these are the snakes, there's a lot:
Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Jathinix
Physical Description: Janthinix can come in a myriad colours, depending on the matrix out of which the Janthinites grew but all, regardless, can end up seeming almost mummified if taken away from the crystals which birthed them. The exception to this is Janthinix which hatch from the geode-eggs laid by other Janthinix - which reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis, needing no mates - which never seem to wither or mummify, though the stone-skins they “shed” can seem to as the magic of the snake leaves them.
Disposition: XXXX.
A Brief History: A curious serpent found only in areas rich in magic, Janthinix serpents are hypnotic creatures with scales a similar colour to the stones of their habitat and bright, almost luminescently purple eyes. Believed to have manifested out of the magic stored in crystals, they are also sometimes called Geode Gorgites, as their mouths appear to be filled with crystals more than actual teeth. Regardless the bites of these snakes can be quite quite deadly, as their magic provides a mutating curse more than a venom, which cannot be treated with a bezoar or antitoxin, but must instead be treated as a curse, and can wither and desiccate veins in moments.
Largely found in deep caverns, Janthinix hatched from geodes are occasionally brought to the surface, though this is highly illegal. Any specimens found at the surface are immediately confiscated and taken to the relevant Department of Mysteries or equivalent, where the precise magic of these creatures is under a constant and on-going study.
Rarity: Quite uncommon, most specimens are obtained through the black marker.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Iaret Snakes
Physical Description: Similar in size and shape to the Egyptian Cobra, or Asp, their ability to mould themselves into artwork - tattoos, statuary, jewellery - has long made them prized creatures to all.Naturally looking almost golden and of assorted precious and semi-precious materials, Iarets are prized by smugglers.
Disposition: High venomous, loyal.
A Brief History: Small Iarets would often be asked to rest still on a Pharaoh’s crown by a Parselmouth priest or priestess. Iarets are highly venomous, a trait which has allowed them to kill many who threatened Pharaohs and others who interacted with them in the past. Indeed wixes attribute Cleopatra’s death not to a smuggle- in asp, but to the iaret on her crown, asked by the trapped witch to help her die, that she not be dragged through Rome in chains and defeat.
Rarity: Uncommon in Egypt, rare outside. Usually found with wealthy families outside of native ranges, magizoologists, or in zoos.
Any Additional Information: Iaret Venom is one of the most potent in the world, and Parselmouths with a Iaret loyal to them are expected by most Ministries to register themselves, and the serpent which has claimed them for their own, should a case of death by Iaret bite occur. Occasionally an Egyptian wix may have a core of magically crystallised Iaret venom in their wand, though this is unusual, and usually makes for a potent, yet incredibly loyal, wand.
Mascots of the Akhmim Iarets.
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Magical Creature Magical Creature Name: Verdicobra
Physical Description: In the summer Verdicobras are known to throw of the oxidation on their scales, becoming bright, coppery snakes, which use how their scales reflect light in their mating dances. Usually the snakes lay their eggs in semi-submerged burrows, and tend them until they hatch, and sometimes for a week after hatching. However after this point the hatchlings are expected to care for themselves, and tend to rapidly turn the same green-blue verdigris as the adult specimens around this point.
Disposition: XXXX.
A Brief History: Varies by country.
Rarity: Found in highland lochs and mountain lakes, verdicobras have been found throughout Europe, South America, and Central Africa, for all of their rarity.
Any Additional Information: Verdicobra has a dangerous bite which can over-oxygenate one’s blood, causing the bitten individual to swell up and turn purple. This is done by a similar way to the verdigrised appearance of the snake, by the venom magically increasing the rate at which the copper and iron in one’s blood is oxygenated. However this is not it’s most magical trait, merely the most deadly and dangerous, for all the venom is used (in dilute quantities) in magical asthma medications.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Pricelstryke
Physical Description: Bizarre dragon-mimicking and highly venomous snakes, Pricelstrykes are found throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa, with some unusual specimens found further north. Despite huge variance in appearance, Pricelstrykes can and do interbreed, suggesting no significant difference beyond the aesthetic. Pricelstrykes are usually around six inches long upon hatching from gold-veined eggs, with smooth heads, and rapidly grow to a foot in length as well as developing the draconic facial structure the species is known for. After that, their rate of growth slows, but especially old specimens have been known to reach three feet, with the longest known specimen being a five and a half foot long specimen.
Disposition: XXX.
A Brief History: Well-beloved by clothiers and Alchemists alike, Pricelstrykes are prized and have been for centuries. Their existence is best-documented in Alchemial books.
Rarity: Uncommon, found mostly in the Mediterranean and North African areas.
