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Arhizamycos, more commonly called Coral Warts are common montane xylokreatoellia. Arhizamycos are quite flat, and can be quite large too depending on how much detritus flowing down onto it there is. Coral Warts, unlike other xylokreatoellia, do not exclusively feed with saprophagy, instead passively filterfeeding on detritus that flows down through the ammonia column, only engaging in saprophagy when absolutely necessary. Arhizamycos produce many spores out of pores on their wood, they reproduce asexually through said spores, as such only seldom few actually produce a Coral Wart, most of which simply dying in the ammonia for a myriad of reasons, some of which even being eaten by other Arhizamycos. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Phyllopolys, more commonly called a Flat-Leafed Village are unique montane amphiamischos. Phyllopolys grow out of a long root system, shooting up sprouts of stiff wooden leaves, making them quite large organisms. Flat-Leafed Village lack a proper reproductive system, instead spreading across the beds of ammonia they find themselves in until their root systems are separated for some reason or another, only then becoming two organisms. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Spirocanth, more commonly called a Moss Climber are tall amphiamischos found in the Digeroran mountains. They grow a long stick which their moss grows around in a spiral, growing continuously to fight against being eaten frequently, if left uneaten the moss will eventually grow so cumbersome on the stick that it will cover the entire thing. The top of the stick produces a near constant stream of reproductive spores in hopes of those spores meeting with the spores of another Spirocanth and growing a new Moss Climber. They are also capable of growing asexually through broken pieces of the stick if that ever were to happen. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Laspitrachys, more commonly called River Lichen are montane fykiamischos. Laspitrachys are tough and flakey, very similar to the rocks they grow on in texture, rough and bumpy. They reproduce purely asexually, spreading from one rock to another to another, they will also grow on wood and skeletons. Pieces of them are prone to break off and float through the ammonia, landing on new hard surfaces to grow on, or even getting caught in archeina of terrestrial seelenlos who bring them to other bodies of ammonia to spread. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Mecoptomas, more commonly called a Longfinned Finbug are small thalasentomo found in the Etakru Mountain Range. Mecoptomas feed on Laspitrachys and Spirocanth primarily, stripping the plant matter off into their proboscis with ease, though Longfinned Finbugs will also feed on Phyllopolys if they are desperate enough, usually if they have access to no other food. Mecoptomas are surprisingly fast, using their fins to rapidly accelerate and decelerate, though they lack in agility, struggling to make tight turns, they usually travel in small schools to help with this fact however. When deciding to mate they will lock their fins and their proboscises, attempting to finish mating before falling to the ground as a pseudo-display ritual. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Spirotrypta, more commonly called a Spiral Wart are small and plentiful solumykitas. Spirotrypta can be found all over the mountain, usually near dead plant matter or sprouting out of decaying corpses. They are poisonous to consume but nonlethal, some larger ostomesa enjoy eating them, as well as small hardy ostoexoapo which feed on its spores. ◗ta in the region collect Spiral Wart spores to use in medicine thanks to the properties of the Spirotryptas poison, so long as its refined in a specific way. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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I’m curious about what kind of medicine the poison is used in. Is it good for certain injuries or illnesses?

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It helps with low blood pressure. The spores were traditionally diluted and then boiled into a paste which was dried then ground up then mixed diluted and boiled again. To a human they would taste disgusting, if you could find a way to eat it that is, but to a ◗ta its taste really relies on how its prepared, pickling is the most common way to eat them, after they've been properly cleaned and prepared which usually involves cutting them into long sections and washing them intensively. The taste usually comes out as vinegary and slightly bitter, the bitterness is different from other commonly pickled solumykitas.

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hi i wanted to say i really really really like ur creature designs. i’ve started doodling them in my sketchbook and wanted to ask if i could maybe paint some of them?

Of course! As long as its credited if you plan to post it, I'm always happy when people draw my creatures.

