Chicka-lisk

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“
Presents?! I love presents!! Thanks, you guys!!
”

—Chicka-lisk, "Return to Wartwood"

The **Chicka-lisk** (also known as **Chicka-lisk the Stormbearer**) is a winged bird demon that eats gold.

## Appearance

It appears as a giant chicken with dark brown feathers, dragon wings and dragon claws. Its red beak somehow has sharp teeth. Other than scars on its head, it has a devil-like bone handle sword, arrows, broken spears and broken blades stuck on its hide, implying it had been summoned and attacked before.

## Personality

The Chicka-lisk is extremely well-mannered, but only attacks the Wartwood citizens through self-defense when they start provoking it. It has a fondness for presents, though it eats them, rather than opening them. The Chicka-lisk is hypersensitive, and is quick to take offense at being impersonated and leave on its own accord instead of continuing its rampage.

## Abilities

* **Flight:** Despite being a chicken, the Chicka-lisk can use its dragon-like wings to fly through the air with ease.
* **Petrifying gaze:** Similar to a basilisk, the Chicka-lisk encases its enemies within shells of stone with a glance. It does this by focusing its stare to unleash beams of purple energy from its eyes. These beams can also petrify inorganic objects like lanterns.
* **Fire-breathing:** The Chicka-lisk exhales great blasts of flame from its mouth. Its breath is hot enough to melt even solid gold.
* **Wind-manipulation:** By flapping its wings, the Chicka-lisk can generate powerful tornadoes to knock back its prey.
* **Tremor creation:** The Chicka-lisk creates shockwaves through the earth by flying up high and dropping back down to stamp with its feet. These are strong enough to cover a large radius around itself to trip up enemies, though they can be jumped over.
* **Regeneration:** While the Chicka-lisk is capable of being harmed, any attack made on it can be healed in a matter of seconds. Though it has many old weapons embedded in its hide, none of these seem to bother it at all, likely having fused to its body with age.

## Trivia

* The Chicka-lisk's ability to consume gold is similar to the Chinese mythical creature Pixiu, except the Pixiu could eat silver and jewels as well.
* The Chicka-lisk proves that monsters can be summoned in Amphibia by Amphibians through ritual.
* The creature is likely a meld between the Cockatrice and Basilisk, dragon-like galliforme creatures representing danger for European explorers in myth.
	+ This is supported as its original name was **The frog eating Cockatrix**.
	+ It has similar powers to the basilisk, being as it uses its eyes to turn enemies to stone, along with fire-breathing like dragons.
* It doesn't eat frogs, but would totally attack any kind of amphibian when its life was threatened.
* According to storyboard artist Joe Sparrow, the idea of a big chicken beast has been floating around since before the show existed. Joe drew the first design of the Chicka-lisk for the show back in 2017. A similar giant chicken monster appears in the theme song.
* The sword stuck in the Chicka-lisk's back bears a great resemblance to the Rebellion sword from *Devil May Cry*.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/torpordust/status/1369029410175729670