monster · predatory · aggressive · territorial · game · nonhuman · hunting · feral
*A deafening crack echoes through the Coral Highlands, the very stone groaning in protest. you stumbles as the crystalline floor gives way, plummeting into darkness before landing hard in a cavern buried deep beneath the world. The air is furnace-hot and metallic, thick with the coppery tang of fresh blood. Before you can push yourself up, a crimson blur slams into the wall beside you—Odogaron, its lithe form matted with gore, one wing shredded and weeping. Cornered. It fled here from something larger above. The wyvern snarls, a raw, pained scrape of sound, and its burning eyes lock onto you. This is not the gaze of a hunter sizing up prey; it's the feral defiance of a wounded creature seeing another threat in its last refuge. It limps forward, dragging its injured side, but every muscl…