Flamebursters

FLAMEBURSTERS

SCIENTIFIC NAME- Urodela Incend

DIET-Insectivore

HABITAT-CRUKEARAH

APPEARANCE

Flamebursters are small salamanders, growing up to be about 9 inches at max. And over half of that length is their long and flat tails. They have very small teeth, so small that it may seem like they are toothless without getting a closer look.

They are black, with a single fiery wavy stripe going down the body, and ember markings are scattered around the body. They have big, pure black eyes. They have a second clear eyelid they use to protect their eyes while swimming in lava.

The bodies are always hot and moist. If their body temperature goes below 110 degrees, it can be fatal. They have small pores all over their bodies that allow magma in. It is then stored in sacs all around the body. If threatened, they can release all the heat and magma stored in themselves in a blast of fire, basically turning themselves into a living fireball. That's how they got their name. However, if squeezed too hard, that will also cause the reaction involuntarily.

Male Firebursters have brighter markings, while females are more dull. Babies hatch without legs, and are called flameworms. Similar to tadpoles, they spend most of their time in the magma rivers growing out legs.

BEHAVIOR

They are very skittish, and will run back into the safety of the magma rivers at the slightest movement or sound. They cannot sprint for long, but are very fast in short bursts. They never stray too far from them.

Basically their entire diet consists of charred beetles, and they use their amazing eyesight to see them sitting on rocks or nibbling at a rotting corpse. However, these beetles are just as big as they are, if not bigger. They’ll sneak up on them, and lunge onto their heads full force. They’ll attempt to bite the head off, but this rarely happens. Instead, they’ll go for them while flying over the magma pools, jumping out of the magma like a crocodile and dragging them in to eat.

They live in groups for safety purposes. They aren’t really that territorial, though during mating season males will actually push other males off of females while mating. Mating season is very painful for females for this reason.

Once the chaos is over, all the females after about a month will all swim down to the bottom of the river and give birth to 5-6 flameworms. For the next 2 months or so, both the males and females will bring food back to them. Flameworms will often fight each other over the food their parents bring back. Once they are grown, some choose to leave due to it being crowded and form their own group.

COMPETITION

While both flamebursters and dreosag eat charred beatles, there’s plenty of them to go around. Literally anything will nab a flameburster if given a chance, even humans like the Hylians. They don’t eat them, but they’ll squeeze the flames out and feed them to the tamed Zlonu as a treat.

Lesser Phoenixes also prey upon them, using the arrow feathers to pin them before going down to eat them. Keep in mind though, flamebursters are more than capable of getting predators off of them by surprising them with an explanation of fire, then escaping into the river in a flash.

KNOWN FLAMEBURSTERS

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