Bashmu
“ Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. ”
– Kate Seredy
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Pterophidae
Genius: Pterophis
Species: Pterophis mesopotamica
Descendant: ???
Named by: ???
Year Published: 1993
Size: large
Lifespan: 90 years
Activity: Diurnal 🌅
Thermoregulate: Endotherm
Type:
Reptiles (Ophidians)
Snake Wyverns
Mythical
Guardian
Title:
Flying Serpent
Other Name(s)/Alias(es): none
Pantheon:
Sumerian
Akkadian
Time Period: Holocene
Alignment: Territorial
Threat Level: ★★★★★★★
Diet: Carnivorous
Elements: Rock 🪨, Air 🌬️, Dark 🌑
Inflicts: Rockblight 🪨, Airblight 🌬️, Darkblight 🌑, Venom 🤢🟣, Elemental Res Down 🔽
Weaknesses: Water 🌊, Rock 🪨, Leaf 🌿, Ice ❄️, Metal 🔩, Light 🔆, Blastblight 💣
Casualties: ???
Based On: itself
Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) – IUCN Red List
The Bashmu, Basmu, Bašmu, or MUŠ.ŠÀ.TÙR (Pterophis mesopotamica; Akkadian: 𒈲𒊮𒉣𒇬) is one of the mythical creatures and a guardian introduced in Thalath Lakoduna, No Way to Seaway, Weather Dragons, Two Lights, Worldcraft, and Rescris.
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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 34.5 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.
This animal had versatile mobility due to triple locomotion between the land, air, and water. This animal was a very good swimmer, using its webbed feet and wiggling itself while swimming.
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This animal was very dangerous to all, but it was the first ever to be neutral and curious, like a snake, at some point.
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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