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Another one of Brother Baston’s weekly drawing challenges! Woop woop! Concept for a “Cinderjaw”: A large, six-legged Abyssal Salamander, also known as a "Cinderjaw". The lower jaw of this particular type of salamander has two tubes which shoot a chemical dust, flame-suppressant, that can extinguish Phoenix fire and cool the ashes. The sticky tongue of the beast, which also secretes a chemical extinguisher, laps up the ashes and stores them in a billowing purple pouch hanging from it's neck, where the ashes cool and the regenerative cells of the phoenix are absorbed. Salamanders already posses some regenerative capacity (like the ability to regrow it's tail if severed), but phoenix ashes basically fuel and super-charge that whole system. Abyssal Salamanders are stupid, but useful for hunting phoenixes. More on that below. Phoenix Hunters are more like mages than warriors. They use runes to control the Cinderjaw salamander (which I forgot to illustrate) and to track and capture phoenixes. When a phoenix is pierced with glass one of two things will happen: the heat of the Phoenix will melt the glass and it will clog up it's organs, causing it to explode and die, OR it will cool down so much that it becomes sluggish and easy to capture. The second result is usually preferred by hunters, but what can you do? Anyway that's why the hunters use glass arrows. The thin pieces of glass armor and the ornamental glass mask of the Phoenix hunter, which they wear over short travel-robes, are enchanted to be lightweight. The armor is primarily designed to protect the hunter from a phoenix frantically clawing their face or heart, should they attack. Phoenixes are more likely to flee than to fight. Thankfully, Abyssal Salamanders are fast (because they have six legs) and are easily provoked to attack (because they're stupid), so they're useful in both instances, although occasionally, they're known to lash out at their rider for no apparent reason. They can travel long distances and don't have to eat very frequently, but they're easy to pacify because they like to chew on wood. TL;DR Giant, stupid salamanders with fire extinguishers on their face can eat phoenix ashes, and glass is the most effective weapon against phoenixes used by magical phoenix hunters. Boom baby. This is more in depth than I thought it would be...geez.
@stickbug-made-entirely-of-spite, and my friend @sinestrosmind told me to post this, so we postin it
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