Starformed Ehalcodon

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Starformed Ehalcodon
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Character

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Ehalcodon

Faction

Girsh (Loved100 Reputation)

Demeanor

neutral

Pronouns

qe/qem/qyr

Inventory
Inventory
Skills
Skills
Mutations
Mutations
Experience?The XP granted when killed. Click
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a level-based breakdown.

1500 XP

XP Tier

12

Role

Unspecified


Extra info:
  • Swarm Alpha: As long as this creature is adjacent to its target, it grants +2 to the swarm bonuses of each other swarmer who is adjacent to its target.
  • EMP sensitive
  • Can perform the Water Ritual, and teaches their main faction's skill
  • Weighs 201 lbs

Limbs* (Quadruped): * Excludes limbs granted via mutations
Starformed Ehalcodon

A creature of immensity mounts the upper eyeline and radiates Godlight. Haunches dusted with Spindle glitter support a creature-shape sketched to being by the sentient background radiation of this plane, and wide, banded wings are edged to soar on stellar winds. Finally, irisdual light churning under qyr tx-glass skin is refracted to the metaspectrum of impossibility and spills out of body in cornu spirals.

Perfect


Starformed Ehalcodon is the seventh and final member of the Girsh Nephilim. Qe spawns during Reclamation if every other Nephilim was killed or pacified before the quest.

Qe drops the circle of light in the chord of Ehalcodon upon death.

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Starburst ejecta rains down in burning ribbons, and your body is nearly negated into nothing by the unutterable moans of the early universe!

Starformed Ehalcodon descends, direction.

Buffs and abilities

Because Starformed Ehalcodon can only be faced after defeating all of the other Girsh Nephilim, qyr stats are buffed to the following levels:

  • 12000 HP (+50% hitpoints)
  • 100 AR, ER, CR, and HR (+80 all resists)
  • 150 QN (+50 quickness)
  • 22 AV (+10 AV)
  • 30 DV (+10 DV)

In addition, qe receives omniphase and has an extra four arms with spotted claws.

Starformed Ehalcodon inherits several abilities also possessed by the other Nephilim. Qe has Irisdual Beam, the signature Nephilim attack mutation, and Regeneration at level 10. Like the other Nephilim, qe has reflective shielding[1], and innate reality stabilization[2]. Qe inherits both Iron Mind and Shake It Off, which (with qyr high Toughness and Willpower) makes it difficult to keep qem dazed, stunned, or confused, and reduces damage qe takes from poison.

Starformed Ehalcodon possesses several other powerful abilities that make qem more difficult to fight in combat. Ehalcodon has Wings at level 20 and is the unique possessor of the Quantum Fugue mutation, a much more powerful version of Temporal Fugue.

Ehalcodon (and qyr Quantum Fugue copies) drop girshling cresh (prism) which spawn prism girshlings, both of which have the unique RefractCosmic part[3]. Creatures with this part are resistant to Irisdual Beam and will refract beams in several directions. This can quickly cause fights with Ehalcodon to spiral out of control as qe covers the entire zone with qyr beams.

Unlike other Nephilim, Ehalcodon's natural weapon, qyr starprint hoof, deals primarily umbral elemental damage, which cannot be resisted through armor or elemental resistances. However, qyr main source of bump attack damage is qyr spotted claws received through Girsh Agolgot's chord of light, which deal regular melee damage.

Finally, Starformed Ehalcodon has a handful of other innate characteristics that help protect qem in combat:

  • Ehalcodon has an innate vaporization temperature of 15,000 degrees (versus the default 10,000).
  • Ehalcodon blows away gases from qemself[4].
  • Ehalcodon has limited protections against timecubes. Qey will become nullphase after being hit or having a negative effect applied three times while under the effects of a timecube.

References

  1. XRL.World.Parts.ReflectProjectiles
  2. XRL.World.Parts.RealityStabilization
  3. XRL.World.Parts.RefractCosmic
  4. XRL.World.Parts.BlowAwayGas