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Briartails are four-limbed, winged dragons which are commonly found in the Scarlet Swamps. They are arborial, using the well-developed claws on their wings and feet to climb the red-barked trees in their home region. Briartails are named for their thorny, whip-like tails which they not only use as a weapon, but can be used as an additional limb. Briartails primarily prey on birds, amphibians, and squamate reptiles, but may occasionally hunt mammals as well, including humans. They are social and may live in groups of up to fifty individuals, creating nests out of the many vines which grow on the swamp's titanic World Trees. Briartails are also capable of spitting a deadly toxungen from their mouth, they can shoot down birds from up to thirty meters away with remarkable accuracy. Briartails tend to distrust humans, as they were previously hunted for their colorful, feather-like scales, though some colonies have agreed to protect neighboring humans from other dragons, so that those humans may protect them from potential poachers.
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The Briartail's ability to shoot down birds from far distances is inspired by archerfish.