Novus Warden

This is the recode-only page for Novus Warden. To read information about the legacy-only Novus Warden, see Novus Warden/Legacy, or select the Legacy Novus Warden link from the NavNext.

Novus Warden
Classification
Classified As	Land Sea Sky Special (?) Warden (?)
Basic Information
Diet	Omnivore
Type	Flier
Tier	5 (Huge)
Growth Time	1h 10min · Teen - 23min 20s · Adult - 46min 40s · Full Grown - 1h 10min · Full Elder - 2h 20min Veneration rate: x1: · Full Elder phase II - 8h 20min · Full Sage - 14h 20min · Full Master - 20h 20min · Full Venerated/Ancient - 26h 20min
Blood Color	Black
Blood Texture	Neon
Stats [Click] for extended stats
Health	7000 (5% regen) ( WR-> 0% regen)
Health	7000 (5% regen) ( WR-> 0% regen)
Weight	5250
Weight	5250
Appetite	90 1 thirst (45 min) (aSm-> 45 min) 1 hunger (45 min) (aSm-> 45 min)
Appetite	90 1 thirst (45 min) (aSm-> 45 min) 1 hunger (45 min) (aSm-> 45 min)
Speed	40 walk aSm-> 70 59 sprint aSm-> 103.25 28 fly/glide 20% fly sprint
Speed	40 walk aSm-> 70 59 sprint aSm-> 103.25 28 fly/glide 20% fly sprint
Damage	30 WR-> 255
Damage	30 WR-> 255
Bite Cooldown	1
Bite Cooldown	1
Moisture	N/A
Moisture	N/A
Oxygen	N/A
Oxygen	N/A
Stamina	80 aSm-> 120 (2 regen) (aSm-> 4 regen) (WR-> 4 regen) (1 glide regen) (aSm-> 2 glide regen) (WR-> 2 glide regen) 20 takeoff mult.
Stamina	80 aSm-> 120 (2 regen) (aSm-> 4 regen) (WR-> 4 regen) (1 glide regen) (aSm-> 2 glide regen) (WR-> 2 glide regen) 20 takeoff mult.
Nightvision	1/3 (Bad)
Nightvision	1/3 (Bad)
Turn	3
Turn	3
Status Resistances
Block Bleed	40%
Block Burn	25%
Block Injury	40%
Block Necropoison	100%
Block Poison	25%
Breath Resistance	90%
Other Abilities
Dart	Pwr. 4 Stam. 18
Active Ability List	Gale, Warden's Rage
/C	Cloud Breath
Passive Abilities List	Agile Swimmer, Block Bleed (0.4), Block Burn (0.25), Block Injury (0.4), Block Necropoison (1.00), Block Poison (0.25), Breath Resistance (0.9), Climber, Diver (5), Warden's Resistance
Miscellaneous
Concept by	Kyzenith
Date added	05/22/2022 22 May 2022 00:00:00
Sounds	Note: The Novus Warden currently borrows the calls of the Lerachu but low-pitched Broadcast Friendly Aggro Voice

The Novus Warden is a Tier 5 flying omnivore. The species is not currently available, but was available in the LSS Shop for 6000 Stars after reaching 400,000,000 Global Stars during the LSS Event 2025, or getting the Swift Victory LSS Event 2025 bundle for 1599 Robux, or getting the Legacy of Novus LSS Event 2025 bundle for 1599 Robux.

It was previously available in...

• LSS Event 2022 after completing the Omnis mission and donating 35,000 Shooms.
• LSS Event 2023 by meeting its donation and mission completion criteria.
• LSS Shop for 3,500 Points after reaching 225,000,000 Team Points during the LSS Event 2024.

It is an Event Warden. The trial version is available in the Trial Creatures Shop for 3000^♂/30000^♀ Shooms.

Description

“	This warden's appearance marks the start of fresh life, but hardly spotted as it is able to traverse the land, skies and seas. The Novus Warden is a large, majestic beast bound by its incredible life force and magic, so strong its aura sometimes helps the elements around it to flourish.	„
	~ In-game Description

Lore

✍️ Lore

This section is intended to describe Novus Warden's canonical lore, in compliance with the officially-recognized lore. Refer to the document featured here.

• This warden cares deeply about order and the restriction of chaos. Often having aspirations larger than other wardens, this individual is always curious about limitations of its own power and influence.

