Rangifair is an Air-type creo that looks massive at first glance but is light enough to ride air currents from one mountaintop to the next.
Rangifair are wary of people and stay cold and aloof even after taming, showing none of the puppy-like devotion some other creo do.
Biology
Rangifair's hollow bones make it far lighter than its size suggests. Its coat combines pale icy blue with chocolate brown and lighter brown spots, and its head is crowned with a sleek tufted crest almost as long as its neck. That crest and its tail can spin rapidly like propellers, giving it lift and balance in the air.
Wide, transparent gliding membranes fold so neatly down Rangifair's sides that only a trained eye can spot them before they are needed. Rangifair can glide at more than 70 km/h, and they live about 28 years on average.
Rangifair eat mainly hardy mountain grasses, lichens, and mosses, with tree bark and mineral deposits on the side. They also have to swallow a good deal of air, or gas, to help digestion and keep themselves buoyant.
Rangifair live in high mountain ranges of sharp ridges, sheer cliffs, and constant wind. They favor open alpine meadows near the peaks, where strong currents let them walk on the wind like kites. Stone ledges serve as resting places and birthing sites. Their migration runs vertically rather than horizontally, with herds climbing higher in summer and dropping a little lower through harsh winters.
Rangifair travel in small groups of six to ten. Within a herd they are calm and cooperative, though vain. They spend much of their spare time admiring their reflections in glassy alpine lakes, preening and strutting about. Mating involves dramatic aerial displays, a spiral dance in which males and females each try to catch a higher current than the other, crests and tails churning the thin air.