Areum (Inmyeonjo)

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Areum
Biographical information
Gender	Female
Status	Alive
Physical description
Hair	Brown (feathers)
Species	Inmyeonjo
Behind the scenes
Appearances	The Last Fallen Star The Last Fallen Moon The Last Fallen Realm

“	I was confused, it has taken a long time for me to accept myself for who I am. My human, Riley Oh, has helped me see that I am more than the mistakes of my ancestors. That I am worthy of beauty. And perhaps even worthy of… of…	”
–Areum to Sahm on how her time with Riley has given her self-esteem in The Last Fallen Realm.

Areum is an Inmyeonjo who befriended Riley Oh after she complemented her. She is currently in a relationship with Sahm.

History

Areum was raised in the sisterhood of fellow Areum. When the sisterhood took in a male three-legged crow named Sahm, the two grew close.

For most of her life, Areum hated her appearance and would destroy reflective surfaces if she passed by them.

The Gifted Clans series

The Last Fallen Star

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After attacking the campus due to seeing her reflection in the building's windows, she is caged as members of the Horangi try and fail to tame her. When Riley is up, the girl shoots a fireball at her but it fizzles out before it reaches her and she scratches the girl. Soon Riley offers to heal and cut on her cheek and, cautious of her intentions at first, she accepts Riley's help and agrees to be tamed by her accepts the name she gives her, Areum, beautiful in Korean. She follows Riley to the Los Angeles offices of Woori America Bank and waits outside as she and her companions confront Bongjoon Pyo. When they chase him outside, she lands on his head and says the Dokkaebi know where the last artifact is.As they question where to even find a dokkaebi, Mr. Pyo says one lives in the forty-fourth room on the forty-forth floor of the temple. They leave the elder behind and, after stopping at the Tokki elder's house for a sleeping potion, they reach the temple and argue over who is going to make a deal with the dokkaebi. When they reach the room, the decide on the Ohs and her going in. After Eunha Oh fails to get the star, Riley asks her to knock her out and she reluctantly obeys. When Riley wakes up she greets her, being unaffected by memory erasing the Dokkaebi requested as payment. Riley tries to convince the others that she is a part of their plan by showing them Emmett's ring and Taeyo's compass, which she believes is the last fallen star and they go to the Gi Sanctuary. The Cave Bear Goddess arrives and requests the star, Riley requests Hattie first and the goddess obliges. After it is revealed Hattie is back only in body, a fight breaks out and she uses herself as a shield to protect Riley. She and Riley are pulled to safety by Noah Noh as he, Jennie Byun, Cosette Chung, and David Kim arrive when Jennie, a Samjogo, had a vision that something is happening in the Gi Sanctuary. When she is healed by James and Eunha Oh, she rejoins. She and the others are shocked when Riley reveals she is the last fallen star and watch as the girl destroys the statue of the goddess, expelling her from Okja and the mortalrealm. After the battle she lures Riley to the elevators where the Haetae, who warns Riley that the other goddesses with exact revenge on her for killing their sister and agrees to grant her any wish. After she chooses to resurrect Hattie, who remembers her, she believes this is because of the bond they share.

