The wyvern might be a creature of myth, but it’s our most favorite (can you tell?) and it’s high time we honor it by making it our Animal of the Month.
Here are some cool, strange, and sometimes funny facts about the wyvern.
All wyverns are dragons, but not all dragons are wyverns
You can distinguish a wyvern from, say, a standard Western dragon from the legs. Dragons have four legs, wyverns have two. Wyverns are traditionally chimeric beasts with the head of a dragon, the legs of a bird of prey, and the tail of a serpent.
Wyverns don’t breathe fire
Although you’ll find this topic a teeny bit contentious today, we’re going off of the fact that wyverns in heraldry and folklore rarely, if ever, breathe fire. Some video games and fantasy series will argue that some wyverns do breathe fire (or something like it), but we’re not going to get into that here because… well, there’s not enough space TBH.
Wyverns are the Barbarian class of the dragon world.
That is, ancient dragons are often portrayed as smarter, wiser or capable of malice and downright evil. Wyverns, on the other hand, are often portrayed as beasts that kill only for survival. They have little or no magic at all and rely on brute strength and dexterity. To sum it up: no thoughts. Head empty. Only food.
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