Cinder Wyrms

Cinder Wyrms are colossal burrowing creatures that has dark scales with magma flowing through them. While they are passive creatures, they can unwittingly cause massive amounts of damage and be a force of terrible destruction.

Habitat
Cinder Wyrms are burrowing creatures that live near areas of high geothermal heat. They’re especially common near volcanic regions because of this. Their burrows are always as wide as they are, though young cynderwyrms will sometimes occupy tunnels of older ones. These tunnels also eventually fill up as the wyrms shift through the earth. They spend most of their lives underground, but are occasionally observed breaching the surface- though why they do this is unknown.

Biology
Cynder Wyrms can reach colossal sizes, and have been reported to reach up to 30 feet in diameter and over 100 feet in length. Newborn whelps can be as small as a few inches in diameter and about 3 feet in length, but grow quickly. While they have eyes, their eyesight in the visible spectrum is generally poor. Instead, Cinder Wyrms rely on infrared vision that lets them quickly search out heat sources or other organisms.

Cinder Wyrms are burrowing organisms, and often eat away at rock and soil as they tunnel through the earth. To this end, they are equipped with teeth as hard as diamond. Sometimes, especially resistant rocks require an individual to use their breath to partially melt the rock before consuming it. They feed on soil and rock, melting it inside their bodies to create magma.

Sociology
Cinder Wyrms are solitary creatures, only getting together during mating season. During this season, they become much more aggressive to other species, and this continues until the young leave their mother. Whelps stay near the surface where the ground is softer until they have developed enough to travel through deeper regions. Cinder Wyrms aren’t territorial, and should two meet below ground, they simply move off in a different direction.

They cannot die of old age. However, the larger a Cinder Wyrm gets, the more difficult it becomes to generate enough energy for its colossal body. If this fails, the creatures petrifies and dies.

Trivia

 * They are loud eaters. A Cinder Wyrm feeding below ground can be heard miles away, and collapsing tunnels sometimes create small earthquakes.
 * Cinder Wyrms don’t die of old age.