Creature Creation Challenge #12

[Malkuthe Highwind]

Creature Creation Challenge​

This challenge explores one facet of worldbuilding: creature creation, as the title says. Whether or not you're a worldbuilder, at one point or another, you're bound to create different kinds of flora and fauna for your world. This challenge brings two new things to the table: first, all the submissions for this challenge will be put into a "bestiary" of sorts in the Worldbuilder's Guild which will be a resource for yourself and anyone who needs creatures for their worlds; second, every week, there will be a different difficulty for the challenge. ​

The Difficulty Levels

Difficulty 1

- build a creature around a specific theme

Difficulty 2

- build a creature with a specific body part around a specific theme

Difficulty 3

- build a creature to fit a specific role in an ecosystem with a specific body part around a specific theme

Difficulty 4

- build a creature based upon an animal on earth to fit a specific role in an ecosystem with a specific body part around a specific theme

Difficulty 5

- build a creature that will survive in a specific environment based upon an animal on earth and fit a specific role in an ecosystem with a specific body part around a specific theme.

This Week's Difficulty:

- build a creature to fit a specific role in an ecosystem with a specific body part around a specific theme

This Week's Criteria:
Theme: Sacred
Body Part: Wings
Role: Herbivore

Feel free to use this following template for your creatures. You can add on to it or remove things from it as you wish or not use it at all.

Creature Template

Name:
Appearance:
Role: Predator/prey/producer
Habitat:
Life-span:
Sentient: Yes/No
Sapient: Yes/No
Means of Sustenance:
Favourite Food Source:
Major Competition:
Mating Rituals: Courtship rituals, mating grounds, mating season, et cetera
Reproduction: you can include period of gestation
Organization: does this creature travel in packs or herds, or is it a solitary creature that only meets with members of its species for the mating season?
Other:

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The Bestiary​

 

[Jae- The nonexistant]

((I'm a little new at this, but I'm gonna try my best =) Let me know if I did anything wrong!))

Name: Adar Lwch Gwain (ALG)
Appearance: The ALG is as if you took a wolf, a falcon, and a human and mixed their DNA. The most common colors are black (base fur) and red, white, or blue (accent colors).

Role: Predator
Habitat: Volcanoes
Life-span: 100-500 human years (50 human years= 1 ALG year)
Sentient: Yes
Sapient: Yes
Favourite Food Source: Kilimanjaro Impatients

Mating Rituals: Courtship rituals. The male must do a 'fire dance' and the dance must be impressive enough to gain the female's attraction. Dance is performed at the explosion of a volcano above ground or underwater.
Reproduction: Live Birth, like baby birds directly after hatching an egg.
Organization: Solitary
Other: The Adar Lwch Gwain can understand body movements of any species it encounters, even though it might not understand their speech. It was worshiped by the ancient Greeks and Romans.