Cloudstrider

Cloudstriders (also known as owl steeds and lighthoofs) are feathermanes found in Bastion. They resemble a mix between stags and birds, with hooves and antlers but also beaks and feathers.

Cloudstriders usually shed their antlers, but the anima drought disturbed that habit.

Cloudstriders are tamable by hunters as part of the Feathermane family. In order to tame Feathermanes, hunters must purchase the Tome of the Hybrid Beast from Pan the Kind Hand at Trueshot Lodge at a cost of.

• During the Shadowlands alpha, cloudstriders originally used a model based on the Swift Windsteed mount. Some quests and items also referred to them as kirin, a reference to the, a creature from Chinese mythology on which the Swift Windsteed's appearance is based. Later in the alpha, they received a new, unique model and almost all references to "kirin" were replaced with "cloudstrider".
• One reference to the old name and appearance remains in the world quest Express Dominance. When riding a Glimmerhoof Cloudstrider, players are granted a buff named, with the icon for the Swift Windsteed.

• Alpha models