Male Hatchling
Name: unnamed
Species: Icy Snowchin
Birthday: Monday, November 11, 2024
Owner: uaron
Element: Water 
When the little egg hatches, a fluffy, snow-covered creature rolls out, regarding you with adorably beady eyes. These young creatures seem to change size constantly, as they bathe themselves by rolling in freshly fallen snow. Being made of snow themselves, the snow will often stick to them and increase their size and roundness to the point where they resemble snowballs themselves—albeit snowballs with ears and whiskers.
Snowchins are immensely talented, using their ability to sculpt snow into food that they eat or tools they use to burrow long tunnels in snow and ice. They reside in regions where snow can be found year-round, and will hide underground on warm days in icy tunnel networks. Remarkably hardy creatures, they need only snow or ice to survive, and at the Keep a spell or two to provide snow for them is all they need. Explorers have even found them living in floating icebergs, residing comfortably in tunnels they create as they voyage wherever the iceberg goes. Individuals in regions of Arkene and Boreus often consider them mischievous, as their primary method of self-defense is a barrage of tightly-packed snowballs that they will launch at individuals who get too close to their dens.
Sprite art: Mysfytt (hatchling) | Description: Raneth