Editing Wyverns (section)

== Appearance, Powers and Abilities ==
Wyverns come in "variants", which indicates that there are several subspecies in different sizes and with varying abilities.<ref name="6.16"/> The ''white wyvern'' lives in the mountains, loves the cold, and is a major danger in winter.<ref name="2.17"/> This variant is also known as Frost Wyverns, and they possess frost breath.

A ''purple wyvern'' that Ryoka encountered near the bloodfields in winter had dark purple scales, was three times larger than her, but had no claws to speak of. It was vulnerable to freezing. She had no idea how it would be able to lift off or reach its flight height.<ref name="6.23f">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/05/24/2-23/ Chapter 2.23] and [https://wanderinginn.com/2017/05/26/2-24/ Chapter 2.24]</ref>

Some wyverns are able to breathe fire.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2016/08/20/1-07/ Chapter 1.07]</ref><ref name="3.42">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/12/26/3-42/ Chapter 3.42]</ref><ref name="6.16">[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/05/14/6-16/ Chapter 6.16]</ref> There are also Lightning Wyverns<ref name=":4">{{VERef|10.14}}</ref> and Acid Wyverns.<ref name=":5" /> There are Wyvern variants on [[Baleros]] that can camouflage themselves.<ref name=":2" />

Wyverns are capable of pooling their breath attacks into one. They can also do this with [[Oldblood Drakes|Oldblood Drake]] riders, even if they have different elements.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/01/29/7-03/ Chapter 7.03]</ref>

While wyverns might not have ''claws'' (see above), the Wyvern ''tooth'' was mentioned in an epithet.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/02/15/1-01-h/ Chapter 1.01 H]</ref>

Wyverns are known to hunt at night, which might indicate night vision or some kind of radar sense.<ref name="3.42"/>

Wyverns has magical glands, dubbed 'riser sacs' by [[Fightipilota|Fightypilota]], that inflate to let them rise and descend. If they are damaged, a Wyvern cannot fly correctly.<ref name=":5" />

=== Wyvern Skin ===
Wyverns apparently have an extremely tough skin which is very often referred to when comparing combat abilities: [[Grimalkin]] compares [[Pisces]]' rapier unfavorably to the skin several times<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/07/16/6-31/ Chapter 6.31] and [https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/20/6-39/ Chapter 6.39]</ref> and boasts that him training [[Moore]] would enable the half-giant mage to rip out a Wyvern's heart.<ref name ="6.32"/>. [[Lorent]] praises his blades as capable of slicing through it.<ref name="6.09" /> [[Snapjaw]] prized her teeth of capable to get through steel, enchanted armor and ''even'' wyvern hide when she failed to injure [[Zel Shivertail]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/06/29/4-48/ Chapter 4.48]</ref> A good [Lancer] can kill wyverns with a precise strike.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/06/16/4-46/ Chapter 4.46]</ref> The weighted blade in Yvlon's possession is able to cut cleanly through a wyvern's hide with the right slicing angle, according to [[Hedault]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/12/09/3-36/ Chapter 3.36]</ref>

=== Wyvern Lords/Kings ===
Similar to Griffins, Wyverns possessing exceptional power and intelligence comparable to [[Dragons]] may appear. They may come about when a Wyvern feeds on a highly magical food source for a decade,<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/03/01/9-38-tv-pt-1/ Chapter 9.38 TV (Pt. 1)]</ref> and as their magic grows, so does their mind.<ref>{{VERef|Goblin Days (Pt. 7) – No Answers and Answers}}</ref> These Wyverns are leaders of their kind and called Wyvern Lords or Kings. The [[Frost Wyvern Lord]] who attacked Pallass is an example of a Wyvern Lord.

Wyvern Kings and Queens are able to shapeshift.<ref name=":3">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/12/9-06/ Chapter 9.06]</ref> At least one Wyvern King wore a crown.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/26/8-82-pt-2/ Chapter 8.82 pt. 2]</ref> Multiple Wyvern Kings were present in a gathering of [[Wyrms]] and Dragons,<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/26/8-82-pt-3/ Chapter 8.82 pt. 3]</ref> one was a Dragonlord,<ref name=":3" /> and [[Teriarch]] considered Wyverns "one of [his] kind."<ref name=":0" /> Teriarch would've hesitated to fight an old Wyvern King in the skies.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/26/8-82-pt-1/ Chapter 8.82 pt. 1]</ref>