Empiterium/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* usually stays by the side of his queen, Erridea. and his queen are an inseparable pair of creatures.
** doesn't have a specific habitat, he'll live wherever his queen goes.
** swore to protect his queen with his sword even when in times of great sorrow and loss.
* walks with pride and stride and has mutual respect amongst all the creatures.
* likes to sit on large rocky ledges by lots of creatures to watch over them and to protect.
** has an ancient rule saying that if the creatures respect him, he will respect them as well.
* 's crown on his head has never fallen.
== Appearance ==
The is a large, bipedal creature with a sword on its right "hand". It has golden, shield-like objects protecting its hands as well as a base of a golden color. It seemingly has a furred cape on its back with golden patterns and golden shards sprouting on its back and the top of its nose. It possesses a spike-like decoration that shoots forward from its nose, somewhat similar to a shark.
=== Males ===
Male have two braids in their beard.
=== Females ===
Females have no additional features.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The has a great appetite, allowing it to survive for long periods without food and water, which compensates its slow speed while looking for food ad its carnivorous nature. 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 also provides an advantage, specially when trying to reapidly swim towards water.
's most prominent strengths are its high HP and extremely high weight which can help it tank powerful strikes for a while, with its high bleed defense helping quite a lot against bleed status (albeit not fully), and its powerful base damage (which gets doubled most times against most creatures) combined with bleed (which will nullify HP regeneration and deal raw damage, particularly effective against high-HP-regeneration, low-total-HP creatures) and 100% ligament tear rate which will slow down walk and run movement speed of those bitten by , making most terrestrial creatures easy to kill through a frontal assault. Against this creature, such kind of attacks are near suicide.
Its nightvision is good enough to detect creatures with night stalker without the huge debuff creatures with better nightvision suffer.
=== Cons ===
's are tremendously slow in terms of movement and specially turn rate, meaning it cannot escape or give chase, practically any flier and most creatures can easily dodge attacks, keep biting at vulnerable spots and see if a is charging towards them from a mile away, granting enough time to prevent getting bitten. The lack of ranged defensive or offensive abilities doesn't help at all as well, allowing any creature with ranged attacks or a small team of creatures to deeply hurt a great pack of with impunity, especially if the abilities bypass the only defenses the has, work on %DPS or nullify its already low HP regeneration (which is incapable of reasonably healing damage in time and combined with the rest of cons can be exploited by hit-and-run tactics to wear the down). Its stamina and stamina regeneration only make this issue even more noticeable, since it'll be quite easy to tire and drown (to the point the speed boost underwater while ambushing may make it drown faster for less distance covered) and will take a while to recover from exhaustion fully, specially if statused.
Its attack hitbox also makes grabs unorthodox, being difficult to grab another creature, specially if the creature to grab is smaller or the inexperienced.
As such, and due to its very-long growth time, juveniles are extremely vulnerable, since to the growing-up stat debuffs (including bleed defense), turn rate, stamina and stamina regeneration remain the same and its speed is still dreadful as a baby, with its model hitbox being also prone to get stuck when young (in contrast with the adults hitbox which is big enough to have problems entering some cave systems which may work for a shelter or escape from attackers).
As such in case of this it is strongly recommended to stay in groups to cycle who's taking damage or status from the attackers and then heal the status, protecting the young ones from attack.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by undeary in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
** Inspired by giant ground sloths, basic king attire, and knight armor.
** Lore-wise, is a king, using male pronouns for himself and female pronouns for his queen.
** Lore-wise, is nicknamed the grandpa creature or "Grandpa Empi" due to his "old age".
* Animations by Aphauxin and Mukudori.
* This is the first creature to be holding an item on its hand.
* 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 don't hurt the as seen here.
* Due to the lore and appearance, are often nicknamed, "The King" in-game.
* does not use his sword in combat for hitbox reasons.
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
Empiterium.webp|Empiterium concept art
EmpiteriumPalette.png|Empiterium's primary color palette
empiglimmer.png|Default Glimmer day/night
empifrontglimmer.png|Default Glimmer , front view
Default Glimmer Empiterium.png|Default Glimmer Empiterium
Custom Glimmer Empiterium.png|Custom Glimmer Empiterium
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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.
Empiterium_Rigged.png|Rigged Empiterium model
EmpiteriumAggro.gif|Empiterium's reanimated aggro, shared post-release by Mukudori
EmpiteriumDev1|Clip provided by Aphauxin, CoS Discord, 3/13/2023
EmpiteriumDev2|Clip provided by Aphauxin, CoS Discord, 3/14/2023
EmpiteriumDev3|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 3/15/2023
EmpiteriumDev4|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 3/15/2023
EmpiteriumDev5|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 3/16/2023
EmpiteriumDev6|Clip provided by Triefelgrim (Wolfragon), CoS Discord, 3/18/2023
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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.
empijuvi.png|Juvenile Empiterium
Empiterium Juvenile Back View.png|Juvenile Empiterium (back view)
empiteen.png|Teen Empiterium
Empiterium Teen Back View.png|Teen Empiterium (back view)
Empiterium Adult.png|Adult Empiterium
Empiterium Adult Back View.png|Adult Empiterium (back view)
Empiterium Male vs Female Designs.png|A closer view of Empiterium's gender dimorphism
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Other =
Empiterium_Poky105.png|Empiterium in the game's icon during its release, by Poky105
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