Works which define hydras as a form of dragon are the likeliest to give them traits such as legs, stubby wings, horns or the like, in order to increase their physical resemblance to what dragons are usually shown as looking like. If a Breath Weapon is present, it's common to have each head possess a different breath weapon, similar to Tiamat from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Some works will treat the two creatures as distinct but similar or related species, while others have hydras as a specific sub-type of dragons. While not overwhelmingly common, it's not unheard of for a link to be made between hydras and dragons. They may be depicted as limbless, snake-like slitherers, but it's also very common in modern media for them to be four-legged creatures instead, generally resembling some sort of lizard or dinosaur with a writhing tangle of heads sprouting from their torsos. Like the original Greek beast, hydras are very often swamp-dwellers so they can easily be the resident Swamp Monster in a Swamps Are Evil setting.Īs the original hydra was typically described as a many-headed water snake, modern hydras often display ophidian traits to greater or lesser degrees. Even when hydras can't grow back heads, they'll often have some form of Healing Factor. As a result, most obvious ways of dealing with these beasts tend to be useless at best and actively counterproductive at worst, requiring would-be hydra slayers to get creative with their methods.
One of the most iconic characteristics of hydras is their ability to regrow severed heads sometimes they will simply regrow a new head whenever an old one is cut off, but they can often grow multiple heads (traditionally two) for every one lost. Like many monsters with mythical origins, hydras are often A Kind of One - the original Hydra of Greek myth was a Single Specimen Species, but the name is now typically used for entire species of multi-headed reptiles fashioned after the Greek Hydra.
Hydras are a type of giant, multi-headed reptilian monster, often possessing powerful regenerative abilities.įictional hydras trace their roots to the Lernaean Hydra, which inhabited the Swamps of Lerna in Greek myth until slain by Heracles.
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