Etheralotus/Legacy

== Description ==
== Appearance ==
The is a large creature that resembles a wyvern. It has jagged wingtips and a spiky body. On its head and chin, it has a comb that looks like the ones on a chicken, particularly the Penedesenca breed. Its back, rump, and tail have connected tall spikes. The tail is thicker in the middle. There are patterns that look like eyes on the upper side of its wings and on the side of its tail. Some decorative elements hang from its lower jaw and rump. The bottom and tips of its wings have a web-like structure with two long claws.
=== Males ===
Males have a feather crest on their belly.
=== Females ===
Females have a feather crest along the sides of the base of their tail.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is designed to be a HP tank, having one of the highest health in game 9,500 to be exact, only being beaten by true Tanks (Yggdragstyx or Boreal Warden) and even rivals Korathos and Athulyth. However, the has arguably the lowest damage for a Tier 4, with some Tier 2's having slightly higher base damage to compare. But that's the point, the 's playstyle is supposed to outlast most of its opponents, being able to tank large amounts of damage and chip away at the target's health.
And combined with Storm breath, this mysterious beast poses a major threat to most other faster fliers, being able to slow them down and blur their vision and combined with its high weight the usually does greatly against most lighter fliers of similar tiers. And combined with its decent flight speed it's able to chase most Tier 5 fliers and escape from them with little issue. The also has above average health regeneration, meaning it can regenerate health faster than most other tier 4's and the has one more ability up its sleeve, Area Shock not only makes surrounding creatures movements erratic and uncontrollable for a breif time, but it also doubles as an escape ability or a deterrent for potential prey.
=== Cons ===
Sadly, the has a lot of major downsides the damage output is outright terrible when it comes to heavier opponents, practically taking zero damage if nothing valuable at all. And it is easily countered by heavyweight fliers like Parahexilian or Athulyth, with the latter being able to nullify its health regeneration with burn.
The is quite slow. Its total stamina is also not that great, only being able to run/fly for a little bit before resting, with a poor stamina regeneration that makes sure recovering from exhaustion takes a while. turn speed is also horrible, which combined with all of the above makes flying a bit sloppy, relying mostly on gliding to do the task, and makes it easy to outmaneuver and outrun the to attack at vulnerable spots if the creature is capable of dodging the breath. Its base damage is also extremely low for its tier.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by undeary in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
** ' name is derived from the word "ethereal".Stated by undeary in the CoS Discord here.
* was rigged live on YouTube by Wolfragon, featured alongside Gnolrok and Imeaorn.
* Animated by Mukudori.
* The is an exclusive creature to Discord moderators and admins, meaning it is only provided to users with those roles.
** Applicable players receive at least 20 species each month.
* It was stated in the official Creatures of Sonaria Discord that this creature, once released, would not appear in the creatures list of players who did not own the species, nor be purchasable in the Shoom Shop.
** This turned out to be false; does appear in the creatures list, and it can be purchased as a stored creature from the Shoom Shop.
** Later it was stated it could be traded the same way as Aereis, however, the Developers have stated there would be no more rank-exclusive creatures after Sigmatox. This turned out to be false as well, as came out in December of 2022, a while after Sigmatox's release in January of 2022.
== Gallery ==
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EtheralotusConceptArt.png| concept art
Etheralotus_Palette.png|' primary color palette
Etheralotus_Glimmer.png|Default Glimmer 
ethervoid.png|The Glimmer regions of the , highlighted with a Void palette
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Development =
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EtheralotusDev1|Clip provided by Triefelgrim (Wolfragon), CoS Discord, 11/27/2021
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Etheradult.png|Adult Etheralotus
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== Notes ==
Category:Glimmer/Legacy
Category:Missing Calls
Category:Missing Pros Cons
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