The Etheralotus is a Tier 4 flying omnivore. The species is available in the various giveaways and trades Moderators and Administrators of the Creatures of Sonaria Discord participate in, as this creature is an Role Limited that can only be traded by them. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 2000♂/20000♀ Shooms.
Description
“ | These elusive omnivores seamlessly fly through the air, a freezing trail of sparkling dust following in pursuit. | „ |
~ In-game Description |
Appearance
The Etheralotus is a large creature that resembles a wyvern. It has jagged wingtips and a spiky body. On its head and chin, it has a comb that looks like the ones on a chicken, particularly the Penedesenca breed. Its back, rump, and tail have connected tall spikes. The tail is thicker in the middle. There are patterns that look like eyes on the upper side of its wings and on the side of its tail. Some decorative elements hang from its lower jaw and rump. The bottom and tips of its wings have a web-like structure with two long claws.
Males
Males have forward-pointing horns.
Females
Females have backward-pointing horns.
Abilities
Main Article: Creature Abilities
This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Etheralotus. (editor list)
- Bleed Block/Block Bleed is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting bleed status from melee attacks at the very least, and every other source at most. Recode's equivalent of bleed defense; it is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 bleed per hit and the receiver has 60% bleed defense, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 bleed.
- If a creature's Block Bleed is 100%, then they are immune to Bleed inflicted by melee direct attacks once fully grown. This ability is gained gradually as the creature ages, that is, a creature with 100% Block Bleed will have some fraction of bleed defense while growing, being such fraction bigger as it grows.
- A negative value in-game may indicate an extra vulnerability to the status effect this ability is supposed to protect from.
- Frostbite Block/Block Frostbite is a passive ability that grants the creature resistance to getting frostbite status from melee attacks at the very least, and every other source at most. It is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 frostbite per hit and the receiver has 60% block frostbite, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 frostbite.
- Block Poison/Poison Block is a passive ability that grants resistance to poison status once they reach max age (100). Like many other block defenses, it works by blocking a percentage of the ailment received. If a creature's Poison Block is 100%, then they are immune to those stats (and will be healed instantly if they are somehow applied) once they reach age 100.
- Broodwatcher is a passive ability that allows creatures to assist in the gestation of other player's eggs. It applies one stack of Gestation Buff to nearby creatures, which increases other creatures' egg gestation speed by 2.5%. The total buff any nesting species can receive is 5%, so only two Broodwatchers can be effective at any one time. Additionally, when sitting near a nest, the Broodwatcher gains 5 Defensive, which starts to decrease if they move.
- Frostbite touch/Defensive Frostbite is an ability that defensively deals frostbite when bitten.
- Egg Stealer is an active ability that allows certain creatures to actively interact with the interact buttons with nests in order to eat the eggs from the nest directly, or steal their Eggs as edible food to consume later. Taking an egg or fully eating it will make the respective nest progress for that egg reset to 0. Eating an egg directly from the nest will not cause such reset unless eaten fully. Only creatures with this ability can consume such eggs. If a creature has this ability, eggs are also highlighted with an egg icon when scenting.
- Flight is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all Fliers and legacy mobility type All-Terrain creatures have this ability. However, due to the fact all-terrain got absorbed into Flier, this means that with purely recode terminology, only fliers have the ability. Creatures with flight ability as dominant cannot jump per se (only with jump superseding flight if jump has a certain jump age value), they instead enter flight or glide mode - however some creatures may also present the jump ability replacing the flight one as the dominant at some point in their live stage. Flying and takeoff both take stamina. If there's not enough stamina, the creature cannot fly. A creature with flight can switch between flight and glide and vice-versa without that switch costing stamina.
- Frostbite Attack is an ability that offensively deals frostbite when biting. A negative value means that it heals an amount of such status upon biting.
- Frosty is a passive ability, equivalent to Legacy's Winter Tag, and causes the creature with the tag to receive an +25% stamina regeneration, +25% health regeneration, -25% thirst depletion, and -25% hunger depletion during Winter and Famine seasons.
