Novus Warden/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* The has the same intelligence levels as the other wardens, usually staying underwater. Solitary, but many creatures like to surround it due to the positive natural aura it emits.
* It does not have eyes and instead uses its extremely long protrusions to ‘see’ the world around it.
* The is usually found alone, passive most of the time, and only attacks if it faces a real threat.
* The usually enjoys floating in the water as it uses up less of its magic.
* Sometimes stranded creatures in the middle of the sea find themselves being carried to shore by the .
* The is a species capable of feeling emotion. Their aura changes completely when in a bad temper, making those too close to it feel uneasy.
** The can laugh.
=== Lore===
* The way that this creature appeared in Sonaria is completely unknown but, some people believe it came from another planet. Somehow, every time it emerges, it looks completely fresh and untouched, as well as being the most (chronologically) recent warden to be spotted, thus earning the name ''.
== Appearance ==
The is a hexapod, rock shrimp-like creature covered in armor and spikes. Its arms and legs are formed of floating rock interconnected by a bright static flux and with a spiral pattern on each one, and its tail is decorated by floating pebbles. At the base of its tail, two prominent blade-like decorations protrude. Like other Wardens, it has a mask floating over its face, in this case a leaf/shrimp-tail-looking one. The head is also decorated by similar-themed fins.
=== Males ===
Males have no additional features.
=== Females ===
Females have curved ram-like horns on the bottom of their heads, near the jaw.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is a very versatile creature, being the first (and only) tier 5 all-terrain Warden. For starters, it has very high health and the fourth highest weight of any tier 5 flier. It also has 90 appetite, which coupled with its Omnivorous nature and its ability to look for food underwater, such as being able to fish and find aquatic herbs means you probably won't struggle much with finding food. It has above average health regeneration, coupled with cloud breath, giving it on demand mud and water to make it even more survivable. Thirdly, it can use Water Gale to somewhat compensate for its below average flight speed and reduce some status effects (and slow down people around them or cause tunnel vision). Additionally, being capable of eating-in-the-run practically allows this creature to just grab a piece of fruit or meat and keep running while eating, thus ensuring they are not vulnerable to predators just waiting to ambush them when they get stuck eating.
Not only does cloud breath compensates its slightly below-average passive regeneration (and make it so you never have to drink water and only depend on food, thus being classified as a fake photo-omnivore once you reach age 66), but it applies mud, making it so creatures cannot scent you while moving, and gives stamina, guaranteeing you can run, fly and swim for longer despite the not-so-good stamina regeneration. The breath can also stop the from dying from hunger (albeit not stopping it entirely if low on health, unlike Ani).
Additionally, its ability streamlined can be used in preparation for a fight, increase speed, stamina and stamina regeneration, and decreases hunger drain. This is useful for battling in the water, during times of low food and to reduce the number of times it needs to rest between water chases, which combined with its other abilities makes it capable of having a decent performance underwater for far longer.
This breath can also allow you to ignore the effects of bleed without healing it, since now bleed damage is raw and not percentile, and this creature has enough HP that using the breath once in a while to restore 1% of current HP is more than enough to heal any damage done and replenish stamina faster, plus some breaths can be resisted this way. 
Since most breaths also work on the target of the breath, but this one is an exception, this can be used as a confusion so people try to evade a breath which doesn't do a thing to them.
Its slight poison resistance may be helpful once fully grown, specially low poisonous creatures.
=== Cons ===
Due to the nature of Warden's Rage, the might not be able to output a reliable amount of damage, up until it has reached max damage, where the 's health will be moderately low, its bite cooldown will have started to increase, and its HP regeneration will have halved, making relying on the last one during battles completely unreliable. Also due to the nature of Warden's Rage, any attack or effect that doesn't trigger it will easily kill a warden with impunity (for example: heavy poison, breaths, area escape).
The deals very low damage, even for a Warden (having the least damage for one), which ensures reflected/defensive status effects the receives are maximized (making even Eulopii a real danger, specially since the poison resistance doesn't activate until fully grown and it's so low it barely changes anything, specially if the attack-multiplier effect is inactive). It also has bad night-vision (albeit that means Night Stalker won't really affect it), as well as a pretty terrible flight speed, horrible stamina and stamina regeneration, and very slow turn speed. Its slow speed and long tail will attract ankle-biters and makes impossible to flee from most creatures.
Since cloud breath heals a percentage of the current remaining HP, the more hurt the creature is, the less effective it is at healing and countering stats.
Additionally, due to its black blood color, some players may target this creature to see it bleed or kill it in order to see it drop a black carcass, or just to see its Warden's Rage effect.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by Kyzenith on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord. 
