(Pronounced: Fl-uh-am-burt)
Size: Ranges 2-4ft (Please note they're akin to the length of the average corn snake or ball python when fully unraveled, but the Flamebert tends to keep its tail curled and neck curved)
Type: Mystical Companion
The Flamebert are a mysterious species. Little is known about them due to their lifestyle, and that they were thought extinct. There's also the fact that they birth live young, only one per year. The offspring are so fragile and lack fur, so the father wraps them in this wax and puts them into a hatchery comb, where only their heads stick out, like bees. Their body resembles a ferret, complete with stripes of colorful hue that matches their emotions, as well as gives light to the fact that they are poisonous to eat. Their face resembles that of a fuzzy chameleon, as does their long curled tails. The six feet of the Flamebert are rather small, used only for digging with two hook-like retractable talons on each appendage, for grasping and climbing. The Flamebert moves on the ground through a mix of slithering and fast crawling. However, being in the air is another, much faster matter. A large set of bee-like wings resides upon its back, with a smaller set upon the tail. The tail set is rarely used, save for dire need and when steering with its form when snaking, almost swimming through the air. The Flamebert has two beady black eyes of amazing sight, and a pair of thick fuzzed antennae coming out from its head. A hidden feature of the Flamebert are their lack of teeth, and a long sticky tongue used for snatching insects and fruits from trees.
Flamebert are burrowing creatures, who live in bonding colonies and fill the fissures and cracks of rock walls of canyons, valleys and mountains with thick wax to build their nesting homes and roaming tunnels. As water and sand erode the stones and ground around them, Flamebert repair them, invisibly to the outside world. Because of this, they have been known to hollow out entire mountains and were once seen as an infestation by Dwarves, Moriel and Chirot. The Dwarves, Moriel and Chirot thought they eradicated them, much to their dismay. After they were seemingly wiped out, rich tropic lands began to crumble as mountains and ecosystems collapsed without the scavenging and general upkeep of the Flamebert, causing many races to migrate for new habitable lands as the areas just.. died.
Ability Outline:
Deaf- Flamebert have amazing eyesight and can feel vibrations, but they are otherwise deaf to the sounds around them.
Gatherer - Flamebert like to gather things. They gather what they want, what you tell them, and what they think they should. They destroy gardens by doing this, but they're also useful for harvesting fruits from high trees. The Flamebert can carry a maximum load of 5lbs before it becomes hindered. They can't lift more than 8lbs at all.
Dance - Not quite an ability, but what it does. Flamebert love music and happily raise their forearms in the air and dance around in circles. Some think this is somehow communication. Others thing they're just party animals. Truly, they adore certain vibrations.
Fine Hairs - Beyond the soft snuggles, Flamebert are able to purposely shed fine hairs from their body that act as terrible irritants to those they touch. It's a good defense mechanism. Some people collect these and add them as ingredients to itching powder.
Waxwork - Flamebert create their own wax from plant fibers and other means, and use this wax to sculpt out homes. Due to lacking any real offensive abilities, Flamebert are useful to waxworkers for this reason. Unfortunately, this also means many of their homes get destroyed from others collecting their wax abodes. This wax is produced by spit, which they shoot everywhere to make their creations, as well as spit at predators. The wax is not hot, but more of a quickly wax-solidifying slime that peels off.
OOC: I've made the Flamebert with Loki in mind. He's a rather pacifistic mage waxworker, and since he can't have a monstrous bumble bee and I can't think of any other insect that would fit him.. I decided on this. I made a quick sketch for reference to get the appearance across, and if approved, I plan to flesh it out and color it.
