Aereis/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* have a close-knit fundamentalist hierarchy, with the "Prophet" positioned on top of the others with the rumored ability to allow their believed creator and god to speak through them.
* often look down on most of the creatures in Sonaria as lesser beings.
* An ' core produces nearly an infinite amount of gold/blood, and the fact its flesh is made of gold makes it nearly immune to most toxins. could live for centuries without withering as long as this core isn't damaged.
* and have a long-lasted rivalry. Swarms of will often unite to engage in huge wars with its rival.
=== Artist Headcanon (non-lore) ===
* All handcrafted by the hands of an unknown cosmic entity, fall from the void and onto Sonaria in the form of fallen stars of molten gold. As the fallen star cools, they slowly take the form of what is vaguely recognizable as an , with gold flesh, sinew, and fur forming over their core.
* and Sturbi have similar origins, and are created by the same being, except the former is much more close to its creator in comparison. They have a passive relationship with one another, but often look down on Sturbi as lesser beings, along with most of the creatures in Sonaria.
* An ' core produces nearly an infinite amount of gold/blood, and the fact its flesh is made of gold makes it nearly immune to most toxins. could live for centuries without withering as long as this core isn't damaged. The magic the core is made of is potent enough to erode the largest of creature's health if consumed, but enough to sustain and fuel 's older sibling need for magic.
** This predator and prey relationship between Parahexilian and led to the development of a long-lasted rivalry. Swarms of will often unite to engage in huge wars with its rival.
* Using the beaming light produced when fall into Sonaria, other will go on a rescue mission to retrieve their new kin and welcome them to their kingdom, ensuring no stray Parahexilian snatches the newly formed and so they are properly introduced to their god.
== Appearance ==
The is a quadrupedal creature covered in black and white fur/feathers and golden accents. This creature has wings that can be found on its head (2 pairs), shoulders (main pair), front legs (1 pair), and feathery-ended tail (3 pairs); decorated with golden and violet details on its tips. On its head are three eyes, one on each side of its face and a larger one on its forehead; and a pair of feathery ears resembling wings and close to the 2 pairs of head wings; as well as a single horn and a glowing broken halo atop its head, which partially loops around the horn on its front. Its back legs are decorated with ankle spurs.
=== Males ===
Males have no additional features.
=== Females ===
Females present 4 pairs of long, thin, point-tipped extensions protruding from the base of their tails and wings (2 pairs on the tail base just before the first tail wing pair, and the remaining two from the main wing pair shoulders).
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
While the is an carnivore with a OK-ish appetite, being a flier ensures it can rapidly search for available food sources to scavenge and ensure it can grow to adulthood, and being capable of eating on-the-run helps paliate the getting-stuck-mid-animation vulnerability while eating and allows the to keep a chase while feeding, partially compensating for its low HP. As a flier, it can escape terrestrial danger with decent speed and maneuverability. Ambush helps even further and gives an advantage over non-ambushers as well as helping into fishing aquatic NPCs if desperate. Its decent stamina and stamina regeneration will definetely help into keeping running, flying and swimming without drowning for a while, while its high HP regeneration will ensure that if it is not killed, it can recover to full health quite quickly and even combat for a while the effects of drowning, cold and sickness.
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 a breath ability which allows it to inflict damage from long ranged attacks, and as a flier, it has a particular advantage over any creature bound to the ground by engaging in combat from the sky or landing on high edges to attack from a safe distance. In combination with its powerful bite and bleed it can quickly take down targets, if it's careful and avoids getting hit, that is. Against lower-HP creatures its bite can be quite crippling, specially since some of the most dangerous creatures by defensive status such as Eulopii have low HP already and will probably be killed in one hit and thus will not be able to deal their defensive status, and the rest will have their HP regeneration temporarily nullified by bleed while the status inflicts absolute damage, killing them rapidly unless they are immune to such status effect.
Its full offensive melee bleed defense and high poison defense help into leaving most offensive bleeders at a disadvantage while having a small edge over poisonous, toxic, venomous and radioactive creatures.
As a defense, its Area Escape ability can allow it to escape a grab while slowing its attacker down, something quite important considering its low HP where every hit counts. As a last resort it can also be used to kill a grievously-injured creature, specially optimal to bypass defensive abilities or those triggered by biting such as Reflect Attacks, Poison or Warden's Rage.
It also 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 ===
Due to its appetite, this creature needs to eat and drink quite frequently. The normal debuffed stats of juvenile amplify this fact and more, leaving young ones extremely vulnerable, considering even its 100% bleed resistance doesn't fully come into effect until it has fully grown, being gained gradually.
Due to the creature's demand and rarity, it is often targeted so that the difficulty of survival is more of an issue in player-to-player interactions within public servers. That its flight speed is not exactly the best doesn't help the to escape, since now it's at range of several flier creatures which before couldn't hope to catch it. Its low HP and okay HP regeneration don't help at all against abilties that low-HP and high HP-regeneration creatures are specially vulnerable to, like bleed (on this case via breath and Thorns abilities which completely bypass bleed defense as an adult, and normal bleed as a juvenile) which will rapidly bleed the out, and high-DPS-percentage breaths; not to mention the obvious fact that its HP is quite low and it's easy for heavier creatures to kill it in two or three bites. As such, abilities that nullify its advantage as a flier like Bone Break can mean a death sentence. Even if it doesn't end up with the getting killed, without its flight, even with running intact, it cannot compensate for its somewhat low turn speed and more agile creatures could take advantage of that to bite on vulnerable spots.