The Last Fallen Moon

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As she sleeps at Riley's feet, she is jolted awake when Riley gets an emergency text and flies her back to her house. They arrive for a surprise party for Riley and enjoy the festivities until angry Gom put graffiti on the house. Riley starts to blame herself for the incident as the others volunteer to coverup the graffiti and comfort her. When they return to the kitchen for cake, everything in the kitchen starts to attack them. Austin holds off the knives as everyone flees to the hall. The hallway then attacks them and Sora pries the door open and everyone escapes. Riley's family becomes distraught when they realize their house is cursed and Sora offers to house them at their compound. Riley starts to tear up as her mother says she is not to blame. How Riley screams that it is her fault and she is not hero. The Ohs and Emmett leave with the Horangi while the others go home. During the ride Hattie falls asleep, everyone hoping she wakes up in under two days. When they arrive Riley sneaks away to a treehouse where she and Emmett and Areum find the girl. Emmett tries to offer her cookies, but she refuses. He tells her to open up and knows how good it is to do so, but she refuses. Emmett leaves and Areum pulls out the needle the haetae gave Riley, she explain that it is a Mago Halmi binyeo, a hair pin used by Mago Halmi herself. Areum then rips out the page about Heo Jun gaining honorary godhood and, thinking on the graffiti on her house, decides to go to the Spiritrealm to ask him to become the Gom's patron god to regain their healing. She is against this as Riley would to die to get there, and Riley starts to form a plan. As Riley races to David’s house, she tries to stop her to no avail. When they arrives Riley sneaks into the backyard as David’s grandfather usually leaves the door unlocked. She finds the door unlocked but runs into David’s grandfather. Riley lies that Seoulful Taco's needs more potions and he lets her in. However as she is sneaking into the basement they hear David and Jennie. Riley lies saying her mother needs a potion to calm her nerves and he gives her one after giving her a tour. Riley snatches the faulty love potion and slips it in her bag as Jennie drinks a potion to help with her see visions as she sleeps. However as Riley leaves Jennie stops her and unintentionally finds out she has the potion. Riley reluctantly tells the two her plan and David and Jennie try to talk her out of it. After Riley pretends they talked her out of it before using the a knock out potion on them, Areum tries to stop Riley one last time before agreeing to watch over her body. However soon after she wakes up David a Jennie soon after and the three of them- along with Emmett, Cosette, and Taeyo- form a rescue team. They use the doorway in the temple to enter the Spiritrealm. However it closes and only she, Jennie, David, and Emmett made it through before the gate closed. They greeted by the authorities and Areum was the only one who got away. Areum tracks down Riley and informs her of the current status of the mission. After learning her friends are in danger, and realizing she is stuck in the Spiritrealm and she lost her last chance to get her friends and family to remember her, Riley throws a tantrum and laments on how she made everything worse. However the others get Riley to calm down and she starts to see hope. Riley hands Bob Jangsoo's memory book, but they hear someone coming and hide it. The figure approaches their cell and opens the door, after he apologizes for their treatment, they realize he is the mayor, Yeomra the Great. Dahl and Bob bow as the mayor unlocks the cell and offers them food in a banquet hall. They arrive at the banquet hall, but then the mayor opens the doors, they a forest. Yeomra reveals he had Gumiho and Tokki witches create this room and, after telling them everything they see is edible, they eat. When they have their fill, Riley asks about reincarnation being stopped, Yeomra becomes flustered and the others press the mayor of details. Yeomra eventually reveals that he had no knowledge of this as he was away on vacation. He also reveals he restructured the Spiritrealm to have Jiok residence get a taste of Cheondang and to make souls want to stay rather then be reborn. After Yeomra insists he has no idea how the pollution in the river came to be, Riley shows him the memory book and says he can make things right. Yeomra puts the book in a venus fly trap and they view Jangsoo's memories. After he is a distance away from the statue, Hattie notices a flash by the chalice and the mayor has the memory enlarged for them to see. Once they rewind they find their culprits, and are shocked to learn they are the CFOs and the Mountain Tiger Goddess. They watch as the goddess pulls a snake from her arm and the judges