Vesper

Vesper the Pestilence Wyvern

"A feared and hated beast, known for laying waste to villages, carrying off humans as prey, and heralding its presence with dying vegetation and livestock, poisoning the land it walks on. Every part of this wyvern is corrosive, from its poison-tinged fire, to its venomous spines, its bacteria-laden saliva, acidic black blood, and most feared, its tail tip containing a venom with no antidote. Many have tried to slay it, yet its incredible regeneration allows it to continue fight after fight healed scars chronicling its battles."

A wyvern that plagues the villages near its nest, decimating one and continuing outwards to pillage a greater territory. With remarkable regeneration abilities, he/she is known to fake his/her death in battle; it is rumored that if so much as a single scale remains of the wyvern, it will regrow and continue its conquest of terror. While these claims are only tall tales, he/she is capable of regenerating normally fatal damage to organs, and recover from blood loss rapidly. Their black blood turns boiling red-hot when angry (indicated by glowing rings and veins in the wings, or steam rising from scales), and can even be used as a weapon, purposefully taking injuries in order to melt through what would be fire-proof armor.

Vesper's flesh is poisonous, making it unsuitable for eating even if he/she were to be slain, and his/her horns, scales, and spines become brittle when separated from the body. Therefore, hunts for this wyvern are solely to eliminate the threat, and very little of the creature could be used or sold if it was slain. No other pestilence wyverns are known, and the species is supposedly a hermaphrodite; they likely do not, if ever, interact with or encounter others of their species. Vesper may be the last of his/her kind, as there are ancient texts which cite a war in which most pestilence wyverns were driven from the land by magic.

Despite his/her myriad of abilities, Vesper does have one weakness: magic. While physical attacks do little against it, he/she is susceptible to magic attacks, and cannot use any himself/herself. Wizards and witches are very rare, and often considered only a legend, in the areas which Vesper pillages; yet sometimes, a call for help will be answered by a faraway traveler, who may have a chance against this beast.

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Vesper may be drawn with more feminine or masculine facial features, pronouns are interchangeable.

Gore and blood are allowed for art this character.

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♫ Character Playlist ♫

Apex Monster Theme - Monster Hunter Rise

Fatalis Theme 1 - Monster Hunter World

Malzeno Theme - Monster Hunter Rise

Solemn Hour - Within Temptation

Nightfall - Xandria

Havoc - Eluveitie

Shepherd of Fire - Avenged Sevenfold

Hail to the King - Avenged Sevenfold