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Zerikal; Alternative Earth-like fantasy world
Topic Started: Sep 4 2010, 09:55 AM (1,685 Views)
Cephylus
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Okay. While I'm working on Alterniverse, I thought I'd bring this up.
Basically it's a world for a fantasy short novel I hope I'll get finished soon. Not magic and all that, but realistic fantasy. But still remember that this is fantasy, mind you
It's named Kauthron. It's a totally new world but very Earth-like with very Earth-like fauna...... so although it's not Earth I'm still posting it in Alternative Evolution.
It's a land where kingdoms clash, strange animals walk the lands, and where dinosauroids and humans co-exist. So whaddaya think?
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So just how "realistic" is this "fantasy" world?
For example if you have dragons, do their designs make at least some biological sense (like if they´re capable of flight, they also have anatomical traits for that like hollow bones and large wings)?


And are those Dinosauroids going to look more like Russell´s "Lizard Man" or more like Nemo Ramjet´s Avisapiens?
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Oh, my creature designs mostly make biological sense, no multiple heads, no intelligence, no magic, no six limbs, no fire-breathing...etc
I'm trying to make them have at least a bit of sense. For example, flying dragons: large flying animals but they have anatomical traits for flying like hollow bones, large wings etc, but they are still not very good flyers because of their size.
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No six legs? Wohoo! :lol:

I always loved Wyverns (those with two hindlegs and two wings) more than the Western Dragons (two hindlegs, two forelegs and two wings). Will they also have "real-life" relatives? For example being descendants of crocodilians or monitor lizards or are they just generic reptiles?
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Rick Raptor
Sep 5 2010, 07:17 AM
No six legs? Wohoo! :lol:

I always loved Wyverns (those with two hindlegs and two wings) more than the Western Dragons (two hindlegs, two forelegs and two wings). Will they also have "real-life" relatives? For example being descendants of crocodilians or monitor lizards or are they just generic reptiles?
I may do a squamate relative..... but since Dialforthedevil already used that concept I might do something different ;)
Maybe even carnivorous petrosaurs?
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This sounds very similar to my project...
How about instead of producing very similar things we integrate your project into mine as you have already done so much for mine :D
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No six limbs? :o

Awww. It's more than possible, seeing as they aren't mammals.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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its kinda like Perugia when i started it,but now its just world where i place every creatures which i invent(six limbed tetrapods too :P)
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Sep 5 2010, 09:16 AM
Maybe even carnivorous petrosaurs?
The problem is that Pterosaurs were likely all quadrupedal; their anatomy, proportions and fossilized tracks say so :P
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Sep 5 2010, 09:37 AM
No six limbs? :o

Awww. It's more than possible, seeing as they aren't mammals.
strangely enough most of my projects end up having six limbed creatures
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DW- They work, so why not?
Unless you try to get six-limbed mammals.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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and why is that?
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Because do you know how hard it would be to have enough genes "by chance" duplicate to form a functional leg? And then you would need another leg for the sixth.
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The structure can be changed, the genes themselves don't have to be. A little fluctuation in the structure can create some new limbs, and perhaps, one in a million, they may be in the right place.

But mammals can't do that. When they are born with incorrect axial skeleton alignment, cell proliferation is severely affected and the risk of childhood cancers neutralises the mutation. And that's the simple answer.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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But still, I prefer going with two legs. Personally I think the chance of a new fully functional limb-like organ evolving is very slight.
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