pound the chalice with their gavels. The scene ends and everyone takes in what they saw. Hattie realizes the Gom who cursed their house were wearing tiger masks and Riley questions if she was behind it. Areum informs them the snake is a salmosa, a poisonous snake created by the Mountain Tiger Goddess. As they wonder how to remove it, Yeomra informs them the judges have sentenced the salmosa and it cannot be removed, and even if they use the gavels to end the sentence only the goddess or Mago can remove it. Yeomra sends the authorizes after the CFOs and plans to expunge them. After Dahl mentions his stone, Riley realizes the can use the eum and yang stone to purify the water without removing the salmosa. Yeomra is impressed with her plan and, pulling out a marker, agrees take them to Eternity Island to meet with Bada. She and the others stare at the mayor in confusion as he uses the marker to draw a door to Yonggung, the Underwater Borough, can calls the pen a mum-pen. Yeomra explains that by entering the borough through the door he created, they can breath underwater and will not be affected by the toxins. They ask around Yonggang until they receive word that Bada is at the center of the borough and go to her. After Bada explains how helpful the stone is, Dahl explains everything they learned and their plan and Bada agrees to give the stone back, but her brother Daeyang refuses to let her and tells Yeomra off for ignoring Yonggung for six hundred years. Soon Hattie steps in and says she understands their anger but they need to put it aside for the greater good. As Hattie talks, lightning appears above them. Upon seeing this, Daeyang agrees to hand over the stone just as the mayor gets a call. He urgently informs the others that the CFOs, aware that he would sent the authorities after them, stone the Jokbo and took hostages, threatening to expunge them if he does not come to the chalice. The group reaches Eternity Island and find five of the CFOs standing before them with hostages guarded by police and imugi. Riley tries to tell the CFOs the goddess is tricking them, but they reveal they summoned her voice their displeasure with Yeomra's changes and demand he step down. The mayor quickly agrees but Riley stops him, however the CFOs say if Yeomra does not step down, they will expunge Emmett, David, and Jennie, who are out cold on the statue’s head. Riley and Hattie are shocked and before they know it, the protesters spring into action. They use a potion to turn the police and imugi into wooden toys and a Miru protester grabs the CFOs and force them to took into a Gumiho enchanted mirror that keeps people's gaze looked on their reflection depending on their egos. Areum transforms as the mayor tells her to purify the spring as they find the jokbo. Riley and her fly up and they that the three are already being expunged, but before they can act they see Pash holding Yeowu and Cheol hostage. She and Riley watch as Mixter Ko, who is standing with Pash and holding a tablet- the jokbo, stands at the ready to use it as Namjoon guards them. Riley asks what Pash's endgame is as the CFOs explains how she summoned the goddess as part of the plan to increase criticism of Yeomra, who she is only pretending to date to gain insight on, and have the souls of Cheondang vote him out of office. She also explains how the Mountain Tiger Goddess wants to create an army she could control and demands the stone as Mixter Ko starts to expunge Emmett. Riley just glances between the two groups of hostages and wonders what to do. Cheol tells her to focus on her friends as Pash pushes him and Yeowu off. However Yeowu grabs Pash's gavel and the two are saved by two protesters and Hattie and Dahl. Riley takes the opportunity to grab the jokbo but misses and falls off Areum as she tackles Namjoon. The stone falls out of Riley's pocket and Pash grabs it just before Riley and the two wrestle for the stone as Dahl fights Ko for the jokbo. She grabs Riley and Pash and Riley tells Areum to drop them in the spring and she reluctantly does so. The two fall into the spring as Dahl joins them. She watches as the light disintegrates Pash and the salmosa and purifies the spring. When Emmett, Jennie, and David are secured and bathed in the River of Reincarnation, the three revert to their soul animals to recover and she safeguards them until they return home. As thanks for helping deal with the CFOs, Yeomra grants her access to the Spiritrealm. When they return to the Mortalrealm she Carrie’s the three expungement survivors with her. When they return to the land of the living, she places Emmett, Jennie, and David on the floor as the three return to human form. She watches in amazement as Dahl inadvertently summons the Haetae, who says the goddesses are planning a war. She joins a tearful embrace when the Gom and Horangi get their memories of Riley back.

