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An artist’s rendition of a Kro’Bakk in its natural habitat, a lava lake.

 

Kro’bakk

The Stone Swan

 

Physiology

Kro’bakk, commonly referred to as Stone Swans, are large creatures with titularly stonelike feathers, born of crystalline eggs and found in caverns or any habitat with lava lakes and rivers. These majestic creatures stand at roughly ten feet tall, with an average wingspan of 17 feet. At birth, these creatures are only the size of a small boulder and only reach their maximum size at around twenty years of life. Kro’bakk are very slow creatures as their feathers are made of an almost stonelike material. The stonelike material allows for them to swim freely around lava lakes, however, if they attempt to swim in normal water they will drown. 

 

The resemblance to stone goes beyond just color, formed tough and resilient almost exactly like stone, though naturally grown. Their feathers act as a natural armor to the elements and enemies, though when under intensive attack may crack and break off the swan. Their internal anatomy is softer in comparison to their rock hard feathers, a rule of thumb being the deeper into their body the softer it is. Just beneath their feathers is skin that is tough like hide, beneath that a rough flesh that would take twice the effort to cut through. This effect is due to a natural phenomena of the creature, in which over their development they slowly become more hardened starting on their external. This is dubbed colloquially as ‘Stone Disease’, due to its similarity to a dwarven plague rumored to turn miners to stone. This results in juvenile Kro’bakk having much softer feathers, though a light gray in color and rough skin even at youth, and the older ones becoming harder and tougher to kill. If a Kro’bakk lives long enough, it is their Stone Disease that kills them, as at 80 years old the internal anatomy begin to turn rock hard, and the creature becomes less able to move or operate, until over a suffering process of 10 years they finally stop moving, and are entirely petrified. Most Kro’bakk, perhaps fortunately, do not live long enough to suffer this fate, as due to their rarity and lack of many combative capabilities they are often hunted and die before petrification. 

 

Habitat

Typically, these beasts are found within mountainous or volcanic regions, setting up around lava lakes. Kro’bakk are extremely territorial so only one nest is typically found in an area. These creatures prefer creating their nests in remote locations and mineral-rich areas, due to their unusual diet. Kro’bakk consume ores and jewels, the rarer the more nutritious to the beasts. This is theorized to be the purpose of their long necks, to reach greater heights and reach nooks and crannies hiding precious food. Kro’bakk eat a large quantity of mineral food, though can go long periods without feeding, roughly a year.

 

Behavior

Wild Kro’bakk are extremely territorial, chasing away any creatures smaller than itself from its nest, though fleeing from a fight if it knows its in grave danger. Kro’bakk combat their foes through their size and sturdiness, simply charging them or smacking them with their long wings and necks, though the creatures due to their weight are sluggish in movement. Kro’bakk lay crystalline eggs which hatch after a year, after which the parents care for the youth until 15 years of age, when it wanders from its nest to make its own or find a female’s nest.

 

Kro’bakk though territorial and cannot be domesticated, can be tamed to live calmly among descendents. The method of taming is simple, though expensive and requires rigorous upkeep else the Kro’bakk become hostile once more. In order to tame Kro’bakk, they must be given a large quantity of ores and or jewels over the course of four years, often leaving it as an offering at a distance else to upset the territorial beast. After the four years, the creature is accustomed to the presence of descendents, and will willingly enter confinement if fed regularly. If unfed it will try to escape confinement, often violently, and return to the closest thing to its natural habitat. Once tamed, the creatures become mostly docile, and will not attack creatures or descendents that come close, and if attacked will simply flee, under all circumstances with the aforementioned exception of confinement without food. Kro’bakk if born among descendents will default be tamed and not frightened by their presence.

 

Redlines

  • Kro’bakk may not be used as mounts, they resist being ridden for extended periods.
  • Kro’bakk may not be used by players for any combative advantage, the birds instead fleeing conflict.
  • Kro’bakk eat a volume equal to their size OOC weekly, though can eat up to twice their size.
  • Kro’bakk if not fed OOC weekly in captivity will become violent and try to escape. 
  • Kro’bakk cannot be tamed in captivity, must be tamed over the course of four OOC weeks on their own terms before willing to live in a pen.
  • Kro’bakk if not near a source of lava or equal amount of heat will become restless after an extended period of time.
  • Players may use Kro’bakk in player events, be it hunting or seeking them out to be tamed.
  • A player cannot RP having a Kro’bakk egg without valid RP to take one from a nest.
  • Story Team members may use Kro’bakk in battle nodes to provide rare minerals.


 

Purpose

This lore piece is designed to create more flavor for caverns, primarily dwarven but other communities are welcome to use it as well. It can provide player events as well as generate RP of caring for them.

 

Credit

@Nooblius, for helping clean up and write part of this lore.

@sneakybandit, for helping come up with the original idea for this lore.

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This Lore has been accepted. Moved to Implemented Lore, it will be sorted to it's appropriate category soon. Please note that if this is playable lore, such as a magic or CA, you will need to write a guide for this piece. You will be contacted regarding the guide (or implementation if it isn’t needed) shortly.

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