Any Additional Information: Pricelstrykes, no matter their size, are often shockingly fast and strong, and their hides are resistant to magic. As a result, skins shed by domestic specimens are often sold to clothiers, who can cure the shed skin effectively and use it in making spell-resistant clothes. Further, though highly venomous their venom can, when gaseous be used to help prevent pests from attacking plants; thus it is often collected and sold to Potioneers, who use it to make magical pesticides. Lastly, the eggs of Pricelstrykes are often veined with gold and no one knows why or how. It does appear to be genuine gold, but the creatures eat barely any. The popular theory goes that some part of their digestive tract contains an alchemical interface permitting such transformation of ordinary materials into something else. Regardless, Pricelstryke eggs have become illegal to own, unless one is a licensed breeder (itself a rarity due to how venomous they are) due to the risk that such obsessive egg collection may endanger the creatures.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: European Wyvern Asps
Physical Description: Upon hatching, offspring look nigh-identical to mundane adders, before turning purple-brown at around sixth months after which they rapidly develop their signature wings and distinct colouration.Wyvern Asps are known to be dramatically coloured no matter the season, and can vary considerably from one another - even from family. Once it was thought that their colour spoke to their type of venom - it certainly did not act as camouflage - but recent studies have shown that colouration instead more reliably speaks to their preferred diet and habitat, albeit in somewhat counter-intuitive ways. Blue Wyvern Asps often prefer marshy areas and low-magic diets, while greens seek coastal areas and fishy food, browns hilly scrubland and birds and reds deep forest and high-magic diets.
Unsurprisingly, rearing these creatures is often something of a pain, as even offspring of two reds may end up browns, greens or blues and require drastically different keeping and food.
Disposition: Solitary and highly venomous creatures, who meet only to mate. XXXXX
A Brief History: n/a?
Rarity: Found throughout Europe.
Any Additional Information: It is often very lucrative to care for the EWA: their venom and blood are both highly useful not just in antivenoms but also in a number of healing potions and certain magical cosmetics.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Chaincoil
Physical Description: Though thick-bodied snakes that seem to be covered in sheets of metal and chains, Chaincoils are strangely light and easily wearable around the neck and shoulders. Most common in rust, deep grey, black, and gunmetal grey, Chaincoils are usually some combination of the colors, rarely consistent throughout.
Disposition: XXX.
A Brief History:Magical snakes known for absorbing large amounts of metal into their systems, Chaincoils are generally thought to be constricting cousins to Verdicobras, perhaps he result of the metallic snakes crossing with an artificial snake such as a Viren. Quite when they developed is unknown.
Rarity: Rare outside of Central and South America, uncommon within.
Any Additional Information: Both the shed hides - when specially treated - and the snakes themselves are capable of rebounding any spells which hit them, due to their high metal content, while retaining high levels of flexibility and being relatively lightweight. Quite how Chaincoils manage this unknown, but it is believed to be a kind of natural alchemy, where the snakes’ innate magic allows them to bond the metal to their bodies in ways otherwise impossible.
Chaincoils, being partially artificial in origin, seem to show an affinity for wixes. Highly loyal to people they claim as theirs, they can grow to huge lengths, with many mature specimens ten metres or more. In such cases they often either coil around their wix like a living scarf or shawl, or their wix waits for shedding, and preserves the skin using certain alchemical compounds in order have it turned into a coat or a robe lining. Chaincoil hide is unique amongst most defensive hides (such as Dragon and Basilisk) in that it takes exceptionally well to enchantment, if done by the snake’s master or someone the snake trusts.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Falak
Physical Description:Falak generally keep to themselves and most do not grow more than a yard or two in length. Preying happily on whatever food they can hunt they breed rarely, producing nests of five to ten eggs, of which 80% usually hatch and 40% survive to adulthood.
Disposition: Falak are not terribly talkative serpents, and those which do speak have been noted to seem “jittery or nervous, y’know?” though its never specified why. Most magizoologists believe that this is simply a breed trait, rather like the paranoia of Knarls, though this is uncertain. XXXX.
A Brief History:A curious magical serpent from the Middle East, these serpents are very dangerous but, thankfully, generally stay in the tunnels they dig out of the earth. Not terribly large, they are nonetheless capable of growing to huge size if given enough food and water. The wixen versions of One Thousand and One Nights say that a truly huge Falak lives beneath the Earth’s crust, only refraining from devouring everything out of fear of the divine. While this myth is widely disregarded by most European and American magizoologists it is worth noting that Falak are evolutionary cousins to Magma Pythons and do have an immunity to flames as well as being well able to withstand great amounts of heat.
