Meet the Voxibell
- Voxies are a large canine-like species with a long neck, broad shoulders, and a large wet nose like a deer. They have horns, claws, and more commonly then not, protrusions of manabone across their body.
- The front feet of a voxibell have 4 toes and one thumb. This thumb is completely functional for grabbing and holding, just like a human hand would. There is one pawpad on each toe, one central one, and two pads on the thumb.
The back feet of a voxi only has 4 toes, one pawpad for each and one large central pad. - Voxi 'claws' aren't really claws! They are bone protrusions made of manabone. When a voxi runs, the manabone hitting the ground rings out beautiful chimes and bells. All voxibells have visible claws at all times!
- With Voxibells being omnivorous with a general preference of fish, voxies have large canine teeth and pointed molars. Their tongue is round and long enough to hang out of their mouth like a dog.
Average Voxibell Stats
Height: 3 to 4 feet tall from paw to shoulder
Length: 4 to 6 feet long from chest to end
Weight: 90 to 220 lbs
Lifespan: Due to the intense manaflow through a voxies manabone, their lifespan ranges drastically, and generally the more manabone that a voxi has, the longer they may live. Their full lifespan can range anywhere from 50 years, to 150 years.
Adulthood: A Voxibell isn't deemed an adult until it's manabone stops growing! This generally happens between year 15 and year 20.
Voxibells are one of the most magical species that exist on Kyvalore.
When they first emerged in the rebirth of the world, they emerged from the purest manastone on the surface located in the center of Lanris Grove.
This crystal is the most sacred artifact to the Voxies. It glows and shines with stars like the night sky is dancing within it. and if one stands close enough they can hear the bells and chimes of young voxi souls. It is believed that each star that dances within the crystal is a voxibell life, waiting to be born.
Most voxi pups will emerge on their own when their soul is ready and then be placed in a nursery for young voxies, There is a small nursery in every voxibell city in hopes that they they can continue to raise voxies in different cultures. They are raised here until they are adopted, or until they reach adulthood and can venture on their own.
Sometimes, you can have a voxi pup be born intentionally.
For a voxi pup to be born in this way, the parent, or parents, hold a vigil with the crystal. Pressing their nose to the warm stone they go into a meditative state with the crystal and begin searching the stone to find a soul that they bond with and can call to emerge.
When a voxi reaches the end of it's life, they are given a full celebration of life. These celebrations are referred to as their 'Last Voyage' and are always done on the first clear night after the voxies death. The voxi is wrapped in silks and surrounded in beautiful flowers and crystals as gifts from each voxi or avilli that knew them. The night is then filled with Voxi song, food, and stories. They go through the night until just before dawn. At this time, they circle the voxibell and bow their heads and let their mana sing.
The mana song of voxies calls on the deceased voxibell, and at this point they find true peace. They dissolve into manalights and become part of the earth once again, ready for it's mana to return to the cycle of magic for the next generation.
Voxibells eat anything from fruit and nuts to fish and livestock. While most of the meat in Kyvalore comes from raised livestock, some voxibells will even tell you about the value of a good sand devil steak!
Despite their omnivorous nature, some voxibells choose to live a meatless lifestyle or other dietary restrictions by choice.
Stats can be important by helping decide rewards, damage, defense, and success or fail rolls through prompts, battle events, and other activities in Painted Relics.
Each species on Kyvalore has their own specialties, and Voxibells are no different! Each voxibell starts with the following stats:
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Health:
Mana: Power: Resistance: Charm: Knowledge: Agility: |
10 HP
10 MP 12 STR 12 DEF 8 CHA 10 KNW 8 AGL |
Don't fret if you're worried about a stat being low! There are plenty of quests to explore, train, and engage with the world to increase them.
If you're looking for more about what each stat does, you can read more here.
Instead of normal bones, voxibells have manabone!
Manabone is a material that is made of the purest form of mana, solidified and nearly indestructable.
skeleton by IcarusRising
Manabone is a natural material that all voxibells are born with! Instead of regular bone like other species in Kyvalore, they have pure hardened mana. This intense form of mana is how voxibells can use magic, by calling the mana from themselves and pouring it outward through their sigil.
Some voxibells are able to push their mana to farther limits by others, the main factor of this is a voxibell with more manabone protrusions, therefore more of a mana pool to call from.
However, due to the fact that voxibells must use the magic of their own life to use magic, it is not unheard of for some voxibells to push themselves to their limit and drain their very self of mana, causing temporary weakness, manasickness, and in extreme cases, death.
Creating a VoxibelL
To create a voxibell, first you must obtain a voxibell character slot!
Every new player gets one free character slot to use on any of the playable species in the game, otherwise you can earn more by playing the game and buying one with shards that you earn in the character shop or by purchasing one with USD in the cash shop.
When creating a voxibell there are a few things to remember, but that's why we're here!
All voxibells must have the following traits fulfilled:
Ears
Eyes
Tail
Horns
Manabone Growth
Manabone Style
Manabone Attributes
Each trait will require a corresponding potion or trait item unless that trait is common. Make sure you check the traits description to see what item it requires! Trait potions can be earned through events, bought with shards in the shops, won with raffles and games, found through foraging and exploration, or bought with USD in the cash shop.
Additionally when planning out your voxibell it's important to think about things such as subtypes, Wyvern and Aquarian, and special forms, such as Relic and Wereform! Traits or effects under these categories generally have special rules for their potions and how to get them, as well as how many traits you can get with one potion so be sure to check!
The color of Manabone
Manabone can be tricky when first designing your voxibell, but here's some tips to make your perfect voxibell!
- Manabone is consistant no matter where it shows, with the exception of the Mythic Manabone Trait.
- Required manabone locations are always the claws, horns, and any protrusions on the body.
- Teeth are an optional location. Some voxies strangely have regular bone teeth instead of manabone teeth. How odd!
- Common manabone can have patterns and textures as long as its organic, crystalic, or stone/rock-like in nature.
- You can acheive unnatural patterns of manabone through special traits!
- If you're looking to acheive a metallic effect, but manabone isnt cutting it, look into the metallic markings trait instead!
- If you're still unsure if something you want to do is legal, you can always look at the masterlist to see other examples of manabone coloring, or submit a ticket to ask the staff!
And that should cover the important bits!
If you feel like there's anything missing, anything that isnt clear, or have any questions about anything voxibell, feel free to reach out to the staff via a ticket onsite or through our discord!
We love your feedback, and look forward to seeing the voxibells that you go adventuring with in Kyvalore!
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