Continued from this thread.

Part of the Crawler family (descendants of primitive snakes who have not lost the use of their limbs) these reptiles, like their cousins the Peluda, Forest Crawler, and Spark Snake, (as well as their distant relatives among the true snakes, the Aztecophids) have developed functional feathers.

Coatl

Native to Tapiri, Coatls are a species of feathered Crawler whose four limbs have developed into wings. The males have crests, while the females have two elongated plumes on their head. They average at a length of 12 feet with a 15 foot wingspan.

Coatls maintain a unique viewpoint on life most equines find "unsettling"- a cold, serpentine outlook on how other people can be used and discarded toward some personal end. Where an equine sees strength of character, a Coatl sees weakness in resolve that can be exploited to take advantage of them. Where a pony sees a moral code that allows them to live in harmony with each other, a Coatl will see a web of loose fit rules to slink between at the cost of others' safety and well-being.

The species believes in using people, any people, in very deliberate and deceptive ways. There is no word in the Coatl tongue for 'friend’. They use the word for 'tool’ instead.

There venom also has very unique properties when a Coatl happens to bite a pony (or anything with a Cutie Mark)...

Vivid Venom is a rainbow-colored liquid produced by the Coatls that mingles with the special talents of a pony and brings them to life as a sort of "‘embodiment" of their paragon.

A pony bitten by a coatl might not even know they’ve been bitten initially, as Coatls don't typically have very large teeth, and the venom has a numbing property that makes the wound difficult to notice. However, after a few days, once the venom has taken hold, the pony will transform into a new sort of creature: an almost elemental embodiment of their special talent. The idea is almost comedic on its own, as most ponies have pretty benign cutie marks. But Vivid ponies are something beyond flesh. the world changes around them, and they can extend their talents to effect things most wouldn’t think of. A candy maker pony might become a creature of molten sugar and rock-candy claws, who turns the roads they step on to peanut brittle and spins trees into candy canes with a breath. Strange things. destructive things.

The transformation typically lasts about three hours, and that's generally enough time for some major damage. Vivid ponies don’t keep their free will, or their compassion, or their reason, being completely controlled by the Coatl who originally bit them. They burn and spread, like the fire, and try to exercise their primal talent anywhere and everywhere. The only thing to really do during a "Vivid Event" is get everyone away, keep the Vivid Pony from leaving, and let the venom run its course.

Wadjet

A distant relative of the Coatl, the Wadjet is native to Zebrica's Riverlands. Wadjet are non-venomous, and live solitarily, in pairs, or in flights of 3-6 individuals, congregating along the edge of the desert.

Peaceful and soft-spoken, Wadjet rarely engage in violence against other beings, and then only in self-defense, seeking to disable and redeem their attackers rather than kill them outright.

What magic they have mostly focuses on healing, though their psionic abilities are highly developed

Q'uq'umatz

Often confused for Amphiteres, the Q'uq'umatz are distinct from these dragons by their grey/blue coloring and head tendrils.

The Q'uq'umatz are often praised as rain deities by primitive cultures within Tapiri, due to their ability to control and manipulate storms.