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Origin: Inland Thazvaar (jungles)
The Thazvaari Jungle Viper is an enormous arboreal serpent native to the deep jungles of inland Thazvaar, reaching lengths of 100–150 meters and weights exceeding 4,000–6,000 kilograms. Despite its immense size and density, it moves with startling speed through trees and undergrowth, its muscular coils capable of crushing supermassive fauna in seconds. Possessing potent venom and overwhelming constrictive strength, it dominates the canopy as one of Geba’s largest and most enduring predators.
The great variant typically ignores anything smaller than supermassive fauna, remaining motionless for weeks before descending in a blur of precision to strike, constrict, and withdraw into dense foliage. Smaller regional variants—rarely exceeding 5 meters—are far more aggressive and highly venomous, relying on rapid strikes rather than mass to kill. Both forms display scale-layered hides that refract the green light of the canopy, making them nearly invisible until movement betrays them.
The great variant lives between 800 and 1,200 years, maturing slowly over centuries, while the smaller variants survive 60–80 years on average. All breed during humid, high-rainfall cycles, maintaining balance within the jungle by regulating vast prey populations. Revered and feared across Thazvaar, its venom is harvested in trace amounts for medicinal use, though fatal encounters remain common.