They're a lot like serpents, though their heads are shorter, females have an ebony-colored plate on their forehead that's hard as diamond, males have an ivory-white plate. Aquatic vael have three fins, one dorsal reminiscent of a shark's, and two side fins for motion. Aerial vael have wings instead of the side fins, with a feathered dorsal. Other vael all look like legged snakes, with something on it's back. Cinder vael have flames over their back, shell vael has a shell, blade vael have blades as their name suggests, and skeletal vael have ridges, like a dragon.

Vael are highly adaptive, taking forms fitting of it's surroundings, or based on whatever magics hit it. Once effected by magic, it permanently changes, taking aspects of that magic and becoming impossible to effect by -ANY- direct magical means. In MTG terms, they gain Shroud :D

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