#speculative worldbuilding

[troythecatfish]

[living-dead-guyy]

Villager types! This took me 7 hours :’)

[juicyolpickle]

A carnivorous animal by the name of Hell hounds or Hook beaks, serves the role as a highly adapted pack hunter, this Borease animal is one of the most adaptive creature on this planet as they can be found about in each craves and surface of the planet.

It’s adaptivity is evident in its biological design as its pincer like jaws, eyes, and fur, have morphed from climate to climate giving this genus varied sub species with their own unique traits to further adapt to their species circumstances.

It earned its name for its obvious Earth counterpart the canine and the similarities that they share. Being excellent social hunters and for an amazing sense of smell, though unlike earths animals they do not have nostrils to gather smells but instead reply on head quills that resemble hair, highly sensitive organs similar to insect antennas that gather air particles.

[headphone-the-idjit]

SeaKites

Yaay finished these fellers! Amphibian ahh birds… there’s more infos I couldn’t get on there unfortunately but oh whale (ha ha)

[exotonplanet]

A look into the environment layout of Rahlo, along with nine close up species profiles of the native plants!

Feel free to ask questions!

Much of Exoton's plant life is characterized by highly specialized root structures, predominantly growing in a vertical, cone-like shape. Most species are derivatives of a key ancestor, the Giant's Needle, sharing a dense, layered root system with a distinctive spiraling growth pattern. This structure provides exceptional stability and resilience, making root trees some of the planet's densest organic formations. Their durability makes them extremely difficult to fracture, even under significant force.

[tdp-official]

The Pestilent Thickets are where damage begins to loosen its grip.

More polluted than the Lurid Grasslands, these dense growths emerge as contamination concentrates and vegetation tightens into tangled formations that trap lingering toxins. The air remains heavy, the atmosphere unstable, yet the ecosystem has not stopped moving forward.

Within the thickets, the first signs of transition appear. Amid altered flora, traces of familiar plant life begin to return, cautiously reclaiming ground once overwhelmed by chemical disruption.

They are still hazardous. Still marked by the legacy of contamination.

But they are also thresholds, places where the trajectory begins, slowly, to bend back toward equilibrium.

The Pestilent Thickets mark the fragile beginning of recovery.

[yellosnacc]

What's the level of articulation/flexibility of an Uniima?

I've been getting this question quite a bit.

A sky uniima showing some neck movement, including sleeping position and stretches.

Sky uniima have some of the most flexible and strong necks of their biosphere. Their necks might be extra thick, but the contents aren't all tough fat and muscle. The neck bones fold into an S shape at rest in the back of the mass. On them, you have some intense musculature and a very girthy "spinal" cord. Still, the majority of the thing is air. Uniima have large air sacs from their ancestors, but most have remained in the neck. Some of them appear constantly inflated, while others visibly aid speech or respiration (their true lungs are in the main body).

Their skulls are quite rigid in comparison, but they can do a little bit of side-to-side, back-to-front movement with their jaws. Just wouldn't recommend doing it too often or while carrying heavy objects.

The biggest problem when moving around is their horrendous crest, making their compact living life difficult. Fortunately, they are very aware of it and have no issue avoiding obstacles (though disabilities that hinder this ability are not too uncommon). Many will enlarge their crests with clothing/jewelry or even 'realistic' extensions that can get hefty. But hey, fashion and exercise in one?

Being arboreal, they have more flexible limbs than most terrestrial fauna with "belly" spine. But using them as active manipulators isn't as practical unless you are a trained professional body-dysmorphia-alien-raised gentleman. Their claws can't be pulled back much, and their flat, rough finger pads have a bad grip when handling small things with no thumb to help.

Didn't show much of the limb movement or inner beak, but might do that another time.

[aniriteron]

searching for scallops

computer crashed while making this. I was gonna change a lot of the anatomical errors and add fish but I was too pissed off