# Wind Serpent

**Type:** Flying predator / bondable mount

**Size:** 20-40 meters long

**Behavior:** Hunts in twilight belt thermal updrafts. Intelligent, territorial, capable of complex communication. Bonded serpents serve as mounts, messengers, and protectors.

**Abilities:**

- Flight (sustained by wind currents)
- Thermal vision
- Pack tactics
- Psychic receptivity (bonding)

**Vulnerabilities:**

- Exposed underbelly (soft tissue)
- Grounded in windless zones
- Bonding disruption causes disorientation

**Encounter Notes:** Unbonded serpents attack threats to territory. Bonded serpents defer to Beastwalker. Juveniles are playful but dangerous. Elders possess near-human intelligence.