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Left - a comparative size chart for various genera within the clade Caelotyrannidae, descended from an animal similar to the Gaiaic species Scansoriopteryx heilmanni. Pictured for a sense of size are the silhouettes belonging to sampled species of extant genera: - Brachiophis vulgaris (A), the common lindwurm - Avitherium domesticus (B), the domestic bakboost - Hydroptera vulgera (C), the common cadboras - Pterophis megaeura (D), the great-tailed quetzatlatoani - Paraeudraco familiaris (E), the domestic wyvern - Eudraco megalechos (F), the thunder dragon Right - a comparative size chart for various genera within the clade Tridactylocheiridae, descended from an animal similar to the Gaiaic species Dimorphodon macronyx. Pictured for a sense of size are the silhouettes belonging to sampled species of extant genera: - Pseudoscirosa polychroma (A), the rainbow barkling - Pseudolepra velox (B), the swift-footed false rabbit - Pseudomustella domestica (C), the domestic wyrmling - Draconis sapiens (D), Dracans - Dracona panoceana borealis (E), the northern oceanic drake - Caniceps plumauris (F), the long-eared drogon - Longirostrum australis (G), the southern marshstrider - Caecoreptilis caecoreptilis (H), the cave drake

Here's a sneak peak into the upcoming Gobbi's Lesson! After combating depression and issues with moving, we're finally able to have the time and energy to continue with the lesson's diagrams; specifically, the genera silhouette charts to show relative size and shape of a multitude of genera/subclades of Karyic animal species.

A big thanks to @jan-kapoli for your suggestion of the "zoom-in" for smaller genera with more detailed silhouettes.

[projectkarya]

UUednesday Update!

((eh? eh?))

Date: 01/06/2026

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Welp, @plusultrayokai, I made a New Year's Resolution, and I intend to keep it. So here's the first of my weekly status checks on Project KARYA's ongoing progress:

Now that I'm done with the first set of size charts, I'm deciding to put the second set on hold for now to prevent burnout. While that does postponing the progress on the fifth Gobbi's Lesson, which talks about organism clades originating from the Hemizoic era, I'm now directing my creative energies to the world itself! More specifically, I'm going back to my previous maps of Karya and making more accurate representations of how I envision the planet. So to start off the new year, I'm creating a climate map of Karya, based off of the Köppen climate classification that is used for Earth's own climates.

((here's a map of Earth using the same classification system, as a reference!))

The biggest obstacle I've found so far is that there's so...many...fucking...islands. Did I bring this on myself? Yes. Am I still frustrated with myself for my own choices? Yes. So while I managed to finish most of the central polar regions of the northern continent, the ring of floating islands that surrounds the central mountain range is going to take quite a while. Hopefully I'll be done or damn near by the time I need to release the next update.

Oh, and I decided to use HeroForge to help create conceptual designs for some of my characters so that I can talk about them more. Here's Teva, a rodah that is considered the Embodiment of Time and Consequences.

That's all for now! See you all in the next post

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Babe, wake up, another size chart just dropped:

A comparative size chart for various genera within the clade Spiculopistridae, descended from an animal similar to the Gaiaic species Hybodus hauffianus. Pictured for a sense of size are the silhouettes belonging to sampled species of extant genera: - Kladoceros kladoceros (A), the glowstag shark - Tainiops calosa (B), the gracile ribbon shark - Platoura phosphera (C), the torch-bearer shark - Aceratoptera notosa (D), the southern hump shark - Magnacornus omuriensis (E), the Omorian trapfish - Ceratoptera vulgare (F), the common thornfin - Velocicaudus vulgaris (G), the common swifttail - Parvacornus (H), the small-horned shark It should be noted that both K. kladoceros and P. phosphera are both parts of a larger, more diverse subclade within Spiculopistridae, Bathyceratidae, as well as T. calosa and V. vulgaris in the subclade Mastigopsidae.

((reference image of the inspiration for the spiculopistrids' ancestor; source here))