Rare Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them
Beauvol
Meaning beautiful flight
Type of animal: bird
Appearance: pearly-whitish plumage, with dark, lustrous lead- colored beak and legs. The eyes can be any color.
Personality: the beauvol is an extremely loyal companion, but only to its pre-destined 'partner,' or owner. If approached by anyone other than said partner, it will become violent and unpredictable, unless the owner assures the beauvol of the outsider's trustworthiness. This magical bird is very quiet, hardly ever making a single sound; it speaks through its gaze. It is also very intellegent, but not much is known about its brain capacity other than that.
Abilities: First and foremost, the beauvol is known for its ability to change its plumage; it fixes a witch or wizard with its piercing gaze and reads the aura. It then continues to conform its own color to that of the objectee. Not only does it portray the color of the witch's or wizard's aura, it will also reveal the intensity- brightness-of it as well.
Because of its possessive nature, the bird will react in a uniqe manner if approached by an outsider. Fire-skin is the ability to turn one's own skin to fire without the consequens of severe burns. This is exactly what the beauvol will resort to in order to threaten someone. A common misconception made by many scolars is the assumption that the fire-skin is a defense mechanism. It is in fact a warning signal, telling the person that the bird does not want to be touced.
A peculiar ability found within this species is its flying capability, which is perhaps too graceful to be called flying. If closely observed, the beauvol actually appears to float on the air, as if the air were carrying it to its destination. Its wings only open just before flight but never flap about; they simply stay stretched from the bird's sides until the air sets it down.
The last of its abilities is completely vague. It converses with its owner in a type of unspecified legilimency. It knows what its companion is thinking, and it sends messages to the owner's mind without eye contact or any other kind of physical connection.
Care: One should not attempt to care for a beauvol unless it is absolutely necessary. They are highly dangerous, except to their companions, and should be treated with great caution. The beauvol is a generally independent creature, and it is able to care for itself from the moment it is conceived.
Requirements: The owner must have an ever-changing aura (one that changes color and intensity based on emotion).
Curiousities: Feeds off magical auras without draining the magic. Every time it changes color, it gains a week's worth of energy. As such, the owner alone could provide quite a healthy diet. It also has the exact shade of eye color as its predestined companion.
History: A beauvol is born of the energy released when a magical person with an ever-changing aura actually changes the aura color for the first time. The amount of power needed to change an aura is staggering, and this creature is the side-effect caused by the enormous amount of excess energy. There have only been four beauvols on record, and only the owners have had accurate information on them. (They got it from the beauvol directly, through the legilimency link). The eye colors were red, metallic yellow, lavender, and flourescent pink. Oddly enough, no one knows just who the owners were, and all this information was found in a stray diary with no name and no date. The only clue about the ownres available is the name of the creature; it is thought that the first owner was French because the name is derived from two French words, meaning beautiful and flight.
