Savannah

GENERAL

  • SCIENTIFIC NAME: Savannah Willowhip

  • LIFESPAN: 200+ years

  • GENERAL ADULT HEIGHT: 16'8"

  • GENERAL PERSONALITY: Excited/Friendly

  • GENERAL COLORS: Brown, Tan, Yellow, Orange, Red

  • SECONDARY COLOR: Gray, Black, White, Other highlights

  • DIET: Moonight + meat

  • HOMEWORLD: Murtov

  • OTHER WORLDS: N/A

  • HABITAT: Deserts, Savannah, Plains

  • TERRITORY: WIP

Savannah Willowhips are one of the three subtribes of willows. They typically live in hotter climates, such as deserts, savannahs, and plains. They are very sturdy and excelent at running across long expanses of land. They are the most physical of all the willows, hosting frequent celebrations, parties, and gatherings that involve complex and energetic dancing! Savannahs are incredibly welcoming and will cover newcomers with gifts upon meeting them. They're always eager to share their culture with others.

If a family member dies, they may request their orb to be passed onto another. It is a great honor and the ceremony takes place during the funeral. If the selected member chooses not to accept the orb OR the dying member does not select a member to inherit the orb, it will lose its magical abilities once they pass away. It will resemble a spherical stone with engraved markings on it.

However, if a willow is killed (either by another willow or an abysmal), their orb will lose all magical properties and simply hover for a few minutes until another host claims it. If it is not claimed, it will fall to the ground as a normal rock.

Baby willows often have very muted colors to better blend into their surroundings and hide from potential enemies. Once they get older, their colors pop out more. When they become of age, there is a ceremony to celebrate their 'true colors'.

APPEARANCE + OTHER

Savannah Willowhips do not have any fur/fluff. They have smooth, interlocking scales that give them a shiny metalic appearance.

Additionally, every Savannah willow has a hood on their neck. This has many uses, but the main being that it helps keep them cool in the hot climates they live in. They can move it back and forth and use it as a sort of natural fan.

They are able to have many more minor traits, such as spines in addition to frills on the spine, two pairs of horns, hoods on the tail, multiple orbs, and incredibly decorative masks.

Savannah Willowhips only need to feed off of moonlight, however they are capable of eating physical food if nessisary. Usually for events, parties, and celebrations, physical foods are considered a treat/delicacy.

Whenever they DO end up eating physical food, they can be found consuming meat of all forms. Fried lizard, cooked camel, roasted hog. Anything and everything they can get their paws on, they'll eat. Hardy desert plants make wonderful side dishes as well!

They live in a Monarchy, where the Queen rules over the tribe. However, the Queen is not there to be served, but rather, to serve. Her duty is to protect and keep the tribe stable. She is in charge of keeping peace throughout her followers as well as the other two tribes and their followers. The Queen is not chosen through genetics, but rather through the choice of the Moon. Once a Queen passes away, the physical manifestation of the moon, Amaris, will come forward and declare a new Queen in private. The new Queen is aloud to decline, should she choose that it is too much responsibiliy. In that case, Amaris will choose another suitor.

Royalty are simply there to aid the Queen in her duties protecting the tribe. They can serve the Queen their entire lives or just a few days, there is no traditional time limit.

Days to Celebrate: Day of Shifting Sands, the longest night in the desert region (June 21st), True Colors, a coming-of-age celebration for young willows (dates vary), and Day of Life, when royalty was born (dates vary).

Willowhips are asexual creatures. They do not have male or female parts. Instead, they reproduce through the magic held inside of their orbs. They focus their individual magic onto a suitable stone, and combine it together to form a new type of magic. The now enchanted rock (aka, egg) will grow for the next full year and will hatch into a baby willowhip.

Please note that willows cannot cross breed!! A Savannah Willow cannot create a child with a Cavern or Mountain, or vise versa.

To answer the question about pronouns, they usually just choose what they want once they come of age, but its not uncommon for them to change throughout their lives. Specific 'genders' don't have specific roles in willow society, its just a way to address each other.

Willowhips are not an open species!! We are not selling myos at the moment, but we do host ocasional myo events. The most common way to obtain one is through adopts/customs made by registered willow staff. You can find out more about us on our discord, which can be found on the front page

General Rules: Don't remove your mask in public, do not cause harm upon others if they are unaware (stabbing someone in the back), and don't, under ANY circumstances, make contact with Abysmals.

Savannah Willowhips are incredibly nimble, used for running across large expanses of land. However, if there's danger, they can lay down in the sand and shift their bodies, covering themselves from head to tail. They use their neck drapes as covers for their head so no sand gets in their mask. They can stay under for up to 10 minutes, or they can stick the top of their mask out so they can breathe.

Dancing and song are a HUGE part of their culture. They are the more high energy of the tribes, always moving or swaying around. They are creative and are always encouraging the younger ones to create items and tools to use.

The elders have untold amounts of knowledge, and they keep every word tapped away in their orbs. Each orb that is not passed on is kept in a sacred tomb. The orbs' knowledge can be accessed by any who enter the tomb.

They can often be found doing a dance on the sand, usually involving a lot of jumping and swishing of their tails. To an outsider, it will look like a dance and nothing else. But in reality, they are pounding and shifting the sands, looking for small animals in the ground (such as scorpions, snakes, beetles, etc).

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