Revamped my first ever creature design! Everyone meet:
#000: Skeemeraph
Born with the universe itself, this creature is the origin of all life in the universe!
They have the ability to make copies of itself using whatever matter is around! These copies then multiply and mutate across generations, filling the universe with endlesss forms most beautiful!
As life developed, these creatures ended up creating new stuff themselves, and Skeemeraph, fascinated to see their creations partake in further creation, grew inspired and created new clades of life made out of whatever stuff the previous clade created!
This way, they have created 4 clades of life throughout time:
• The Astroclades, stellar creatures made of Hydrogen, which was abundant as soon as the universe was born.
• The Carboclades, planetbound creatures made of complex organic matter, which was first fused into existence by Astroclades.
• The Mechanoclades, mechanic creatures made of constructs, which were first built by Carboclades.
• The Oneiroclades, ethereal creatures made out of dreams, which were first materialized by Mechanoclades.
All the lifeforms of this world belong to one of these groups! Their deep history all connected to one omniprescent common ancestor, one that doesn't see itself as part of a hierarchy, but of a cycle of creation!
Inspired by Seraphim and Skeemella! A very ancient organism from a strange group called Vetulicolia!