Coastal Rukh

The English form roc originates via Antoine Galland's French from Arabic ruḵḵ (Arabic: الرُخّ, romanized: al-ruḫḫ) and that from Persian ruḵ (Persian pronunciation: [/rux/]).

• Singular: roc, rukh

• Plural: rocs, rukhs

In the Early Pleistocene, certain Pelagornis mauretanicus evolved into raptors with seabird-like abilities, eventually becoming the giant albatross-like bird known as the roc bird. This group of the most recent surviving pelagornithids has been represented as a big eagle-like seabird with massive wings and ear-like feathers similar to nightjars or rockhopper penguins, noted for its amazing strength and appearing in stories from Persia, Arabia, India, and China.

The only roc bird with sexual dimorphism is the Coastal Rukh. During the breeding season, males have a yellow-toothed beak, a red face, a yellowish crest, long yellow feathers, white-to-black feathers, and a black-edged-to-red-tipped tail. With the exception of having different chromosomes, a yellowish to red face, a black-tipped yellow-toothed beak, a lack of a red tail, and no long feathers on their cheeks, females are identical to males. Like Europeans, they had black and white plumage, yellowish-brown scaly legs without flippers, grey claws, and pale white skin devoid of feathers. Because of sexual dimorphism—males are smaller than females—the Coastal Rukh is smaller than the Brown Rukh.

Like albatrosses but on a bigger scale, rocs have incredibly effective flying skills. Daniel Ksepka discovered that roc birds were specialized for dynamic soaring over ocean winds after modeling their flying. Rocs were surface-foragers rather than deep divers, just as pelagornithids. Extensive swimming was unlikely because to their large wings and thin bones. Like contemporary albatrosses, they most made a brief landing on the water.

Coastal Rukhs are capable of lifting tiny to medium-sized objects, such as humans, large animal babies, birds of various sizes, large bony fish, and canoes. Rukhs frequently use their feet to dive into the sea in order to capture small to medium-sized marine life, and they occasionally carry humans against their choice or in amicable tales. According to conservation literature, these rukhs have learned to steal prey from other birds, a habit known as kleptoparasitism.

Because they can only create tornadoes with their mouths or wings, male Coastal Rukhs are dancers in the sky. They can also cut clouds with their long crimson tails. Although the female coastal Rukh is a premier femme fatale, she has a bigger tail than the males and backflips to confound her adversaries due to wind pressure. This species uses the blast of clear air turbulence and amalgam beam breaths to regulate wind and waterspouts.

Skills

• Wind of Smash: Roc spews three steam balls, deals slowness, blindness, and wetness, making a chance for bird flu.

• Aerial Garrote: Roc dashes and makes an escape, causing knockback.

• Truth or Dare (Persian: حقیقت یا جرات "haqiqat yâ jerat"): Roc commands between two actions; hence the name, Roc commands waterspout on their wings to deal stunned, confused, and wetted with bird flu; or blocked with water surrounding the whole body to prevent fire-related injuries. True is the word for the true form of water-skin ability from all water sources; dare means evoked waterspouts, according to the opinions of Roc.

• Featherweight Balance (Persian: تعادل وزن پر "tarâzû vazn par"): Roc increases attack damage while airborne but has less defense; on land, it can increase speed, defense, and attack damage.

• Thunderstorm

Despite its hideous look, the Coastal Rukh was an important middle-level predator in several Indian Ocean nations. Coastal Rukhs also readily scavenge carcasses and sometimes steal prey from other birds.

Like contemporary albatrosses or other seabirds, roc birds were enormous pelagic birds that nested on isolated coastal cliffs, atolls, or islands. The majority of these birds' lives were spent over the open ocean because they were pelagic. The Coastal Rukh were able to capture fish, squid, and soft-bodied marine prey at the surface thanks to the pseudoteeth on their beak. Roc birds are larger and incredibly uncommon in nature, and they support a lifestyle of long-distance flying and surface feeding. In order to prevent overpopulation, this species acted as a reducer in the environment, lowering the number of individuals living in the open ocean, on beaches, and on islands.

Those individuals stole the elephant as their primary target, despite the fact that roc birds are an innocent and callous species. In order to defend themselves from poachers and primarily weaken the predator, the roc produces one or, in rare cases, five eggs in their huge nest. However, because of their size, the predators are unable to consume them, much like elephant birds.

