[[Image:Maulkintangle.jpg|thumb|Sea serpents by [[Sandara]]]]
'''Sea serpents''' are creatures that will eventually evolve into [[Dragons]]. One of the known places where they have been born is the [[Others ' Island]], where they wriggle into the sea after hatching from dragon eggs and spend time growing and shedding skin several times in the warm southern waters.
When the right time comes, they travel to the north to find their way to the [[Serpent River]], accompanied by guides like [[She Who Remembers]] who give them the collected memories of their entire race. They build cocoons from the special sand that is only found in certain places along the river, mixing it with their own secretions. There they incubate all through the winter, guarded by adult Dragons and [[Elderling]]s, before emerging as new Dragons during the high summer.