Drake, Silt

''This creature resembles a long, sand-colored snake. It has a huge mouth, dark eyes, and two horns on its head. It has no claws or feet but swims silently through the silt.''

Tactics
Silt drakes prefer to attack their prey by locating them first with their keen senses, and then swimming up silently from underneath. They attack with their bite and tail, seizing their target, crushing it and dragging it beneath the silt to perish. Silt drakes are fearless in combat and have little compunction about attacking prey. Only massive damage will cause the silt drake to retreat from battle.

Description
Silt drakes are migratory creatures, never staying long in a single place. They have no permanent lair or territory and instead wander through the silt in search of food.

Silt drakes are perhaps the most common of all drakes as their parent element is found in abundance throughout Athas. However, this has also meant that they come under attack from other predators far more often than do the other drakes. Nevertheless, only the largest silt horrors and paraelemental beasts are able to threaten a silt drake, and their supremacy of the silt remains unchallenged.

A silt drake has the appearance of an immense horned serpent that writhes through the silt, rearing itself above the surface to attack. Its coloration means that it is often indistinguishable from its surrounding element – frequently much to the surprised dismay of its prey.

Once a year, a male drake issues a call through the dust to any females nearby. If a female answers the call, the male and female mate briefly and then separate. The female lays her clutch of 3-6 eggs in the deepest parts of the Sea of Silt and then abandons them to their fate.