Nogrok

A nogrok is a beast that people across the world use to scare their children into behaving and it is just as effective scaring adults into behaving. Nogroks are serpents that are dozens of feet long with large wings covered in membrane that can fully collapse against their winding bodies. At the end of a Nogrok's whip-like tail is a stinger with a potent paralytic toxin that can leave a grown man completely paralyzed for hours with just one sting. A nogrok’s head is narrow but it has two long tusks that it uses to burrow into the solid stone of the cliffs it takes as its home. A nogrok is blind by nature, but it can detect heat signatures and has an acute sense of hearing. On top of these features, a nogrok is considered an undead creature with its rotten flesh hanging off of its bones and a debilitating stench to match.

Nogrok tend to prefer carrion, but due to them being extremely territorial and hyper aggressive, they will kill anything that comes near them and save it for later. Nogrok become especially aggressive when they are in their nest and there are eggs nearby or if there is a Queen within the nest. Nogrok Queens are several times larger and several times deadlier than a normal nogrok. There is also that nogrok are usually in nests of three to twelve, but if it is a nest with a Queen, there could be hundreds of nogrok lurking in the nest.

A nogrok is born from an egg that was injected by a Nogrok Queen's venom. If there is a nest with a Queen, the nogrok will fly out under the cover of night and will take whatever eggs they can find, be they draconid, avarian, or beast, and will take them back to the nest for the Nogrok Queen to inject her venom. The venom changes the embryo into a nogrok and once the process is complete, a nogrok will hatch. Very few eggs make it out of a nest safely, if at all. The nogrok themselves sometimes take on the features of the eggs they were born from, such as if it was an avarian egg the nogrok may have feathers or if it was a draconid egg then the nogrok may have scales.