Notable Flora and Fauna of the Terran Empire

#### **Drakon**

large semi-sentient lizards, they are approximately 18 feet from the end of their head to the base of the tail, followed by another 18 for along, slender, whiplike tail that they in nature use as a weapon. They have large, bat like wings sprouting from their shoulders along with four legs. Each of which is tipped with six large and very sharp talons that can do hearty damage to most. Their heads are snake like and tipped with two coiling horns, and their mouths are filled with long and sharp teeth that can inflict venom deep into their prey’s bodies. In addition they can spit out an acid that can corrode through most substances. Most of the different noble houses on the planet of Pythos maintain flocks of the intelligent lizard like animals, making them a potent weapon of war and a sign of the houses own right to rule. With the drakons being kept in special caves in the underground cities and safe spaces of the Pythos mainland.

#### **Drakes**,

a distant cousin to the Drakon, they are much smaller, being 12 feet from end to end, with a short tail that trails on the ground, they lack the wings, and normally have their talons dulled both by the flat concrete of the pens they are kept in and the clipping used, due to their more docile personality, they are normally kept as beasts of burden on their homeworld of Pythos, the same as the one that the Drakon are native to also, however the two are from differing regions, with the smaller Drakes living on the rocky flatlands that border the volcanic region the Drakes live on. A drake’s head is toped with a bone frill protecting their necks, a fusing of the horns of the Drakon, they also have a third horn sprouting from the tip of their nose. They have several thick bone plats below their skin for use as protection along with the same scales plating their cousins, they are also thick of build. They can be used as mounts by differing groups on the worlds, normally only by Pythos’ army, but sometimes by other worlds.

#### **Draugrs**:

a sort of parasitic fungus from Vartiugal that reanimates dead animals in order to gain a mobile form with which to spread their spores, it can be noted by turning it's host's surface layer blue (an effect likewise noticed on exposed surfaces after a time similar to oxidation) and the fact that after a while hosts will just fall apart having decayed to such an extent that the fungus can't hold them together with what is left over.

#### **LindWorms**:

aquatic animals on Vartiugal that live in the great ocean, the local name for the planet wide ocean of the world. The LindWorm resembles a giant snake with two long fin structures on both sides of it's twenty to two hundred foot long body that it uses for locomotion, however luckily it is rare for them to grow to the full two hundred feet. They are commonly hunted by villagers as their white flesh is edible, and can be "cured" through the use of chemicals into a foul smelling gelatin like substance that lasts for ages even without any other means of preservation, although the extreme colds of most of the world help.

#### **Sealin Worms**:

Worm like creatures that secrete a liquid when placed into an opening at most three times their size that reacts to the atmosphere to expand them massively in size rapidly by forcing air bubbles into the liquid that bonds with the walls, can be in extreme emergencies as a way to seal wounds in a human being however do so in extreme caution