Wyvern have venom glands in their mouths and barbed stingers on their tails. Usually fatal for humans, painful for witchers.
[Maybe wyvern don't really need venom when they have perfectly serviceable claws and teeth, but it's certainly useful for them. And nature doesn't really take fairness into account when deciding what creatures are best fit to survive, anyway.]
[Geralt takes meticulous notes of everything that Claude offers, and surprise! He's found the one topic that actually gets Geralt talking. Or texting, anyway, in this case.]
They have no such range limitations, to my knowledge. Draconids can be found as far north as Kaedwen, and survive the winter by going into dormancy. Wild behaviors otherwise seem comparable. Attacks directly on humans are rare, but the bolder ones will take livestock or harass caravans. Hunter will occasionally stumble on a nest. That's usually when I get a contract.
[If humans didn't encroach on wyvern territory and hunt the forests out of all their large prey, of course, there wouldn't be these kinds of encounters. Wyvern would generally be content to avoid human settlements entirely, unless driven to them by need. But no one is interested in hearing about nature conservation from a witcher.]
Are wyvern kept in groups or do they become territorial in close quarters? Are they primarily in use as war mounts?
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Date: 2021-02-11 09:50 pm (UTC)[Maybe wyvern don't really need venom when they have perfectly serviceable claws and teeth, but it's certainly useful for them. And nature doesn't really take fairness into account when deciding what creatures are best fit to survive, anyway.]
[Geralt takes meticulous notes of everything that Claude offers, and surprise! He's found the one topic that actually gets Geralt talking. Or texting, anyway, in this case.]
They have no such range limitations, to my knowledge. Draconids can be found as far north as Kaedwen, and survive the winter by going into dormancy. Wild behaviors otherwise seem comparable. Attacks directly on humans are rare, but the bolder ones will take livestock or harass caravans. Hunter will occasionally stumble on a nest. That's usually when I get a contract.
[If humans didn't encroach on wyvern territory and hunt the forests out of all their large prey, of course, there wouldn't be these kinds of encounters. Wyvern would generally be content to avoid human settlements entirely, unless driven to them by need. But no one is interested in hearing about nature conservation from a witcher.]
Are wyvern kept in groups or do they become territorial in close quarters? Are they primarily in use as war mounts?