Any type of rukh disrupts the wedding and abducts the bride to care for the egg without their parents, whether the bride is a fisherman, pirate, sailor, captain, landowner, or governor-general. Only a few birds or dinosaurs attempt to kidnap your lover, according to the findings of an ecologist named "Princess and Dragon," a related in Elder Dragon-Level Monsters that related "Abduction" moves.

Reproduction

• Form long-term monogamous pairs.

• Build enormous stick nests, often reused for years.

• Typically lay 1–5 eggs.

• Fledging takes roughly 20–25 weeks.

For the majority of the day, roc birds may glide large distances and seize anything from the surface. This species, like large modern seabirds, breeds in colonies and is rarely encountered on land except for nesting. The Coastal Rukh, unlike its fabled cousin, is shy but not deadly, keeping a safe distance like modern albatrosses. Their large wingspan would make them stunning but vulnerable in the presence of ships. If disturbed, they would avoid direct contact with humans and would not become hostile. According to certain myths, they are honorable or capable of carrying a hero if respected or fed.

Threats

• Persecution.

• Habitat destruction.

• Poisoning & pollutants.

• Climate change.

Conservation Status

• IUCN Red List: Endangered (EN)

Conservation Efforts

• Habitat protection.

• Anti-poaching enforcement.

• Rescue and rehabilitation centers.

• Research programs to monitor population stability.

• Awareness campaigns against illegal pet trade.

Despite the name, the Coastal Rukhs are migratory species, living in all habitats and in countries like Iran and the Kerguelen Islands.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Versatile

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond; Aquifer; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal.

• Earth: 

  • Extant: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, State of Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen

• Berbania: Zowhringe

• Reinachos: Pascua, Ascunsia

The Rukh chick was neglected and left; however, there is a very low chance to feed it harmlessly with fish or fresh meat for feed and tamed.

Creation of Rukhs: 3000000 BCE

As biological airplanes, Project Pashneia aimed to produce rukhs from Pelagornis in the likeness of the deity that were incredibly tough but wholly submissive.

First Incidents between History and the Future (2860 AD)

In the first place, known as a better sustainable area for the migration of extinct animals and plants, Zowhringe (IPA: zɔˈʍrɪːŋ{ɟ}e) is a fictional country located on Planet Berbania, where all humans and Berbanian humans, as well as Dairks, are responsible for the conception of these fossilized remains that are reported to their government to prevent the usual anomalies.

Drift Incidents in the Future to Paleogene (2864 AD)

Pelagornis and its relatives returned from their portals, now captured for experiments, and kept pseudo-toothed birds in the zoo. They were not released into Berbania when the code was given the name PS-193. Some PS-193s brought up to Planet Reinachos and displaced the PS-193s into Pascua de Los Desierto, maybe the Persian diaspora called Rukh.

Zowhringese Paleontology Program Mass Incident, January 2865

The perfectly evolved bird called Great Tern (by Andres Tjimashong) and shown up to the scientists and elves are perfectly destined for this species by hybrid-like design. Unfortunately, the magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck this area where dinosaurs and other extinct animals were resurrected from fossilized remains by DNA samples and escaped all around the Zowhringe. Unlucky, whole extinct animals escape from earthquakes, and from birds to pterodactyls now released from research laboratories and sanctuaries, even Rocs escaped.

Miriel's Last Heritage Curses Zowhringe—End of January, 2865

According to the news, this enormous bird escaping an earthquake incident (made by Miriel, ancestor of Finduilas; mother of Miller Fifhtrasso the Half-elf), that was expanding into northern Berbania after the incidence of the earthquake, killed many people in the ocean liner by stronger easterlies than monsoon, including 18 native people in Tiqojarhan Beach, and was eaten by Roc.

• At Berbania, English version

" Where the graceful seabirds are all I want, but the gigantic bird with the Emperor's mustache and a combination of any bird species, if you never heard "

– Ignacio Erickson Shajharo (Qezhonian Consultant)

• At Reinachos, English language

“ Even the people scattered around the Reinachos were Persians, Navajos, Albanians, or Arabs, I suppose. Their named species was Roc, the great seagull of the desert. ”

– Hajji Ashkii Peshlakai nee Alopay / Arabic: حاجي‎ ىَشكييَ ىَلوِپَي پيََشلكىَي (Keyah Asaakian Novelist)

2019-2020 Version

• Based on their legendary counterparts, the Brown and Coastal Rukhs are the last remaining pseudotooth birds, or pelagornithids, descended from Pelagornis mauretanicus.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_%28mythology%29

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Coastal-Rukh-Pre-2022-835859144

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Coastal-Rukh-917928486