Something small just to let out some feelings.
I wouldn't take the appearance of baby Neal here as fully canon because I did not spend time actually designing him.
Featuring Maaj enjoying the presence of her weird little creature. She and Lte have and will struggle to feed and care for it accordingly, as there is no resource for people of this time who most cannot even read.
If it weren't for Neal's special condition, he would certainly be long dead.
In other regions of the continent, some basic knowledge of aliens exists, but a lot of it is assumptions coming from the religious and somewhat simplifying philosophies of this time. The contact has been a few decades now, but long lasting travel and joined living still feels imposible to many. Many also die doing it. They should invest more into witches for expeditions.
Something small just to let out some feelings.
I wouldn't take the appearance of baby Neal here as fully canon because I did not spend time actually designing him.
Featuring Maaj enjoying the presence of her weird little creature. She and Lte have and will struggle to feed and care for it accordingly, as there is no resource for people of this time who most cannot even read.
If it weren't for Neal's special condition, he would certainly be long dead.
In other regions of the continent, some basic knowledge of aliens exists, but a lot of it is assumptions coming from the religious and somewhat simplifying philosophies of this time. The contact has been a few decades now, but long lasting travel and joined living still feels imposible to many. Many also die doing it. They should invest more into witches for expeditions.
Bobole shown in natural patterns, with a kula and a sloman silhouette for reference.
The second most widespread domesticated predator the slomen have would be the rounder than round big-maw.
They come from temperate climates, where they roam the forests, eating animals of many sizes (usually based on pack size). Most often, they are seen in pairs (commonly of siblings), but this rule isn't unbreakable. Sometimes, packs reach over 6 members that stay together for a long period of time before they eventually separate into smaller groups. This adaptability might be why their domestication came quite naturally. From the bobole's point of view, slomen might have been great hunting buddies.
Bobole are intelligent hunters that rely on visualizing the path of their prey more than on communication between members. This makes them both adaptable and stubborn when working in bigger groups or with slomen. The usual strategy is for one individual to stay low, watching the target, while others chase it in the other's direction. The unmoving bobola waits for the moment the target is close enough to strike it. In case it fails, the one chasing will still be available on the other side to mayhaps save the hunt.
With smaller prey, they can be useful chasing the target for slomen too. But with their stubborn attitude toward their technique, it's more common for them to help keep the watch on prey and track it.
In an active hunt, the slomen direct the bigger prey to the usually-larger-breed bobola to deal the first hit, keeping the animal in grasp for a person to kill it with a weapon.
Some breeds are very territorial. For this, you will rarely see them in Ciwa, where you could consider them outlawed. Not because they could hurt a person, but because a kula could be at risk. The sacred feral population must live on.
Unlike a dog, bobolas are not as flexible to train. Little funny tricks are meant for a kula. These orbs are loyal and follow direction, but they take a lot of time to do their natural behaviors in ways most useful for people.
The easiest is for them to protect family members from threats, which is why many cultures have at least one devoted to the household kids and follow them on their mischievous journeys even when they sneak around the adults. Of course, one must establish what a threat is early on. Nobody wants an anxious bobola who bites their aunt.
In some regions, if you were to visit a village, chances are you would see them sitting by every third settlement, either sleeping or watching you. Sellers might even take them to the markets to keep thieves away.
Now, you might find these orbicular animals somewhat similar to the put-tut, but they are hardly related. Bobola are actually genetically closer to the 'slomland' bird than to slomen themselves. Just like with the raptorial shape before the mammal overtaking on earth, the upright biped is popular with convergent evolution. However, since vertebrates of the continent don't have true tails to balance them horizontally, most bipedal animals here keep their head high.
This creature has been pretty much designed for a looong time now, but I never got to actually rendering it.
Name 3 animal bigger than really fat cow (From yelloworld)
Well-
There's this thing that is still in the design stages and serves as an elephant/horse to land uniima.
Definitely some old world (mostly extinct) wyverns.
and uuh
unsure about the third. Generally, unii-lands get to have larger animals because of their respiration and commonly hollow bones. Plus, the gravity around the equator (sky unii territory) is weaker than elsewhere, and the difference is more distinct compared to Earth zones.
hi i just found your guys and I'm kind of losing my mind (positive) is there any sort of order to look at things in ?
Hi hi! Thank you!!
I post stuff as I go and the bottom side of my blog has gotten pretty outdated in parts (most of them I mark as outdated to not confuse).
I do try to tag things right, so if you wanted to read on slomen, you can search by that tag, etc (often I also do specifics like sloman biology/culture..). I still gotta make an establishing post since my old one got too dated with its images.
Then, if you pondered about my ocs, there ain't as many posts with them, but they are very dear to me, and some of their posts talk about world things as well.
Otherwise, there isn't really an outline of ideal viewing unforge unforge
Two adult sky uniima. One is walking forward while the other stands with limbs spread to the side, showing one palm. Between them is a single plump larva.
You can see more variation between groups with the extra cere (nostril) skin creating fleshy caruncles.
Another thing to point out would be two mouth fingers on the top jaw and a single one on the bottom. These have bones, though the little "frills" on them are muscle.
Here is an approximate scale compared to a human. Important to remember- while slomen are humanoid, they are smaller than humans.
Species info:
Sky uniima are primarily an arboreal species that mainly lives on a single large forested land with many surrounding islands. While their range is much smaller than that of land uniima (a distantly related species of sophont), their specialisation allows them to occupy the more extreme parts of their biosphere and spread all over there.
