I don’t know if this is a better question to ask you or Luka, but I usually come to you for theoretical/historical-type stuff, so I’ll probe you first. Anyway, are there any kinds of species on Erit that have gone extinct for one reason or another? What made them go extinct, and do you have any personal favorites? Have Eritian paleontologists pinpointed any mass extinctions (related to natural or magical changes) on the planet’s surface in the past?
Oh I can’t answer all of these in detail, but I can say that Erit’s had its share of extinction events. Some smaller, some larger. I suppose it would be the same on any geologically active world exposed to space!As far as we can tell, it’s not going to be much of a problem anymore. That’s the hope, anyway. Hundreds of years ago, there were the hints of a mass extinction event starting in some areas of the world due to sentient expansion, but we’ve mitigated those problems by regrowing habitats and taking our expansion to our moons. Ammit has its own atmosphere and is well colonized, and we’re terraforming our other moon, Viyl. It’s currently colonized by science types and their families. But that leaves huge areas of wilderness on every continent of Erit where wildlife and plantlife can thrive!I do want to talk about one species, though. A sapient species which died outbetween the time the Old Gods were killed and the New Gods rose.Necromancers of Antirrhopus have been able to re-animate some of the bones,filling in the empty spaces in their history. I mean, we had quite a goodhistory of them before, but like gnolls, the kobla were secretive and keptmostly to themselves. The coolest thing about the kobla–and the mosttragic–is their population began to bottleneck and a genetic disease began toovertake the entire species.There’s this speech written down by the Cenozir (the leader) of what translates to the Tribe of Tribes about how they could die gracefully, or die in madness. They had to act now, or their legacy would be tarnished for all time.So all the leaders of the remaining tribes got together and decided they’d stopreproducing. They said that the gods had selected them for extinction, andthey’d go quietly into the dark. At that time there were only about a thousandkobla left anyway, and nothing they could do could stop the genetic illnessthat affected up to two-thirds of their children.Apparently genetic experimentation and stuff in their past had rendered them what we call an inert species. That is, they literally had nowhere to go. So they went extinct in our recent past! Well, relatively recent. It was stillthousands of years ago. And they are my favorite!oh and since you mentioned Luka, she wanted to contribute, so she drew one for you.