[aznkenshin]

This just in.

There was a lot of discussion regarding a video about an Elyos male "shapeshifting." We already know it's possible to become a parrot or a corn -- the majority believes this to be special quests.

Without further ado, I present you this.

Click me! :P

Please consider my following reasons.

Apparently, it's a female Mau with its respective weapon. Compare it to several renders of the Mau (I used Aiononline.com) and you can see it's similar, like the facepaint and the loose clothing. Of course, there is room for error on my part, but it's a start.

One possible error is the fact that I was not able to spot any sign of stripes whatsoever. Mau are known for their tiger-like appearances, and are primarily in Asmodae.

"The Mau are a breed of humanoid beasts found throughout the Asmodian territories. They possess acute agility and a carnal instinct for battle, providing a significant threat to the Asmodians in Pandaemonium. " --http://aion.wikia.com/wiki/Mau

The environment seems to be dark, so it does support my hypothesis (I'm sounding like my Lab Write-ups). Another thing that convinces me is the presence of a time limit. It could be a countdown or a timer. But, if you can recall, it was also shown when the Parrot was eavesdropping the group of pirates in a ship.

In addition, I haven't been able to get my hands on a decent translation, as the only access I have is the notorious Google translation. All it says is "LYCAN." Ugh.

Speculate away.


EDIT: THIS JUST IN AGAIN. I found something that can serve as decisive evidence! This page says it all. Click me! I'm proof! :D

Notice the large word in that webpage and compare it to a Translated version of my FIRST link. They both say Lycan :).

[Pancak3s]

MAU?? when you said MAU i was expecting this =p lol

[plasma06]

so their are many quest where you can transform thats 3 so far

[Szaman]

Is it just the appearance or do the character gets new skills/stats too? A toogle skill (usable anytime, lasts as long as the character wants and then switches off) or a buff-type (character needs to cast it and then has the new looks for a fixed period of time)?

[Mark]

I love these transformations. The cornstalk and Mau transform looks like a Asmodian-only affair, while the parrot and the wolf are Elyos.

[aznkenshin]

Yeah, if you guys read the last part of my post, that last page pretty much confirmed my guess that it was a Mau they were talking about! (Not sure why no one seemed to catch that... :( )

[Fayeth]

there was a thread earlier abouot transforming into a wolf as well...

Here it is!

[aznkenshin]

Thanks for bringing that up, Fayeth. I didn't include being able to transform to a wolf in my post because, honestly, I forgot.

I'm going to add that in my thread real quick.

[Midgarsormr]

Mau beats Wolf
Corn beats Parrot
OH YEAH ASMO!!!

[Kolossus]

Corn does not beat Parrot..

[Rex Hansen]

weird ways to do quests but...what ever.

Maybe its a different form of buff?

[aznkenshin]

I found another interesting clue. Phiber recently mentioned that he was unable to derive another meaning for some of the skills in the Fighter list. One was named "Kid." They were unusual skill names, but it could possibly be the transformation skills acquired from the quests.

Reminds me of the Bonus Mission Pack from Guild Wars.

[Santa]

Pancak3s said:

MAU?? when you said MAU i was expecting this =p lol

lol i thought the same thing.

so a mau is the lycan thing?

[aznkenshin]

Santa said:

lol i thought the same thing.

so a mau is the lycan thing?

Yes, I'm more than 95% sure. Three-four sources have confirmed my hypothesis claimed at the thread, so I'm very satisfied!

[lyankyj]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PelRQBYlCh4"]YouTube - Aion - transformation[/ame]

[eternalchaos]

so wait.. you can transform into a stalk of corn? Puzzled how one would be effective as a piece of corn :P

[Cynthe]

Looks like the corn can punch pretty hard, there's an Xbox game that has a similar plant monster that you can turn into.. What was it called? You were this elf girlie and you could change into monsters..

[aznkenshin]

I don't recognize what game you're referring to Cynthe, but I do remember seeing my friend playing it right before we moved on to Halo 2.

[Fleiva]

now you can turn into a horny dragon aswell, it seems.

[aznkenshin]

Fleiva said:

now you can turn into a horny dragon aswell, it seems.

Oh, you saw that too? Then it must be in the Videos section -- I haven't seen that forum in a while. Let me go ahead and do that.

And I wouldn't call it "horny"... it was just the animation was not fully completed and was in its early stages xD