Corruption Lore

Corruption beasts: giant shadowy manta rays, they have dark mist coming off of them and they can come in colours ranging from black-grey-dark blue/purple, they range in size from the size of elephants to large buildings, compared to vexyns, full-grown they are about 10-20x bigger, the babies start out the size of a large dog

they corrupt xyns because xyns have a ton of magic and they feed off of the magic, so they're basically prey to them, they do target the other creatures of lunerest though (kinpans, ophistles, any "companion" with high magic), when they're corrupted they're basically slowly being absorbed by the beasts and seek out other things to corrupt for the beasts

how much they have to feed depends on what they corrupt, xyns can keep them going for months depending on how skilled of a magic user they are but smaller creatures, only a few weeks, usually they consume magic from easier to catch creatures but xyns are a prized prey

they can also just absorb magic from artifacts or moon rivers but it's definitely not as good of a meal for them

they live in crags and caves and in the deep forests, they can fly through the air or bury themselves underground, that's why xyns are so paranoid about going out alone

they usually corrupt xyns by bites/stings/if xyns breathe in too much of the mist they'll become corrupted, they're a lot more agile/quick than they look

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Lunerestian Defense: vexyns are the primary defense against corruption beasts, they wear enchanted armour crafted by skilled blacksmith xyns that protect against corruption, of course, they still have to be careful because if they breath in the mist or their armour gets damaged or anything, they can easily be corrupted

they are immune to magic and actually feed on it, so moxyns and pixyns cannot defend themselves

usually during a defense, they will have healer moxyns and tailors/blacksmiths on the sidelines for support

cities have xyn scouts that track and keep an eye out for corruption beasts, it's a huge deal that takes a ton of time and resources to fend off

they can be killed, but usually they're just driven off since they are difficult to kill, due to their tough hide and large size

when they die they also release a ton of magic that gets reabsorbed into Lunerest, I always imagined it would create a little magic ecosystem like when a whale dies in the ocean

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Corruption: when xyns become corrupted they turn dark shades of black/grey/purple/blue, they grow fangs and claws and are aggressive to any other creatures besides other corrupted creatures, they cannot use magic, but instead can breathe corruption mist and have corruption mist coming off of them, they can no longer summon their halos and cannot think for themselves

they can temporarily be broken out if shown something they deeply cared about

they are slowly dying when they are corrupted and used as a pawn by corruption beasts to corrupt more creatures

they can be saved by soothe/light/dark magic by trained Lullay Knights, it takes about 3-5 Lullay Knights to cast the spell on a corrupted xyn to turn them back, it's a tough job since the corrupted xyn has to keep still for about a minute while the spell heals them, large squads of Lullay Knights are deployed to help corrupted xyns, Lullay Knights wear enchanted cloth armour crafted by skilled tailors to defend against corruption since metal is too heavy for moxyns

after corruption, the xyn will have dulled emotions, less powerful magic and visible signs of corruption (dark fur, remnants of fangs or claws, etc), also post corruption they will occasionally feel the urge to attack others or seek out the beast that corrupted them

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generally little is known about corruption beasts to xyns, most xyns think they're just inherently evil beings that corrupt for fun because a lot of times corruption researchers get too close and get corrupted, play with too much corruption magic trying to cure it... there's not really a lot of them left because of the dangers of researching it

once upon a time, Lunerest was overcome with corruption until Ryu and Yuhi stepped up

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