Tompondrano

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Eukaryota

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Eurodraconia

Family: Ranumanaranidae

Genius: Ranumanaran

Species: Ranumanaran lehibenjaca

Descendant: Winged dragons

Described by: TBA

Size: 18–26 meters long; 6–7 meters tall; wingspan estimated to 9–10 meters long; 170 tons

Lifespan: 100 years

Activity: Cathemeral 🌅🌃

Thermoregulate: Ectotherm

Type(s): 

• Reptiles (Dragons)

• Elder Dragons

Title(s): 

• Ocean Dragon

• Malagasy Sea Guardian

• Chaos Leviathan

Other Name(s)/Alias(es): 

• TBA

Pantheon(s): 

• Terran/Gaian 🇺🇳

  • Malagasy 🇲🇬

Time Period: Pliocene-Holocene

Alignment: Curious

Threat Level: ★★★★★★★

Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🥓🐟🪲 

Element(s): Fire 🔥, Water 🌊, Rock 🪨, Chaos ☣️

Inflict(s): Fireblight 🔥, Waterblight 🌊, Rockblight 🪨, Chaosblight ☣️, Frenzied ☠️, Confused 😵‍💫, Vomitblight 🤮, Fever 🤒, Mucus 💦

Weakness(es): Aether 🌌, Chaos ☣️

Casualties: 

PAPRIN

• • TBA

TROQA

• • TBA 

Based On: 

• Itself

Conservation Status: Critically Endangered (CR) – IUCN Red List

Tompondrano (Sorabe: تُفُّـنرِّنُ) means “lord of the water” or “master of the water”, applies to multiple concepts within the folklore of Madagascar.

Madagascar and the adjacent Indian Ocean regions are home to the enormous semi-aquatic Elder Dragon known as the Tompondrano. Their distinguishing characteristics include jagged features with blue on top, green on sides, and olive on below, as well as long, dark cyan armored body plates that resemble fins. Its six enormous flippers were utilized for shockwaves, swimming, and fighting. They have five rows of thick, whale-like tail fins that may produce tsunami waves, hefty dorsal plates that extend from head to tail, bioluminescent blue highlights on fins, plates, and scales, external gill slits that are combined with lungs on their necks, and heat-resistant scales that allow them to be exposed to lava. The plates store thermal and bioelectric energy in addition to serving as armor.

Tompondrano's muscular strength was sufficient to overturn ships, cause localized undersea earthquakes, collapse coasts, and damage oil rigs. Tompondrano may shoot spheres of lava that contains magma, boiling steam, or compressed water blasts. It is thought that specialized thermal organs close to the chest cavity are the source of the lava attack. By slamming their tailfin or wings/flippers, tompondranos can create large waves, such as tsunami-scale currents, tidal surges, or shockwaves. The only animals that pose a catastrophic risk to fleets are huge adults.

Through bites, flipper strikes, or tail impacts, Tompondrano can transmit their mysterious red-and-black energy known as Dragon or Chaos. Aggression, neurological breakdown, lower element or inflict attacks, hallucinations, and tissue corruption are some of its effects. According to some experts, this energy has both biological and Celestial-related components.

Fanamelohana, which translates to "damnation" in Malagasy, is the deadliest defense mechanism for Tompondrano that evolved from rabies. The virus appears as light pink aerosolized gas from spaces between dorsal plates and scales, and it is only released in near-death situations, severe injuries, and territorial desperation. Cerebral degeneration, hydrophobia, hallucinations, paranoia, hyper-aggression, pulmonary hemorrhage, and loss of motor control are all signs of fanamelohana. In contrast to common rabies, it affects humans, animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, echinoderms, lancelets, and tunicates. There is now no known treatment.

Because their blood includes antiviral thermal proteins, their body temperature changes quickly, and their specialized immune organs kill the infection, tompondranos are naturally immune. In contrast to all Elder Dragon species, only the Vazimba and Malagasy ethnic groups wish to caution non-Madagascan ethnic groups against overharvesting dragon's blood.

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Like orcas, baleen whales, seals, and mosasaurs, Tompondranos are extremely intelligent animals with intricate migratory patterns. Tompondrano serves as both an ecological regulator and an apex marine superpredator. Because this dragon was both a filter feeder and a meat eater, it regulates the overpopulation of tiny to large animals, invasive species, corrupted marine organisms, and diseased megafauna. Like orcas, they may selectively hunt dangerous animals while ignoring harmless species.

