#unending codex

june 11 2024

So these exist: the Harpeia. in the Cieldalaes specifically, Hullbreaker Isle. Acording to gamerescape they're only found here

sike they're also in Eureka Anemos but called 'Eureka Harpeia' so the database didn't pick it up:

and they have the same rig/ skeleton as the Ikalsion

(it's fucking dark in here; i had to pump up the brightness)

and i've been like: what's up with this? does this mean anything? then we get to Elpis:

so - Harpeia exist pre-sundering (called Harpuia. which is... barely a difference in name). but now they don't really show up much? (they also not in Norvrandt hint: Ixal do not exist in Norvrandt)

(Harpeia do show in Elpis alongside the predecessor of the mylodon, the ophiotauros and mylodons show up in Coerthas so maybe there are harpeia in Abalathia's Spine? time to visit sea of clouds)

So they are in the sea of clouds! i thought so. they are specifically north of Ok'Zundu on Mok Oogl Island! but the (Vanu vanu?) seemed to call them Tsanahale. There are no mylodon here though...

so. thousands of years ago, they were probably more wide-ranging and the Allagan took the Harpeia and used them as base for Iksalion but i guess they had… genetic nonsense going on

the Iksalion could also use a move called Furour (sp???) which looks like an expanding whirl of harsh winds. evidently they lost that power and now wield magic with catalysts like everyone else.

and they eventually settle in the Twelveswood but then the elementals take away the blessing for overharvesting and kick them out; suggesting the elements were shoring up their genetic struggles and the Ixal broke a symbiotic pact and were banished. But uh... i guess the Ehcatl Nine made up with them? but not that much. they still can't fly. hey. why don't the Ixal. build glider wings...

so Harpeia was the template for Iksalion who became more intelligent than their predecessors. however, the lorebook says: the harpeia is a cloudkin with an appearance of a man-like spoken. Interestingly, it also displays the intelligence of some of nature's more clever creatures like the Opo-opo.

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