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Creature 1096-Ardulen Grotesque

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March 11th 2020: Creature 1096 has been released.

It is a permanent stream creature and will be able to breed. It will flood the stream up to and including March 13th.

Creature 1096: ???
Obtained by: Stream
Sprites: Tekla
Description: PKGriffin
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This egg is made entirely of stone, yet somehow very lightweight.

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A hatchling grotesque relies on the company of its herd to keep it out of trouble, making it a particular challenge for a single magi to raise. As well as being too curious for their own sakes, hatchling grotesques must learn to prepare for the dawn or risk injuring themselves when they freeze into stone. They can recover from chips and regrow small broken pieces over time, if they are lightly damaged in their stone forms, but larger breaks can threaten their ability to change back into living creatures. When light touches their skin, grotesques freeze where they are, which can lead to quite a few awkward stone sculptures lying around inconvenient places during the day. Although the frozen hatchlings are easily moved, many magi have ended up with stubbed toes before learning to watch where they step when getting out of bed in the morning.
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As a grotesque ages, it grows patient in nature, perhaps in response to its regular petrification. Adolescents can often be found pretending to be gargoyles on the Keep???s roof, frightening passing students and creatures when they awaken at night. Adult grotesques are playful and quite active when awake, often exploring the lower levels of the Keep or nearby caves when they don???t care to turn to stone. They are favored companions of shadow magi, for they can be used as reliable steeds if a cloud of magic is cast around them to protect them from light. A large number of grotesques live in Foenara, some of them companions to local villagers, but most dwell deep in the Napier Forest in the center of the island. They prefer the deepest thickets of grass which can block out any beam of light, though occasionally explorers stumble upon a whole herd of grotesques frozen in a clearing. Ancient Foenarans carved stone likenesses of many creatures and left them in the grass forest, making grotesques especially difficult to find in the daylight. One favorite tale describes how the first magi to explore the Napier Forest passed a herd of frozen grotesques several times before realizing they weren???t old relics.
Grotesques are a rare sight in the lands around the Keep, now restricted only to a population in the Foenaran Napier Forest. Although gentle creatures by nature, grotesques turn into hardened stone statues if they burn in fire, and will petrify any creature that gazes into the statues' eyes. Because of this, the stone heads of grotesques were once prized by dark wizards as defenses for their castles, and there are even legends of warriors who bore grotesque heads on their shields. Grotesques naturally turn to stone whenever bright light hits their skin, making them vulnerable to light magic. If a grotesque is caught flying when the sun appears over the horizon, it may fall to the ground and shatter. These creatures are relatively brittle when in their stone state, and surprising light, making them easy to transport. Unless they are burned, however, a grotesque does not have a petrifying gaze. The magi believe that this is a curse on the person who slayed the grotesque, and great care must be taken when handling grotesque artifacts from the mage wars.
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Re: Creature 1096-Ardulen Grotesque

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M/F - no dimorph

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A hatchling grotesque relies on the company of its herd to keep it out of trouble, making it a particular challenge for a single magi to raise. As well as being too curious for their own sakes, hatchling grotesques must learn to prepare for the dawn or risk injuring themselves when they freeze into stone. They can recover from chips and regrow small broken pieces over time, if they are lightly damaged in their stone forms, but larger breaks can threaten their ability to change back into living creatures. When light touches their skin, grotesques freeze where they are, which can lead to quite a few awkward stone sculptures lying around inconvenient places during the day. Although the frozen hatchlings are easily moved, many magi have ended up with stubbed toes before learning to watch where they step when getting out of bed in the morning.

Grotesques are a rare sight in the lands around the Keep, now restricted only to a population in the Foenaran Napier Forest. Although gentle creatures by nature, grotesques turn into hardened stone statues if they burn in fire, and will petrify any creature that gazes into the statues' eyes. Because of this, the stone heads of grotesques were once prized by dark wizards as defenses for their castles, and there are even legends of warriors who bore grotesque heads on their shields. Grotesques naturally turn to stone whenever bright light hits their skin, making them vulnerable to light magic. If a grotesque is caught flying when the sun appears over the horizon, it may fall to the ground and shatter. These creatures are relatively brittle when in their stone state, and surprising light, making them easy to transport. Unless they are burned, however, a grotesque does not have a petrifying gaze. The magi believe that this is a curse on the person who slayed the grotesque, and great care must be taken when handling grotesque artifacts from the mage wars.
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Ooh, Gargoyles, one of my favorite fantasy creatures, simply amazing! <3 Definitely gonna try to hoard them. Releases seem to be rather frequent lately, which has been hard for me to keep up on (and they weren't really my thing), but this is one I won't skimp on! :hooray:
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1) These look awesome and I need all of them.
2) 'Grotesques naturally turn to stone whenever bright light hits their skin' does this mean day and night sprites???
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Why are there not any in the stream???
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tempestsea wrote:Why are there not any in the stream???
They are there, they are just hidden under regular eggs that appear in the Stream accordingly to hourly schedule.

Hatchling looks promising, can't wait to see the adult! ^.^

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This creature is one of the ones that have been waiting for quite a while to be released. These are originally from 2014! D:
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Wuhhuuuuuu new Dragons.
The Hatschlings look so cute.
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Looks a little bit like Gargoyle Dragons. I like them so much and my big wish is a cat created like this stone dragons. so i could name her Mia after my died little fellow Cat Mia <3
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