Nice Job Bomb.
I'm still rooting for the Bird though.
Bomb, ignore the little Irish man. I think he might be drunk. I'll drag him back to his County and toss him in a water trough.
Posted By Xarkfleur at 6:32 PM - Mon Oct 14 2019
Hopefully it's not a Umberhawk Phoenix
Cheers!
Actually, I've been toying with the Umberhawk as a shadowy mythic foil to a similar bird who shares a relationship with light--essentially a proto-phoenix--called the Ocherhawk. The story goes, the two were born when the Two-Fold Queen divided light from darkness. When they were in balance, all was well. One day, a hunter slew the Ocherhawk, and from each feather that fell in that battle there grew a phoenix. The Umberhawk was enraged by the loss of its pair, and at night stalked and slew the Children of Mann relentlessly (though it would spare you if you were the companion of a phoenix). For ages, the dark bird ravaged the area where its pair was killed, and this land came to be known as False Dusk, for even Angelica was fearful to look upon the land. Eventually, Zylpha ended the centuries of imbalance as a divine act of the Two-Fold Queen's will.