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NU:AMAM - Neofauna Taxon Classing Guide - www.deviantart.com/djaymasi/ar…

Order - Passeriformes
Suborder - Alchemical beast
Infraorder - Ziz
Species - Corvis lenorr
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Height - 2.42m (8ft)
Wingspan - 9.45m (31ft)
Weight - 226kg (500Ib)

Sound concept - youtu.be/4lqbeQ93Oco?si=TEWIpM…

This ebony bird once beguiled my sad fancy into smiling, by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. This Ziz evokes a somber reminder of agonising sorrow & fear that ceases to depart, a familiar feeling I too know all too well. Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.

— Grimoire passage from the Tapster

HABITAT RANGE

Currently the whereabouts of the Nevermore is kept under strict containment underneath a US military base in the Nevadan desert, where its existence remains concealed to the public eye, in exception to King Cole & the 051 Council. It alongside various artefacts, weapons, creatures & even that may or may not have been involved with the Horsemen. HMI, II & III star as the main assets of the facility in which are interviewed & interrogated with the work they’ve created as well as pressing on the whereabouts of HMIV.
051 council are responsible for the covert inner workings of this containment facility in which several Paladins & Magicians occupy to serve containment protocols of the assets inside, amongst the many assets being the Nevermore. The Nevermore is kept within a reinforced phantasmagorium stronghold resembling a meshed Aviary. Inside this chamber contains a series of diffusion units that releases the scent of lavender where emissions are released within an hourly interval, a potent fragrance that has shown to induce a pacifying effect on the Ziz.

ECOLOGICAL NICHE

The Nevermore is a Ziz of the Alchemical beast variety additionally classified as a Thaumaturgic Class Organism (TCO). Alongside the Tarasque, the Beowulf, the Glaaki & many other horrific experiments the Nevermore was genetically & mystically engineered by the horseman War as a means to exercise his hands for conflict.
In an interview with HMIII, he exclaimed that the creation of the Nevermore is merely a futile attempt to purge his being from fear, however in the attempt he created the monster that embodies his paranoia. Through its creation HMIII had shed his paranoia into the nearest organism he could find where in this case he relayed into a Corvus corax, a common Raven. This inevitably mutated the bird transforming it into the pitch black Ziz that it’s come be. Though the Homunculi transferral was indeed successful the Nevermore retained memories of HMIII, this in particular his resentment to his brother HMII, Pestilence. Being responsible for his capture & debilitation War holds a pique bitterness towards him as well as his work.
It’s due to this factor that the Nevermore holds a strong animosity towards HMII as well his creations the Daimon, where the Ziz will outright attack & eradicate Daimon as well as those infected by a certain species.

The hormone the Nevermore produces in its stinger was created by HMIII as an original means to combat or even eliminate his brother for his betrayal & desertion to the duties of the other Horsemen, holding a longstanding grudge against him for selling his own clan to the hands of the Paladins & the early Earthgov. As a prior function the hormone is meant to eradicate the mysticism exclusive to HMII in which became so successful it even made a breakthrough into the battle against Daimon.
Compound L would eventually become synthesised to creating counteractive drugs known as Placebos, specialised pills that act as experimental antibiotics that are used to treat or even neutralise Daimons from further infections. Though experimental Placebos utilise a unique feature that enables a form of latent biofeedback towards a patients immunological response, in which it manipulates the cerebral pathways to enhance the immune system to accelerate healing & eradicate foreign malefactors. However as an experimental treatment resonating from Horseman origin there are unknowns that may contain hidden consequences that keeps it under trials, in which Placebos remain in a staging feature until further research.

BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS

The Nevermore possesses a specialised retractable stinger at the tip of the metasoma. The telson includes a muscular vesicle that contains a unique gland in which the stinger bears a hypodermic aculeus. Like a venom gland the telson sac contains a unique hormone rumoured to be associated to that of thaumaturgical origin as many chemical proteins within the hormone are to be exclusive to the Nevermore, after its discovery the hormone was named after the scientist that discovered it Lenore Comstock in which this complex was named as Lenorogen or Compound L. Compound L is an incredibly dangerous complex in which it only takes a single introduction to infect a living being, that being administered through an injection through its syringe like stinger.
After being infected that said organism undergoes a painful as well as horrifying process of dying. Symptoms usually include violent convulsions, spasms & severe haemorrhaging within within the duration of five to seven minutes. Though the infection ultimately terminates the host the central nervous system remains intact & fully functional. Those infected with Compound L will go to unreasonably extreme lengths to attack & dispatch any living organism they see, in addition to this it forcibly pushes its hosts body far beyond what they are normally capable of often enabling the normal human body to leap several feet or scale walls like an insect. Those afflicted with the hormone are colloquially referred to as Hosts.

If Compound L is present within the system of an organism the Nevermore has the ability to enslave & manipulate the afflicted much like a marionette, in which to a degree of unknown proportions the Nevermore is able to command Hosts like an army of loyal expendable minions. It had been theorised that the hormone Compound L extends further than the Nevermores senses can fathom, through speculative thaumaturgical methods the Nevermore utilises the hormone as the perfect medium as a biological neural interface towards other organisms. Through these means of utilisation not only can the Nevermore command enslaved organisms but these slaves function as an extension of the Nevermores perception, acting as thr creatures eyes & ears.

BEHAVIOUR

The Nevermore is surprisingly calm & even tempered in which it would even allow scientists to enter its containment on closer inspection & research, so long as it’s not angered or provoked.
However when encountering living organisms afflicted with any form of Daimon the Nevermore becomes extremely hostile in which it’ll be prompted to attack without any hesitation.

