Creature:Devilos

Description
Devilos are pterodactyl like beings with some noticeably gryphon-like features. They have fiery looking manes, cat-like hind legs, and long tails with a plum of fur at the end. Everything else about them is reptilian though with scaly skin and leathery wings that end in claws used to manipulate objects, and a head composed of a short, jagged beak and two horns.

Habitat
The Devilos are native to the planet of Gehenna, a warm lacustrine terran planet (a planet with a tropical and temperate climate zones but no polar, lakes and seas but no oceans, and rocky primarily made up of silicates). The Devilos themselves evolved in the rocky desert mountains of the planet's equator and thus prefer hot, dry, rocky environs with open air to fly through.

Ecology
While no longer part of their ecology the Devilos evolved as the top predators of their ecosystem with few challengers. Their ancient ancestors though extinct hunted through the skies in prides feeding upon whatever they could get their claws on. They preferred large herbivores but were not adverse to kill stealing from or preying upon other carnivores and smaller prey.

Biology
Demonica are powerful flyers capable of staying airborne for hours on end. They have special glands that produces a chemical compound that aerosols into a particle cloud around the Devilos when it flaps its wings. Devilos have an unnaturally high body temperature with ignites the chemical compound creating a burning aura of cinders. Devilos can increase their body temp naturally to a point that can cause sever burns to most creatures on contact. When this increase the chemicals in questions violently explode outward unleash a powerful shock wave as well as intense heat.

Behavior
Despite evolving from creatures that dwelt in prides Devilos are terribly social creatures and for the most part see one another and other races as potential rivals most of the time. They are less xenophobic but simply inherently distrustful and competitive with everyone and everything around them. However, when Devilos do form strong bonds they are nearly inseparable. Notably when they mate they mate for life never even finding a new partner if the other one dies and often wasting away and dying not long after if their partner.

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 * Based of Rodan from Godzilla as well as Teostra and Lunastra from Monster Hunter.