Wyvern Yokai

**Wyvern Yokai** are a variation of the Lesser Dragon Yokai that has their claws fused with their wings.

## Physical Appearance

Wyvern Yokai has only two legs instead of the traditional four legs that other dragons have. Their arms and wings are merged into one. With the claws sticking out at the tip of the forged wings where the arms should be. Like all dragons, Wyvern Yokai have sharp fangs, horns on their heads, and a forked tongue. Some have a poisonous stinger at the end of their tails while others don't.

When they disguise themselves as humans, their skin will feel scaley and rough to the touch. Some parts of their bodies will be covered in dragon scales. They maintain their fanged teeth, horns on their heads, and their tails.

## Description

Wyvern Yokai are recognizable for having two legs as opposed to the four legs that Dragon Yokai has in their true forms. Humans have used the wyvern as a mascot for schools or for sports teams. Even appearing in royal crests. Wild wyverns are seen as being more animal-like in mind and behavior. They act more like wild animals then their dragon cousins who are more intelligent.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Wyvern Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Atmospheric Adaptation
* Dermal Armor/Scale Manifestation
* Enhanced Agility
* Enhanced Bite
* Enhanced Lung Capacity
* Enhanced Strength
* Poison Generation
* Prehensile Tail
* Reptilian Physiology
* Stinger Protrusion
* Wing Manifestation

## Pop Culture

Wyverns have been fleshed out in modern fantasy media as a separate species. As mentioned, they are typically weaker, smaller, and less intelligent in comparison to the modern dragon, overall having animalistic tendencies and serving as apex predators. Wyverns are also commonly, although not universally, associated with poison. This is usually shown through having a poisonous stinger at the end of their tail.

Additionally, a new classification of Wyvern, the pseudowyvern, which are wyverns that use their wings as forelegs, has been coined by fans of *Monster Hunter.* The term however remains primarily used only in the *Monster Hunter* fanbase.

Beginning in the twenty-first century, dragons with two legs as opposed to four would begin to see an upsurge in popularity, mainstream fantasy series such as *Harry Potter*, *Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim*, and *Game of Thrones* depicting such dragons. The reason why is uncertain, possible reasons being it being a convergence for animators or as suggested by Wikipedia, recent discoveries in paleontology. In particular, George R.R. Martian depicted his dragons with two legs in *Game of Thrones* in order to make them more scientifically accurate.

## Variations

### Dragon Yokai

Wyverns are the variation of Dragons that lack the size, magical abilities and/or intelligence of the true dragons and are generally more animal-like in mind and behavior.

## Life in the Hidden World

Wild wyverns lives in mountains and caves. Away from civilization where they can have a nice place to stay in order to avoid anybody who tries to catch it. As apex predators, they would hunt and chase down their prey but are easily tricked. The civilized Wyvern Yokai also live in mountains and caves where there are many communities. Their wings are large enough to fly instead of gliding, and they are very good fliers. Wyvern Yokai are generally the wild and aggressive type. However, it might be because they perhaps resemble harpies, they are not particularly intelligent, and they are easily deceived.

## Symbolism

In the bestiaries of the Middle Ages, the wyvern was used as an allegory of Satan and was associated with war, pestilence and sin. In medieval alchemy, the wyvern was used to represent matter in its basest of state.