Behavior

🧠 Creature Behavior

This section is intended to describe Novus Warden's headcanon behavior for role-play and general gameplay behavior, or behavior that is realistically expected of this creature, as confirmed by the creature's creator. It does not conflict with official lore, nor is actual lore canon, but still supersedes any behavior headcanon not stemming from the creator. For more information, see here.

• The Novus Warden has the same intelligence levels as the other wardens, usually staying underwater. Solitary, but many creatures like to surround it due to the positive natural aura it emits.
• It does not have eyes and instead uses its extremely long protrusions to ‘see’ the world around it.
• The Novus Warden is usually found alone, passive most of the time, and only attacks if it faces a real threat.
• The Novus Warden usually enjoys floating in the water as it uses up less of its magic.
• Sometimes stranded creatures in the middle of the sea find themselves being carried to shore by the Novus Warden.
• The Novus Warden is a species capable of feeling emotion. Their aura changes completely when in a bad temper, making those too close to it feel uneasy.
  • The Novus Warden can laugh.

Artist Headcanon

🎨 Artist Headcanon

This section is intended to describe Novus Warden's lore by the artist that has been deemed non-canonical as of this statement. To see officially-recognized lore, refer to the document featured here. For more information on what qualifies as artist headcanon, see here.

• The way that this creature appeared in Sonaria is completely unknown but, some people believe it came from another planet. Somehow, every time it emerges, it looks completely fresh and untouched, as well as being the most (chronologically) recent warden to be spotted, thus earning the name 'Novus Warden'.
  • Please note that while some sections of this previous statement were the original official reason to call this Warden 'Novus', they became outdated by the release of Eigion Warden and upon the release of Recode, they were left on a limbo.
• According to pre-recode Lore, one of its first sightings recorded had seen it carry two eggs in its arm. The eggs most likely belonged to the Novus Warden itself.

Appearance

The Novus Warden is a hexapodal, rocky shrimp-like creature covered in armor, spikes, and intricate patterns with no seen eyes. Its limbs are formed of floating rock interconnected by a bright static flux slightly resembling clouds and with a spiral pattern on each one, and its tail is decorated by floating pebbles. The same spiral pattern can be seen engraved into the armor on its tail-base. Its head features a long, curved snout and its neck has layers of armor similar to that of a crustacean. At the base of its tail, two prominent blade-like protrusions can be seen. Like other Wardens, it dons a mask-like ornament which levitates above its head. Its mask appears to resemble leaves and shrimp-tails.

Males

Males have no additional features.

Females

Females have curved, ram-like horns behind their jaws.

Abilities

Main Article: Creature Abilities

This section is intended to list and describe the abilities of the Novus Warden. (editor list)

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• Agile Swimmer is a passive ability that causes the player to receive the following buffs when submerged underwater for more than a second:
• 100% more stamina regeneration
• 50% more total stamina
• 75% more walk speed
• 75% more sprint speed
• A % increase in oxygen (oxygen increase percentage is based off the amount of oxygen the creature originally has)

Additionally, a glider semi-aquatic (and an aqua-glider) can abuse the extra stamina to increase the number of glide flaps it can perform from the water boosted. Until they touch the ground or stop gliding, the boosted stamina amount will remain.

