Pacapillars - Habitat Guide

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[7/9/16] Guide complete! read the description below for habitat information!

[6/30/16] Since I'm on a roll with updating guide stuff at the moment, I wanted to be able to put this place holder up. This is one of the next guides on my to do list!

Pacapillar Habitats

Pacapillars have many unique magical attributes, some of which are having the ability to form and maintain their own individual habitats. Pacapillar habitats are called nests! Nests for standard Pacapillars are cubic and can be made out of ANYTHING! literally anything- books, candy, lava, goo, ice, you name it! Generally a Pacapillar will form a nest out of materials that they resonate with. The example above is a nest made of earth and rock with parts of water and crystals and a little cozy burrow. On the surface are some personal sweet leaf plants.

Pacapillar nests will hover above the surface but not too high with just the magic power of one Pacapillar. Pacapillars won't be affected by gravity while in their nest so they can freely roam around it without worrying about falling. Nests can connect with one another into a colony. They work in segments. A large group of nests is called a cluster. Clusters act as cities and can hover much higher than singular nests. Clusters can be maintained by the Pacapillars that inhabit each nest module but clusters that become too large tend to fall apart and are difficult to maintain with standard Pacapillars alone.

Pacapillar sub-species add some diversity to habitat creation. Here are some variations of habitat interaction per sub-species:

Standard Pacapillars
Standard Pacapillars (this includes split mutated Pacapillars) can create their own nest. Nests are cubic and hover slightly above the surface.

Poison, Shell Pacapillars
Poison and Shell Pacapillars also create cubic nests and have a similar amount of magic power to standard Pacapillars.

Gilled Pacapillars
Gilled Pacapillars also create cubic nests and have a similar amount of magic power to standard Pacapillars but they tend to live in nests that are primarily water-based.

Monster Pacapillars
Monster Pacapillars do not have magic and cannot create nests the same way other sub-species do. Instead, they are natural hoarders and create nests out of whatever they find. Their nests generally don't hover unless they collect the dead cores of fallen Pacapillars. Monster Pacapillars are immune to Hollo disease due to their lack of magic and can generally defend themselves on the surface using brute force alone making them perfect lone wolves.

Winged Pacapillars
Winged Pacapillars rarely ever make their own habitats despite having the most magic power out of all the sub-species. They are able to travel far distances fairly quickly and easily and roam until they find a region or community they resonate with. If they choose to make their own habitat, which many do not, their habitat build will be in a different geometric pattern: a pentagonal dodecahedron. Their habitats would be built out of Chrysalis Crystal which is essentially their magic manifested in a physical form.
While they are perfectly capable of living on their own, Winged Pacapillars are drawn to other colonies with their natural calling to protect and nurture. Clusters benefit greatly with the help of a Winged Pacapillar. Winged Pacapillars can create Chrysalis Shards which can be placed in different key points in a cluster to stabilize it. Winged Pacapillars also extend the range that a cluster can grow and also allow the cluster to levitate far above the surface. Clusters guarded by a Winged Pacapillar are called Havens and Clusters that expand become Super Clusters.

Terms

Nest - a Pacapillar habitat
Cluster - a large group of Pacapillar habitats
Haven - a cluster guarded by a Winged Pacapillar
Super Cluster - an expanded cluster


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