Hallucinix

The Hallucinix is a quadrupedal, black-grayish, shadowy maned wolf-like creature with four detached paws. It has a red crack-like pattern on its underbelly that spreads outwards into smaller cracks, and four golden, spiky, ring-like objects attached to its upper back. There are four small red eyes on both sides of its head, with a larger eye in between them. In the middle of its head, it has an even larger eye, as well as one floating in its mouth. Its tail is shaped like a fern, with a kite-shaped marking near the tail tip, containing more of the same red color seen on its belly. On its head, it has two black horns. It also has five pairs of tendril-like wings hovering above both sides of its back, with each pair decreasing in size. These wings also have a red pattern, and at the end of each wing are claw-like shapes arranged in threes, except for the first pair, which has twos.

**Males**: Males have no additional features.

Males have no additional features.

**Females**: Females have a set of horns on the side of their cheeks that curve forward.

Females have a set of horns on the side of their cheeks that curve forward.

• Current Hallucinix feeds on the essence of life, particularly souls with at least vegetative and action parts (that is, what would be souls on real-life animals), acting as a trap/ambush predator of sorts, recurring to visual and auditory hallucination trickery to lure, distract or disorient a sole creature to then maul or incapacitate its prey, quickly draining its vitality and will. Every time it succesfully hunts it becomes more powerful, until it has drained enough life essence to perform a binary-fission-like process that allows the species to replicate. Current Hallucinix remembers anguish, agony and emptiness for its lost own soul.
• Current Hallucinix moves in swift and solitary silence, gently grazing the ground underfoot with each step. However, it is known that despite their solitary nature, Hallucinix had used sheer numbers to overrun entire ecosystems.

• Once upon a time, Hallucinix walked between worlds, finding joy in chasing their solar cycles and observing the fauna held within each. Able to produce a simple call and watch the barrier between worlds melt, this creature passed between its own ethereal limbo realm, and many other worlds as it found enjoyment in travelling and learning. Dancing in the dark of the expanse, finally stumbling across a different kind of gateway between worlds. Not one of its own creation. Entering this crossing in space would later prove to be Hallucinix's demise, as the deities responsible for this structured gateway had not seen it possible for lesser beings to pass between the worlds they had created before then. Something unintended. A mistake. This led the gods to search for other tears between worlds that Hallucinix may have left open, and found an impossible number of rips in space, where Hallucinix had passed through... indirectly allowing the life and energy from one world to leak into another through these doorways. One by one, the Wardens closed the rips and tears between worlds... This creature had no comprehension of the price it had to pay for its interference with the matters of the gods. Banishing Hallucinix back to its limbo that it originated within, the deities forced Hallucinix to undergo a cruel ritual. A sentinel's curse. Hands of shadow took hold of Hallucinix's soul, ripping it from within the creature, fragmenting it into ten pieces, forming wings of beautiful decay along its back. Its limbs, twisted and broken, with bones crackling and drenched in ichor. The creature's face deformed and its iris began to duplicate.
• Anguish and agony are all that it remembers, for where there was once a bright essence of life, now there is only a void.
• On the present, Hallucinix is a nightmarish entity. An exquisite manifestation of anguish, torment and despair. Encountering a Hallucinix is a dance with despair.
• Able to weave between the realm of the living beings and the ethereal limbo it inhabits, this entity is empowered by fear and terror.
• The true form of this beast is amorphous, only identifiable by swirling tendrils and quilled fur of black iron, however it mostly manifests in a more physical, quadrupedal state that creatures are able to see and feel. A dark iridescent sheen covers each plating of armor-like fur that shimmers as oil does on water, casting eerie and partly-fractured reflections of lost memories. These reflections sometimes display petrifying visions of the past and even possible futures. Its "wings" are little pieces of his soul that he has had ripped from his body, creating little wings of decay.
• It moves in swift and solitary silence, gently grazing the ground underfoot with each step, leaving shadowy flickers behind it. In places where this entity has lingered too long, droplets of ink-like substance can be found on the ground, and seem to form runic patterns amongst the dirt.
• Hallucinix is a soul thief, feasting on the essence of life, quickly draining the vitality and will of its prey. Particularly souls with at least vegetative and action parts (that is, what would be souls on real-life animals). In the present, Hallucinix steals the essence of life from living species in an attempt to satiate the emptiness left by the theft of its own soul long ago. The souls become trapped, unable to reenter the cycle of rebirth and revival. With every soul it devours, Hallucinix grows more powerful, its form becoming more defined and horrific to behold, until eventually it undergoes a foul metamorphosis of sorts. Once enough energy has been harvested from other species, this entity will split open along each of the seams on its twisted body, birthing a twin entity that emerges from within the coils of tar-like tendrils, mirroring its own sinister nature, amplifying the threat it poses even further. The emergence of these new copies is marked by a cackling chorus of anguished wails, as if the souls of the creatures it consumed cry out in a cacophony of fear. This replication method akin to bacteria generates over a few generations an impossible swarm, capable of travelling between worlds; perpetuating a cycle that has lasted over thousands of years - this species has divided, split and overrun worlds leaving desolation in their wake, starting as a single individual of origin. A being whose original name has been lost to time.
• This entity holds an unsettling gaze produced by a central eye within its maw, that pulsates like a dying star when the creature is beginning to hunger. Surrounding the middle eye on its forehead are smaller spider-like orbs that gleam a shimmering red. Those who look into its eye may find themselves lost in a deep web of hallucinations, experiencing their deepest fears and regrets. Hallucinix uses the eye at the rear of its mouth to draw in the spirit essence of its prey, by mauling or incapacitating a target and inhaling the very soul from the attacked creature. Due to Hallucinix losing its own soul from the Warden's process, "Hallu is running incognito mode".
• It seems that new eyes form across the creatures body as it grows in energy. The emergence of a new eye across the body marks another soul Hallucinix has consumed. Oftentimes these smaller eyes flicker slightly with the light of a life extinguished, representing the kills Hallucinix has collected wherever its path may lead.
• If a creature manages to get close enough to a Hallucinix, they may hear gentle whispering or murmuring of creature calls in an aura around the Hallucinix's body, echoing the last fears and wishes of those it has preyed upon, creating an incredibly disorienting atmosphere that can lure in the unsuspecting prey it seeks.
• This being lurks as its prey stands on the brink of madness, mouth agape, ready to siphon the very essence of their being, perpetuating its own cycle of death and rebirth in an endless quest for power and purpose.

• Concept by Stood ( Stood_04 ) in the Creatures of Sonaria Discord. Inspired by maned wolves and cryptid-like entities. Its red and black palette is themed around the black widow spider.
• Modeled by JaxonBirb.
• Rigged by ThunderBoo666.
• Animated by kazooduder.
• Hallucinix is the first creature to receive the Spite ability.
• Upon release, Hallucinix's Glimmer was accidentally overlapping with its Shimmer mutation. This issue has since been fixed in newer servers.
• Hallucinix is one of the few creatures who can't fly until teen, the other creatures being: Anutill, Astrothi, Dabaemura, Lucensia, Momola, Noctla'Lune, Shiyaro, Voletexius, Wuggawyrm, Xeleviprex, and Zhelijin.

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