While it is protected by Golden breath, that kind of breath is not as lethal as others, with its most important effects being the blurred vision and disorienting factor; so unless the hides its scent, foes sniffing for resources can quickly overcome that handicap and keep targeting the . It has a slight disadvantage against other fast creatures with more noticeable/immediate/harder to ignore or compensate breath effects, such as Vaumora or Tundrik.
Additionally, creatures with bleed defense or status-ridding abilities will be capable of resisting the bleed from ' bite and while not a full disadvantage it will still dampen the impact of the attack somewhat.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by Snicker_DoodIes.
** The was inspired from the concept of stars and fallen stars, albeit the concept was made so long ago its creator cannot fully recall if there were more inspirations for its design.
** The name is suspected to draw inspiration from the names of two gods from Greek mythology; Ares, God of War, and Eris, Goddess of Strife and Discord.
** , Parahexilian, and Sturbi are all confirmed to come from forging stars, and thus share a similar origin.This has been confirmed by torviin, CatasticalCalamity, and Snicker_Doodles, as seen here and here.
* Redesign concept by Stood_04 and Snicker_DoodIes.
* Original design modeled by Erythia, with a speed modeling video available on Erythia's YouTube channel.
* is the first Exclusive Content Creator creature to release in Creatures of Sonaria, with around 21 official YouTube Content Creators at the time of its release. Only recognized creators can trade the species in the Trade Realm.
* It is one of the few creatures with golden blood, including others such as Flixlit and Archalium.
* It is the first remodeled creature which changed diet upon being remodeled. Before the remodel it was a herbivore.
* 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.
* The once borrowed calls from the Hushike before new calls were added on May 31st, 2021. [Expand] for Classic Calls. 
 
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
Aereis_Redesign_Concept.png| redesign concept art
Aereis.png|Former concept art
AereisColorPalette.png|' primary color palette
AereisRedesignTrialGlimmer.png|Default Glimmer female 
Aeriesvoid.png|Glimmer regions of the , highlighted with a Void palette
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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.
Aereis_UnfinishedModel.png|Incomplete previous model
Aereis3-4ViewModelDevelopment.png|' previous model, 3/4 view
AereisSkyViewModelDevelopment.png|' previous model, top-down view
Aereis Model.png|' previous model, side view
Aereis_CloseUp.png|' previous model, close-up
Aereis_FinishedModel.png|Completed previous model, exported to Roblox Studio
Aereis_FinishedSkyView.png|Exported previous model, top view
Aereis Rigged.png|Posed former , menu pose
Aereis Rigged 2.png|Posed former , menu pose (alternate)
Aereis laying down.png|Posed former , resting
Aereis sitting down.png|Posed former , sitting
Aereis_Redesign_Teaser.png| redesign teaser, featuring its eyes
Aereis_Redesign_Teaser2.png| redesign teaser, featuring its paws
Aereis_Redesign_Teaser3.png| redesign teaser, featuring one foot
Aereis_Redesign_Rigged.png|, rigged
AereisDev1|Clip provided by Erythia, CoS Discord, 3/19/2021 
AereisDev2|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/10/2023 
AereisDev3|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/11/2023 
AereisDev4|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/11/2023 
AereisDev5|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/11/2023
AereisDev6|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/13/2023
AereisDev7|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/13/2023
AereisDev8|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/13/2023
AereisDev9|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/13/2023
AereisDev10|Clip provided by Triefelgrim (Wolfragon), CoS Discord, 1/13/2023
AereisDev11|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/27/2023
AereisDev12|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/27/2023
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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.
Baby rAer.jpg|Juvenile 
TeenRedesignedAereis.jpg|Teen 
AereisBlood.PNG|' unusual yellow blood, featuring its previous model
AereisCarcass.png|' carcass features glowing yellow flesh
Aereisextraconceptart.jpg|Additional sketches of ' previous design, by Snicker_DoodIes
Juvenile Aereis Sitting InGame.png|Former juvenile , sitting
Juvenile Aereis Standing InGame.png|Former juvenile , standing
Teen Aereis Sitting.png|Former teen , sitting
Teen Aereis Standing InGame.png|Former teen , standing
Adult Aereis Sitting InGame.png|Former adult , sitting
Adult Aereis Standing InGame.png|Former adult , standing
Aereis glimmer pog.png|Default Glimmer previous model
Elder Aereis + Halo Glowing in Dark Surrounding.png|Elder , previous model
Aereis_old_male-stock.png|Old male in Blender 
Aereis_old_female-stock.png|Old female in Blender 
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Other =
AereisOrigin.png|Illustration of ' origin
Aereis Breathh.png|Former model using the Gold Breath ability
2021-03-23 2.png|Former model using the Area Escape ability
AereisJerry.png|Jerry beside ' former model in the Trade Realm
AereisColorPaletteOld.png|Previous primary color palette
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== Notes ==
Category:Content Creator Creature/Legacy
Category:Exclusive/Legacy
Category:Glimmer/Legacy
Category:Remodels/Legacy
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