- Glide is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all gliders and glider semi-aquatics have this ability as primary. However, due to the fact glider semi-aquatics got absorbed into Semi-Aquatics, the correct recode terminology would be to say that all Gliders and a few Semi-Aquatics and Aquatics have this ability as primary. Flier (and all-terrain) creatures have this ability as well, but the Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight button is not their primary, but the toggle glide button. Creatures with glide ability cannot jump per se, they instead enter flight or glide mode, unless jump supersedes them via some jump age value. If there's not enough stamina, the creature can hardly glide. Depending on some creature factors like tier and glide stamina regeneration, as well as some environmental conditions, a creature can or cannot regain stamina while gliding.
- Keen Observer is a passive ability that allows the user to see the health of nearby creatures as a green HP bar over them. It also includes the ability to see equipped Plushies and all the Traits and status effects affecting them, albeit not their exact levels directly (nor the exact traits due to the indicators all being in green or red according to the buffs or debuffs). This has several advantages, from knowing who to protect, knowing if someone is suffering hypothermia/hunger/dehydration, spotting invisible and scent-hidden creatures, to knowing which target is the weakest/most debuffed and acting in consequence.
- Storm Breath is an active ability using the breath control (C on PC or on Mobile) that is a type of Elemental Breath that inflicts 0.002 DPS (0.001% PER HIT). It has a Capacity of 20 seconds of firetime before recoil damage, a Regen Rate of 2 seconds, and a Range of 250 studs. Storm Breath can also inflict SLOWED (Probability = 30%, no stacking), and BlurredVision (Probability = 35%, no stacking).
Carry-able Creatures
The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Etheralotus is carried by, can carry (grab), can latch, and can be latched by in RECODE. To see the lists and their toggles to view each, click on the collapsible text to the right of the table below, to Expand or Collapse the list.
Can-Grab ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Etheralotus can grab and carry, taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Etheralotus (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 4 and can carry any creature from any lower tier size.* There is no creature which the Etheralotus can currently carry
Grabbed-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab and thus carry a non-elder fully-grown adult Etheralotus taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Etheralotus (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 4 and can be picked up by any creature with higher tier and the Grab ability, as follows:[Expand] Carry-able by:
Can-Latch ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Etheralotus can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Etheralotus (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 4 and can latch onto any higher tier size.* There is no creature which the Etheralotus can currently grab but not carry
Latched-By ListThis section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab but not carry (latch onto) the non-elder fully-grown Etheralotus discounting special abilities. The Etheralotus (a(n) omnivore) has 5250 weight and can be grabbed by any creature with sufficiently lower weight, as follows:[Expand] Grab-able by:
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Trivia
- Concept by Undeary in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Etheralotus' name is derived from the word "ethereal".[1]
- The original Etheralotus was rigged live on YouTube by Wolfragon, featured alongside Gnolrok and Imeaorn.
- Animated by Mukudori.
- Redesign concept by MacRenee in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
- Redesign modeled by JaxonBirb.
- Redesign rigged by ThunderBoo666.
- Redesign animated by Zyraphes.
- The Etheralotus is an exclusive creature to Discord moderators and admins, meaning it is only provided to users with those roles.
- Applicable players receive at least 20 Etheralotus species each month.
- It was stated in the official Creatures of Sonaria Discord that this creature, once released, would not appear in the creatures list of players who did not own the species, nor be purchasable in the Shoom Shop.
- This turned out to be false; Etheralotus does appear in the creatures list, and it can be purchased as a stored creature from the Shoom Shop.
- Later it was stated it could be traded the same way as Aereis, however, the Developers have stated there would be no more rank-exclusive creatures after Sigmatox. This turned out to be false as well, as Etheralotus came out in December of 2022, a while after Sigmatox's release in January of 2022, followed by Verza, Owa'Stryrus, and Somnia Elus all releasing in 2023.
Gallery
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