The Last Fallen Realm

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Six months after the goddesses stripped most of the gifted community of their magic, she has horned them in a gathering at a convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada to strategize for the upcoming battle. As Dahl Oh is eager to see the sights as she reminds Dahl they are in the city for preparation. Soon Sora Kwon and Austin take the stage and, after a few people reveal they have not been chipped, the pair instructed them to do so so that they can start training and they talk about the upcoming conflict. Soon the sun starts to flicker and she and and the others go outside and see a bulgae emerge from a tear in the sky. She leaves to investigate. She returns to only report what they already know and investigates further when they try to find Yongwang at the Trevi Fountain replica. She returns after Riley kills a bonghwang and comforts the girl, saying she did what she had to do. Riley calls Hattie and show her and the mayor the egg. Yeomra says that Yongwang has a tendency to change into an egg to hide and rest. Hattie sends Nanjoon to the Mortalrealm to inspect it. The imugi licks the egg before laying on it. Soon the egg hatches and an injured woman appears. Everyone is confused until Hattie recognizes her as the Water Dragon Goddess. As everyone watches in disbelief, the Water Dragon Goddess says she took the form of Yongwang to get away from her sisters by using unguarded water routes that connected the three realms. She rakes out a fidget spinner and the group realizes it is Mago's Fire. As the goddess clutches her bleeding side, Riley gives her her sweater to apply pressure to the wound. She allows the goddess to rest on her as she explains things. The Water Dragon Goddess explains that she took the fire so that that her sisters would not use it to destroy the three realms and create one large realm in its place for them to govern. Dahl realizes that he and Riley are meant to use the fire to unlock their true potential. But before the spirit twins can take it, the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess arrives to claiming for herself and her remaining loyal sisters. Riley realizes she has seen the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess several times that day and that she used them to find the fire fire her. After Riley realizes the Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess was the bonghwang she stabbed, the enemy goddess grabs the fire and the key of keys before fleeing. As Dahl questions why the goddesses want the key of keys, the Oh sisters are distressed that they may never see each other face to face again. As Dahl questions the goddess, they realizes she is close to death. The Water Dragon Goddess asks to be brought to Hattie, Riley realizes what she means and, leaving the boys behind, goes to the motel on Areum. After entering the room, the Water Dragon Goddess goes over to Hattie's body and reveals she fed Hattie her energy while she was in the Cave Bear Goddess's dungeon to keep her alive, embuing her with the power of yong. However, Hattie's body became dependent on her power upon returning and Riley realizes that is why she was slipping into comas and predicting and controlling the weather. As the goddess rejuvenates Hattie, she tells Riley that a feather from a three-legged crow can guide her to Mago's Fire and advisises her to be cautious. Before dying, the goddess thanks Hattie for letting her be somewhat of a mother. Hattie wakes up and the Oh sisters hug in joy. Hattie states that she feels like she has had a refreshing nap and regrets that she was unable to thank the Water Dragon Goddess for saving her. As Riley comments that the imugi will miss Hattie, she says she will probably see them again and sends out a group text to their friends and Riley’s fan club to meet up at the High Roller. Once there, everyone greets Hattie. Emmett, Dahl, Taeyo, Jennie, and Cosette happy welcome her back as Noah hugs her. As Phoebe and her friends shriek in excitement, Areum calls the meeting to order. As they discuss their next move, Emmett says he checked on the wax museum where the adults are to find it missing, indicating that the realms have not entirely merged. He takes out a flyer for a gathering the remaining goddesses have put on and Gus they pitched their idea for their Megarealm. As they pass around the flyer, they realize the event is over and the Oh sisters say they can track down Mago's Fire with a three-legged crow feather. After decided against taking a feather from the Three-Legged Crow Goddess, Areum says she knows a three-legged crow working for Persimmon, a tech company in the Godrealm. After questioning how they will enter the Godrealm, Taeyo reveals he used scales and fur from the goddesses to creat a program to track portals to the Godrealm, but says it is unstable and they could end up trapped in the Godrealm miles from their target. They are it is a risk they need to take and Taeyo lists three locations of portals- the Mob Museum, Eiffel Tower replica, and M&M's World- and Hattie forms teams. First, Dahl, Taeyo, and Emmett are assigned to the Mob Museum, Second, Noah, David, Cosette, and Jennie are assigned to the Eiffel Tower replica. Third, Riley and Areum are put with Hattie Togo to M&M's World. Lastly, Phoebe and her friends