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Bounobates, more commonly called a Curve-Eyed Scuttler are small flat thalasentomo. Bounobates are bottom feeders, walking across the lakebeds and riverbeds they find themselves in, eating decaying matter and eggs and moss among other things, this generalist diet allows them to be quite prolific across the Digeroran mountains. Curve-Eyed Scuttlers are on average about four inches across and eight inches long, being a somewhat tapered oblong shape. They will also feed on corpses, mating with other Bounobates on these corpses, leaving eggs on it before moving on to continue bottom feeding. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Diplocheirus, more commonly called a Fanged Pusher are large thalasentomo found in the Digeroran mountains. Their diet almost exclusively consists of ichthyongiu, using their adapted foremost forelimbs to latch onto and break their skin and break up their flesh for eating, they will sometimes swim as fast as possible, ramming against them to pierce the skin of ichthyongiu with their foremost forelimbs this usually kills the ichthyongiu outright, or injures them enough that killing them is easy. Diplocheirus are very territorial, patrolling their territories prepared to attack any potential invaders, though during this attack they will also mate, latching onto each other and pushing against each other while locking their proboscises, exchanging gamates, the invader usually abandoning the fight after this point. If you have any questions about this organism at all please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Ichthyourus, more commonly called a Mountain Longtail are common ichthyongiu found all over the Digeroran mountains. They travel in small schools, with no more than ten members. They reproduce semifrequently, laying eggs in patches of Laspitrachys and abandoning them, they’re capable of surviving in ammonia with a low concentration of hydrogen, making them vital members of the ecosystem, capable of stripping back River Lichen quantities and making the bodies of ammonia more rich with hydrogen, making it much more safe for other aquatic organisms to persist in. Though their young eat exclusively fykiamusco, adults eat a diet consisting almost entirely of amphiamischos, feeding on pretty much every amphiamischos indiscriminately. If you have any questions at all about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Uromicrosoma, more commonly called a Largefinned Triangletail are small ichthyongiu. They travel in large schools, eating pretty much anything and everything they can fit in their mouths, usually just detritus falling through the ammonia. Largefinned Triangletail are remarkably mobile, their tails being nearly their entire body allows them to move at remarkable speeds and with remarkable agility, which allows them to escape predation and reform into large schools, they will also reproduce with other members of their genus and leave eggs on any solid surface they can find. Uromicrosoma are common food for anything in the Digeroran mountain ranges bodies of ammonia that eat seelenlos due to their size and population size. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Nektelestes, more commonly called a Thieving Bijaw are large ichthyongiu. Despite their size their diet primarily consists of eggs of other seelenlos, though they frequently do hunt on and eat seelenlos in their body of ammonia, and on occasion seelenlos outside of it, they favour thalasentomo as a primary part of their diet. They breed in mass spawning events, laying large quantities of eggs with members of their genus, dying afterwards, leaving their young to grow without the danger of other members of their species, an r-selective strategy. This cycle of breeding is very delicate however, easily disrupted by external interference, which could very easily lead to a local extinction in rivers and lakes. If you have any questions at all about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Skeletons of the aquatic ostomesa of Digeroras Mountain Ranges.

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Spermaverm, more commonly called a Spore Worm are small ostoexoapo found in the Digeroran mountains. They lay eggs inside the spore openings of Spirotrypta, and their larvae will subsist off of the spores produced until maturity, in which they will begin searching for other food. Mature Spermaverm prefer feeding on Ananthocarpos seedpods, but are still capable of eating Spirotrypta spores if need be, larvae however are incapable of eating anything but Spirotrypta spores. Spore Worms are quite commonly found all over the mountains, and as such are a common meal for any seelenlos that eat ostoexoapo. If you have any questions at all about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Platymonsplaco, more commonly called a Stalkeyed Discworm are strange ostoexoapo. Unique for their clade by having large stalked eyes, which not only allow for a greater range of vision, but it is also a sexual display structure, mates finding higher stalks more desireable, the Platymonscoplaco with higher stalked eyes are the graiparents and the ones with lower stalked eyes are the oviparents. Stalkeyed Discworms are generalists, walking across the ground of the Digeroran Mountain range eating anything they come across, eggs, moss, skin, scales, archeina, brachodas, wood, any dead matter they can find on the ground, they rarely actually eat from living organisms, only during starvation. Beyond their eyes theyre rather flat, and also round shaped, giving their clade its name of discworm. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Ptomafonias, more commonly called a Corpse Mite are small ostoexoapo found on the Etakru Mountain Range. Ptomafonias are found littering corpses of ostomesa, eating away at all the muscles and ligaments they can, they will lay their eggs inside the bones of the organism, allowing them a safe space to grow into mature adults, they will also mate indiscriminantly among each other while on a corpse. Corpse Mites will also lay their eggs in the archeina of ostomesa that come by to eat the corpses, so that when that ostomesa begins to eat another corpse, their larvae can begin the cycle anew, mating en mass with other Ptomafonias on corpses. If you have any questions about this organism please don’t be afraid to ask.

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Chymognathus, more commonly called a Sap Leech are poisonous ostoexoapo found in the Digeroran Mountains. They are rich with a poison derived from the sap of Spirotrypta, which makes them broadly inedible to most seelenlos, except for the few ostomesa adapted to eat them. Their proboscis is elongated and adapted to boring into the wood of solumykitas and sederemischos, feeding primarily on the sap, though they will supplement their diet with nectar from Ananthocarpos and Altuplatydendron. Chymognathus use their stripes on their encased proboscis in mating displays, showing off their age and fitness to other mates, after mating Sap Leech will lay their eggs inside burrows they fed from. If you have any questions at all about these organisms please don’t be afraid to ask.