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Lunecra / ルネクラ(Runekura)
Lunecra's name is pronounced loo-NEK-ra.

Species
Flying Wyvern

Physical Damage Effectiveness

 * Head = ★★★
 * Chest = ★★
 * Back = ★
 * Wings = ★★★
 * Tail = ★★

Element Effectiveness

 * Fire = ★★★
 * Water = ★
 * Thunder = ★★★
 * Ice = ★★
 * Dragon = ★

Status Effectiveness

 * Poison = ★★
 * Sleep = ✖
 * Paralysis = ★★★
 * Blast = ★★
 * Stun = ★★
 * Blind = ★

Size
Lunecra is relatively small for a flying wyvern, slightly smaller than Seregios.

Size Range: 1200cm-1900cm

Physiology
Lunecra is mostly black, having a black exoskeleton, greenish-gray skin, and spots of purple bioluminescence lining the plates of its exoskeleton, as well as glowing purple wing membranes. It is rather insectoid in nature, similar to Astalos, except it has green blood. Lunecra's head has a wide, flat, oval structure on the top, where its bioluminescence forms a crude outline of a skull's eyes and teeth. This along with its bright wing scales is used to potentially frighten off or intimidate the larger monsters that it's not powerful enough to fight off. Its tail ends in a pinecone-like structure made of sharp pieces of its exoskeleton that form as it continually molts.

Abilities

 * The bits of exoskeleton at the end of Lunecra's tail form loosely-connected spikes that contain an anesthetic agent found in its skin, and when the tail is swung hard enough, these spikes will detach and potentially bury themselves in victims.
 * Its wings are covered in scales like a butterfly's, and when it flaps its wings these scales can come off in clouds, with those clouds blinding victims that get caught in them.
 * It can fly very agilely between trees as a result of its relatively small wing size, enabling it to perform various flying hit-and-run attacks.
 * It uses its bioluminescence to scare off predators and other Lunecras while hunting.

Behavior
Lunecra are solitary, nocturnal hunters that often try to target monsters much larger than themselves. Despite being relatively fragile, Lunecra have a fighting chance at stopping more powerful creatures because they can blind monsters as well as put them to sleep with the spikes it flings off of its tail before going in for close-range attacks. They are carnivorous, and will attack just about anything that moves if they are hunting.

Habitat
Lunecra lives almost exclusively in deciduous or temperate forests, examples being the Ancient Forest and Primal Forest. Even when prey is sparse, Lunecra tends to persist by attacking other predators.