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Each droegh possess a long, mostly mottled green, body with a set of 8 legs dangling below, each tipped with a pair of short grasping claws, and four thin but long wings set along the top. Studded along the underside of the body are patches of naturally bio-luminescent material, mimicking the dappled pattern of light falling through leaves. The head is roughly hexagonal in shape, with a set of three forward-pointing eyes distributed around a hexagonal mouth, dominated by a set of six long teeth. Within the mouth, each major tooth is flanked by a row of sharp barbs, preventing food from escaping.
A droegh preys upon a few of the smaller animals that live in the archipelago, using the set of six teeth that ring its mouth to pierce the skin and hold it in place as it carries its prey off to consume in relative safety. In the clear season, they are primarily ambush predators, waiting on branches until prey walks nearby before swooping in and attacking. During the hurricane season, they will attack in packs while flying consuming the prey quickly in the short gaps between storms.

After the changes, the first pair of limbs has a set of four radial claws instead, each having three joints, in addition to the join to the limb. In addition, they have grown quite a bit more intelligent, capable of complex thought(including worship, of course), and using sophisticated pack tactics to trick and trap prey. They also apply this to rob other, ground-based, animals by having one or two droegh harass and distract the animal as a third darts in and takes the prey.
Groups of drough, however, compete, with one group often swooping down, in turn, to steal another groups' spoils or, provided food is plentiful for themselves, deny the other group food altogether, creating ill-timed bursts of noise to scare off prey or alert the animals of the impending theft.