This egg is surrounded by a glowing ring.
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The first thing your tiny hatchling does after emerging from its egg is to learn how to cast light in a ring around its body. Considering its small size, the ring of light usually surrounds the entire fish, resulting in your new hatchling sometimes looking like a little glowing ball when it illuminates too brightly. Its wings are small, but it can still leap impressively high from the water, catching the sun's rays in its shimmering scales. Underwater, it is incredibly graceful, even when young.
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Lightbringer fish enjoy clear, shallow waters, where it is easy to leap from the surface and let their shimmering rings glow like the sun itself. They live in either freshwater or saltwater, and are happy either way. They can glide using their wings for nearly a minute at a time. During the day, this gives the effect of floating rays of sun flying over rivers and streams, and at night, it is even more beautiful. The lightbringers look like stars shooting over the dark waters.
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Lightbringer fish are gorgeous creatures, and not only due to their shimmering scales and beautiful wings. They are able to constantly generate light in a small ring around their bodies, reminiscent of a halo. They use this light to travel deep beneath the waves, exploring trenches so far below the water that no light reaches. With powerful magic to combat the ocean pressures and a lightbringer fish by one's side, magi have explored the most remote, darkest depths of the oceans. The ring of light will never dim even slightly during the lightbringer's lifetime, with one exception - if they are preyed upon by their natural enemy, the lighteater fish. Some say that lightbringers can become lighteaters if another lighteater consumes all of the light in their halo-like rings, but no one has ever witnessed it happen.
Description: Raneth
Lighteater Fish (5 shard)
This egg has rough scales.
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Your creature hatches hungry, and it's easy to tell as the area of the water around your hatchling begins to grow dimmer. Despite its appetite and fearsome appearance, lighteater fish hatchlings are generally very friendly. They enjoy swimming with their magi, and can use their powerful tails and long bodies to leap from the water and catch a bite of the sun's rays.
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Keeping a lighteater fish fed is an interesting prospect. They don't appear to need to eat often, but providing magical light will make them happier and even more friendly. They act somewhat inconsistently, preferring to hide and consume the light from the locations they stay in so that they remain in darkness, but also appear attracted to sources of light. This can include their magi if they create magical orbs of light for them to consume. Lighteaters will even do tricks, leaping out of the water and doing somersaults or creating waves with their powerful tails on their magi's request. The reward of magical light is their favorite.
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Lighteater fish are frightening to look at, with sharp fangs, powerful forked tails, and vicious horns. Light also seems to disappear around them, and they are constantly cloaked in dimness. This is due to their choice of food - light. They will consume the light around them, and are drawn toward powerful light sources, including the light of flames, magically conjured light, or even the sun itself. Of course, their preferred food source is the glowing ring of the lightbringer fish, and care must be taken to keep lighteaters from constantly targeting them. Lighteater fish can live in both freshwater and saltwater, but are somewhat hard to find due to how they consume the light around them. They tend to live in the darkest crevices deep beneath the ocean and within dark caves at the bottom of lakes.
Description: Raneth
