Shore Drake

Shore Drake

Small Beast, Unaligned

AC 13    Initiative +2 (12)

HP 12 (1d10 + 2)

Speed Fly 40ft, Walk 30ft, Swim 20ft

		Mod	Save
STR	8	-1	-1
DEX	14	+2	+4
CON	14	+2	+2

		Mod	Save
INT	6	-2	-2
WIS	12	+1	+1
CHA	8	-1	-1

Skills Perception +5

Senses Passive Perception 15

Languages Special

CR 1

Actions

Head Butt. Melee Attack Roll: +4, (1d6) Bludgeoning damage. Stun Save DC: 12

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +2, (1d4) Piercing damage.

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +2, (1d6) Slashing damage.

Camouflage. Can shade skin to appear immediate surface it is in contact with including some minor variances. 

Clever Beasts that inhabit various shore lines. Like many sea birds they primarily predate upon aquatic animals, mostly fish. Shore drakes are small standing about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet in height when on two legs, with a wing span of 6-9ft weighing 20-35lbs. The flying reptiles are clever, being rumored to share origins with other dragon-kind, they are considered about twice as smart as a raven (smarter than some humanoids). Like ravens their vocalizations range wildly and are considered by many druids and rangers to possess their own dialects that can vary from group to group. Shore drakes, or Sea Cliff Wyverns as the are sometimes called have smooth scales, not unlike shark skin, with lighter underbellies and darker backs. Like dragons, Shore Drakes have four legs and a set of non-feathered wings. Their legs each end in claws with sharp talons adept and gripping cliffs and slippery fish. Even though they have flight, they are perfect climbers, using all four claws and wings to help propel them up a surface. While they can walk on two legs, they do not do this well and get around on land on all four legs. Their heads are unique in the reptile world, generally it's normal except for the end of the snout is enlarged and formed from a couple of large very hard scales that protrude above and below the mouth backed by thick bone.

As a hunter they keen hearing and smell, but even keener eyesight spotting prey beneath the waves from as high as 1000ft above the water. Their preferred method is to dive upon a target, reaching speeds so extreme their wings can emit a whistling sound from contact with the air. This can actually confuse the prey that hears it. One the drake hits the water and it's prey it stuns it's prey with it's hammer-like maw before biting and clutching it and swimming up, fast enough to break the surface and fly away.

Shore Drakes can live for centuries. They are not very prolific producing just 1-2 hatchlings a decade.

Northern drakes that live in icy regions have cold resistance but are otherwise very similar. Inland drakes are called Lake Drakes or Cave Drakes and are much larger and more aggressive (medium, 90-120lbs)