Region Tyrants

The Region Tyrants are the eight EBOs that stand at the top of Arcerra's food chain.

Universal Similarities
Region Tyrants have powers that correspond to the Element of the Region they reside in. However, this has nothing to do with the Flow System, it's just because of the way Ethraksha Programming works.
 * 1) There's one for each Region except Tsunia.
 * 2) They are made entirely out of Ethraksha.
 * 3) They're all bloody massive.
 * 4) Unkillable.

In order to achieve their level of intelligence, whilst simultaneously not displaying any human-like behavioural patterns such as a personality or emotion, it's assumed that Region Tyrants have absorbed several hundred humans, and tens of thousands of bestial predators on top of that in order to make the former less used.

Region Tyrants Remain Awake for around 200 years, and sleep for around 200 years aswell.

Being made out of Ethraksha and containing Programming information on the countless beings and objects they've assimilated into themselves over the millennia means that Region Tyrants can freely change their shape and form at willl, instantly. This has no impact on their abilities at all, but one behavioural pattern that should be noted is that Region Tyrants regularly change their main appearance every 500 or so years, staying in that form until it decides to change it again.

History
Region Tyrants came about just like any other Ethraksha-Based Organism, mainly by pure chance.

Large masses of Ethraksha that remained in parts of the continent after the 1st Calamity that were Programmed by things that fell into it and absorbed: animals and plants that lived in the area, objects carried by the weather or whatnot. Eventually those masses had gained enough Programming to be able to behave like a living being, and would actively seek out more things to assimilate into itself. Rinse and repeat for a few hundred years and now they're so massive and powerful that there's barely a need to hunt anymore, except when being attacked.

Habitat
Region Tyrant habitats are Ethr Zones, large areas of Ethraksha-related supernatural phenomenon that suit their diets of raw, un-programmed Ethraksha very nicely.

Power
I'm not good enough at writing to make the Tyrants sound especially cool or anything, so I'll lay down some facts and feats so they can be compared with other things.

There is no beating a Region Tyrant with brute force. It's made out of Ethraksha so it's invulnerable to Magic and can absorb people instantly.

Using Pallobalt to absorb a Region Tyrant and seal it away normally never works. Tyrants are aware of their weakness to Pallobalt and can shift their Programming away from the part of their body that would have been absorbed. Even if you do manage to capture parts of its Programming, you're never gonna find enough Pallobalt to seal the entire Tyrant away. Even if you did seal an entire Region Tyrant inside Pallobalt, it would still be able to operate, as usual, except now it has an indestructible core.

Region Tyrants are incredibly ruthless and no-nonsense when it comes to fighting. If they perceive something as a genuine threat, they'd unleash all (and i mean all) of their power instantly and attempt to eliminate the threat in the least amount of time as possible.

All Region Tyrants are of equal strength. Size is only a factor in how much magic a Tyrant can use before needing to feed, i.e, how long it will take to kill them. They could kill you by breathing on you too hard. If the strength of the Tyrants has to be compared to the strength of another anime's beasts, they'd have the power of 50 Ten Tails...each. Oh and they're massive. Meadvale could cover most of central London in it's shadow.

Good luck surviving a decade-long fight with an enemy that can OHKO you and covers your entire field of view.

Food
Region Tyrants need a supply of fairly pure Ethraksha to sustain themselves and to power their magical abilities. However, there hasn't been any raw Ethraksha on Arcerra since Era II and Region Tyrants cannot convert Aura into Ethraksha the same way organic life can.

This is why Region Tyrants eat people. They don't need the organic stuff, just the Ethraksha organic life uses to stay alive so it can use it to keep itself alive instead.

Region Tyrants favour anything with a high Aura content, ranging from certain fruits and vegetables, to powerful animals like Congreeds, Drakes, and even Humans.

Since the beginning of Era IV, humans have came up with an idea to stop the Region Tyrants from eating them. Whenever a Region Tyrant wakes from its hibernation to eat a sacrifice of extremely Aura-rich livestock and crops is offered to them which, when compared to a couple of hundred people, cannot be ignored. These sacrifices have worked 95% of the time for the past 1000 years.

Ethr Hosting
Region Tyrants will inject a part of themselves into a live animal in hopes of it taking over their body. Once that happens, the Tyrant's influence on the animal would force it to kill other things and collect their Ethraksha, and once enough to satisfy has been collected it will return to the Tyrant to be eaten.

A person (or animal) that contains a piece of a Region Tyrant for that exact purpose is called an Ethr Host.

Humans are the ones that become Ethr Hosts most of the time. Also gives them powers. The Region Tyrants do this on purpose in order to get them to become overconfident, let their guard down and make it easier to take over their body.

If the Ethr Host dies that's a LOT of Ethraksha wasted, which is the opposite of what this tactic is meant to do. For that reason, Ethr Hosts are automatically protected from most attacks on their life, but only when it's obvious and easy to predict. This can only happen once every "VERY long time", and is completely involuntary.

As well as this, Essence Hosts also gain a magical ability that is completely unique to them.

If the Region Tyrant being hosted decides that the Ethr Host will not be an asset, it subconsciously compels the Host to return to it. When they return, they have their borrowed powers ripped out of them, which  >>>>normally<<<<<  kills them.

The longest a Region Tyrant waits for an Ethr Host to be taken over is ten years, which can become earlier if they use their power extensively and become even more of a liability.

There is currently only one known Ethr Host of a Region Tyrant: Ttopia Adonna, host of Union.

Berne
Tyrant of the Kingdom of Flames, currently taking the form of the Living Flame. The Ethr Zone it resides in is the Dark Star. It could actually be the Dark Star, nobody really knows.

Timbercroft
Tyrant of Thanea, currently taking the form of "People". The entirety of Thanea is an Ethr Zone, and completely under Timbercroft's control.

Hallowell
Tyrant of Esten, currently taking the form of Wai Rowo. It's original name isn't known. The Ethr Zone it lives in is Heaven's Ocean.

Meadvale
Tyrant of Cryotia, currently taking the form of the Great Frost Wyvern. Ethr Zone of residence is the Inani Montibus.

Grange
Tyrant of the United Archipelagic Sky-Islands, currently taking the form of the TripAdvisor Owl. Ethr Zone of Residence is the Mound of Wisdom

Union
Tyrant of Neruma, currently taking the form of the Desert rabbit-worm. Ethr Zone of residence if the Glass Desert.

Rockmount
Tyrant of Narishaela, currently taking the form of Titus: the King of the Hill. Ethr Zone of residence has no name.

Spurgeon
Tyrant of Noxtyres, currently taking the form of the Furnace. Ethr Zone of residence is the Forge.

Trivia
The Region Tyrants are beasts created by the moon man to destroy Arcerra. L.U.C.Y made them relatively docile and they now pose little threat.