Couatl

The couatl is a large serpentine creature, and considered a native outsider.

Ecology
Couatls are known for their beauty, magic, and virtue. Due to their intelligence and devotion to good, they are worshipped by people who inhabit the same area as them.

Environment
Coutal inhabit warm jungles.

Typical physical characteristics
A couatl resembles a long, feathered serpent with a pair of rainbow-feathered wings that allow it to fly. They are around 12 feet (3.5 meters) in length, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.5 meters). They weigh around 1,800 pounds (882 kilograms). Their powerful minds are capable of great psionic might.

Alignment
A couatl is always lawful good.

Society
Couatls live solitarily, in pairs, or in flights of 3-6 individuals. Their intellect is above that of most humans, and, although they do not use weapons and armour as a human might, they often own treasure. They typically speak Common, Draconic and Celestial.

Couatl are highly dedicated to an asexual deity named Jazirian, though they have no true priests among their ranks, as Jazirian grants each couatl enough power and wisdom of their own. People living in the same area as couatl recognise this, and sometimes worship them as deities. The spell summon monster IX can summon a couatl.