Rarity: Uncommon.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Viren snake
Physical Description: A small hooded green snake with thick smooth scales.
Disposition: Intensely loyal to bonded children, intelligent. XXXX
A Brief History: A magical creation, created using Mandrake leaves, Heartfruit vines and an unsouled Serpent Homunculus, the Viren Snake is one which is, surprisingly, harmless. Usually created by concerned parents though the Viren Snake can produce venom once hatched a bonded to a wix, it will only use its paralysing venom in defence of their wix. Viren snakes bonds are near-impossible to break, and once they have been given a taste of the blood and skin of the wix they were made for their loyalty is unbreakable, only dissolving with their eventual death.
Rarity: Rare, usually found with wealthy children who have influential families.
Any Additional Information: Viren Snakes are great companions for lonely children, able to comprehend most human speech, and move the vine-hoods of their heads in a hypnotic manner, usually used to help their wix soothe to sleep, but also to hypnotise those that might do their wix harm. Highly illegal, due to the illegality of Heartfruit, some few ministries do allow the creation of Viren Snakes under carefully monitored circumstances. All wixen children with a Viren Snake are registered with the ICW until they turn seventeen - the point at which the snake naturally dissolves.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Cerastes
Physical Description: An incredibly flexible serpent, Cerastae are subtle hunters, which primarily finds prey by camouflaging itself as prey itself. Able to coil itself back on itself with surprising ease, Cerastae have unusual spines and ribs, aided by a magic somewhat similar to that of Phantom Rats (it’s preferred prey) which allows it to fold on over itself and even through itself. During mating season Cerastae develop hornlike protrusions around their faces - ramlike on the males and four pairs of small spiky horns on the females, with intersex specimens having (usually) a mixture of both,though some have been seen with utterly unique configurations.
Disposition: Intelligent. XXXX
A Brief History: Most usually Cerastae feed on small birds and rodents, with a particular interest in Phantom Rats and Glisterbirds, though they will happily eat most animals that are of a size they can swallow. Cerastae are found throughout southern Europe and North Africa, and are relatively popular pets with Parselmouths in these areas, considered to be intelligent enough and surprisingly loyal. In addition to these traits their bizarre New World adaptation - a tailtip very similar to that of rattlesnakes - means the creature is well able to warn off those who might get too close, making it harder for those with prejudices against Parselmouths to accuse them of not providing suitable warning of their snake’s presence, though it has not helped with accusations of assassination attempts, even though Cerastae are not venomous.
Rarity: Uncommon.
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Kebehwet
Physical Description: A cool blue-grey tinted viper.
Disposition: X, the fangs are technically there. There have been no recorded Kehbehwet bites that have not been in complete self-defense.
A Brief History: A magical serpent found in the Nile of Egypt, Kebehwets are, despite their viper-like appearance, non-venomous, and have been known to wrap around the limbs of those injured or dying, to soothe their pain. This is allowed by way of the cool nature of Kebehwet skin, and by their curious ability to seep water when they wish too. Giving out too much water does weaken the creatures - it is all from water they have consumed - but sometimes they will let out some little water, when they wish to heal.
Generally Kebehwets live peacefully in the Nile, avoiding most creatures which might prey on them and usually also avoiding water. More than able to stay submerged for long hours, and often keeping to the reeds Kebehwets are rarely spotted, even by those magically inclined. Usually when they do wish to expose themselves it is for their own soothing properties, being curiously kind-hearted creatures, which much belies the usual beliefs regarding serpents. Indeed they are quite popular with Parselmouths for their peaceful nature, as their being completely non-threatening often eases those wary of those able to speak to snakes.
Rarity: Uncommon in Egypt thanks to the difficulty of being found. Rare outside, usually with magizoologists or wealthy Healers.
Any Additional Information: TORI THIS IS ONE OF THEM
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Heartsnake / Corluber cordis
Physical Description:Pale little magical snakes, Heartsnakes hatch from translucent eggs looking rather like albino cobras before developing into cream, pale-speckled, or pink pythonlike forms.
Disposition: A Brief History: Bizarre and beautiful creatures, Heartsnakes are one of an increasing number of recent developments in medical magic. While various spells have been developed by Indian and Near Eastern wixes, the Heartsnake was purportedly developed in accordance with secret diaries of the ancient wix Asclepius, a known Healer and Parselmouth, recorded in muggle records as the son of Zeus and a god in his own right. They can be swallowed by wixes suffering from any kind of heart disease - Heartsfail, Hearteater, Cor Cordis, Heart-Fragmenting Curse, even diseases and spells which affect the heart as a consequence of their main effect, such as the Hela Wasting Curse. Once swallowed, the Heartsnake will chew its way towards the heart, secreting healing slime in its wake to seal up any damage it causes, before alighting on the heart, wrapping around it, and devouring it while taking its place.
