The Solwyn is a mammal in Lost Colony. It is the swift evolution of the Veilwyn. Sharpened by the strange forces that fuel its transformation, it glides across ice fields, creates fleeting pathways, and moves through frozen hazards with confident precision and grace.
With its strength, speed, and extraordinary abilities enhanced by Vulpite, this once-diminutive pet can now carry a rider across the Antarctic wastes at great speed.
One of our geologists discovered a potentially-exploitable new mineral resource while surveying the perimeter for veins of Element. Some of this novel substance -- which she named 'Vulpite' -- was ingested by her mutant companion before she could stop it. Her juvenile Veilwyn underwent an unexpected metamorphosis during its next teleportation, increasing in mass, muscle density, and cognitive response. We decided to call her majestic new mount a Solwyn.
Applications
Any young Veilwyn fed enough Vulpite will become a Solwyn. This miraculous fox-mount protects its rider from the ravages of our environment, as they speed together across glacial terrain, up sheer ice clifs, and through frigid polar waters. A Solwyn can use its cryokinesis to create fragile ice-bridges or project sharp ice shards. Its ability to generate localized wormholes allows the creature to tuck itself into a quantum hideaway for later retrieval. The Solwyn's Vulpite-enhanced system gives it greatly increased strength, healing factor, and velocity.
Such uncanny traversal abilities and portability would seem to make the Solwyn an ideal mount for scouting applications.
Best of all, a Solwyn's drive to protect its bonded Thrall has also expanded, making it more a match for any modestly-sized threat to its rider.
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Appearance
Solwyn appear as slender, elegant fox-like creatures with a faint luminance on their bodies. Their skin is partially transluscent, allowing their ribs to be seen. A faint aura follows them around.
Color Scheme and Regions
Region 0:Main Body
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Region 1:Unused
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Region 2:Feet, Tail, and Face
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Region 3:Unused
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Region 4:Neck Fur
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Region 5:Fur
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Behavior
Solwyn are generally quite aggressive to any players, tames or wild creatures in their vicinity. However, they will behave neutrally if the survivor has a Veilwyn companion active.
Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]
Solwyn
The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps
Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.
Can only be placed once at a time; placing a new one will destroy the last placed.
Does not require foundation support.
Can be used every 1s by both a rider and the AI.
Passive
Frosting
Solwyn applies stacks of Frosting debuff to the targets that it hits with its attacks. Once a target reaches the 30 Frosting stacks, it triples the damage received once.
Glacial Serenity
Riding or standing next to a Solwyn provides 562 Hypothermic insulation.
Hideaway
The Solwyn transforms into an Angelic Snowflake, working exactly the same as a Cryopod. The Solwyn is also immune to Cryo Sickness by releasing it with this method only.
Combat
Solwyn are highly aggressive in absence of a Veilwyn companion. They are slightly stronger than Thylacoleo, and as such can be dealt with by any advanced weaponry such as Shotgun.
Be sure to maintain some distance to avoid getting Frozen during combat, which renders any player or tame slowed.
1. Traveler: Solwyn are great travelers, having the ability to scale vertical train and being able to spawn ice bridges in thin air. Combined with a fast base movement speed, Solwyn are perhaps the best option to explore the Lost City, in case the Thralls are hostile to you, as they allow you to avoid most of the grounded Thralls and Lost creatures.
Taming
Solwyn are not tameable by default, but instead are evolved from Veilwyn using Pristine Vulpite.
When the companion Veilwyn's current buff "Adventure!" reaches 100%, it can be forcefed with Vulpite, which causes it to disappear into the warp and come out as Solwyn.
Upon collecting Pristine Vulpite, you receive the Solwyn's Favour buff, which prevents interaction with Solwyns for an hour (by default).
It may be a good idea to trap a max-level Solwyn so you can repeatedly farm Pristine Vulpite from it without risk of it dying.
The Solwyn is one of the two evolutions of the Veilwyn, the other is the Malwyn.
Unlike the Malwyn, however, the Solwyn may be a more natural evolution.
The Solwyns' design and appearance may be influenced by the Firefox of the folklore of northern and eastern Finland. According to the myth, the fox's tail whips up sparks, either from hitting the ground or from sweeping snow into the air, which creates the colorful lights of the auroras.
Another influence could be the Huli jing, Chinese mythological creatures usually capable of shapeshifting, who may either be benevolent or malevolent spirits, and with different meanings, powers, and characteristics.
It might also represent the fundamental concept of light, which symbolizes creation, knowledge, and goodness in contrast with the Malwyn, which represents darkness.
The Solwyn is one of the few creatures with translucent skin within ARK, showing its rib cage and leg bones.
The Solwyn is the second creature within ASA to possess a Cryopod based ability (VIA:Angelic Snowflake). The first creature to ever do so was the Dreadmare.
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Veilwyn. Sharpened by the strange forces that fuel its transformation, it glides across ice fields, creates fleeting pathways, and moves through frozen hazards with confident precision and grace.
Health
Stamina
Oxygen
Food
Weight
Melee Damage
Movement Speed
Torpidity
Frosting
Frosting debuff to the targets that it hits with its attacks. Once a target reaches the 30 Frosting stacks, it triples the damage received once.
Glacial Serenity
Hypothermic insulation.
Angelic Snowflake, working exactly the same as a 
Cryopod. The Solwyn is also immune to 
Cryo Sickness by releasing it with this method only.
Shotgun.
Pristine Vulpite.
Malwyn.
Astrocetus.
Dreadmare.
