Redwood the Sub-Magnaraptor

## Redwood

"**When pues fly**"
—A phrase Redwood sometimes says, used ironically to express disbelief.
"**Some dinosaurs just wanna watch the world burn... and I'm one of em!**"
—Redwood
**Redwood the Sub-Magnaraptor** is a fan character designed by Frostbite Carno. Redwood resides in *The Isle* universe.

Redwood is a subadult Sub-Magnaraptor, and one of the first Magnas (Type-Ms) to hatch outside captivity. He is doing his best to survive and adapt to the harsh and unforgiving world of The Isle.

## Biography

Redwood is part of an Omniraptor's and Magnaraptor's first clutch and is one of the first dinosaurs to actually be *born* as a strain. Strains aren't a natural thing for a dinosaur to be but rather is mutated *int*o a strain, usually by humans. Strains are said to be sterile and incapable of forming bonds with members of their own species (albeit, a closely related). Despite that, his parents were compatible and brought him into the world.

Redwood spent his early years living with his parents and siblings but once he became a subadult he split off from his family group to form a new pack.

## Appearance

Redwood is a featherless, scaly dromaeosaurid that is very varanid-like in appearance, having some monitor lizard traits like a forked tongue, with even the texture of his scales being like that of a monitor lizard. He also has a few serpentine features; possessing heat pits like that of a snake. He also possesses horn-like crests above his eyes very similar to those seen in Allosaurus. Unlike ordinary Omniraptors, Redwood possesses hands with backward-facing palms rather than the standard inward-facing palms, though he does hold his palms facing inward sometimes, just because some of his packmates do, too.

Redwood is dark reddish-brown with a dark brownish, almost black underbelly, and a bright, iridescent golden stripe along each flank from the corners of his eyes to the tip of his tail. His head crests are also this iridescent gold color. He has this dark, dirty yellowish-orange ‘frosting’ along his spine that sprinkles onto his sides, this pattern sometimes hides his racing stripes in certain lighting, which has occasionally got him confused for a female. He also has a sprinkled "mask" over his eyes that connects at and covers the tip of his snout, and tapers towards the back of his head, also in this dull yellowish orange. His claws his are navy blue, and the interior of his mouth and his tongue are purple. His irises are orangey-red and his scleras are black.

## Personality

Mischievous, optimistic, and responsible when necessary, Redwood Likes investigating and trying new things, preferring to find out for himself whether he should have. Redwood is also creative, with a generous helping of wanderlust. Redwood loves to climb, and is undoubtedly the best climber in his pack, spending a lot of his time up in the trees with his head in the clouds. Redwood is known to communicate and cooperate with other creatures with a high percentage of dromaeosaur DNA. in short, he views all raptors as conspecifics.

## Abilities

* **Very Keen sense of smell:** Redwood’s scent is very strong, overpowered strong. Using his forked tongue to help him smell.

* **Infrared vision:** Redwood can sense body heat and has a red vision, like an Infrared view.

* **Night Vision:** Redwood has very good night vision.

* **Speed and Agility:** Redwood can swiftly maneuver at high speeds and pounce upon unsuspecting victims

* **Claws & jaws:** Redwood can use his hand-like claws for slashing prey, like *Maiasaura*. He also has a second row of teeth to help grip prey

* **Intelligence:** Redwood is very intelligent, even by raptor standards. he has the ability to open doors and push buttons, and has even learned to utilize fire.
* Dromaeosaur **Communication:** Deadly to all but his fellow *raptors, Redwood* has the ability to communicate with other creatures with a high percentage of dromaeosaur DNA.

**Unique Abilities**

* **Camouflage:** Redwood is able to change the color of his scales to match his surroundings. He uses this as camouflage when hunting, and also to express emotion. It is unknown how he inherited this trait.

**Skills**

* **Climbing:** Redwood is a great tree climber, and sometimes he rests in them or uses them to jump to higher locations, and other trees.

