Owa'Stryrus | Creatures Of Sonaria

Owa’Stryrus are mysterious creature, not many have seen what they look like. Some say they appear once every year going around consolidating knowledge of Sonaria, cleaning Warden’s statues, and restoring the lost languages

Owa'Stryrus possess reading and writing skills, as they taught Rebus the Urzuk calligraphy to make their journal legible.

Lore: A collective design of the Wardens, the Urzuk is a creature of many skills. Each Urzuk individual is capable of a different quality. Urzuk has the appearance and qualities of Malveathian, Serphelius, and Qhualhul This does not imply these are the only contributors of its creation, just that those are the creators it resembles. Rebus (Ree-buss) is the Urzuk mentioned in the Sonarian lore, who is responsible for documenting the placement of the Qhualhul Key Fragments around the map. Rebus is the last known Urzuk on the Sonarian continent, and the rest of his species whereabouts are unknown, presumably elsewhere on the Orb. This individual is capable of powerful magic that allows him to know the location of Warden keys. Rebus was taught by the species Owa'Stryrus to read and write, meaning that their Journal was legible. This journal contained diagrams of the journeys that he had been on, leading future readers to the possible whereabouts of the fabled key fragments of the Boreal Warden. Rebus was recaptured at the end of the “Mystery of the Keys” Event, by Boreal Warden.

Appearance: The Urzuk is a large quadrupedal creature with large wings, a long tail ending in a sharp tip that somewhat resembles a scorpion's stinger, strong front legs, frills behind the head, long tufted ears, and a brown elongated face mask. Urzuk has three black eyes on its mask with purple glowing iris. The third eye located vertically between the first and second eye. Between its horns there is fourth floating eye, diamond-shaped. On its neck there are two gold half rings. Its hands resemble those of a human, with five fingers, although it is quadrupedal. Next to its ankles float three small feathers. Its belly, unlike the white-beige base, is dark purple, and it is dotted with eye spots, but these eyes are not real. Its hind legs are also dark purple, and they also have two eye spots. There is a gold ring on Urzuk's hind ankles. The Urzuk's hind paws, unlike its front paws, are cat-like, and they are three-toed. Its wings are large and smooth, they have almost no sharp edges. In front of the wings are float 3 feather-like things. The base of the wing is dark purple, like the belly and legs, but the feathers themselves are beige, like the base. Urzuk's tail itself is dark purple, being something of an extension of the spot on its belly, but it has a tuft of beige fur hanging off it at the beginning, and is almost entirely decorated with gold rings. The tip of the tail, which resembles a scorpion's stinger, is golden, and in the center of it there is an eye, with black eye with purple glowing iris. Description: A fragment of ancient times, the uncanny Urzuk are the divine yet mischievous guardians of sacred lands, tombs and hidden treasures. These golems are struck with the cruel curse of eternal life, as they can never truly perish even after they've fallen apart.

Owa'Stryrus are very loyal. Once they've found their true first love, there will be not be a second lover, no matter the gender. Upon finding their mates, both Owa'Stryrus will exchange one of their quills. They must then take very good care of it. The two Owa'Stryrus will travel together and watch how another treats their given quill for a moon. Each partner's satisfaction depends on the condition of those quills. This doesn't mean that an Owa'Stryrus that has badly damaged a quill will be immediately rejected; one could accidentally damage another's quill, which is acceptable as long as they show signs of regret and try their best to fix it. If either party intentionally damages another's quill, that Owa'Stryrus will be seen as a careless, indifferent being and will be left alone with the broken quill to be shamed for their lifetime. When a moon has passed and both agree to forever be lovers, they will use their exchanged quill to draw patterns on each other's bodies, and those patterns will be glimmering.When an Owa'Stryrus dies, the alpha Owa'Stryrus will engrave the dead individual's rune onto an ancient stone. The remains will be absorbed into that stone, causing the rune to emit an aura. The emitted aura indicates that the deceased one has not gone away, but had become one with Sonaria — the land, sea, and sky — returned into part of nature. These energies can also power up other Owa'Stryrus, allowing them to see certain memories of the deceased.

The rune stones of the deceased will be placed in various locations across Sonaria. Where exactly they are placed is based on the individual Owa'Stryrus's last wish before death. For a pair of lover Owa'Stryrus, if either of them dies, the remaining individual will keep the rune stone of their mate for the rest of their lives. They will never let anything happen to it, relentlessly waiting every day for their mates to return, even though it could never happen and they must stay with the unbearable pain of grief for the rest of their lives. Some Owa'Stryrus couldn't endure such pain and died after their partners right away, so they could be engraved onto the same stone as their loved one. If any Owa'Stryrus were to turn their back on their colony, they would get their quills ripped off and be banished forever. They get marked with an ‘outcast symbol’ painted in Stryrus Ink on their heads to seal their powers, and their names will be on the Dark Scroll. Gender in Owa'Stryrus is not classified by appearance. An Owa'Stryrus's appearance only indicates whether or not an individual is an apprentice or a senior or higher; they can be any gender independent of their appearance. Apprentice Owa'Stryrus possess a rune on their heads that will glow brighter every time they've completed their trials until promoted to senior in their hierarchy. In order to receive their promotion, one must be approved by the alpha Owa'Stryrus. Cleaning the Warden Shrines is a common punishment for misbehaving apprentices. For some reason, their main source of food is shrimp. No one knows how these two organisms are related.

Owa'Stryrus has a feathered body with multiple shades of red, orange, and yellow on it with blue markings on its shoulders. It has an owl-shaped head with blue eyes, a small beak, and maroon ears with two (2) smaller feathers behind them. Owa'Stryrus's legs are unique as the top part has part of its skin remain and the bottom half is comprised of rocks. It has a long tail with feathers at the end of it and two (2) banners with at the start of the tail. The wings are detached from its body, with the spot where they link to the body housing a blue orb in each wing, which are feathered, and have three (3) large runes at each of the tips, each rune having a letter of its name on it.

It doesn't know how to speak human language at all, instead it can make owlish noises.