Moemoea/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* inhabit the rolling plains and dense woodland of Sonaria. As they travel in packs, they prefer to stick together in relatively large and open areas where there is a lot of room for escape if danger arrives.
* are pack creatures, moving in herds for safety and engaging in highly social lifestyle, similar to real-world elephants. Their lives are mostly spent grazing fields and forest undergrowth, as they are rather large and require a lot of sustenance to remain active.
* They are primarily crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk) creatures, and feed off of glowing plants that allow them to retain a type of bioluminescence on their outer frills.
* At night and during the day, migrate to dense Sonaria undergrowth to hide effectively from predators.
* The only time these creatures become effectively "aggressive" is when their young are threatened, and the adults form into a group to protect their young. They trample their enemies and primarily rely on defensive maneuvers.
* are able to display their cheek frills much like a frilled lizard can, and use them as a way to ward off predators.
=== Artist Headcanon ===
* are very fond of eating Mush, much to the dismay of the other creatures of Sonaria who sometimes seem to use this currency in a form of trade.
* Any mutations seen in the original concept art are effectively canonical/lore mutations; while not appearing in-game, some may exhibit these mutations with no boost in stats.
== Appearance ==
The is a quadrupedal creature that holds a resemblance to the Parasaurolophus, with fins sprouting from its tail, back, and head. It sports a large, elongated, alien-like head and crest, with two long whiskers hanging from its face, along with a fin-like horn sprouting from its forehead. Multiple spikes decorate its spine, as well as multiple ruffles on the lower body.
=== Males ===
Males have a small throat sac.
=== Females ===
Females have fins on their shoulders.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is a herbivore with a good appetite stat, meaning it can survive for a while without food and water.
With its nice HP and heavy weight, the can resist quite a few blows, as well as pack a tremendous punch to a considerable number of lighter creatures due to its heavy base damage. Its slight bleed defense helps slightly against bleeders... but the real defense mechanism of the is its poison, which thanks to its aforementioned HP and weight it can deliver loads against most attackers, wearing them down at the least and giving them a lethal dose at the most.
=== Cons ===
The has decent stamina but bad stamina regeneration, which implies once tired it takes a while to recover from exhaustion. Additionally its turn rate is horrendous, allowing other creatures to attack on vulnerable spots, which gets worse if the attacker is resistant, immune or capable of getting rid of the poison. If you include its speed, it's quite vulnerable to ranged abilities such as breaths or AOE status, specially since its HP regeneration is on the average-low end and many ranged abilities directly or indirectly deal percent-based damage. Even then its poison takes its time, meaning a fast-enough attacker could have killed the before the poison managed to kill it.
Its horrible night vision does help it ignore night stalkers, but that means it cannot detect creatures at night that aren't right in front of it without scenting, nor if a night stalker creature is nearby.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Designed by malarkeii.
** 's design was heavily influenced by Parasaurolophus as well as the wings of butterflies, which is why the is so frilly and colorful. It was created for the original fantasy approach that Agartha intended, to be whimsical and mysterious.
** The name "Moemoea" is one of the few names given to a creature made by malarkeii that originally had no basis in another language or meaning. That said, it may have meaning in some languages.
*** In certain Polynesian languages, it's a word meaning "dream", or more rarely depending on context, "fantasy".
** It was originally planned to have physical mutations like extra teeth and other features, but for development reasons (extra hidden parts cause more lag), these weren't added to the game.
* Modeled by Erythia.
* was once featured on the Creatures of Sonaria thumbnail, but was later swapped out for another thumbnail.
* The 's description refers to Sonaria as Agartha, which is Sonaria's original name back during the early stages of the game.
== Gallery ==
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Moemoea.png| Moemoea Concept Art
MoemoeaColorPalette.png| Moemoea Color Palette
Unknown_(19).png| Glimmer Moemoea
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Development = 
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
 
oldmoe model.png| Development 1
oldmoe model2.png| Development 2
Moemea model.png| Development 3
oldmoe studio.png| in Roblox Studio
oldmoe kendyll lmako.png| next to Kendyll and Lmakosauruodon
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References = 
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe a creature's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
RobloxScreenShot20210628 180441815.png|Juvenile 
RobloxScreenShot20210628_182033980.png|Teen 
oldmoe baby.png|Juvenile 
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Other =
CoArblxIcon.png| Moemoea in the game's icon alongside the Eulopii, by malarkeii
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Category:Beta Release
Category:Glimmer/Legacy