• Bleed Block/Block Bleed is a percentage based passive ability that grants the user resistance to getting bleed status from melee attacks at minimum. If an attacker deals 5 bleed per hit and the receiver has 60% Block Bleed, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 bleed. This ability is gained gradually as the creature ages. If a creature's Block Bleed is 100%, then they are immune to Bleed inflicted by melee direct attacks once fully grown. If a creature's Block Bleed is negative, it may indicate an extra vulnerability to the status effect.
• Burn Block/Block Burn is a passive ability that grants the user resistance to getting burn status from melee attacks. It is percentage based. For example, if an attacker deals 5 burn per hit and the receiver has 60% block burn, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 burn.
  • If a creature's block burn is 100%, then they are immune to Burn inflicted by melee direct attacks once fully grown. This ability is gained gradually as the creature ages. A negative value may indicate that the creature is vulnerable to burn effects.
• Injury Block/Block Injury is a passive ability that grants the user resistance to getting Injury status from melee attacks at the very least. It is percentage based, e.g. if an attacker deals 5 Injury per hit and the receiver has 60% Injury Block, then the receiver gets only 2 of that 5 Injury.
• Block Necropoison is a resistance against the Necropoison Status that reduces the amount of status absorbed and damage dealt by it when accumulating this status.
• 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.
• Breath Damage Resistance is a passive ability that decreases the percentage of damage received by the user from breath abilities. A 100% breath resistance means full immunity from the damage dealt from breaths, but not for the status effects they afflict, which remain unaffected.
• Climber is a passive ability that allows the user to walk on walls and ceilings. To detach from a wall, press the Space on PC. On Mobile, press the dedicated Detach button, or, if the creature has Jump, press the jump button.
• Cloud 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 DPS (0% PER HIT). It has a Capacity of 10, a Regen Rate of 2.5, and a Range of 250 studs. It provides SelfHeal at 2% Max health regen per sec and Stamina Regen at 5% Max stamina regen per sec. It can also self-provide Water Regeneration (Thirst refill, the more the higher level is stacked) (Probability = 99%, no stacking), and Muddy (Probability = 40%, no STACKS).
• Dart is an active ability of the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight that propels the creature forward in water while consuming a set amount of stamina. Both the speed boost and stamina consumption depend on the creature. All creatures capable of jump that are semi-aquatic can dart when underwater, along with aquatic species. A dart will become a jump if the impulse propels the creature outside of water. If there is not enough stamina, a creature cannot dart.
  • The wiki prepends to dart power a negative symbol ("-") to determine if a creature's dart propels backwards.
• Diver is a passive ability that grants the user the ability to temporarily keep flying underwater for a short period of time while retaining their diving speed. The exact period of time varies per creature.
• Flight is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight that is inherent to all Fliers. Creatures with a flight ability cannot jump and 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 life stage. Flying and takeoff both take stamina, but gliding does not. If a creature does not possess enough stamina, it cannot fly. A creature with flight can switch between flight and glide.
• Gale is an active ability that slows down nearby creatures' swim and sprint speeds by 25% and impacts their vision. Upon activation, a translucid shockwave-like effect will appear and explode, only to contract a second later. Has a 90 second cooldown.
• Glide is an active ability pertaining to the special control Jump/Dart/Glide/Flight and inherent to all gliders and glider semi-aquatics. Flier creatures have this ability as well, but can only be toggled by pressing (F on PC or on Mobile) or the respective button on mobile after initializing flight. Creatures with glide ability cannot jump, unless it supersedes them via an age value. 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.
• Warden's Rage is an active toggleable ability that grants the user an increase in damage capabilities according to how much HP they are missing with a status effect called Warden's Rage. This ability only appears once the creature has reached adult age, and like invisibility, it can be deactivated at any time but has a 30 seconds cooldown between activation triggers. If the ability is disabled mid-combat, the status effect will remain until next reactivation.

• • During Warden's rage:
    • Stamina Regeneration gets doubled.
    • Passive health regeneration is disabled.
    • Attack damage is multiplied by (7.5 x WardenStrength) + 1 (where WardenStrength goes from 0 at 100% HP to 1 at 50% HP and below. This means that in the range of 100% it deals base damage, while steadily increasing until it hits its peak of 8.5x damage, and stays at that 8.5x peak from 50% to 0%. Take note that the wardens' damage increase can be low when attacked with low damage attacks. Be aware of low tiers with low damage but with high status effects.
• Warden's Resistance is a passive ability that prevents ailments from being taken below 50% health.

Carry-able Creatures

The Can-Carry lists features lists of creatures that Novus Warden 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.

