Pliarys/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* graze from trees, however they will occasionally drink nectar from large flowers or eat termites when the opportunity arises.
== Appearance ==
The heavily resembles a giraffe or horse, with large tufts of fur on its chest and tail, and turquoise crystals growing from its back and top of its tail. It has a thin snout, with a long tongue similar to that of an anteater. It has a furry crest on the top of its head going up its neck, and a fish-like fin near the base of its tail.
=== Males ===
Males have a pair of longer horns protruding from their eyebrows
=== Females ===
Females' eyebrow horns are smaller and more curved.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is a herbivore with a decent appetite stat, which allows it to survive for a while without food and water. Being capable of eating on-the-run gives it multiple advantages, eliminating the risk of remaining stuck in-animation while eating, and providing the ability to regain hunger while fighting and/or fleeing. Its ambush gives it an advantage over most herbivores, specially against non-aquatic creatures when entering water. Its fast walk speed also helps considerably during treks without the need to spend stamina running to keep up, and while swimming underwater, specially as a juvenile; which compliments its average stamina so it only needs to be used sparingly, for example when using ambush.
Its Keen Observer ability has several advantages, from knowing who to protect, knowing if someone is suffering hypothermia/hunger/dehydration, knowing if someone is invisible with hidden scent (thus helping avoiding getting ambushed by invisible targets), to knowing which target is the weakest/most debuffed and act in consequence.
It has high HP (specially for its tier), with decently high weight and average-decent health regen, which, when doubled with its mud placer ability, lets it recover quickly from some environmental hazards (including cold and drowning to an extent) and battles, including poison and bleed status effects (specially the latter thanks to its high bleed defense and health dampening the amount of bleed received and its relative effect). This ability can also help heal allies and/or pack members, and can potentially distract or make attackers who try to wallow in it vulnerable for a short time, while making those who waddled into the mud unscentable and thus easier to hide. If you include its high base damage output, slight defensive paralyze (which may help in a pinch if the tries to escape or attack) and elongated bite hitbox which may be capable of attacking from a bit further than normal, it is quite unwise to attack via melee damage unless the attacker can get with it.
It has an excellent nightvision, which lets it roam at night without problem. Although this makes it the most vulnerable to nightvision-nerf abilities, such as Night Stalker, it also helps it pinpoint where the creature with such an ability is.
=== Cons ===
Its average stamina is unfortunately complimented by a low stamina regeneration, meaning once tired it takes a while to recover from exhaustion fully. Include the fact that its run speed is not the best and its turn speed is quite low and the has difficulties at evading, with many smaller creatures being capable of catching up and attacking at vulnerable spots and grabbing to prevent themselves from getting stuck-in-place in case of getting paralyzed; or even worse, attacking from a distance taking into account the lacks any offensive special ability and no ranged defensive abilities. Combining HP-regen nullifying status with %DPS effects can become quite lethal, specially young ones whose overall stats are debuffed, but even elder since their bleed resistance is not absolute.
A con of their elongated bite hitbox is that it may be a bit tricky to bite and grab smaller targets.
Its Mud Placer ability can be used against it by enemies to heal faster, and can leave its allies or packmates at a disadvantage if the dies in the process.
Its growth speed is a bit slow for its tier, leaving its young (slightly) vulnerable for far longer than several other creatures of the same tier and lower.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Original concept and redesign by HappyPoltergeist (@HappyPoltergeist#1752) on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
** The was inspired by crystals, giraffes, and the direhorse from the movie Avatar.
** When asked about the naming of the , HappyPoltergeist stated that he "...named it a really long time ago- I think I just came up with it on the fly after mashing some words together."Stated by HappyPoltergeist in the CoS Discord here.
* Original model by CatboyNathann.
* Animated by BlckBrryJam.
* was previously declared a scrapped creature before receiving a second redesign, after which it was returned to in-development status and later completed.
* on Legacy can more or less safely traverse through lava (idle animation, sitting, laying down, aggro, cower, hiding scent and walking on a straight line over lava doesn't hurt the ) as seen here.
== Gallery ==
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Pliarys HappyPolt.png|Second redesign concept art
PliarysRedesign.png|First redesign concept art
Pilarys.png|Original concept art
PliarysPalette.png|' primary color palette
PliarysTrialGlimmer.webp|Default Glimmer (night)
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Development =
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pilarys model.png|Old model
PliarysRigged.png|' rigged model
PliarysDev1|Clip provided by EastByEastz, CoS Discord, 3/24/2023
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pliarysjuvi.png|Juvenile 
pliarysteen.png|Teen 
Pliarys Adult.png|Adult 
Pliarys Male vs Female Designs.png|A closer view of ' gender dimorphism
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Other =
Pliarys_Icon.jpg| in the game's icon during its release, by daktronic
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