The creature’s head is an unsettling blend of reptilian and avian features, with a long, narrow skull covered in iridescent, chitinous plates. Its piercing, hexagonal eyes shimmer with shifting colors, devoid of warmth. A crown of sharp, crystalline spines juts from its brow, pulsing with an eerie inner light. Its hooked beak splits unnaturally at the sides, revealing rows of jagged teeth. Wisps of bioluminescent mist drift from its nostrils, barbed tongue flickers like a serpent tasting the air