See Can-Grab, Grabbed-By, Can-Latch, and Latched-By Lists

Can-Grab List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Novus Warden can grab and carry (pick-up), taking into account if this creature has grab/latch and discounting any other special abilities. The Novus Warden (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 5 with 5250 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Grab Ability, it can pick up any creature of lower or equal tier with enough lighter weight difference. * There is no creature which the Novus Warden can currently carry Grabbed-By List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that can grab and thus carry a non-elder fully-grown adult Novus Warden taking into account grab/latch abilities and discounting special abilities. The Novus Warden (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 5 with 5250 lbs of weight and can be picked up by any creature of higher or equal tier with enough heavier weight difference and the Grab ability, as follows: [ Expand Collapse ] Carry-able by: • Aqoxturumox • Arachyu • Eigion Warden • Gimon-Ogu • Iztajuatl • Kaegiszarr • Kendyll • Magnacetus • Opralegion • Sarcosiris • Syroudon • Turgeon • Vahiaex Can-Latch List This section is intended to list the non-elder fully-grown adult creatures that the non-elder fully-grown Novus Warden can latch into, but not carry; taking into account latch/grab abilities and discounting any other special ability. The Novus Warden (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 5 with 5250 lbs of weight and as long as it has the Latch ability, it can latch into any creature of higher tier with enough heavier weight difference. * There is no creature which the Novus Warden can currently grab but not carry Latched-By List This 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 Novus Warden discounting special abilities. The Novus Warden (a(n) omnivore) is a tier 5 with 5250 lbs of weight and can be latched onto by any creature of lower tier and enough lighter weight difference, as follows: [ Expand Collapse ] Grab-able by: • Alkaksu • Belluvaraptor • Cantapodi • Dyaelatura • Felifaux • Fernifly • Flipli • Frigiboa • Fyluf • Ghalgeya • Gobbatlin • Gobli • Hemokai • Jeff • Koini • Mekmek • Minawii • Nimoona • Pernirex • Plumetik • Rukig • Shiyaro • Yama'tu

Trivia

• Concept by Kyzenith on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
  • Primarily inspired by shrimp, along with floating rocks.
  • According to lore, "the Novus Warden's appearance marks the start of fresh life, but is extremely hard to spot as it can traverse the land, skies, and seas. The Novus Warden is a large, majestic beast bound by its incredible life force and magic, so strong its aura sometimes helps the elements around it to flourish".
  • Lore-wise, Novus Warden is also called Omnibus - Sentinel of Form and Harbinger of the Unknown. However, the name is spelt Omnis (meaning 'all' or 'everything') on the official concept art.
• The Novus Warden is the first (and only) released All-terrain Warden.
• Novus Warden was previously thought and intended to be the first never-returning Warden, but returned in the Land-Sea-Sky Event of 2023 by highly-demanded community request.
• The Novus Warden is the first creature to receive black blood. Because of this, when dying it drops a black carcass.
  • No real-life creature has this color exactly, albeit hemoglobin (gives red blood to mammals)-venous blood can get somewhat close. An example of this, though not the only one, would be the Ayam Cemani, an Indonesian chicken breed with fibromelanism, which makes them totally black from the inside out; the only non-black things about them is their white eggs and red blood, though the latter is commonly mistaken to be black because of its very dark red color.
  • The reason that the Novus Warden has black blood is because when East was setting up Novus Warden, she made a poll to decide which blood color Novus Warden would have, and black won the poll.
  • The Novus Warden's carcass was later updated to have un-textured neon black meat. (Again, this can be seen in real life animals such as the above mentioned Ayam Cemani, albeit it's not neon.)
• The Novus Warden is the first completely untradeable creature.
  • However, during the first days of the first two LSS events, it was mistakenly tradeable like any common creature.
    • Note: The following value and explanation were an unofficial educated guess, and did and does not serve as an exact reference, moreso a general idea of how many could exist after LSS Event 2022 but before LSS Event 2023, not including variables such as species lost to data issues, when trading, inactive or terminated, or how many users donated an excess of Shooms. Please keep this in mind. There were estimated to be around 20,000 Novus Warden species in existence before LSS Event 2023 (700 million, subtracted 50 million due to those who donated for the void palette that would've been awarded, divided by 35,000, the number needed for this species in Shooms during the first LSS Event. 700 million/35,000 = 20,000 ± 3000, considered the margin of error and can vary to extremes).
    • Novus Warden returned for the next LSS Events, although the species still remained untradeable.
• Despite Sonar Studios staff saying that it would never come back, the Novus Warden ended up returning for every other LSS Event.
• The Novus Warden is sometimes dubbed the "Rocky Shrimp Warden", "Rocky Warden", "Shrimp Warden" or "Flying Warden" by the playerbase.
• The Novus Warden is the first all-terrain with limbs detached from its body.
  • Another creature with limbs detached from its body is the semi-aquatic, non-all-terrain Zohdok.
• There was a bug with a random green dot related with this Warden's Rage effects appearing on the left of this creature. This seems to have been patched, but a new bug appeared where a small cubic piece falls when spawning into the map.
• The writing on the Novus Warden's Warden statue tablet translates to "Omnibus", its name in the official lore. In legacy, the tablet instead had the word "False" written on it, leading many people to believe that it is not a true warden.
• The Novus Warden's lore name, Omnibus, is a Latin word translating to the phrase 'for all'.

