Nakamaska/Legacy

== Description ==
=== Behavior ===
* The behaves similarly to its inspirations: owls and vultures. They hunt silently, and hover over their victims before dealing a killing blow with their talons.
** are nocturnal creatures that prefer living in solitude rather than traveling in packs. They are rarely seen in groups; the only time this occurs is when they are caring for their young.
** Juvenile fledge at a young age and depart on their own journey. 
** During the daytime, if a is not sleeping, they like to scavenge carcasses of previously killed creatures in order to preserve energy for their hunts.
* Their bite contains a toxin which begins to assist in the digestive process of prey.
== Appearance ==
The is a slim creature with a head covered in hard plating that presents a third eye. It has two clawed arms, two legs with long talons, two pairs of webbed leathery wings of which the biggest pair is also used as frontal legs, and a tail covered in plated armor reminiscent of axes. Its face armor also protrudes into four horns, two from the top of the head and two on the sides of the jaw. Its horns, tail, and shoulders are heavily patterned with black stripes, while its neck possesses a mane, and more eye-shapes can be found on its shoulders.
=== Males ===
Males have a feathery beard under their beak and covering part of their neck.
=== Females ===
Females have two long feathery braid-like protrusions in between their neck.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is a flier which allows it to find meat and prey easier, partially compensating for its dreadful stamina and stamina regeneration. Being capable of eating on-the-run helps somewhat in not getting always stuck in place while eating mid-animation. Thanks to Iron Stomach, needs to worry considerably less about eating rotten products (ignoring Sickness from any source), albeit still being careful of the water and HP depletion spoiled food deals. Its ambush also provides a noticeable if incredibly short advantage, especially when trying to catch something entering water.
 deals high damage, which combined with its slight bleed and venomous status, makes its bite quite dangerous, especially against a decent number of lighter creatures with low HP and high HP regeneration since if the weight factor didn't increase its base damage enough to kill the lighter creature in one shot, the bleed will nullify its HP regeneration and deal raw damage every few seconds, which is especially dangerous against creatures which already had low total HP on the first place; while its poison will cut its HP regeneration and stamina regeneration and if high-enough will deal percent-based damage which is effective against high-HP creatures. Not to mention its Life Leech will restore some of the HP when biting, increasing its survivability if active.
's Wall Cling ability allows it to regenerate stamina when clinging from a wall or roof, no matter distance to a normally-standeable terrain. Not to mention that unclinging from walls may give a massive height boost at no extra stamina cost.
The only advantage that could be taken from its horrible stamina regeneration is that it is so low when gliding the gliding stamina regeneration boost of 50% will round it up, making recovering stamina while gliding a bit better than it would have been expected.
Finally, its Night Stalker ability allows it to debuff others' nightvision and make it more difficult for others to find their way at night.
=== Cons ===
Its stamina and stamina regeneration are beyond horrendous, making running, ambushing and flying short and difficult tasks, needing to save a lot of energy and making drowning this creature fast, and also making status that reduce stamina and stamina regeneration further even more impactful since the stamina drain will be noticed immediately. Due to its very low HP for its tier and particularly its low HP regeneration it is easy to chip away its health, specially through percent-based damage status and attacks such as cold, sickness applied by breaths, breaths DPS in general and other ranged abilities since most of them directly or indirectly deal percent-based damage as well. Unless extremely desperate and knowing there's no potential attacker around, do not enter water as a , it will be its end. Its turn speed is somewhat lacking, agile creatures are capable of biting vulnerable areas with some practice. All of these are even more noticeable if the loses its aerial advantage, be it because of a faster flier or because of an ability nullifying its flight, such as Bone Break.
Its bleed can be nullified by creatures with high bleed defense or unbreakable; while its poison can be countered by creatures with poison defense; both status effects can be easily removed by creatures with Fortify; so the raw damage and weight will not be nearly as effective on combat against heavier creatures with such resistances or defenses.
Wall Cling can be problematic on narrow areas, leaving it stuck forever in a wall until it menus, or stuck for long enough the attacker it was fleeing from to catch up with the .
Its Night Stalker vision is also a double-edged sword, since it works as an AOE status, affected creatures can triangulate where the creature is located just by checking where their field of vision gets reduced, meaning any surprise attacks or hiding may become moot with careful observation; additionally, it swaps the colors of scent, making recognizing a pattern quite difficult for the novice to this ability: red turns blue, for example. With that, some players may get confused and follow a water line believing it to be a meat line.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Concept by malarkeii in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
** Inspired by Majora's Mask (from the The Legend of Zelda franchise), snakes, shamanism, and large birds of prey (specifically bearded vultures/owls).
*** Originally the was meant to be a redesign for Ghibli (which it is the reason shares some similarities with it), although it was later turned into a different creature under a different name.
** 's name is derived from the Filipino word "nakamaskara," which means "masked".
*** Even though 's name is meant to mean "Masked" in Tagalog, it has nothing related to any Filipino culture.
* Animated by Mukudori.
* A speed paint video of 's design is available on malarkeii's YouTube channel here.
* A leak on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord server confirmed that was indeed coming in January of 2023.
* Some users have referred to as "the Filipino Dragon", likely due to the origin of its name.
* 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.
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
Nakamaska_Concept.png| concept art
Nakamaska_Palette.png|'s primary color palette
NakamaskaTrialGlimmer.jpeg|Default Glimmer female 
Custom glimmer Nakamaska (witch brew pal).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.
GhibliRedesignProgressHead.PNG|Design progress (head)
GhibliRedesignProgressFull.PNG|Design progress (full)
Redesign Progress 2.png|Design progress 2 (full)
Redesign Progress 3.png|Design progress 3 (full)
Redesign Progress 4.png|Design progress 4 (full)
Nakamaska_Concept.png|Final design sheet
Nakamaska leak 1.png|Leak 1
Nakamaska development leak 2.png|Leak 2
Montejeska’s Nakamaska development leak.png| development 1
NakamaskaModel1.png| development 2
NakamaskaRiggingprocess.png| development 3
NakamaskaRig.png|Rigged and posed 
NakamaskaDev1|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/16/2023
NakamaskaDev2|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/17/2023
NakamaskaDev3|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/17/2023
NakamaskaDev4|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/18/2023
NakamaskaDev5|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/18/2023
NakamaskaDev6|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 1/20/2023
NakamaskaDev7|Clip provided by Triefelgrim (Wolfragon), CoS Discord, 1/21/2023
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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.
Ghibli second.png|Secondary color palette demo
1_naka_juvi_comparison.png|Juvenile 
2_naka_teen_comparison.png|Teen 
3_naka_adult_comparison.png|Adult 
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Other =
NakamaskaThumbnail.png| in the game's icon during its release, by UnifiedThe0ry
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