Phoenixes

A very rare bird of fire with the power of regeneration.

Nature
Phoenixes are as intelligent as humans and are benevolent creatures. The phoenix sees magic as impure but they would never attack a magical creature. Instead they wait for their rebirth. Phoenixes are loners due to their rarity.

Powers and Abilities

 * Bird physiology: Phoenixes are bird-like in shape and possess similar characteristics.
 * Flight: Like a bird of prey, phoenixes can soar through the sky.
 * Hollow bones: It is presumed that like mundane birds, phoenixes have hollow bones to help them take flight. However, they may use magic to achieve flight like dragons and gryphons.
 * Enhanced senses: Like many birds, the phoenix may have enhanced senses, especially sight.
 * Longevity: Phoenixes possess an incredibly long lifespan. They can live for centuries before dying.
 * Telepathy: When a phoenix is about to perish, it projects visions of its upcoming demise and regeneration into the minds of all creatures in the surrounding area.
 * Heat: Phoenixes have limited powers over fire and heat. When a phoenix is about to die, its body heats up and bursts into flames so hot that surrounding vegetation and tiny critters are incinerated instantly.
 * Heat resistance: Phoenixes are immune to the damaging effects of fire and during their regeneration, the flames they conjure do not harm them.
 * Regeneration: An old phoenix can burst into flames and emerge from the ashes as a newly formed young phoenix with all his memories intact but with a restored body. A phoenix can use this ability for thousands of years to start life anew but eventually, the flames they conjure will harm them and they will face true death.
 * Purifying: A phoenix's rebirth wipes away all the magic in the existing area for a period of time. This powerful ability can take away any creature's power, including the mermaids' glamour, the dragon's ability to fly and breathe fire and the faery's magic. It can also restore a gorgon's petrified victims as long as their calcified state is intact.

Known Phoenixes

 * Blair(shapeshifter)

Origin
The phoenix was created along with New Earth. Unlike other magical creatures, the phoenix was not meant to exist and was an "accident" of nature. Every time a phoenix returned from the dead, he/she would undo all the God had done for a short amount of time.