking. Fire-resistant monsters can deflect those attacks and pose a threat to Lastovar, so it often flees when its spit doesn't work. But only a few monsters living in the Plagued Meadows can stand up to the fire element, so this is mostly applied to nomads that stay for one season or invaders. This doesn't mean Lastovar can't put up a fight, its tail and barbed claws can easily injure an opponent and it has the agility to put this into practice. The Brute Wyvern keeps its distance to the lake as much as possible as it is home to Broad-Mouthed Parsalatir which is one of the monsters that can overwhelm it. Due to the precision it possesses when shooting out saliva and the use of it only as defense against monsters, it very rarely causes fires in the surroundings.
Lastovars don't have a set social structure, they are encountered as single individuals but also in small groups up to three, rarely four members. It doesn't matter what sex or size they are, if they meet a conspecific they may form a temporary group with them. This changes when mating season comes around in autumn, when males search for females and fight for them in show battles. In these battles two opponents try to bring each other to fall. The winner has the right to take the female and both of them disappear inside caves to hibernate. The eggs get layed in late spring and get protected by the parents. After they hatch both leave the up to three youngs on their own. From the moment of their birth they are able to survive alone and small Mollusks are their main prey.
===Interactions with other Monsters===
Prey:
Lastovar has a preference for invertebrate so it hunts a lot of Mollusks, Neopterons, Carapaceons and Temnocerans, like Hukima and Vombeol. Adults are specialized in hunting Lidonkyai but as the Mollusk hardly leaves its hiding spots when it's not raining, the Brute Wyvern has to other monsters as well. Young Lastovars mainly hunt a certain Mollusk.
Predators:
There are hardly set predators as most monsters that can get dangerous to it aren't native to the area. Elder Dragons and invaders are able to overwhelm the Brute Wyvern as well as nomads like Zadornoys, yet only young, injured or ill individuals. The only occasional native predator is Broad-Mouthed Parsalatir.
===Turf Wars===
Vombeol Queen
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Lidonkyai
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Zadornoys
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Broad-Mouthed Parsalatir
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==Abilities==
Lastovar uses its saliva to fend off threats. With its flexible snout it can send the inflammable substance in any direction around it and precisely hit the target. Apart of this its most dangerous weapons are its barbed claws and tail which can cause serious injuries able to inflict the bleeding status. With its agility and flexibility the monster is able to strike fast and unexpected. Lastovar can also use its tail to hold an opponent close to itself so it can attack it more easily. A dung bomb is usually enough to get free but other conventional methods will help as well. The Brute Wyvern has the habit of licking its claws when entering Rage Mode, which increases their temperature and lets them glow with an orange hue. Getting hit with them in this state also inflicts fireblight.
==Attacks==
#Claw swipe: Lastovar swipes its claws to the side while slightly turning. May inflict bleeding. This attack is affected by heating claws.
#Claw slash: The Wyvern lifts up one of its forelimbs and slashes at a target. May inflict bleeding. This attack is affected by heating claws.
#Claw thrust: While leaning to one sight it puts one of its arms back to then thrust it into an opponent. May inflict bleeding. This attack is affected by heating claws.
#Heating claws: When entering Rage Mode, Lastovar licks over all of the claws, heating them up. Each claw attack now inflicts fireblight when hit directly.
#Tail swipe: The Brute Wyvern swipes its tail from side to side like others of its class.
#Tail smash: It lifts its tail up and smashes it down onto a target. May inflict bleeding.
#Tail spin: Lastovar turns its tail upside down while striking it into the ground at the side of it. Then it drags its tail on the ground with the spikes into the ground while rotating around itself, sending small chunks of earth around it, which inflict earthblight.
#Tail hold: The Wyvern rams its tail into a target, holding it with the spikes. Hunters can only move as far away from it as the tail length allows. A dung bomb or dealing enough damage to it sets the hunter free. May inflict bleeding.
#Stomp: It raises one of its legs and stomps down.
#Scratch kick: The monster lifts one of its legs and tries to scratch and kick a threat beneath it similar to other bigger Brute Wyverns.
#Wall attack: It uses its tail to cling to a wall or tree or similar and then strikes down with its claws towards a hunter. This attack is affected by heating claws.
#Long jump: Similar to other Brute Wyverns, Lastovar gets ready and jumps towards an opponent. Due to its smaller size and weight it can jump farther. It uses this attack to cover distance.
#Flame spit: While jumping back the Wyvern spits a glob of flame in front of it. Inflicts fireblight.
#Quadruple flame spit: The monster spits saliva to the right in front of it and the front left, then it jumps backwards and spits to the left in front of it and the front left. Causes fireblight.
#Precise flame spit: Lastovar lifts its snout, aims and shoots at an opponent in any direction. Inflicts fireblight.
#Spread spit: It spits a whole wave of burning saliva from right to left or vice versa. The attack only reaches a short radius in front of it. Causes fireblight.
#Lava stream: When the Brute Wyvern is higher up than its targets it lets out a stream of burning saliva onto them which persists for a few seconds. Sometimes it jumps onto a spot higher up just to use this attack. Inflicts fireblight.
#Hailing Fire: While rotating twice it spits several globs into the air which fall down in a medium long range around it. Causes fireblight. This attacks gets only used in Rage Mode.
#Saliva time bomb: Lastovar moves to a spot in the middle of an area and spits several at a single spot. The glob of fire that results in this bursts open after a short time, spreading fire in a short radius around it. The monster only uses this attack when enraged. Inflicts fireblight.
#Flame lick: The Brute Wyvern lowers its head and uses its hot tongue to lick a target. Causes fireblight.
==Notes==
*The weakness is ice, then water.
*In Rage Mode the orange chest gets darker and it huffs smoke.
*When exhausted it salivates and the orange on its chest gets paler.
**It will search for a monster to prey on.
**When a Lidonkyai is present in the hunting ground at the moment, it will seek it and instigate a turf war with it.
**The fire elemental attacks get a little weaker.
*Dung bombs are quite effective against the monster, before it escapes it takes some time to gather itself. The closer to the head the dung bomb hits the bigger the effect.
**Each use weakens the effect for the next time.
*It's said that a certain Lynian tribe uses the shell on Lastovar's head as a mask for their leader. This is yet to be researched though.
*The snout can be wounded twice, the head shell and each front limb's claws can be broken and the back and tail are damageable.
**When the tail is damaged, it cannot grab hunters anymore.
==Materials==
Lastovar Scale, Lastovar Shell, Lastovar Saliva Lastovar Snout (only when wounded twice), Lastovar Skull (when the head shell is broken), Lastovar Claw (when broken), Lastovar Tail (when damaged)
==Trivia==
*The mask is based on Pteraspis.
*The name comes from Larnovaspis (a Pteraspidiforme) -> La, rastopiti (Bosnian) = melt -> sto and Vermilingua (suborder of anteaters) + a little adjustment -> var.