Lion Turtle

The Lion Turtle

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The lion turtle's head over the sea

The gift of energybending

The lion turtles are the oldest creatures of the Avatar world: as big as islands, the first homes of people, who gave the first benders their bending. In Enlightened a lion turtle swims in the deep ocean: an island of real blocks some 440 blocks long and 360 wide, a dome of grass and forest rising 40 blocks above the sea on a shell rimmed in brown plates, with a great lion's head at its front: a pale face with big amber eyes under heavy brows, a broad snout and long whiskers, a crown of spined fins and a beard of them, flippers either side. (The size is the server's choice: lionTurtleSize, 1 to 10.)

When the world makes the spot, the island rises from the sea over some seconds, a few rows at a time.

Walking on it

You may land on it and walk about. While a player is near it, it swims: every lionTurtleMoveSeconds (40) it moves one block the way its head faces, carrying everything on it (blocks, chests and their contents, beds, creatures, you). The swim runs as a wave from its front to its back over some seconds, a row of blocks at a time, so it never stops the game, and you do not see it go; you only find, after a while, that you are far from where you started. Where land, ice or shallow water bars its way, it swims to a side, or back. An island nobody is near stays where it was left.

So that all of it can swim, a lion turtle keeps its own chunks loaded while a player is near it (and lets them go a little after everyone has left).

The lion turtle cannot be harmed and never leaves (only the void or a Creative player can kill it).

Its gift

Stand at the front of its shell, beside its neck, and right-click its head. To most it says nothing. To a Hero of the Village (the advancement for saving a village from a raid) it speaks, and gives two arts, placed on your free keys. As it gave Wan his bending, it raises a flipper high beside its face and reaches out two great claws, tan banded with black, to your forehead and your chest; light blooms where they touch, broken rings of it circling the two points and long rays crossing through them; then the claws draw back.

• Energybending: touch a bender within reach and take his bending, for
  • 2 hours if you are the Avatar (no chakra need be open);
  • 6 minutes if you are an airbender;
  • 3 minutes for anyone else (any other bender, or someone who bends nothing).
• Energy Restore: touch one whose bending was taken and give it back before its time ends.

The danger: if the energy of the one you touch is stronger than yours (more points spent and chakras opened; the Avatar's counts for more), the energy turns on you. You lose your own bending for as long, and you are stunned. In the Avatar State no energy is stronger than yours.

A home

A Hero of the Village may also build on its shell and live there, as people lived on the lion turtles before the Avatar. Nobody else can break or place a block on it (Creative players aside). A bed on the shell swims with it, and you wake there still.

Finding one

Lion turtles live in deep oceans, far apart (about one in every 64 by 64 chunks, where the ocean is deep under the whole island). An operator can raise one with /enlightened lionturtle (at sea level where you stand, facing as you face), /enlightened lionturtle <pos> (the sea's surface at that height) or /enlightened lionturtle <pos> <size>.