Monster Reference - Akia

Description

I'd like to introduce a new character of mine - at first it was really only just a monster that I needed for a game, buuut over time she has kind of started to grow on me May I present: Akia ^-^

Akia belongs to a species of little plant creatures that live high up on Midnight Mountain - a mountain surrounded by other mountains so high that no sunlight ever reaches it (hence its name). As it's always night, nocturnal animals and plants of all kinds have made it its home and flourish there, displaying vibrant and iridescent colours in the scarce light they have.

For as long as these little plant creatures can remember, they have always been at Midnight Mountain; together with Elders - larger tree-like creatures - that they honour. However, more and more vile monsters appeared at the mountain, so they built themselves a large fortification around their village to protect themselves, and have so far successfully fended off any attackers.

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Now Midnight Mountain itself isn't exactly known for being safe. With that little light and many not-so-friendly nocturnal beasts roaming around hunting for prey, it is actually a very dangerous place to be, and the human settlers that live nearby know better to stay clear of this uncanny place.

Because of that, no one really knows what's out there. Only a few of the settlers have seen as much as a glimpse of what lies beyond the dark caves leading (through the surrounding mountains) to Midnight Mountain. And certainly none of them have ever dared to venture far enough so they would know that these little plant creatures even exist; until a family of farmers found Akia - unconscious, and in a pretty bad condition - at the entrance of one of the caves.

Akia doesn't remember how she got there, but going back was definitely not an option. She was raised at the village of the settlers (that's how she knows their language, and that's why they know her name ^^). Back home, when she was still with her kind, she was (like all her siblings) taught a few magic spells by the elders, which she uses to help and protect her friends at the settlers' village.

In-game she sides with players (so she is a monster, but a friendly one ), eventually teaching them several of the restoration spells that she remembers, once she starts to trust them.

(She can do photosynthesis, but if you give her something to eat, she'll eat that anyway X3)

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