At first the sensation is described as a shortness of breath and a squeezing sensation in the chest, within hours though, these symptoms - and any from the disease or curse - have eased as the snake takes it’s place in the wix. Parselmouth healers can even communicate with the creature, checking for any signs of further internal damage and to know if the Heartsnake might need extraction and replacement - though they rarely do.
Heartsnakes were developed by an international group of experimental Healers working in concert with several Departments of Mysteries and equivalents, by breeding together a number of magical snakes. The healing Kebehwet was a key factor, while other aspects purportedly came from creatures such as the alchemical Viren Snake and the Cerastes, which can fold through itself. In these ways more malicious tendencies were tempered, and dangerous aspects were transformed into the healing secretions and sealing secretions which allow the snake, once folded and shaped, to replicate the chambers and vessels of the heart perfectly.
Rarity: Found only in hospitals, and the homes of highly-regarded and wealthy Healers.
Any Additional Information: THE SECOND. *linked to the three snakes directly above*
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Lamia
Physical Description: Lamia snakes are known for their incredible beauty and ferocity. Their scales tend to be dark - usually green, blue, or almost black within these shades - and often slightly iridescent. It is believed their skin may even have slight entrancing magics in it, akin to Veela magic, as it is often hard to look away from the movement of a Lamia snake.
Disposition: Relatively easy to domesticate. Often very vain, as snakes go, Lamias are some of the more social breeds of magical snake, and are known to be cousins to mundane cobras. Similarly venomous to the Cobra, their venom has a slight entrancing influence, like their scales, and can cause people to be easily influenced by patterns or movements. XXX
A Brief History:Native to Southern Africa, they are known to share their territory with Boomslangs, although transplanted populations in Greece have likewise found ways to share territory with local snakes.
Relatively easy to domesticate, as serpents go, Lamia snakes are restricted creatures, and must be milked daily for their owner to retain their license. Lamia venom is often sold to Apothecaries, provided they have the required license, and can be used in more soothing variants of Elixir of Euphoria. Lamia skin, and the scales thereon have been used in wands before, and are usually excellent at soothing and entrancing magics, leading to them often ending up in the hands of therapists, counsellors, wixen mind healers and wixes who master glamour spells.
Rarity: Uncommon
Any Additional Information: TORI, THE LAMIA. THIRD AND LAST
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Dipsa
Physical Description: Immensely small black snake, only the the largest reaching a eight centimeters, Dipsa snakes have extremely venomous fangs.
Disposition: Its tiny size not only makes it easy to hide, but the high toxicity of its venom, and the painlessness of its bite means that it is almost impossible to notice someone has been bitten and to get them the antivenom in time. Despite this Dipsa are among the most pleasant and calm magical serpents to exist and, generally, are considered to make excellent pets, though they must be milked daily of their venom, lest the Ministry confiscate the creature. XXXX
A Brief History: Dipsa venom has been used in many purgative potions before, as it is highly effective, although Dipsa venom is never sold on the open market, but rather through the relevant magical Ministry, or equivalent institution, with a portion of the profit going to the relevant institution (usually funnelled directly into the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, or equivalent), and a portion of profit going to the snakes owner. The venom is only permitted to be bought by medical institutions, and there are numerous magical and non-magical barriers in place to ensure only magical hospitals, clinics and health centres can purchase the dangerous venom.
Rarity: Uncommon
Any Additional Information: LOOK AT THE GIF
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Magical CreatureMagical Creature Name: Magma Python
Physical Description: The Magma Python has jewel-like eyes that are visible even as they sleep as their eyelids are in fact a layer of silica. Their nictitating membrane however is much like normal serpents.
Disposition: XXX.
A Brief History:Believed to be an African variant of Ashwinder, the Magma Python was first found by colonial at Mount Cameroon (the taller peak also called
Fako, the volcano also called
Mongo ma Ndemi) in the country of Cameroon. While usually it keeps its body temperature low enough that it does not burn plants it can and will cook food it constricts around, simply by its sheer body heat, making the snake popular for those in countries with cold winters.
Rarity: Relatively common, for snakes. More Magma pythons are bred in captivity than exist in the wild.
Any Additional Information:Ribs from Magma Pythons are much prized in Cameroon, as wand cores to sell abroad and as protective charms, and one wix of Cameroon makes enough money to support their entire village from selling dead Magma Pythons.
Commonly purchased and used in cold countries. @remnikovs
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