Silsia Phoenix
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This egg crackles and chirps as it burns.
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Your silsia phoenix hatchling started chirping a song at you moments after it hatched, and you are not entirely certain it has stopped singing for longer than it takes to nibble a few bites of seeds or nuts. A small fireproof pouch, just big enough for your fuzzy hatchling, allows you to take your silsia phoenix everywhere. You purchased the pouch after realizing that your hatchling was pining for you while you were in class, causing sadness and depression in the students and creatures in the rooms around yours. It is with a happy and cheerful mood that you anticipate the day your hatchling becomes a fledgling and can explore the Keep on its own.
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A flock of silsia phoenixes is sometimes called a choir, and with good reason. Silsias sing from dawn until early evening, often gathering in choirs composed of more than a hundred phoenixes. They thrive on teaching each other complicated songs and will patiently practice daily until the entire choir has perfected the song. Silsia phoenixes enjoy performing for anyone and everyone, and more than one innkeeper is known to have a small garden full of treats and perches so that a small choir might choose to spend their day amusing patrons. A silsia phoenix will often sing a lullaby to its chosen magi, ensuring sweet, peaceful dreams each night.
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Silsia phoenixes make their nests in the woodlands of Foenara, though they are wanderers at heart and love traveling throughout the land. They will often journey along with caravans of performers such as actors and bards. Silsia phoenixes are always welcomed on these trips because of their ability to affect emotions with their songs, lending a gentle touch to both sorrowful scenes and joyous dances. It is not possible to force these phoenixes into harmful manipulation of emotion, as anyone who tries will shortly find themselves overcome with guilt and confessing their sins to everyone they have wronged. Silsia phoenixes make excellent traveling companions as they can soothe upset and hurt, and so magi who travel to unknown lands often take one along to help ensure peace on the journey.
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Gamilara Phoenix
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This egg burns with a cool white flame.
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Your gamilara phoenix is possibly the most destructively curious bird you have ever encountered. Anything it sees it immediately hops over to investigate, usually leaving a trail of sparks and small scorch marks in it's wake. You can't say its song is the most beautiful you've ever heard, as so far your hatchling has been having more fun mimicking all the swears you let slip when you found the remains of your favorite card game. Still, you enjoy the little song it trills to you as you feed it small pieces of fruit, and maybe it's just coincidence that when you find and return an expensive amulet to it's rightful owner you are rewarded with enough gold to replace your game with a bit left over. It certainly can't hurt to buy your gamilara hatchling a few toys made especially for it.
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Gamilara phoenixes are extremely intelligent and very sociable. If allowed to grow bored, they will fly around the Keep until they find someone to talk with. Unfortunately, they care nothing for the niceties of time and place, and so are often shooed out of classrooms. A few teachers will allow them to stay, usually ones whose classes feature long lectures that the birds enjoy listening to. As adults, gamilaras are selective in how much luck they bespell a person with. Magi who have studied them believe that gamilaras have a complicated system relating particular songs with a relative amount of luck, but have not yet been able to exactly document this. Magi who have gamilaras for companions laugh at the idea that these birds would ever let anyone know all their secrets, because then who would pay attention to them?
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Gamilara phoenixes are found on almost all the islands that form the Candle archipelago. They are treasured by the people of the islands for their uniquely powerful song spells: A gamilara may bestow strong luck upon the individual of its choosing. Each village is home to flocks of the intelligent and talkative birds, and taking care of them is a prized honor among the village children. From the time they hatch, gamilaras will spend most hours of their day studying the songs of their parents and other adult birds in the flock. These songs are crafted by the phoenixes to bring luck upon the village and the island. Gamilara phoenixes have a rather keen sense of the dramatic as well, and will often fly out to a favorite sailor's ship to engage in a long debate about how the sailor has been ignoring the bird for the last several days. Once the gamilara feels it has been spoiled and fussed over enough to make up for the supposed slight, it will take its leave, trilling a song of extra luck as it goes.
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Cardinal Phoenix
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This egg reminds you of a candle flame.
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Your cardinal phoenix hatchling has taken to snoozing on the hearth, ignoring the sparks that sometimes shower it. When not napping, most of its time is spent checking each and every one of your companions for injuries, with a few pauses between rounds for food. Each time you return to your room, your hatchling grumpily inspects you from head to toe, cheeping excitedly whenever it finds something it deems to be an injury. Tonight you laugh and allow it to guide you to a chair where you relax, enjoying the song it sings as it tries to heal the ink stains on your fingertips.
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While most predators will not attack a cardinal phoenix, the few who attempt it will quickly find themselves singed by fiery feathers. Adult cardinal phoenixes are a force to be reckoned with, willing to stand up against an enraged direwolf to protect their mate and eggs. The males are a bright red while the females are a softer brown, both having incredibly powerful songs of healing. Some claim that males are naturally more talented at healing sickness while the females are more skilled with injuries, but if there is any difference it is slight. Magi must take care with these birds, for cardinal phoenixes will attempt to heal even the most grievous wounds, sometimes at the cost of their own life.
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Cardinal phoenixes can imbue their songs with healing powers, an important ability for a bird that makes its home in Silva Forest. Like most cardinal species the males are very territorial, yet they will never directly attack another cardinal phoenix. Instead they compete through song, with the winner showing he has greater songs and skills than his opponent. Healers welcome cardinal phoenixes into the rooms of sick patients, and it's not uncommon to hear someone say they were bullied into wellness by these very determined birds. Indeed they are so committed to healing others that in times of great illness or when there are many injured creatures or people, they will band together to save as many lives as they can.
Sprite art: Jrap17 | Description: ShaiNeko
