Aetheo Alqueda

Aetheo Alqueda is an angelic Elder Dragon that utilizes the mystical Aether element. It is often referred to as the **pure** one or the **holy** one to the point where people have been known to worship the creature in effort to bask in its glorious light.

## Physiology

It features incredibly curved horns, cream-coloured scales all around its body, and its webbings are highly reflective of light, turning various colours based on the amount of light present. Its build is very skinny, allowing for swift agility. Its eyes shine a bright orange with pink irises. It retains a thin tuft of fur that runs from its neck all the way to its tail. Its tail ends with massive tufts of fur that retain special organs hidden by the fur that can emit energy absorbing bubbles of Aether that absorb and mix to form explosions of the designated element; dependent on the current environment.

## Behavior

Its angelic appearance is very ironic, as this is one of the most vicious and vile Elder Dragons a hunter can go up against. They take full advantage of the Aether element along with their energy absorption ability, which they fully utilise to kill off aggressors in particularly gruesome ways and in often unexpected turns, such as the burning to death of a Fire-elemental monster. The Dragon Element is the only thing this vicious dragon fears and gets serious against. The reason for its high aggression is due to its high preservation of personal space; it despises any creatures that cross this.

## Ecological Information

### Placement In Food Chain

Minimal - Extremely Low - Low - Average - High - Extremely High - **(Apex)** - Legend

Main Prey: Meat and various Berries

Arch-Rivals: Dragon-Elemental creatures (Raja Zhiravash)

### Tracks

Tracks: Holy scales, Holy traces, Pure essence, Aurora miasma

## Abilities

It is a very agile Elder Dragon physically while also being very physically built compared to Elder Dragons like Kushala Daora or Teostra. They typically shoot out the Aether element as weaponry but will also use the Aether element to strengthen its body. Depending on the environment it's in, it will absorb the elemental (temperature) energy from an environment and inflict ailments based on the environment its in, combining this with the Aether element to create a deadly combination.

## Rage and Tired States

* Rage State: Its wing webbing will glimmer a rainbow-shimmering light and its eyes will glow bright orange.
* Tired State: Its wings webbing will be a dull grey colour and its constant cream-coloured hue will fade a darker colour.

## Mounts

Mounting this monster is the same as how one would mount a standard elder dragon.

## Ecology

* Habitat Range

Native to the Hallowed Woods, but is invasive and has been seen in a wide variety of locales.

* Ecological Niche

On the same rank as other Elder Dragons of its stature, its Aether attributes is severely effective, especially against other Elder Dragons, as it breaks them internally within their element.

* Biological Adaptations

Their flexible wings allow for them to change various flying positions mid-air while also possessing extreme agility to evade physical and elemental attacks. They can shoot rays of light from their wings; the UV radiation produced from the rays can flash a light so bright, it can permanently blind on-lookers.

* Behavior

It is highly aggressive and will show no hesitation to incinerate opponents inflicted with the Aether miasma, whether it's burning to ash, drowning to mush, freezing to vapour, electrocuting to dust, crushed to death, or corroding to remnants.

## Attacks

Standard Swipe: It will swipe in front of it.

Double Swipe: It will swipe twice in a row.

Side-Leap Swipe: It will leap to the side and then swipe.

180 Tail Whip: It will whip its tail in a 180 degrees and then proceed to repeat this attack.

Bite: It will bite in front of it.

Aether Ball: It will shoot out a large ball of light that explodes into a large bright AOE. Inflicts Aetherblight.

Aether Beam: It will shoot out a beam of light at a hunters direction with literal aimbot. Inflicts Aetherblight.

Aerial Aether Beam: As it's flying, it will shoot an Aether beam in a 360 degrees angle as its turning around. Inflicts Aetherblight.

Aerial Aether Slam: As it's flying, its arms will be clad in an Aether aura and it will then proceed to slam the ground: causing large explosions of Aether to spread across the area. Inflicts Aetherblight.

Wing Rays: It will position its wings straight and then unleash a beam from its wings with that covers a large radius due to its wing length. Inflicts Stun and Aetherblight.

Wing Ray Sweep: When it's flying, it can shoot the wing rays and then sweep it around in random directions. Inflicts Stun and Aetherblight.

Ray Flamespread: As it's shooting the rays, it will turn the rays a brighter colour, this leaves behind Aether miasma that linger on the area for 5 seconds. Inflicts Aetherblight if a hunter walks through it.

Flame Stomp: It will stomp the ground and then unleash a burst of Aether from beneath a hunter. Inflicts Aetherblight.

Spinning Bayonett: It will spin around before flying upwards and then spinning mid-ai: unleashing elemental and aether projectiles that bounce like balls before exploding on impact. Inflicts Aetherblight and different blights based on the environment its fought in.

## Turf Wars

### Arghiberre vs Aetheo Alqueda (Draw)

Arghiberre moves around erratically while circling Aetheo, as the holy dragon backs off, wary and probably scared. Arghiberre stops bounding around and roars, as Aetheo snarls and both monsters circle each other. Arghiberre makes the first move, lunging at Aetheo Alqueda like a missile, as Aetheo retaliates by uppercutting the warmonger dragon with its horns. Aetheo then bombards Arghiberre with blasts of Aether upon getting airborne. Arghiberre also takes flight and the two dragons begin to enter a dogfight, as both of the hurl blasts of Dragon and Aether at each other. Arghiberre then suddenly dives at Aetheo Alqueda, smashing into it with extreme force. Before Arghiberre can land the finishing blow, Aetheo absorbs the respected element from the environment and unleashes a combination blast at point blank, sending Arghiberre flying like a ragdoll. As Aetheo prepares to unleash a powerful attack, Arghiberre rushes and unleashes a dragon infused claw smash before successfully landing a bite to Aetheo’s shoulder. Aetheo then bites Arghiberre by its neck and kicks it off, as both Elder Dragons roar at each other before fleeing the area.

## Notes

* Made to give Aether a base Elder Dragon.
* It was originally gonna have each wing having a different design from each other.
* Its armour can counter Aether-based attacks.
* Its based on angels, auroras, the sun and the standard European archetype for dragons.
* Credit for the icon goes to YukiHerz.
* Credit for the Turf War goes to Comet.
* Credit for the artwork goes to Jessedv (anniversary present).