Arche-honu/DoF

My Singing Monsters**Dawn of Fire**

## Arche-honuDawn of Fire

* Young
* Adult

## Breeding Combinations

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## Breeding/Incubation Time

**Arche-honu** was a fanmade Water quint-element Natural Monster who was first unlocked at Level 9. It made its debut on August 3rd, 2022, and was (presumably) scrapped on January 11th, 2023 after having its role taken by the official Water quint, Bowhead.

## Bestiary

As a baby, It resembles a light blue sea turtle with frill-like Hibiscus flowers growing on top of its head. It seems to lack lower flippers, and instead balances on its white shell with a dark blue carapace. Several symbols can be seen carved into the carapace, most notably the symbols of the Colossals.

As an adult, Arche-honu becomes large and is colored a lighter shade of blue, now elegantly levitating above the air. Its tail is now extremely long and curved, with a flower rung around the middle of it. It now looms over its shell, using its tail to perform instead of its flippers. The Hibiscus flowers on its head seem to have sprout more, as there is now a large petal in between its eyes. Coming out from these flowers now are two, darkly colored horns that curve upwards.

## Song

Audio Sample:

Instrument: Layered Synth Bell

Arche-honu made its sound by pressing down on its glowing keyboard-like carapace, creating a sort of synth bell sound. On The Continent, it played through most of the song.

As an adult, its sound was notably lower pitched and had an overall calmer tone. It also gained a third soundfont on Cloud Island.

### VSTs

Virtual Studio Technology is an audio plugin software that has libraries of sound effects and synthesized instruments. Within these libraries are SoundFonts, which are the individual effects and instruments themselves.

Synth 1
DAW: FL Studio Mobile

Sound library: Synths < MiniSynth

SoundFont: Bell Digital Carousel

Synth 2
DAW: FL Studio Mobile

Sound library: Synths < Supersaw

SoundFont: Messybell

Synth 3 (Cloud Island Only)
DAW: FL Studio Mobile

Sound library: Synths < GMS

SoundFont: Light

## Breeding

Arche-honu was bred with the elements of Air, Plant, Water, Cold, and Fire. The possible breeding combinations were:

 +  Incisaur  and Tweedle

 +  Sneyser  and Potbelly

 +  Bisonorus  and Mammott

 +  Yelmut  and Toe Jammer

 +  Deedge  and Kayna

 +  Bowgart  and Glowl

 +  Wynq  and Dandidoo

 +  Sooza  and Quibble

 +  Woolabee  and Oaktopus

 +  Barrb  and Maw

 +  Whaddle  and Furcorn

 +  Spunge  and Boskus

 +  Thumpies  and Phangler

 +  Congle  and Flowah

 +  Rootitoot  and Pango

Out of these, Deedge + Kayna was the best combination, due to the relatively low chance of breeding a Deedge, as well as Kayna having the shortest breeding/incubation time of all of the required singles.

## Feeding Monsters

The Arche-honu will request food and/or non-food items that are the products of Structures. If you cannot give the Monster the food or items it requests, you can simply click the "New Order" button. After a 15 minute wait, it will ask for a new combination of foods or other items.

### Rewards

When given the wanted foods or items, like any Monster, it will reward you with Coins.

## Teleportation

A level 10 Arche-honu could be teleported to Space Island for a reward of 6 , and a level 15 Arche-honu could be teleported to Cloud Island for a reward of 7 . Teleportation for Arche-honu took 80 hours per-island.

## Trivia

* The overall name and design of Arche-honu were heavily inspired by the Honuhonu Dragon from DragonVale.
	+ This is referenced in its baby bio.
* It was the first of the fanmade Quint Monsters to be released, as well as to be replaced.
* Arche-honu shares many similarites with Sneyser:
	+ Arche-honu was the first Monster able to go to multiple Outer Islands since the release of Sneyser in 2017.
		- Coincidentally, both Monsters have both Space Island and Cloud Island as their Outer Islands.
	+ Arche-honu and Sneyser also both take up a 2x2 space as babies, but take up a 3x3 space as adults.
	+ Sneyser is included in one of Arche-honu's possible breeding combinations.
* 'Arche-honu' seems to be a portmanteau of 'Archelon' (a prehistoric, extinct species of sea turtle) and 'honu' (the Hawaiian word for turtle)
* All five Elements of Arche-honu seem to translate into its design.
	+ Plant: The Hibiscus flowers around its neck.
	+ Cold: Its cool, almost icy color.
	+ Air: Its beaked face and its ability to levitate.
	+ Water: The overall sea turtle appearance.
	+ Fire: Its Archelon inspiration, and the Monster orginating from a warm climate (shown in its baby bio).

## Notes

* The egg of Arche-honu appears to be a modified verison of its body asset, albeit with more shading.
	+ In the original game, this shading is seemingly absent. This is likely done to fit the artstyle more.