Talk:Salamander/@comment-28530195-20160523060505/@comment-27950421-20160603101106

Well in most myths, salamanders didn't breath fire. It was more like they were fire elementals. They were born in it and were usually capable of eating it as well as spewing out their face hole and spontaneously combusting. They also weren't very big, anout the size of a normal lizard or newt. They were usually more like magical pests then epic beast that need to be slayed. For instance they would make their home in a smithy and eat the fire. Every time the smith would try to relight the fire the salamander would eat it so if the smith ever wanted to get back to work he would have to track down and kill the salamander. They were also said to be ridiculously poisonous. Like... so poisonous that if they climbed a tree, they would poison that tree so any fruit that grew from that tree would be poisoned. The only thing more poisonous would be the cockatrice or basilisk.