They have extended juvenile reliance, maternal care, and nursing behavior, just as whales and seals. Young drakelings remain close to their parents, protected bays, volcanic shallows, and coral lagoons. Mothers are fiercely protective, and if they feel endangered, they will attack entire fleets.

In contrast to terrestrial dragons, their behavior mixes characteristics of dolphins, sea turtles, sea snakes, baleen whales, and crocodilians. Tompondranos are extremely intelligent; they can identify people, recall migration routes, use low-frequency sounds to communicate, and plan group hunting activities with their pod or family. According to reports, some populations protect coastlines from dangerous animals or aid fisherman.

Threats

• Industrial hunting

• Abstergo experimentation

• Industrial pollution

• Underwater mining

• Cloning experiments

• Chaos infection

• Oil drilling

• Military sonar

• Habitat destruction

• Illegal capture

• Black-market trade

• Bio-weapon research

Conservation Status

• IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered (CR) – IUCN Red List 

Conservation Efforts

Conservationist Hunters and local Malagasy communities reportedly protect nesting and migration zones.

• Habitat protection.

• Anti-poaching enforcement.

• Rescue and rehabilitation centers.

• Awareness campaigns against illegal pet trade.

Although it migrates throughout the Indian Ocean, tompondrano is primarily indigenous to eastern, western, and southern Madagascar. According to the research, this species travels to East Africa, the Red Sea, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, East Timor, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Australia, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, and the Subantarctic Islands. Their primary habitats include lava tunnels, deep pits, coral reef systems, volcanic coastlines, and infrequently mangrove estuaries. Strange tides, whale disappearances, sparkling water at night, or underwater earthquakes are said to occur in coastal seas during migrations.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo/Group

• Population Trend: Unknown

• Population: TBA

• Locomotion: Versatile

• Habitat: Polar; Tundra; Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Candyland; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond; Aquifer; Warm Lake; Cold Lake; Salt Lake; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Kelp Forest; Coral Reef; Barrier Reef; Guyot; Neritic Zone (Warm); Neritic Zone (Cold); Pelagic Zone (Warm); Pelagic Zone (Cold); Benthic Zone; Abyssal Zone; Hadal Zone; Hydrothermal Vent; Brine Pool; Cold Seep; Demersal Zone.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Madagascar

• Berbania/Hirawhassa: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

• Reinachos/Ityosel: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

• Thatrollwa/Delphia: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

• Sawintir/Everrealm: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

• Agarathos: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

• Jotunheim: 

  • Extant: none

  • Extinct: none

Although tompondranos are not domesticated, a small number of them may form bonds with people. Mutual trust, peaceful conduct, reverence for sea life, Moonstone Opal resonance, and years of interaction are all necessary for this species. Bonded Tompondrano are capable of carrying riders, protecting children at sea, defending settlements, and safely escorting ships. However, violent revenge is typically the outcome of treachery.

For our purposes, it refers to at least two types of water snake – one which was commonly encountered in day-to-day life, and an undefined marine monster. Whales, sharks, and crocodiles are also known as tompondrano; the Sakalava proverb “the amby never leaves the master of the water” apparently refers to the pilotfish.

The tompondrano is a water-snake or a dragon blessed by the Vazimba, a mythical ancient race that lived in the center of Madagascar before Native Indonesians and Bantus arrive via Austronesia and African boats, respectively. For this reason it is respected as a sacred animal. It should not be killed, and dead tompondranos are wrapped in red silk in the same way as human corpses. Tompondranos are good swimmers, often seen crossing ponds and rivers in the forest, but they are not notably large. There is a retractable fleshy hood that protects the eyes. It is either legless or has appendages like those of whales. To ward off its unwelcome attentions, an axe and a silver ring are suspended at the bows of boats.

Past and Present Incidents - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

  • n/a

• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

  • n/a

• Reinachos/Ityoselese

  • n/a

• Delphian/Thatrollwan

  • n/a

• Sawintiran

  • n/a 

• Jotunheim

  • n/a

The Recollections of Queen Arianna - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

  • n/a

• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

  • n/a

• Reinachos/Ityoselese

  • n/a

• Delphian/Thatrollwan

  • n/a

• Sawintiran

  • n/a

• Jotunheim

  • n/a

Biological Relative

• shit

Allies

• shit

Enemies

• shit

See also: none

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Coming soon

• TBA

• https://abookofcreatures.com/2020/03/30/tompondrano/

• https://glitternight.com/2020/04/24/merina-myths-tompondrano/

• https://www.deviantart.com/stash/01h9kiyod4pq