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Phoenix

The phoenix was a condor-sized bird that constantly burned with fire and surveyed its surroundings with its twin heads. Phoenixes bore a massive amount of magical power, granting them what was essentially immortality as well as the power to summon fire.

A Phoenix’s life cycle had no end or beginning, so it was difficult to tell whether or not they truly reproduced, or if there was a set number of them on Legere at once. The “beginning” takes place in a nest, where the phoenix lay dormant inside a black, football-sized egg. After mere hours, the phoenix would erupt from the shell and take to the sky without hesitation; there was no adolescent stage in its life. The phoenix returned to reincarnate as an egg upon taking sustaining lethal wounds or after living for 7 years. Destroying a phoenix egg before it hatched would not kill the phoenix: in fact, within a few days, the ash from the egg and nest would reform in the exact spot it was left.

Phoenix were genderless, lacking sexual organs entirely. The two heads of the phoenix provided a female and male component in the organism, similar to that of a plant. Needless to say, phoenixes did not have to worry about loneliness despite living in solitude.

Phoenix feathers could often be collected from empty nests, and had potent enough magic within them to be used as healing ingredients or magical firestarters.

Phoenixes could tap into potentially devastating power if agitated. They could spit motes of flame, send out gusts of scalding air with a flap of its wings, transform into rushing spheres of fire, and even project potent radiation with their gaze to start fires from a distance. To fuel their intensely magical biology, phoenixes would hunt and feast upon other highly magical organisms like novae, gog rats and obsidian scorpions.