Description
NU:AMAM - Neofauna Taxon Classing Guide - www.deviantart.com/djaymasi/ar…

Order - Passeriformes
Suborder - Alchemical beast
Infraorder - Ziz
Species - Corvis lenorr
————
Height - 2.42m (8ft)
Wingspan - 9.45m (31ft)
Weight - 226kg (500Ib)

Sound concept - youtu.be/4lqbeQ93Oco?si=TEWIpM…

This ebony bird once beguiled my sad fancy into smiling, by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. This Ziz evokes a somber reminder of agonising sorrow & fear that ceases to depart, a familiar feeling I too know all too well. Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.

— Grimoire passage from the Tapster

HABITAT RANGE

Currently the whereabouts of the Nevermore is kept under strict containment underneath a US military base in the Nevadan desert, where its existence remains concealed to the public eye, in exception to King Cole & the 051 Council. It alongside various artefacts, weapons, creatures & even that may or may not have been involved with the Horsemen. HMI, II & III star as the main assets of the facility in which are interviewed & interrogated with the work they’ve created as well as pressing on the whereabouts of HMIV.
051 council are responsible for the covert inner workings of this containment facility in which several Paladins & Magicians occupy to serve containment protocols of the assets inside, amongst the many assets being the Nevermore. The Nevermore is kept within a reinforced phantasmagorium stronghold resembling a meshed Aviary. Inside this chamber contains a series of diffusion units that releases the scent of lavender where emissions are released within an hourly interval, a potent fragrance that has shown to induce a pacifying effect on the Ziz.

ECOLOGICAL NICHE

The Nevermore is a Ziz of the Alchemical beast variety additionally classified as a Thaumaturgic Class Organism (TCO). Alongside the Tarasque, the Beowulf, the Glaaki & many other horrific experiments the Nevermore was genetically & mystically engineered by the horseman War as a means to exercise his hands for conflict.
In an interview with HMIII, he exclaimed that the creation of the Nevermore is merely a futile attempt to purge his being from fear, however in the attempt he created the monster that embodies his paranoia. Through its creation HMIII had shed his paranoia into the nearest organism he could find where in this case he relayed into a Corvus corax, a common Raven. This inevitably mutated the bird transforming it into the pitch black Ziz that it’s come be. Though the Homunculi transferral was indeed successful the Nevermore retained memories of HMIII, this in particular his resentment to his brother HMII, Pestilence. Being responsible for his capture & debilitation War holds a pique bitterness towards him as well as his work.
It’s due to this factor that the Nevermore holds a strong animosity towards HMII as well his creations the Daimon, where the Ziz will outright attack & eradicate Daimon as well as those infected by a certain species.

The hormone the Nevermore produces in its stinger was created by HMIII as an original means to combat or even eliminate his brother for his betrayal & desertion to the duties of the other Horsemen, holding a longstanding grudge against him for selling his own clan to the hands of the Paladins & the early Earthgov. As a prior function the hormone is meant to eradicate the mysticism exclusive to HMII in which became so successful it even made a breakthrough into the battle against Daimon.
Compound L would eventually become synthesised to creating counteractive drugs known as Placebos, specialised pills that act as experimental antibiotics that are used to treat or even neutralise Daimons from further infections. Though experimental Placebos utilise a unique feature that enables a form of latent biofeedback towards a patients immunological response, in which it manipulates the cerebral pathways to enhance the immune system to accelerate healing & eradicate foreign malefactors. However as an experimental treatment resonating from Horseman origin there are unknowns that may contain hidden consequences that keeps it under trials, in which Placebos remain in a staging feature until further research.

BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS

The Nevermore possesses a specialised retractable stinger at the tip of the metasoma. The telson includes a muscular vesicle that contains a unique gland in which the stinger bears a hypodermic aculeus. Like a venom gland the telson sac contains a unique hormone rumoured to be associated to that of thaumaturgical origin as many chemical proteins within the hormone are to be exclusive to the Nevermore, after its discovery the hormone was named after the scientist that discovered it Lenore Comstock in which this complex was named as Lenorogen or Compound L. Compound L is an incredibly dangerous complex in which it only takes a single introduction to infect a living being, that being administered through an injection through its syringe like stinger.
After being infected that said organism undergoes a painful as well as horrifying process of dying. Symptoms usually include violent convulsions, spasms & severe haemorrhaging within within the duration of five to seven minutes. Though the infection ultimately terminates the host the central nervous system remains intact & fully functional. Those infected with Compound L will go to unreasonably extreme lengths to attack & dispatch any living organism they see, in addition to this it forcibly pushes its hosts body far beyond what they are normally capable of often enabling the normal human body to leap several feet or scale walls like an insect. Those afflicted with the hormone are colloquially referred to as Hosts.

If Compound L is present within the system of an organism the Nevermore has the ability to enslave & manipulate the afflicted much like a marionette, in which to a degree of unknown proportions the Nevermore is able to command Hosts like an army of loyal expendable minions. It had been theorised that the hormone Compound L extends further than the Nevermores senses can fathom, through speculative thaumaturgical methods the Nevermore utilises the hormone as the perfect medium as a biological neural interface towards other organisms. Through these means of utilisation not only can the Nevermore command enslaved organisms but these slaves function as an extension of the Nevermores perception, acting as thr creatures eyes & ears.

BEHAVIOUR

The Nevermore is surprisingly calm & even tempered in which it would even allow scientists to enter its containment on closer inspection & research, so long as it’s not angered or provoked.
However when encountering living organisms afflicted with any form of Daimon the Nevermore becomes extremely hostile in which it’ll be prompted to attack without any hesitation.