Eopteryx (pronounced ee-OP-ter-ix) is a large, flying dinosaur found almost entirely in northern Brightmarch. These roc-sized creatures are covered in colorful feathers, shades of red, yellow, orange, and purple that vary on an individual by individual basis. Eopteryx are very capable predators, sometimes carrying animals larger than horses back to their nests to feed their young. The dinosaurs prefer to create nests in protected locations along rocky coastlines, but sometimes use stone outcroppings in forests as well.
Despite the apparent graceful flight of these regal creatures, their bodies are too large and heavy to fly entirely under the power of their own wings. Eopteryx feathers are innately magical and each provide a tiny amount of levitation, when the creatures desires it. Together, all their feathers combined allow eopteryx to remain aloft with ease.
Eopteryx feathers have long been considered expensive if trivial status symbols in Teshub and Yarma, usually worn as accessories. More recently inventors in Teshub have begun incorporating the feathers into the sails of their dawnships - these new prototypes have been significantly more successful.