Wyvern
Creature
The Wyvern is dragon-kin but no true dragon: a winged, two-legged beast lacking the dragon's forelimbs, its cunning, and its breath, but making up for the lack with savage speed and a barbed, venom-dripping tail. It is a hunter rather than a schemer, diving on prey from above and striking with that envenomed sting, and it is far more common than its greater cousins because it is far less particular - a Wyvern will nest in any high crag and hunt anything it can carry off. Travellers fear it precisely because there are so many more of them than there are true dragons.