Iztajuatl

The Iztajuatl is a fiery, multi-eyed, somewhat lizard-like creature with a glowing sword embedded into its forehead and several glowing joints and magma-themed decorations. Many weapons stick out of its back and tail tip, such as axes, spears, and knives. The back of its neck produces smoke and it also possesses an axe-shaped tail. The Iztajuatl also has multiple eye-like decorations on its limbs, body, and tail. Tusks and blades protrude from its mouth and lower jaw. Its neck and tail are decorated by multiple rock-like spines.

Iztajuatl has no gender dimorphism.

• Iztajuatl MUST live near volcanic areas, especially babies and male Iztajuatls.
• Iztajuatls are a primarily all-female pack-based species.
• Females tend to disregard or outcast any males. Male Iztajuatl CAN NOT and DO NOT "RULE" a pack. Since there are more females than males, Iztajuatl females can choose to pair with another female or be solitary.
• Female Iztajuatls have "no maternal instincts whatsoever. Forget them kids".

• The reason Iztajuatl MUST live near volcanic areas, especially babies and male Iztajuatls, is that if they are too far from volcanoes, or in cold areas, the lava within them starts to harden and they turn into complete rock, ultimately "killing" them, the faster the weaker they are. Another secondary reason is that Iztajuatl's only way to reproduce is being born from a volcano, as Iztajuatl do not have any reproductive organs and they cannot lay eggs/give birth/etc. Being inside a volcano also allows this species to change from male to female. If an Iztajuatl is born male, the females can send it back to the volcano lava soup, wait a few centuries or so, and come out female.
• The reason Iztajuatls are a primarily all-female pack-based species is that adult males are 10x smaller than a female, weak and scrawny, so they tend to disregard or outcast any males, or send them back to the volcano lava soup.
• Iztajuatl's claws are hot enough to melt through rock.
• Iztajuatl can use its tail in a similar manner to an axe.
• Iztajuatl can have varying weapons on their heads, bodies, and tails. The sword on Iztajuatl's head can be pulled out and wielded.

• Concept by Aelures. Inspired by Ares, the God of War, Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Forge, and Aatrox from League of Legends. Its name is referred from Iztaccihuatl, which is a dormant volcanic mountain in Mexico.
• The species, canonically, is the first lesbian species known to exist in Sonaria.
• Alongside this, according to lore, they are the only species in the entirety of Sonaria to be demonstrate protandry (where an organism is born as a male, and then changes sex to a female), though they are rare to find. Protandry naturally occur in real life in some creatures, among them the most known example is the clownfish. Interestingly, clownfish share a similar behavior to the Iztajuatl (albeit less extreme and excluding the lava-motifs and only-spawning-from-volcano): the largest female clownfish is place on the top of its hierarchy, with a few non-reproductive small (juvenile) males as underlings and a single reproductive male. If, for some reason, the female dies, the reproductive male transforms into female and increases size considerably, as such, it's impossible for a male clownfish to be on the top of the group hierarchy.
• Legacy Iztajuatl has dark orange blood. Due to this, it drops a dark orange carcass in Legacy when dying. In real life, some creatures have orange shades of blood; for example, when cockroaches are carrying eggs, their hemolymph gets colored by the eggs' albumin protein. However, in this case, it's more of a reference to their status as magma dwellers in-lore.
• As well as Kavouradis, Iztajuatl is the first of the limited creatures whose price got changed over once (from 5,000 upon release to 3,000, then Recode standardized its price to 2,500).
• The Iztajuatl is the first Tier 5 creature to receive the First Strike ability.

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