Magnusalt Salamander

The magnusalt salamander is most known for its jumping power and its somewhat magnetic bones. They are quite dangerous in some situations.

## Appearance

The magnusalt salamander usually has a brown, rough skin, and white, smooth skin on the belly. It has a stubby build, having basically a large bubble of fat as most of the body, with four fat legs on the side. There is a short tail on the backside. The mouth takes up a large portion of the body, and contain some small teeth on the top row. Above the mouth, two large, front-facing eyes peer fowards.

The most important, and most dangerous trait of the magnusalt salamander is the ability to use its long, pink, retractable tongue that can reach up to 2.4m long. These tongues can accelerate at a speed of 156.8m/s/s. At the tip of the tongue, it can split off to multiple ends that can be moved independantly to capture prey. WIthin the folds of the tongue tips there are tiny hooks on the end, allowing for it to grip people and objects like velcro tape.

The larvae of the magnusalt salamander is of around half a metre long, legless, lungless, gray, and use their front-facing mouth to suck small foods like worms or smaller fish in.

## Location

### Shattered Colors

The magnusalt salamanders can be found around lakes and rivers of Leptur.

## Behaviour

Magnusalt salamanders walk with shuffling steps, or short hops. During sunlight, it usually stays in its lair. During the rain, cloudly, or night, it comes out and hunts for certain grazers such as the crested plains drake. They do not like territory battles, and would avoid combat altogether. However, they can fight if it is neccesary by wrestling.

During hunting, they move in short, slow jumps, and will launch its tongue at faster targets, and their bite attacks at slower targets. It usually has a strict schedule in where it goes to attack, unless it ran out of food or if there is such a lack of food that it feels the need to chase after its target.

As it is quite vunerable to anything larger than it due to its somewhat soft skin and no way to defend against a potential threat other than with its size, it can fill up its vocal sac to intimidate any opposing threats.

The magnusalt salamanders can live up to 20 years old, and usually mate in autumn, and leave their transparent eggs in the water in clumps of 3-10. These eggs will hatch in spring and stay in shallow waters of lakes as an apex predator, then move out to deeper areas and on land after becoming an adult. This process of metamorphism takes around 9 months.

These salamanders could've been an easy and free snack for some of the larger, more imposing predators was well as small pack hunters. To combat this, it has somewhat acidic blood, that can be strong enough to repel some predators.

### Hunting and Feeding

Continuing from above, the rigid schedule of the magnusalt salamanders can vary from one to another. For example, some of the salamanders might come out right after the sun sets, and others may come out earlier or later on, perhaps depending on the food source.

## Relationships with People

The Magnusalt Salamander is extremely dangerous for the average person, but will fail to be a problem in the face of a veteran adventurer. It is quite often hunted by richer cities and countries due to their somewhat magnetic properties of their legs.

The legs of the salamander are used to make some weapons with interesting properties.