are tasked to keep an eye on things in the Mortalrealm. Upon arriving at M&M World, Hattie tells them to be vigilant. Upon entering the first floor, a group of saram are impressed by Areum, who they think is a cosplayer, and she relishes in the attention. On the second floor, the three are amazed at the amount of flavors and take free samples. Areum starts fidgeting as says Taggy is on her. As Riley takes the wakepillar off her, Areum inadvertently slams her wing into Hattie, who is carrying Riley’s phone, and smashes it. Areum apologizes as Riley find a compass Taeyo had given her when they first met. Taggy crawls onto the needle and it pointed at a cylinder filled with silver and gold M&Ms shaped like the sun and moon. After Hattie finds some gummies and eats them, she goes wide eyed and insists Riley and Areum try them. They are reluctant so Hattie shoves them in their mouths. After a second, the find themselves in the lobby of a company where everyone wears top hats. After finding out that they are at Tokki Pharmaceuticals, a pair of guards notice them and they walk on. As they evade the guards, Areum tells them the story of how the Moon Rabbit Goddess became a goddess. As they hide in a stairwell, Hattie insists they go down while Riley checks her compass and it tells her they should go up. The three do so and Areum leaves to give the Oh sisters a chance to get away. She regroups with the sisters just as the scientists find a possible solution to their problems. As Areum explains that the scientists are Moon Rabbits, Riley inadvertently triggers the compass's blades and she yelps in pain. The scientists goes over to the group and Hattie says they are there for the testing. The scientist who created the formula welcomes them and thanks the girls for their sacrifice. As the scientist escorts them to the testing room, which is where the pipe leads, Riley presses the scientist for questions. The scientist says that the goddesses are using Three-Legged Crow Goddess to mind control the gifted community for their army, however it only works on the adults and they are tasked with creating a gummy that will allow them to control children. The group is horrified as they are led into the room. They see cages along the wall and are horrified to find David, Cosette, Noah, and Jennie in them. A sweet smelling gas fills the room and they pass out. The three wake up hours later to their friends calling their names. As Hattie as for dirt to use as a weapon, David, Noah, Cosette and Jennie say their biochips are useless in the Godrealm as they are powered by the elements in the Mortalrealm. As the others explain the gummies they ever forced to test, with the mind control gummies still deemed not ready, they say the need a crowbal to open the cage doors and hope that Taeyo, Emmett, and Dahl have made it to Persimmon. Soon someone enters the room and introduces himself as a three-legged crow named Sahm, Areum's friend from Persimmon who said their companions reached him and are back at his office. As Sahm works on the locks, he says he found when Taeyo reworked his program to find humans and that Dahl has managed to talk his co-workers into disagreeing with the Megarealm. Fearing someone will walk in on them, Riley asks Sahm to hurry, but he says the building is empty as everyone is attending the tournament to determine the Megarealms's prime minister, stating the goddesses do not wish to run the Megarealm themselves. When asking about the adults in their army, Sahm mentions the goddesses referred them them as a volunteer peacekeeping force. Upon Sahm releasing everyone, Riley recites the Haetae's prophecy and suggests they need the key of keys in addition to Mago's Fire. Hattie then suggests they enter the tournament to get the key and fire, much to everyone’s shock. Soon, they hear something in the vents and are surprised to see Namjoon. As Hattie greets Namjoon, Riley wonders how he arrived as Hattie translates for the imugi, shocking everyone. Riley theorizes that Hattie can understand Namjoon due to the power of the Water Dragon Goddess. Hattie says that Namjoon is telling her that the rips in the realms have gotten worse. Riley tells them they have to hurry to the tournament, but Sahm says only citizens of the Godrealm can enter. Hattie insist Riley compete as she is the Last Fallen Star while Riley insists Hattie take part due to having the Water Dragon Godess's powers. However everyone insists Riley to it and she agrees. As it is a masquerade tournament, Sahm gives Riley a Phantom of the Opera style mask to wear and David gives her gummies that temporarily give the eater rabbit ears. Sahm gives Riley two of his feather and tells her they will point her to what she is looking for and instructs one to find the key of keys and the other to find Mago's Fire. As Sahm is about to take everyone to Persimmon, David says he is staying behind to try and find a cure for the adults mind washing and Jennie and Cosette stay with him as Noah goes with Hattie. Sahm tells her to take Riley to Hungry Holes, a glow in the dark mini golf course. Riley and Areum arrive at Hungry Holes to find a bowling alley in its place. Arum theorizes the realms shifted again and the bowling alley becomes an indoor mini golf course and they enter before it changes. As they walk, Riley is amazed by the size of the place and is surprised when