Wyvern and Wyvern Monarch

Fortress creatures
Level 1
Gnoll
Gnoll Marauder
Level 2
Lizardman
Lizard Warrior
Level 3
Serpent Fly
Dragon Fly
Level 4
Basilisk
Greater Basilisk
Level 5
Gorgon
Mighty Gorgon
Level 6
Wyvern
Wyvern Monarch
Level 7
Hydra
Chaos Hydra
Towns

Statistics
Wyvern
Cost per troop  800
	Attack 14 Defense 14 Damage 14–18 Health 70 Speed 7 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 2 AI Value 1350
Wyvern Monarch
Cost per troop  1100
	Attack 14 Defense 14 Damage 18–22 Health 70 Speed 11 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 2 AI Value 1518
Special abilities:
• Poisonous
Portraits

Wyverns and Wyvern Monarchs are level 6 creatures of Fortress town. They are recruited from the Wyvern Nest.

"Wyverns and wyvern monarchs attack with swipes of their stinging tails. The wyvern monarch's stinger has a chance of poisoning its target for three rounds... Poisoning can only be removed by the cure spell." ^{RoE manual}

In addition to recruiting Wyverns from Wyvern Nests, they can be received as a reward from Dragon Fly Hives.

Tactics and info

They are considered to be the worst level 6 unit, together with the manticores and scorpicores, bearing under-average health. However, the Wyvern Monarchs can be used to poison enemy stacks, lowering their max health by 10% for three turns.

Heroes with a specialty

• Broghild the Beastmaster has wyverns as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any wyverns or wyvern monarchs for each level attained after 6th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

See also:

• List of creatures