Winged Flight

Winged Flight
Type	Utility Technique
Fields	Fairy, Lizalfos, Rito, Travel
Cost	High Cost C5: 55 rupees C4: 65 rupees C3: 75 rupees C2: 85 rupees C1: 95 rupees Rent: 15 rupees

Winged Flight is a utility technique, and an racial perk for Rito, Lizalfos, and Tiny Fairies. The treasure functions slightly differently for each race, however. Other races cannot obtain this treasure, though they can gain the comparable Wing Tunic.

Rito variant

A Rito can gain this perk using only one racial perk "slot." If she gains this treasure sometime after creation, it costs 15 rupees less than normal.

Rito are a people who devote themselves to a dragon they revere as their sacred deity, Valoo, whom rests atop their homeland of Dragon Roost Isle. As a rite of adulthood, a young Rito will make a pilgrimage unto Valoo to receive the dragon's blessing. After this blessing has been received, only then will the Rito be able to sprout wings and fly as a bird through the air--a trait very characteristic of their race.

While flying, a Rito's wings take the place of the user's arms, so the user is rendered unable to use his or her hands mid-flight. A typical Rito can soar long distances for up to an hour's time. The speed, endurance, and agility of any given Rito's flight varies, depending greatly on personal strength and skill.

Lizalfos variant

Unlike a Rito, a Lizalfos must use two racial perk "slots" to gain this perk. If he gains the treasure sometime after creation, he receives no discount.

A Lizalfos usually only gains flight due to an unlikely mutation at birth, which grants him leathery bat-like wings, or inheriting this mutation from one of his parents. These mutants are known as Aeralfos, and usually have smaller bodies than other Lizalfos. Unlike soaring Rito, Aeralfos need to constantly and vigorously flap these wings to stay airborne. As such, they typically cannot fly as fast as a Rito, cannot fly as steadily, and rarely can stay airborne for more than a minute or two. Unlike a Rito, however, an Aeralfos' arms are separate from his wings, enabling him to take other actions in flight.

Tiny Fairy variant

Unlike Lizalfos or Rito, all Tiny Fairies are created with fully-functional wings. As such, this racial perk is innate for Tiny Fairies. A Tiny Fairy must have this treasure, even if it is undesired.

Tiny Fairies have agile, insect-like wings. These wings, combined with their tiny size, enables them to hover in place and remain airborne almost indefinitely. Like Aeralfos, a Tiny Fairy's arms are separate from her wings, enabling her to take other actions in flight.

Although a Tiny Fairy in flight is comparatively quick to start and stop, one cannot come anywhere near the top speeds of a typical Aeralfos, let alone a skilled Rito. Furthermore, if a Tiny Fairy somehow increases in size, her wings will be unable to lift her at all.

Trivia

• This treasure serves as a prerequisite for Shuttle Loop.
• Other treasures options for flight include the Wing Tunic, Flying Broom, Loftwing, and to some extent Hover.
• Flying Rito canonically appears in the Zelda series, initially in The Wind Waker. Flying Aeralfos first appeared in Twilight Princess. Flying Fairies have appeared in every game in the series to date.