2025 Aug 17: Neker-Ti

 Neker-ti are species of azhdarchid pterosaurs large enough to prey on humans. Unlike most flying creatures, Neker-ti are also adept burrowers, and will dig places to roost sometimes even into rock. They also like to take over natural caves, or the burrows made by ground sloths, tunnel beasts, giant aardvarks, or other large burrowing creatures. Their unusually flexible necks allow they to unleash a devastating barrage of quick jabs with their beak-like mouths, which in the cramped hallways of their burrows is almost impossible to dodge. Truly there are few opponents more terrifying than a Neker-ti which is defending its nest.

 Neker-ti have one more strange capability, the ability to almost perfectly mimic sounds they hear. They use this during mating displays, but also to hunt. Many learn not just the calls made by large herbivores, but to mimic speech as well. It is not unusual for people who live in or near their territories to ignore any cry for help coming from inside a cave or mine as a matter of principle.

Unsurprisingly Neker-ti are considered  extremely dangerous, and as such are hunted wherever they are found. Most populated places have either totally eradicated them, or are keeping their numbers so low that they are very rarely seen. In the deep wilderness however, they can still be found, especially in the forests north of Caeledor, or on the outer islands of Tir.

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