Editing Flying Antinium

The '''Flying Antinium''' are a variation of the [[Antinium]], created and ruled by the [[Flying Queen]].

== Overview ==
There are many different variants of Flying Antinium, because the Flying Queen keeps experimenting with their flawed forms: None of them can actually fly, but they are good at jumping into the air and then gliding on their wings.<ref name="7.19">[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/04/26/7-19/ Chapter 7.19]</ref> This makes them cover a lot of ground very fast, like a hopping form of cavalry.<ref name="3.23L" /> They like the outdoors.<ref>{{VERef|10.23 LMGY}}</ref>

Known variations are:
* Regular Warrior: four wings, two arms, eight eyes, elongated body that hunches forward. Spitting acid/poison may be a speciality of [[Pivr]], who resembles this type.<ref name="3.23L" />
* Heavy-combat Warrior variant: thicker carapace plates, huge wings, horn like a beetle, sharp prongs<ref name="3.23L" />
* Regular Worker: Yellow, brown or black carapace, green wings, six limbs, four used for locomotion. Likened to flies.

== History ==
There were once "True" Flying Antinium, before the entire fleet almost entirely perished upon leaving [[Rhir]]. The new Flying Antinium are regarded as "half-baked copies" of the original ones, but are still the best that the Hives can produce.<ref name="3.34">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/12/02/3-34/ Chapter 3.34]</ref> These were deployed during the Second Antinium War.

Once, the Flying Antinium slaughtered an entire city to retrieve [[Klbkch]]'s swords.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/04/01/interlude-stories/ Interlude - Stories]</ref>

When the Flying Queen sent Pivr to investigate the [[Free Antinium]] hive in Liscor with a delegation of six more Warriors, she gave orders that he should make a show of force by entering the city publicly. This incident almost provoked a war when they met [[Zel Shivertail]] and [[Ilvriss]].<ref name="3.23L">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/14/3-23-l/ Chapter 3.23 L]</ref>

During his second visit at the Free Hive, Pivr gifted two Flying Antinium workers to the Free Queen for live vivisection on orders of his Queen. [[Garry]] rescued them from this fate and the workers entered in his employ instead.<ref name="7.19" />

Flying Antinium were among the forces from the Hivelands gathered to assist the inn defenders on the Winter Solstice.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/19/9-65/ Chapter 9.65]</ref> They clashed with the phantoms in the sky. However, during the battle, they switched sides on the Flying Queen's orders and attacked the defenders.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/26/9-67-pt-2/ Chapter 9.67 (Pt. 2)]</ref>

When [[Sheta]] gathered an army of Izril's flying creatures, the Flying Antinium where among those she called. They seemed to ask for a soul, which she couldn't give them. She instead gave them to blessings, one of flight and one of spirit. Tens of thousands of Flying Antinium thus gained the ability of full-fledged flight in the aftermath of the battle.<ref>{{VERef|10.36 - (Pt. 2)}}</ref>

== Notable Flying Antinium ==

* [[Pisca]]
* [[Runel]]

=== Flying Prognugators ===

* [[Pivr]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Antinium]]
[[Category:Flying Antinium]]
[[Category:Izril]]