Bashmu

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Bashmu is a large snake wyvern with six horns at the row of its ears, a long snout with hidden prehensile pits, a forked tongue, and green to lime-colored skin for camouflaging. Their wings are long and wide, open up to 13-16 meters in length, including the long prehensile tail, two legs, and blue-colored eyes with a red iris on the black pupil.

It had "six mouths, seven tongues, and seven... on its belly." Bašmu has powerful poisonous attacks, including from talons, winged fingers, and fangs. This animal was very dangerous, and it was an Elder Dragon-level threat.

Bashmu had many abilities, such as the ability to fly (via wings, gliding, or divine levitation); control the weather (rain, wind, storms); create and regenerate weather events; experience life, death, and rebirth of their own soul; and liked climbing and ambush hunting in trees or shrubs using wings and feet. Since swimming is not aquatic and avoids water whenever feasible, it is rarely documented in scientific literature. However, it may swim well when needed (such as when crossing rivers or flooding). If left untreated, the neurotoxic and cytotoxic venom in their fangs can cause discomfort, bleeding, and, in extreme situations, systemic illness.

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As a carnivore, Bashmu consumed rodents (ground squirrels, gerbils, marmots), deer, antelopes, sheep, rabbits, pikas, hyraxes, baby elephants, baby dugongs, dholes, fish, frogs, salamanders, birds, and even carrion (especially during the winter). Bashmu is a crucial high-level predator in the food webs of deserts and rainforests, and it often grazes near cow carcasses and occasionally trash dumps. It also serves as a scavenger, controlling the population of rodents and bunnies and preventing the spread of illness.

Reproduction

• Breeding season: Summer and dry

• Reproductive type: Egg-laying (oviparous)

• Clutch size: ~6–10 eggs

• Maternal care:

  • Females coil around eggs

  • Use muscle contractions (shivering thermogenesis) to regulate temperature

• Incubation: ~60–70 days

• Hatchlings: Brightly colored, cared by parents

Bashmu was a highly deadly wyvern that was generally shy and frightened of people, but was naturally defensive and would bite if stressed. Bashmu was not hostile unless attacked or nesting; it tolerated humans at a distance but became extremely possessive during the breeding season.

Threats

• ⚡Electrocution on power lines (biggest killer).

• 🧪Poisoning (rodenticides, poisoned carcasses).

• 🐑Decline of natural prey due to agriculture.

• 🏗 Habitat degradation.

• 🪖Armed conflicts.

• 🦠Disease outbreaks.

Conservation Status

• IUCN Red List: Endangered (EN)

Conservation Efforts

• Power line insulation projects.

• Anti-poisoning campaigns.

• Protected breeding grounds.

• Satellite tracking to study migration routes.

• Anti-poaching enforcement.

• Rescue and rehabilitation centers.

• Awareness campaigns against illegal pet trade.

With the exception of Cyprus and Turkiye, bashmu is indigenous to the Fertile Crescent regions. It can also be found in swamps, xeric shrubland, dryland desert, badlands, Mediterranean woods, and oceanic temperatures, as well as in abandoned human and non-human civilizations.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Versatile

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond; Karst Cave; Karst Spring; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Iran; Iraq; Turkiye

• Reinachos: none

• Delphia: none

• Sawintir: none

• Agarathos: none

Even though they were the strongest beings in Fertile Crescent, the Bashmu were rendered asleep and tranquilized by gunfire. While they were asleep, they were given either raw or cooked meat and repeatedly overdosed on drugs. Because the survivor is always within 17 radii of the hatching egg, bashmu are quickly tamed when they hatch from an egg.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%A1mu

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Bashmu-939469941