#dath'illyas

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thinking about my dath’illyas. i finally figured out their hands. their hands consist of three triagonally arranged digits that house smaller, much more delicate manipulators! they can use these lil manipulators with their hand open or closed and theyre very nimble. they fold back into a channel in the middle of each finger

they have two more sets of fingers on their arm, sans manipulators, and another two sets on the end of their long flexible tails!

im still not sure how they see, what and how they eat, if they even respirate. but maybe the fun of it is they just dont tell anyone. theyre space ghosts, living bits of their gas giant homeworld. maybe they delight in confusing other species :3

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one of my oldest aliens are called the Dath’illyas, and theyre equal parts matter and non-matter. they arose on a gas giant many times larger than Jupiter and took them much, much longer than other races to leave their world. they’re like ghosts almost, intangible at best despite their solid appearance, and they rely on complex technology to keep them tethered to reality when theyre off-world

despite their appearance, they’re quite friendly with humans and other space faring races

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inspired by just how WEIRD life is and decided to make my dath'illyas aliens Even Weirder. their arm has two bony bends and then terminates in a long flexible bit like an elephant's trunk with a lil hand at the end! the hand then parts threewise into three dextrous lobes with even tinier, more precise little grabbies inside

definitely inspired by opabinia's weird trunk hand mouth

reaches out and gently pats you with my One Weird Hand

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slowly starting to figure these guys out. their crests are flexible, like cartilage, and they vocalize with a pair of twin mouths (that other beings routinely mistake for eyes). dath’illyas communicate with a strange form of telepathy, but they can generate auditory sounds similar to wind chimes. their hands and tails are their main manipulators. they tend to float in place, and no one has really figured how they do it yet. its a fun secret that they delight in keeping to themselves~

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dath'illyas doodles! friendly space ghosts here to touch everything you own

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Tez I have bad news. I'm never going to finish this image of you. /sobs

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ALIENSSSSS

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Playing around with the anatomy of one of the retarded demons from my novel. They're starting to look a little better. I think. Hopefully.