Female Hatchling
Name: unnamed
Species: Reaper Amagnae
Birthday: Friday, May 17, 2024
Owner: sunsprite
Mother: unnamed
Father: unnamed
Element: Life/Void 
Reaper amagnae hatchlings are cute, affectionate, and fortunately for the magi raising them, not yet covered in sharp spikes, though their hatchling down is uncomfortably pokey. This makes their demands for cuddles merely uncomfortable rather than actively painful. Magi should take care to train their hatchlings to express their affection in less physical ways, or suffer the consequences when their chick grows up. As hatchlings, reaper amagnae don't have much of their strange aura yet, and so any crops that happen to be in their proximity at most grow slightly faster. As such, they forage for themselves by hunting for bugs and small animals, and beg adults or their magi when they want tasty treats of perfectly ripened fruit and grains.
Despite being covered with sharp feathers and even sharper spikes, reaper amagnae are received with a much warmer, albeit still grudging, welcome by farmers than their wild silver and brown cousins. This is partly because they are merely indifferent towards humans, rather than actively malicious. More importantly, they have the interesting ability to age crops to perfect harvest ripeness in an instant just by proximity, a power they take advantage of to always have tasty food to eat. Since they tend to appear in late fall, farmers generally don't begrudge having part of their remaining fields ransacked in exchange for the rest of their crops being made magically ready for harvest before winter sets in. However, the birds' sharp feathers, spiky appearance, and rumors that their aging powers can work on humans as well, give them a slightly ominous reputation, and mean that they are treated with a certain degree of fear. Once the harvest has been brought in, it is considered an omen of death if the birds stay on, and so most villages put offerings of fresh grain and meat on their outskirts afterwards in hopes of bribing the reaper amagnae to move on.
Sprite art: Mysfytt (hatchling) | Description: Kestrad