Gallery

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This tab is intended to present official concept sheets and color palettes for the Novus Warden.

Novus Warden concept art

Novus Warden's primary color palette

This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development for the Novus Warden, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.

Novus Warden model development 1

Novus Warden model development 2

Novus Warden model development 3

Novus Warden finished model

Novus Warden rendered

NovusWardenDev1

Clip provided by East (BlueFlame950), CoS Discord, 5/17/2022

This tab is intended to present anything to further observe the Novus Warden's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.

Juvenile Novus Warden

Teen Novus Warden

Adult Novus Warden

The different growth stages of the Novus Warden in one image

A closer view of Novus Warden's gender dimorphism

This tab is intended to present how different Mutations appear on the Novus Warden.

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Capacity: 41 targets found, 41 wiki-looked, 0 e.o.
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Albino Novus Warden

Old Albino male Novus Warden

Old Albino female Novus Warden

Amethyst female Novus Warden

Previous amethyst female Novus Warden; note the grey areas

Bewitched Novus Warden

Old Bewitched male Novus Warden

Old Bewitched female Novus Warden

Blood Moon male Novus Warden

Blood Moon female Novus Warden

Blossom male Novus Warden

Blossom female Novus Warden

Custom Clover Novus Warden

Clownfish male Novus Warden

Clownfish female Novus Warden

Clownfish + Glimmer Novus Warden

Coal Chunk Novus Warden

Creator Star Novus Warden

Dark Heart Novus Warden

Previous Dark Heart Novus Warden, note the pinkish parts

Diamond Novus Warden

Dwarfism (right) and albino (left) Novus Warden

Elemental male Novus Warden

Elemental female Novus Warden

Emerald male Novus Warden

Emerald female Novus Warden

Fools Error Novus Warden

Fool's Gold Novus Warden

Frostburn Novus Warden

Previous Frostburn Novus Warden

Old Frostburn Novus Warden with old material

Garnet female Novus Warden

Ghosty male Novus Warden

Ghosty female Novus Warden

Gigantism (right) and Sapphire (left) Novus Warden

Glimmer Novus Warden day/night

Glimmer Novus Warden highlighted

Glowtail Novus Warden

Glowtail + glimmer Novus Warden with its highlight

Old Custom Glow Tail Novus Warden, note the neon on back toes instead of blades and rocks

Old Glow Tail + Glimmer Novus Warden

Harvest female Novus Warden, note the slight difference with original

Harvest + glimmer female Novus Warden

Previous Harvest Novus Warden

Old Harvest Novus Warden

Headless male Novus Warden

Headless female Novus Warden

Old Headless Novus Warden; note that the neck is more transparent

Leucistic Novus Warden

Melanistic Novus Warden

Opal female Novus Warden, day and night light

Overgrown Novus Warden

Overgrown + Glimmer Novus Warden

Pearl Novus Warden

Pearl + Glimmer Novus Warden

Peridot female Novus Warden

Peridot + glimmer female Novus Warden, day and night

Piebald Novus Warden

Old Piebald Novus Warden

Piebald + Glimmer Novus Warden

Pure Heart female Novus Warden

Rose Quartz Novus Warden, day and night light

Ruby female Novus Warden

Sapphire Novus Warden

Shadow male Novus Warden

Shadow female Novus Warden, note that horns are neon white due to lack of separately painted teeth

Shadow Reverse Novus Warden

Shimmer Novus Warden with its highlight

Shimmer + Glimmer Novus Warden, white for shimmer, blue glimmer and pink where they overlap

Shimmer Novus Warden with its old material

Smore male Novus Warden

Smore female Novus Warden

Souls Blessing Novus Warden

Souls Fracture Novus Warden

Stitch Novus Warden

Zombified male Novus Warden

Zombified female Novus Warden

This tab is intended to present images related to the Novus Warden that don't fit into the other tabs.

Novus Warden in the game's icon during the LSS Event 2022, by Nuxodus

"YOUR ESCAPADES WILL BE OUR DOWNFALL" - ???

Novus Warden and Noxulumen seen in one of the game's thumbnails, by MxnavFX

Banner used during LSS Event 2022, by Undeary

Custom Novus Warden using its Warden's Rage ability (recode)

Novus Warden's hitbox

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