A look into what little is known about aquatic salamanders.

There are some noticable differences between the aquatic salamanders and their kin living in the mountains or the volcanos,for one thing they are more slender and streamlined and have a shorter snout and small head compared to their body size. Their height seems to range between 7 and 10 feet like the Rojvuur salamanders though there are stories from sailors reporting sea salamanders the size of ships, but these are likely just embelished reports or drunken man's talk since these stories are usually heard in the harbor town inns. The aquatic salamanders also aren't as brightly colored as the Rojvuur and are more like their mountain kin in having a more sandy color although colors may vary up to a muddy brown with lighter color spots.

No direct contact has been had yet with these salamanders so it is unknown if they have a different language or what their culture is like, or even if they are just ordinary monsters. They do not have any buildings on the shore, aside from living in and among wrecked ships and they only seem to come to the surface to bask on the sun warmed rocks between the tide pools where they also seem to lay their eggs, leaving their tadpole like offspring to fend for themselves it seems. Although there do not seem to be any predators that want to risk coming near the eggs or young unless they're desperate. It's assumed most creatures know the danger these salamanders pose as they have been observed fighting and killing sharks that wander into their territory. Perhaps they also hunt the sharks and other sea creatures for food, although they haven't been observed actually eating sharks they sometimes do bring a live baby shark or large fish to the tide pools for their young. Perhaps to teach them to hunt and fight it is unclear since the pools are quickly set ablaze making observation impossible.

While they do live on land they are far more at home in the water and their bodies have adapted to it in strange ways, making it a mystery just how a fire elemental moster chose to live in the water. Then again we know from the Rojvuur they their flame is not exactly natural or seems to be between planes of existence. Though the aquatic salamanders seems to have evolved some sort of bulb around their tail flame and those along the spine with the smaller bulbs and their head tendrills having a faint glow to them. They appear to have gills as well along with webbed hands and feet and the shape of the tail bulb would suggest they are fast swimmers. But they still show their true nature as a fire type monster when they set the very water alight and they have sunk ships this way that get too close to their territory. It is unclear how exactly they do this, but one theory suggests they secrete some kind of oily substance which they can then ignite with their flame. They have also been seen in groups, raising the temperature of the surrounding water to boiling point, perhaps some kind of mating ritual or a way to ward off threats is unkknown as yet.

Further study is ongoing but hopefully contact might be made one day through the effort of researchers, explorers and adventurers, but it might be a slow process since these salamanders do not easily seem to trust outsiders but it was the same with their kin the Rojvuur and the mountain salamanders but even those aren't fully understood yet so who knows what might be learned about them in the future...


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