Diabolus

Diabolus tenebrarum

### Size

10 - 30 meters long (males) / 7,3 - 17,8 meters long (females) / 7 meters long (largest gliding youngster of D.regem) / 20 - 50 meters of wingspan (males) / 14,6 - 29,6 meters of wingspan (females) / 11,6 meters of wingspan (largest gliding youngster of D.regem)

### Geographic distribution

Tenebrosa Aqua and Mare Orientalem / lays its eggs in Virtu, Auth and Terra Septentrionis

## **Original Description**

Size: 10 meter (regem 20 meters)
Wingspan: 20 meters(regem 50 meter)
weight: 8 to 10 tons (regem 19 tons)
Info: Diabolus Tenebrarum is a deep sea apex predator that can be found in Tenebrosa aqua or Mare Orientalem.It has a long neck four flippers and four wings
It also has a second mouth located on the chest with a proboscis come out of it to lure pray iteams.It main head is fairly strong and robust inside it mouth it
has tentacle like tongue with an ending spike on each tentacle its belive to be for posing prey but it well unknow once per year these animales come to the surface
to mate or to migrat,for mateing season the while got most of the time to Tenebris and will lay there eggs on Terra septenrionis or Tenebris if the female is to
lazy also male will stay and help the female during pregnancy (pregnancy is a whole year) During mateing season the female became more aggresive then the males
while the males are more calm.for Hunting they wait for the prey to come close and with there second mouth probscis the wait for the alien to come near it when they do
the alien bites the proboscis and then The Diabolus strikes.

Info 2: Diabolus regem is the sub species of Diabolus tenebrarum and its way more aggresive then diabolus tenebrarum.Diabolus regem has minor differences from its
deep sea conture part but the biggest is it Three heads its belived these heads evoled from the proboscis or the second mouth of tenebrarum then its other big differnces
is its fins on the back there are used for propulsion in water the other difference is it's wings it has two wings instead of the four thats seen in tenebrarum.regem is
the apex predator of the plant its can found anywhere but its mostly found around coastlines and other watery areas but they will go inland if needed.Unlike there counter part
they can fly for long period of time thanks to their 50 meter wing span.During hunting the diablous looks up from the sky to see his next target and when they find it the nose dive from
sky to their prey then they push the prey down to the ground and when the prey is down the use their tentacles to penetrate the breathing holes of the aline and then the posion the aline
with their tentacles and slowey the prey dies.the regem during mateing season are really aggresive aspecialy the males they kill almost anything that stands on their path just to Imprese
the female so times males get into fights with other males and in these fights some time one of the males dies but if a male is successful in mateing he will stay with the female until
the child is an adult and will help the female these alines dont really migrate they just follow their prey during migrations.

## **Reinterpretations and redesigns**

This is a section where people other than the original submitter have expanded on the submission.

#### **Corvid.Lara's Diabolus regem redesign**

They all start their lives in small black eggs around the size of a grape fruit, the mothers climb onto the shore and lay their eggs in a turtle like fashion, with many eggs to ensure that atleast some of the juveniles achieve adulthood. This species is highly sexually dimorphic, with females being many times smaller than the largest of males. This is due to the fact that females have to climb onto land, while males don’t have any restraint on their growth. Both sexes achieve adulthood at 10 years of age, females stop growing at that age while males will continue to grow. The male pictured in the drawing below is probably around 100+ years old.

The juveniles use their large wing like fins to glide in a flying fish like manner, they use this tactic to escape predators. As they grow, they quickly loose this ability, tending to use the wings more for stirring or for propulsion. When they achieve full adult size, they use their wings in a very particular manner, *confusing their prey items to hunt them easily*. The wings have large silver spots on them, that from afar look vaguely like a school of fish, medium to small predators would come close to the animal and D. regem attacks them quickly with their long neck.

The animals have a very unusual adaptation within dispeculates. A “chest mouth” of sorts. This mouth is actually the true mouth, while the “head” is a very advance extension of the central proboscis. The two retractable tongue like tentacles are the remnants of the two other proboscis. They help D. regem by pulling in the prey item into the chest mouth.
Males can live for centuries, once they achieve their gargantuan sizes, they become a sort of alpha of their region. Many females and even smaller males live around the large males. This assures them security and lets them eat the animals attracted by the giant male’s big wings. However, a large male when hungry can potentially eat its smaller relatives with ease, this cannibalistic behavior is common in big males. However, males of such sizes are rarely seen, since they take a long time to mature to such sizes.

Diabolus regem has a much smaller relative, Diabolus tenebrarum, which has smaller chest tentacles. They also have another unnamed relative with smaller neck, longer jaws and overall taking the niche of what would be a dolphin on earth. This relatives seemingly have completely vestigial proboscis tongues, now only having a simple opening in the chest cavity.

#### **Moth's Diabolus scombricus relative design**

Name - Unknown

Scientific name - Diabolus scombricus

Discovered by - M o t h

Diet - Small to medium sized fish prey items

Size - 8 meters in length and 15 meter wingspan

Habitat - open ocean, shallow seas and coasts

Geographic distribution - mare orientalem, tenebrosa aqua and medio mari

Clade - Gomphobia

A medium sized Gomphobian that is a fast and agile hunter, highly comparable to the earth's swallows but underwater and way bigger. It's closest relative is the Diabolus, except this one is way smaller. They have a similar colouration and pattern to earth's mackerel. Noticeable change is the size of the male, however, there was a change somewhat early on where the giant males weren't so big anymore but neotenic, they are now way more comparable to a female in size but being slightly larger, males also have coloured jaws which are orange, red and yellow, while females just possess a yellow beak. These have pretty good eyesight and can spot prey from a decent distance. Their chest mouths have completely disappeared unlike it's much more larger relative. They have a pretty unique hunting technique as they usually attack from the side but staying a distance away and slowly turning towards the side of their prey and dashing at full speed.

It will often be found in the open oceans in groups of 2-4, 1 male and 1-3 females. Young individuals stay in the safety of warm shallow and coastal waters where there aren't as many predators and adults whom could cannibalize. They have been particularly seen be pretty fond of stormy weather with huge oceanic waves as they'll usually jump out from waves and glide as the wind lifts them, younger individuals are better at this since larger wings.

They also usually surf the waves. When it's breeding time, males will usually round up as many females as possible for them as they challenge other males, however newly matured males will usually stay out until they become larger and more experienced. How they mate is that male and female will grasp each other with their flippers and do the mating and then finishing by letting go of each other. They lay their eggs along the coasts which resemble stones in many ways and is greatly camouflaged, especially on rocky beaches. The eggs hatch at midnight as they juvenile makes a quick move towards the sea and finally entering the warm waters which their parents have selected. Females take about 8 years to mature while males take 10 years.