Platyplush & Glass Phoenix (Artificers Shop critters)

[Jrap17]

Male Platyplush!

[Marta]

Male Platyplush!

So cute!

[Reima]

Text for Platyplush hatchie~

Your baby platyplush isn't as helpless as a real platypus, but it is roughly the same size and looks quite similar. It has a soft cloth skin, softer than the fabric used to make its egg. Like many other artificial creatures, the egg was incorporated into the creature's body when it hatched so as not to waste perfectly usable materials. It grows slowly, never eating anything but gradually expanding in size through the magic it was imbued with. Eventually, tiny synthetic hairs made from treated thread emerge from between the cloth weave, making it just as soft and furry as a real platypus.

[Xenomorph]

Just now say this thread.
I can't believe these are out now!

*HOARDS DA BIRDSSS*

[BBkat]

I can't wait to see the Glass Phoenixes

[Padfootsmistress777]

These sound/look adorable/awesome so far

[Jrap17]

Male

Spoiler

A young glass phoenix is said to be born when an artificer enchants a bucket of water and drops a blob of molten glass into it. The glass hardens into an egg so tough that even a hammer blow cannot break it, and the water evaporates as a small orange flame develops within. The egg will eventually grow wings and feathers, a beaked head and talons, not truly hatching, but becoming animate all the same. The hatchling can then search out pieces of glass and silica to melt and consume, allowing itself to grow larger. A glass phoenix hatchling behaves much like an adult, and tends to be an aloof creature that rarely ever shows interest in living things. With patience, and plenty of colored glass beads for treats, an artificer can imprint onto a glass phoenix and request favors from it.

[Borealum]

so excited about both of these!

[Jrap17]

male

Spoiler

Fully grown, your platyplush is no larger than an adult Lakiran platypus. It is content to sit on your bed and wait for you to come home to snuggle with it, but it loves to be let outside the Keep and run around with the other platypodes. Even though it doesn't breathe, it still only makes brief dives to the lake bed before coming up for air, often getting its fur muddy while rummaging in the sediment, though a brief swim at the surface and some grooming keeps it clean. Like the Lakiran platypodes, your platyplush will occasionally bring up treasures from the bottom of the lake. Sometimes these treasures are just fragments of hatched eggs or small rocks, but your platyplush also seems to be very good at retrieving valuable gemstones you suspect it "borrowed" from the hoards of the pearl wyrms that nest on the beach. The platyplush doesn't seem to mind your efforts to return its gifts to their proper owners. After a long day of play, the platyplush might decide to waddle off to take a nap with its Lakiran platypus friends, but eventually it will wander inside, dry off near the sitting room fireplace, find its way to your room, and curl up on the foot of your bed.

[NelwNoll]

female

Spoiler

Glass phoenixes are beautiful creatures popular with bird keepers in the Keep and Synara City alike. They are warm to the touch and can willingly heat any of their body so hot that it melts, a useful trick for fending off potential threats. One difficulty in keeping glass phoenixes is that they seem to have few social instincts, and see each other as nothing but new sources of glass. These phoenixes will fight to the death and consume one another if kept together, so most households will only have one glass phoenix at a time. Unlike some other manufactured creatures, which lose their lives as the enchantments which bring them to life wear off, glass phoenixes remain alive as long as the flame burning within their strengthened chest remains alight. Legend claims that the breast plate is harder that the strongest steel, and even dragon scales, but that all glass phoenixes have a single feather hidden somewhere on their bodies which, if broken, will shatter them into a million pieces. Of course, if all of these pieces are recovered and melted, a new phoenix can be forged.