It is no mystery where Howler Drakes got their names. Though not very bright, these emotive creatures employ an impressive vocabulary of loud chortles, shrieks, and songs to communicate with one another, and almost never stop chattering. Howler Drakes inhabit dense jungles, foraging in the fertile soil for mushrooms, tubers, and insects. When threatened, a Howler will flare its wings to display its bright red eye spots, while letting out an ear-splitting scream.

Though it may appear at first that dragons and drakes have much in common, the two are completely separate species. Drakes are smaller and less intelligent than their cousin species, though both dragons and drakes sit comfortably near the top of the food chain. They are always found bearing antlers and leathery wings. Drakes share many of the same habitats that dragons do, and typically hunt in packs.

This loyal and well intended drake wound up named after her favorite thing: the short stemmed russula. For although her patient owner tried time and again to train her to locate and retrieve edible fungi more to humanoid tastes, invariably this drake returned to him, head high and proud, mouth full of... russulas. Always russulas. So now that's her name, and she's mostly allowed to run loose on Breedery land. Eating russulas. She's pretty happy, as domesticated Howler Drakes go. Too full to complain, evidently! Still, she's never understood why Lurhstaap doesn't value the insipid fungi she so adores. Now and then she leaves large piles of Russula brevipes on his doorstep. Being quite unable to distinguish tears of gratitude from frustrated weeping, Russulas is proud of herself—in her own mind, she is a Provider of Food. If only she knew.