she sees over four hundred holes. Areum explains that it is condensed to allow for more players. As they walk, they see wanted posters of Riley and Dahl accusing them theft and murder. Areum goes to scout out exits as Riley gets in line for a ball and putter. Areum finds Riley during the final round, where the girl must choose who lives for the greater good, and helps her save Emmett, who has been captured. The save him at the coast of Riley breaking her leg. At the end of the contest, she and Emmett are teleported to the audience as Riley is brought before the goddesses. When, Riley’s cover is blown, she and Emmett rush to help just as Dahl, Taeyo, Noah, Hattie, Namjoon, Sahm, and three bonghwangs appear to help. The goddesses try to shield themselves, but Hattie steals the fire as Sahm claws one of the Moon Rabbit Goddess's eyes. After Hattie heals Riley’s leg, the Three-Legged Crow Goddess grabs Dahl and demands the fire. Riley gives it to her but the goddess grabs her. Just then, Yeomra the Great arrives and tries to save both Riley and Dahl, but only succeeds in saving Riley. The goddesses retreat as everyone questions where they took Dahl. She and the others watch as Emmett and Riley kiss and after, discuss where the ceremony is. As everyone thinks of ways to track Dahl, Riley looks at her soul twin’s phone and hears his voice. He tells her he thinks he is outside and smells of acacia. Riley relays this information to the others before Dahl backtracks and tells her not to come before ending their conversation. Using what Dahl said, they deduce that he is at Mount Baekdu and, as Riley looks at Dahl phone, she realizes he is at the Luxor Hotel. Sahm heads back to Persimmon as the others head back to Las Vegas. As they sore over the city, they see that the realms are close to merging and, as they reach their destination, find that the mountain and hotel have merged as well. They strategize before Riley lies that she knows how to activate her and Dahl's true potential. As they creep up on the goddesses, Riley heads a conversation she thinks is familiar and they strike. However the goddesses are unfazed and describe what they need to create the Megarealm as similar to driving a car, comparing the key to a car key and the fire to a car. Upon saying they need a special soul to power it, Riley realizes it is a trap and the goddesses merge the key and fire before throwing it to the mayor. As Yeomra charges at Riley, her Allie’s try to save her before Dahl shields her with his body and is stabbed in the chest. She watches as Dahl's corpse falls to the ground and Yeomra says that Dahl's soul is in the key of keys. Riley soon realizes the mayor has been working for the goddesses for as long as she has known him and that he knew the CFOs were disgruntled and pinned the blame of the Salmosa poisoning on them. As well as giving Dahl his mum-pen to purposefully weaken the barrier between the realms. They mayor says he sided with them to maintain his grip on power in the Megarealm and Riley realizes the tournament was a sham. When the goddesses get impatient, the mayor stabs the blood soaked key in the Tree of Life and starts the merging as the tree bleeds and screams. The goddesses bind Riley’s companions in webbing as the Mountain Tiger Goddess pins Riley down and mocks her. Boris, who is resting against the side of the walkway, transforms into a dragon. He knocks the key out of the mayor’s hand and tries to attack the goddesses before getting stuck in the webbing. Riley threatens to kill Yeomra as the mayor calls her bluff as the ground swallows up her and Riley’s other companions. After the goddesses lure Riley into a trap in a theater, Namjoon, Boris, Hattie, Emmett, James, Eunha, Taeyo, Cosette, Noah, Jennie, Sahm, Charles, Maru, Okja, Sora, Austin, Emmett, the Haetae- with the mayor in its jaws, Phoebe, and two other members of RilOh arrive. As the goddesses are distracted, Riley destroys the key and gives a piece of Mago's Fire to everyone, including the goddesses, who revert to infant animals. As everyone takes in their victory, Emmett suggests the Yeomra be made a janitor as the mayor pleads for death instead. As everyone thinks of ways to separate the realms, Riley knows the only way is for her to become the new sun. The others try to talk Riley out of it, but she insists it is the only way. They say their goodbyes and Riley uses Emmett’s bracelet to link herself into her loved ones and the goddesses. The Haetae takes Riley to the stratosphere and she becomes the new sun, giving magic to everyone. Areum would often visit Riley after the girl became the sun and would live together with Sahm. A year later, she and Sahm are living together and considering having children.

Appearance

Areum is a large bird with brown feathers covering her body and black plume covering a humanoid face with outstretched lips that resemble a beak. She is shown to be loyal to those who tame her.

Personality

At first, Areum is stubborn and angry with the world, refusing to be tamed. However after Riley shows her kindness she starts to soften. She is also fiercely loyal to those she admires, as demonstrated by her actions after Riley tames her.

Abilities

• Size Manipulation: Areum is able to alter her size a will, going from human sized to the size of a dove in seconds.
• Flight: Areum is capable of flying vast distances.