Hygos/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* spend most of the daytime laying in the sun to gain energy to hunt creatures during the night.
* They are very territorial and often compete with each other for land with the best sunning spots.
* Every has its own unique spotting and can have a variety of patterns and frill shapes.
* has two circulatory systems, one for blood, and another for a substance similar to chlorophyll. At night they shut down the secondary. This causes their color to temporarily fade into a grey (depending on coloration they could also be very red).
== Appearance ==
The is a massive quadrupedal creature with a body structure similar to a jaguar or tiger. It flourishes an impressive crest along the top of its skull, the extremity of its tail, and its body is interwoven with a series of ornate, thorn-covered ridges. On closer inspection, the spikes covering its jaw betray a more menacing truth; from top to bottom, the possesses a string of unfathomably long and sharp teeth, pairing well with its long, sharp claws. The Hygos has strange blob-like, flourescent patterns along its shoulders, back legs, and throat. 
=== Males ===
Males have an extra plate extending from their cheeks.
=== Females ===
Females have a spine-like protrusion along the base of their tail.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
Being a photocarni means doesn't have to drink water. This means the player has to only focus on finding food and grow. Combined with Iron Stomach, needs to worry considerably less about eating rotten products (ignoring Sickness from any source), albeit still being careful of the water (despite its diet, code-wise there's still a water bar that automatically refills, but if they deplete it too fast, they get dehydration) and HP depletion spoiled food deals.
 has the second highest damage in the game (with only Lmakosauruodon having the highest), which means that anything that has lower weight are likely to be one shot by adult , especially most tier 2 and below. 
Its offensive debuff, bleed, helps fighting low-HP and high-HP-regeneration creatures. Moreover, its serrated teeth further its offensive capability and ensures high-HP creatures have that advantage nullified thanks to bleed. 
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 ===
Due to how photocarnivores work, cold debuff effect during winter and famine can be extremely dangerous, depleting the food reserves in no time. Its long growth time only hinders young , leaving them for longer in this status of constant hunger.
It stamina, stamina regeneration and speed are not the best either, which means escaping and chasing is unlikely and tiring is easy. Another thing to consider, is its lack of any bone break or slowing-down effect apart from bleed, or breath making flying creature or anything with breath dangerous. Due to how bleed works in absolute damage instead of percentages, high-HP creatures that have suffered from getting bitten by the can ignore for a while the effects of bleed since it isn't as dangerous in the short term as burn or acid coverage, the more total and current health they have the longer they can ignore it and keep running away from the . 
Furthermore, its health is the second-lowest in its tier and its weight is in the lower end of the tier 5, this mean while its offensive capability is high and against lower tiers is decent/good, it may have a hard time fighting with most creatures of its tier.
For all thing mentioned, it means young are extremely vulnerable.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by Stood_04.
** The was inspired by dead leaves, venus flytraps, and various aloe/aloe-like plants. 
* can cower on top of lava without getting hurt at all.
* Before was released or any mentions about it were in the Developer News, it appeared on the Official Creatures page as a pure black model, titled with "???".
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
 
Hygos Concept Art.png| concept art
HygosColorPalette.png|' primary color palette
HygosTrialGlimmer.png|Default Glimmer female (night)
Sparrow Glimmer Hygos Pic.png|Custom Glimmer female 
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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.
Hygos Teaser.png| silhouette teaser
Hygosvsgyro.png|' size compared to Gyroudus
Hygos Custom.png| viewed in the menu
Hygos Rig.png|' rigged model
HygosDev1|Clip provided by Nimwit, CoS Discord, 1/11/2021
HygosDev1|Clip provided by NauticaElurra, 1/14/2022
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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.
References .jpg|Stood's references for 
Babyhy.png|Juvenile 
Teenhy.png|Teen 
Hygos Adult.png|Adult 
Hygos Male vs Female Designs.png|Dimorphism between male and female 
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Other =
HygosThumbnail.png| in the game's icon during its release, by Cimmerian
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Category:Glimmer/Legacy
pt-br:Hygos
ru:Хигос