KaproSupremacist

Dossier: Wild: Hieraaetus, or more commonly known as the Haast’s Eagle, is a giant bird found in the forests of the Arks. These enormous eagles are even larger than they are back on Earth, approaching similar sizes to the Pteranodon. However, unlike the Pteranodon and even Argentavis, this eagle is specialized to hunt prey far larger than itself. I have witnessed this bird taking down Parasaurs, Iguanodons, and even a Carnotaurus! It uses its massive talons to slash at the creatures head and pierce the braincase, being able to blind other animals. I’ve even witnessed unfortunate survivors getting carried off to their nests, located high up in trees. These birds can be extremely territorial when they have eggs or young, and both the male and female will brutally attack any threat nearby. Domesticated: These eagles are one of the most useful tames that survivors have found. Hieraaetus is highly intelligent, even for a bird of prey, and thus have been trained by especially caring survivors looking to raise a specialist for various tasks. Survivors will often teach these eagles to harvest specific resources, hunt specific animals, or even to lookout for enemies and locate resources! Another innovation made by survivors for these birds has been a special harness which holds a video camera. Survivors can essentially use their Hieraaetus as a drone to scout the lands from the safety of their homes. But, if a survivor needs to take their bird out for an adventure, the Hieraaetus will carry their tamer into battle or into the world, freeing up the hands. Features of the Haast’s Eagle: A new training mechanic! Tamed Hieraaetus can be taught to attack certain categories of creatures, which gives them damage boosts against, for example, theropod dinosaurs, but a reduction against others. Hieraaetus would also be useful for those looking to harvest specific materials from corpses, trees, and eggs at high efficiency at the cost of not being able to harvest the other materials. Other Training Abilities: High-level detection for outside Aberration, detection of enemies and allies through specific calls, and spotting resources. Higher imprints=More effective training New attack effects: Blindness When Hieraaetus attacks a creature, it will attempt to grip the head and gouge the eyes, which would cause a similar viewing effect to the fear roar, without the loss of control. Hieraaetus can only blind a creature when not carrying anything. Specialization: Hieraaetus can be trained to specialize in attacking certain groups of creatures, which gives them major damage and resistance buffs against those creatures specifically, but nerfs them against others. Ex: A Hieraaetus specialized to attack arthropods would gain major boosts against Pulmonoscorpius, Arthropleura, Rhyniognatha, etc. while gaining resistance against attacks like spit and projectiles. However, it would not be able to deal as much damage as normal to Ornithischians, for example. Picking: Unmounted Hieraaetus can pick off targeted players from their mounts and carry them into the air, clawing through armor with ease. Taming: Hieraaetus would be an egg-stealing tame, where you would have to avoid the parents and steal the egg, like most other egg tames. It would be breedable.