Size: up to 250 ft long and 400 lbs

Shared Traits Between Species

All in the class Snallygaster are scaled, winged animals with beaked faces topped by one, large eye; they wield sharp, hooked claws, end in a long tail, have an elastic, serpentine neck, create whistle-like sounds, and reproduce via eggs. Every kind can be warded away by images of seven-pointed stars—a fear passed down from the first Snallygaster, the Bovalopus.

Snallygasters are separated into three types: Sallygaves (feathered), Smallygamtals (furred), and Sparrygastiles (only scaled). On top of these differences, some species may also have tentacles and/or pointed teeth to aid in feeding, horns, two or four limbs, a sulfuric scent, the ability to speak, and/or color-changing scales; Snallygasters are either carnivorous or subsist entirely on blood—bloodsuckers denoted by their forked tongues. These creatures can grow up to 250 ft long—most of which is tail—and 400 lbs. Their scales display different hues of white, black, and green. They are heterothermic creatures, displaying homeothermy when hunting and poikilothermy at all other times.