** Primarily inspired by shrimp, along with floating rocks.
** According to lore, "the 's appearance marks the start of fresh life, but is extremely hard to spot as it can traverse the land, skies, and seas. The is a large, majestic beast bound by its incredible life force and magic, so strong its aura sometimes helps the elements around it to flourish".
** Lore-wise, is also called Omnibus - Sentinel of Form and Harbinger of the Unknown. However, the name is spelt Omnis (meaning 'all' or 'everything') on the official concept art.
* The is the first (and only) released All-terrain Warden.
* was previously thought and intended to be the first never-returning Warden, but returned in the Land-Sea-Sky Event of 2023 by highly-demanded community request.
* The is the first creature to receive black blood. Because of this, when dying it drops a black carcass. 
** No real-life creature has this color exactly, albeit hemoglobin (gives red blood to mammals)-venous blood can get somewhat close. An example of this, though not the only one, would be the Ayam Cemani, an Indonesian chicken breed with fibromelanism, which makes them totally black from the inside out; the only non-black things about them is their white eggs and red blood, though the latter is commonly mistaken to be black because of its very dark red color. 
** The reason that the has black blood is because when East was setting up , she made a poll to decide which blood color would have, and black won the poll.
** The Novus Warden's carcass was later updated to have un-textured neon black meat. (Again, this can be seen in real life animals such as the above mentioned Ayam Cemani, albeit it's not neon.)
* The is the first completely untradeable creature. 
** However, during the first days of both LSS events, it was mistakenly tradeable like any common creature.
*** Note: The following value and explanation were an unofficial educated guess, and did and does not serve as an exact reference, moreso a general idea of how many could exist after LSS Event 2022 but before LSS Event 2023, not including variables such as species lost to data issues, when trading, inactive or terminated, or how many users donated an excess of Shooms. Please keep this in mind. There were estimated to be around 20,000 species in existence before LSS Event 2023 (700 million, subtracted 50 million due to those who donated for the void palette that would've been awarded, divided by 35,000, the number needed for this species in Shooms during the first LSS Event. 700 million/35,000 = 20,000 ± 3000, considered the margin of error and can vary to extremes).
*** returned for the 2023 LSS Event, although the species still remained untradeable.
* According to Lore, no one knows how long this Warden has existed; and one of its first sightings recorded having seen it carry two eggs in its arm. The eggs most likely belong to the itself.
* The is sometimes dubbed the "Rocky Shrimp Warden", "Rocky Warden", "Shrimp Warden" or "Flying Warden" by the playerbase.
* The is the first all-terrain with limbs detached from its body.
** Another creature with limbs detached from its body is the semi-aquatic, non-all-terrain Zohdok.
* There was a bug with a random green dot related with this Warden's Rage effects appearing on the left of this creature. This seems to have been patched, but a new bug appeared where a small cubic piece falls when spawning into the map.
* The writing on the 's Warden statue tablet translates to "False", which has caused some people to believe it's not a true Warden, or that the native tribes thought so.
* Despite Sonar Studios staff saying that it would never come back, the Novus Warden ended up returning in the LSS 2023 Event as a reward given to players who completed all 5 missions and had a Shoom donation percentage of 100% or higher when the event ended.
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
NovusWardenConceptArt.png| concept art
Novus_palette.png|'s primary color palette
Novus WardenTrialGlimmer.png|Default Glimmer day/night
Novus_glimmer.webp|Default Glimmer 
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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.
NovusModel.png| model development 1
NovusModel1.png| model development 2
NovusModel2.png| model development 3
FinishedNovus.png| finished model
NovusRender.png| rendered
NovusWardenDev1|Clip provided by East (BlueFlame950), CoS Discord, 5/17/2022
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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.
Novus_Juvenile.png|Juvenile 
Novus_Teen.png|Teen 
Novus_Adult.png|Adult 
Novus Growth Stages.webp|The different growth stages of the in one image
NovusWarden Male vs Female Designs.png|A closer view of 's gender dimorphism
Novus_meat.webp|Previous 's carcass featured textured black flesh
CoS_-_Kyo_no_Kakusei_and_the_Black_Corpse.jpg|Updated 's carcass when killed. Note the untextured neon flesh.
NovusBlood.png|'s blood, which is black
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Other =
Novus_art.png| in the game's icon during the LSS Event 2022, by Nuxodus
NovusStatue.png| statue
NovusWarden Cloud Breath.png|'s Cloud Breath ability
NovusWarden Rage.png|First phase of 's Warden's Rage ability
NovusWarden Rage 2.png|Second phase of 's Warden's Rage ability
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