Wyverns have dragons’ facility with interspecies breeding…and none of their restraint. Once made loyal, they work well with sea reaver barbarians and beast rider and emissary cavaliers (see Ultimate Combat). However, select Chalk Coast baronies have found the dragons are susceptible to bribery with pearls. Adventurers trying to sneak across the Dawn Channel will almost certainly be attacked by these creatures. Smugglers off the Chalk Coast call the local wyverns “poison gulls” for their seagull-colored markings. Now the party has the unenviable task of sneaking up a mountainside to return the eggs without harming them or (ideally) the enraged parents. Worse yet, their attempt to sell them attracts the authorities, who inform them that such a sale is illegal…and given that wyverns have attacked the town three times in the last fortnight, those eggs had better go back where they came from. Loyalty won from a wyvern will be hard-won indeed.Īdventurers recover a stolen clutch of wyvern eggs, only to discover that no right-thinking person will buy them. The result will be bitter role-playing likely conducted entirely in resentful, swear-laden Draconic. The rare encounters that go in a different direction will be because the party wants something out of the ordinary (like a steed) or the wyvern is forced to acknowledge that there is something it wants that it can’t claim or achieve on its own. They’re what happens to your party when you try to sneak up the cliff face rather than going in the front door.
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Wyverns are mostly going to be random encounters or auxiliary monsters. (Speaking of which, I like that the Bestiary’s version doesn’t feature a dragon with a scorpion tail-I always found that interpretation of a poison sting to be a bit literal-minded-but to each his own if that’s your thing, cool.) Breath weapon? Spellcasting? Arms? Bah, who need them?-the wyvern has a poison sting and no time for your nonsense. Remember what I was saying about one-off dragon species? Yeah, wyverns are that kind of no-nonsense cool. Wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns, wyverns!