* **Dive-bombing:** Sometimes Redwood gets lucky when he's resting in a tree, and prey will walk underneath him, then Redwood will drop from the tree, he basically vertical-pounces them.

* **Scent Cloaking/Masking:** Climbing up those trees would often leave him stained with tree resin and smelling of it. He soon learned this side-effect could be made into a useful hunting tool, with the unthreatening tree resin smell covering his own scent from prey. Wallowing in mud has a similar effect.

* **Hunting:** Redwood has a high level of skill at the most violent parts of hunting, but towards his packmates he is anything but aggressive.

* **Tool Use:** Redwood sometimes uses plant material to create stick and vine tools to capture prey that is hiding in cracks and crevices, when in situations where he is not able to reach them. These tools can have naturally occurring barbs, or are sometimes fashioned into hooks by him

* **Fire Foraging:** As you already know, Redwood is pretty smart; using tools and able to open doors, But Redwood takes this to the next level. Sometimes Redwood will intentionally start wildfires, making him one of the very few creatures that have been known to do that, them being humans and some species of modern raptors like hawks. Most animals don't like being near fire, most other creatures will stop what they're doing, and run. But Redwood does the opposite, if he spots a wildfire he will actually go towards it. He's figured out that fire causes little critters to panic and flee, making them easy targets. As long as he is careful not to get burned, fire means an easy meal. and this incredible behavior is Fire Foraging. He learned this from a troodon he once met. He's also learned that smoke is an insecticide, and Redwood discovered he can use the smoke from a smoking stick to help him get rid of his parasites, but he does have to be careful. As of recently, Redwood has learned that he can make his *own* fire by rubbing sticks together. Yeah that's right, Redwood has a stick, and he will use it to do crimes and commit arson.

* **Prehensile Tail:** Redwood can use his tail to grasp things.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Unnamed Omniraptor** (Mother)
* **Unnamed Magnaraptor** (Father)
* **Unnamed Siblings** (Siblings)
* **Sunset** (Packmate)
* **Clover** (Packmate)

## Trivia

* Redwood's theme is Light em up X Radioactive and Under The Same Sun
* Redwood's look was loosely inspired by this awesome indoraptor redesign by ZeWqt
* That little bit about Redwood being mistaken for a female actually has merit. One time I was playing the isle, playing as Redwood of course, and I was in a pack right? and I was playing with these guys for like 4 hours right? and then we were doing headcounts of who was what gender so the pack could do some nesting, But when I said I was playing as a male, Not one, but **two** of the people in our pack (there were five of us including me) were surprised that my raptor was male XD and this **actually** happened it was hilarious. Guess that makes Redwood a femboy lmao

* Ok, so Redwood utilizing fire, using burnt smoking sticks to rid of parasites and making primitive tools may seem ridiculous but real hawks, called firehawks, do it, the whole fire thing, and its not that much of a stretch to think that this cloned even more hyper intelligent raptor could learn to make fire. It was also inspired by the troodontid scene and atrociraptor scene in prehistoric planet. As for the tools, real New Caledonian crows have been known to craft such tools.

* Redwood is actually a repurposed character. originally created for project called "Prehistoria" as a utahraptor + deinonychus hybrid, a utah-nychus if you will, but sadly the idea never came to fruition.

* I would have gone more in depth with some things, but there is literally next to no information anywhere about magnaraptors, so I guess I just have to wait until more information is available to add more

* Redwood talking to and being friendly to any raptor regardless of the species was inspired by this Magnavelociraptor Mod Concept by EmilyStepp. Redwood being a hybrid himself, he grew up in a family consisting of raptors of all shapes and sizes, so he is much more accepting of different looking raptors then most.\***Character profile page for my The Isle characters**

## Gallery

Redwood's skin preview in the Species Viewer (Detail: Orange) (Underbelly: Utah 5) (Body 1: Cerato 5) (Body 2: Utah 5) (Body 3: Diablo 1)Redwood RenderRedwood resting next to a baby tyrannosaurus and a spinosaurus he befriended onceRedwood going for a hunt during dusk, his favorite time.