I like making monsters so I thought id do some fan arc sketches! I pictured a pikmin - ish stealthy adventure with lots of weird predators when I saw your drawings.
“Darkened Mistwood”
Essentially something drives a bunch of predators here to become more active and cooperative at night. While hiding and running, Cael crosses the path of a symbiotic frog and scorpion-like Hoplunge and Pokerstung. The motherly Pokerstung protects Cael as he tries to find what is driving predators to act so oddly in the odd, dark, poison adapted biome. However, the other predators begin to focus on him as he does.
Creatures pictured
- Jubjub Splatterflap - Persistent, bioluminescent offshoot of a bat, disorients prey by flashing lights, changing color, flapping its wings and shrieking. Very smart, but omnivorous and easily distracted by fruit.
- Lizaken - Clever leopard-like lizard that generates electric power and distributes it via the spines on its back. Males are small and blue while females are large and green.
- Catsquid - A dim-witted aberration with feline and cephalopod traits. Mist keeps them hydrated while they scavenge other animals kills. Poisonous, but cowardly, they often try to climb trees using tendrils. Easily tamed and loyal.
Hoplunge and Wapole - An amphibious hunter that lacks arms and has a larger mouth than a comparative frog. Lives symbiotically with to take care of its charges. The Hoplunge provides easier fast movement and carries food back to the nest. Wapoles are juveniles with a stinging bite.
- Pokerstung and Link Scorpion - a deeply black scorpion evolution that easily moves across vines in trees and digs out nests with its new tail. Symbiotically pairs with Hoplunges (often bigger males), offering its appendages and protective shells. Females can be matronly and gentle to other more obviously defenseless or juvenile creatures. Link Scorpions are young Pokerstungs that line up and advance stingers first as a defensive measure.
- Gloomwing - tiny sleep inducing moth with large dusty wings and antennae. Create safer areas in the Mistwood (aside from one specific kind of predator) by merely flapping around in groups for a little bit, tiring creatures until they're pacified.
Let me know what you think :) ----------------------------------------------- Aret’s Notes to the submitter: Eb! These are absolutely outstanding little creatures!! The descriptions of each creature are exactly the sort of things that Cael would write about his finds! I would certainly love to implement one of these creatures into the New Earth with your permission :) Thankyou so much for these! It really did make my day to see such a lovely thought out submission! I especially love the scorpion, oh my, but all of these creatures are 100% Cael-Core! <3 <3 <3