Pyrolisk

The pyrolisk was a close relative of the cockatrice that enjoyed causing mayhem.

Description
Pyrolisks were very similar, visually, to cockatrices: a chicken-like creature about tall, with golden-brown feathers, bright red eyes, red comb and wattle, grey, batlike wings, yellow beak, and a green, lizard-like tail tipped with a few feathers. There were a few subtle differences in that pyrolisks had a reddish cast to their wings and a single red feather on the tail.

Behavior
Pyrolisks were malevolent creatures that reveled in spreading mayhem.

Abilities
Anyone who met the gaze of a pyrolisk would burst into flames unless they resisted through force of will or were themselves immune to fire. Pyrolisks, naturally, were immune to fire, and could also cause any fire within of them to burst into fireworks, similar to the pyrotechnics spell.

Hatchling pyrolisks lacked the gaze attack of adults, but could already use pyrotechnics.

Ecology
Pyrolisks were omnivores that lived in temperate to tropical lands. They were aggressive enough to attack most other creatures they came across, but phoenixes in particular were their mortal enemies.

Pyrolisks were recorded to live in the starwood regions of Cormanthor, where they were known to take over termite pits as nesting sites. The mother pyrolisk would eat all the adult termites, lay one or two speckled eggs, scatter some shiny objects around for decoration, only to leave once they hatched; the hatchling pyrolisks then fed upon the termite larvae until they could hunt for themselves (a period lasting a few weeks). The owlbears that also hunted in termite pits despised the trespassing pyrolisks but left them alone.

Pyrolisk bones radiated heat even after the pyrolisk was dead.