Atrovenus

**Atrovenus** is a Brute Wyvern that are known for their distinctive icy club-like tail.

## **Description**

Atrovenus is a large brute wyvern with light grey scales covering the majority of its body. Multiple rows of boney, slate-colored, jagged plates run down its neck and back towards the base of its tail and a large recurved spike sits above its shoulders. The tail lacks the distinctive blade-like casing of its close relatives and is instead coated in a segmented shell that is a similar color to the armored plates; the tail of this monster can be encased in a thick layer of ice. Its forelimbs are larger and more muscular when compared to its cousins Glavenus and its subspecies but its legs are nearly identical in appearance. The face and jaws are covered in sturdy plating, particularly resembling the head of a Allosaurus or Saurophaganax, though its horns are located above its eyes unlike the real world species it is based upon.

## **Abilities**

Like its relatives, Atrovenus is relentless and aggressive with their attacks and will attack with nearly ever part of its body. The jaws of Atrovenus are filled with many durable and sharp fangs that it uses to tear through the hides of its prey as well as dealing grievous wounds to hunters. Similar to its relatives, Atrovenus is capable of utilizing its broad blunt tail as an effective bludgeoning tool that it can use to shatter the defenses of hunters and its prey; unlike its cousins which utilize smoldering heat or corrosive acids, Atrovenus is capable of incasing its tail in a thick casing of ice. It is capable of slamming its ice incased tail into the ground to generate large tremors and send chunks of snow and frost at its foes to inflict them with iceblight and can scrape its jaws across its tail to fill its elemental ice organ it uses to fire ice projectiles at prey.

## **Ecology**

### Taxonomy

* **Kingdom**: Animalia
* **Phylum**: Chordata
* **Class**: Reptilia
* **Clade**: Dinosauria
* **Order**: Wyveropoda
* **Family**: Paracarnosauridae
* **Subfamily**: Coronasteginae
* **Tribe**: Gladiosaurini
* **Genus**: Gladiocaudasaurus
* **Species**: G. feroborealis
* **Name Meaning**: Fierce Northern Gladius Tailed Reptile
* **Common Name**: Atrovenus

### Rage and Tired States

* Enraged: When an Atrovenus becomes enraged it will encase its tail in ice and scape its jaws against its glacial club filling its elemental organ within its neck.
* Fatigued: When an Atrovenus becomes tired it will become slower and more sluggish, taking longer to recover from its attacks.

### Habitat Range

Atrovenus can be seen inhabiting a vast array of locales ranging from frozen tundras and mountainous peaks to temperate forests. Hunting locales these wyverns can be found inhabiting include Verdant Hills, Arctic Ridge, Tundra, Misty Peaks, Everwood, Ancestral Steppe, Frozen Seaway, Heaven's Mount, Ruined Pinnacle, Hoarfrost Reach, Shrine Ruins, Frost Islands, and Citadel.

### Ecological Niche

Atrovenus is a top predator that will relentlessly chase down its prey. These carnivores are commonly seen preying small herbivores such as Anteka and Popo but are also known to predate other monsters such as Bullfango, Bulldrome, Lagombi, Poka and Pokaradon where their ranges overlap, even other predatory monsters such as Giaprey, Giadrome, Baggi, Great Baggi, Blango and Blangonga aren't safe from occasional predation. These brute wyverns face fierce competition from other equally deadly predators such as Barioth, Lunagaron and Goss Harag, but confrontations between these species is usually rare due to the high chance of injury or death that these monsters can inflict upon one another. Atrovenus also faces competition from Gammoth and Gammuthus although this is less due to resources and more due to territory. Atrovenus has very little in the way of natural predators but it does risk being attacked from deadlier monsters such as Ukanlos, Kushala Daora and Velkhana.

### Biological Adaptations

Atrovenus possesses a unique respiratory organ that is capable of extracting nitrogen from the air they breathe and storing it ice elemental organs near their throats and along their armored tail; the organs along its tail are what allow these brute wyverns to form their ice bludgeons. To protect themselves from the cold these brute wyverns possess an insulating layer of fat which when coupled with their large size and endothermic metabolism allows these monsters to stay warm in even the coldest of climates. Atrovenus have evolved more heavily built arms to help them balance the immense weight of the tail but these large arms also serve a role in prey restraint and terrain scaling.

### Behavior

Atrovenus are relentless, aggressive predators with surprising skills in battle and just like their close relatives they are considered intelligent by brute wyvern standards. Atrovenus are highly territorial brute wyverns and are known to duel other members of their species over territory and will attempt to chase away any other predatory monster that comes too close to their lair.

### Social Behavior

Atrovenus are antisocial monsters and prefer to avoid other of their own species except during the breeding season.

## **Combat Information**

### Attacks

* WIP

### Elemental Resistances

Canon Elements

 Water
 Thunder
 Ice
 Dragon

Fanon Elements

 Wind
 Aether
 Void

### Status Ailments

 Paralysis
 Sleep
 Blast
 Stun
 Corrosion