Sky unii generally build smaller societies with unique languages/dialects and cultures, even when these settlements aren't too far apart. Still, in modern times, cooperation is highly encouraged in the more politically active areas. This isn't an issue for most, as uniima have an extraordinary sense for picking up languages. Sky uniima learn new tongues especially well, even in older age, and many more-traveled ones can speak over 10 separate languages.
Their way of speaking is through the crest, creating multiple 'simpler' sounds at once. Unfortunately, they can't mimic other sophont ways of speech very well like this. Writing is the best next thing.
Sky uniima also show emotion using sound. This tune comes from the base of the crest and can be heard over speech. To our ears, it might appear like a humming/rattling sound in a chamber, but we would have a harder time separating it from other noises. The secondary way of emoting is the stretching and inflating of the facial markings.
Yes, the censored region is their unsafe for work area.
Is there something that describes why uniima are shaped like that, I want to know why Neal is 70% head or what environment conditions would make a creature like that
-various sky uniima individuals engaging in object manipulation
Uniima are visually a little top-heavy. And that is because the head is one giant hand (and it is very distantly derived from a limb).
Because they are arboreal, their arms and legs aren't always available. The trees most favored by them also aren't branched like those favored by apes, like us - imagine an alien redwood.
Because of this, their ancestors have had part of their tongue and their upper sensory organs turn into manipulators along with the beak, and their middle eyes move deeper into the mouth area. This way, they got to solve more complex tasks and get into more difficult food items. Any branches can also be grabbed by the big jaws to move the body elsewhere, and a practiced individual can use their head and body motion to launch themselves a great distance onto a different surface, ideally catching onto something with their beak for support.
The head, while large, isn't too massive. The vocal organs take up most of the skull space, meaning majority is filled with air while the rest hosts complex nerves, eyes, muscles, and mostly hollow bones (they are stronger in the jaws). The true brain is in the chest.
So these skulls aren't as heavy as they seem.
And about Neal- He's the worst example for the species because he barely has any basic knowledge of the species.
Being raised by slomen and being very insecure about his appearance and behavior, you will never see him actually use his head to do anything, and to him, it only gets in the way and frustrates him. It is probably his biggest insecurity.
He did use his jaws as a baby, but as a witch, he did get some motor issues, making him very shaky while holding anything in the beak and putting pressure on it. He now hides this well, but also has comparatively extremely weak jaws.
His actual way of manipulating the world is with his hands, like slomen. This is not unique to him, uniima can use their limbs for things, but discriminate less between front and back limbs. They do this more for support than the default though, none of their hands have opposable fingers, and their large claws get in the way (and heavily arboreal communities don't want to risk losing them).
Neal doesn't have functioning claws. They were gutted at a very young age. For the same reason, he's also missing some fingers.
His tool use causes him pain. But it would be really impressive to a uniima observer!
Question, I’m not educated on the lore but, are the slomen and both species of uniima aliens on the same planet? Just curious because I thought they were post-humans due to their similar faces.
They are. It's a strange situation.
Non-earthly people having their first contact without ever understanding what space is. They would think you a madman for entertaining they are from different orb worlds.
What's next, germ theory?
This question does pop up a lot, so eventually, I really need a new pinned post.
I know this sounds weird but out of curiosity how do the uniima reproduce, lime I know they have eggs and larvae but are the reproductive organs and biology similar to the slomen?
This is extra simplified, but they are very different. Slomen and uniima both come from different biospheres and are possibly unrelated, even up to pre-cellular life. If there's a relation, it's definitely more distant than between a human and a pumpkin.
uniima with a freaky big head, arrows show things
While slomen have their reproductive organs stored in the neck area with openings in the mouth and side of the neck (where the megg connection is during 'pregnancy' for the masculine sex). Their pregnancy isn't quite like in mammals since the megg gets its own oxygen and isn't fed through blood, but with a nutrient soup. In many ways, this can make the pregnancy safer for the parent, but the fetus is less protected and will have issues if the megg isn't working as intended.
All uniima can both fertilize and create eggs. Their reproductive organs are stored deeper in the body, in the lowest hump above the tail.
To get the gene material from there, they use their strangely specialized middle limbs that are stored in the side when at rest. These small, thin limbs go through a canal to access the spermatids/eggs.
After delivering their genetic material, multiple of the fertilized eggs start developing. The eggs have a protective layer that gives them some basic materials for growth. Before laying, the membranes have started losing their structural integrity, and the egg membranes have fused into a chain. In some related animals, these chains can be sticky enough to hold onto a surface and last a while before completely falling apart (unlike in sky uniima).
Bobole shown in natural patterns, with a kula and a sloman silhouette for reference.
The second most widespread domesticated predator the slomen have would be the rounder than round big-maw.
They come from temperate climates, where they roam the forests, eating animals of many sizes (usually based on pack size). Most often, they are seen in pairs (commonly of siblings), but this rule isn't unbreakable. Sometimes, packs reach over 6 members that stay together for a long period of time before they eventually separate into smaller groups. This adaptability might be why their domestication came quite naturally. From the bobole's point of view, slomen might have been great hunting buddies.
Bobole are intelligent hunters that rely on visualizing the path of their prey more than on communication between members. This makes them both adaptable and stubborn when working in bigger groups or with slomen. The usual strategy is for one individual to stay low, watching the target, while others chase it in the other's direction. The unmoving bobola waits for the moment the target is close enough to strike it. In case it fails, the one chasing will still be available on the other side to mayhaps save the hunt.
With smaller prey, they can be useful chasing the target for slomen too. But with their stubborn attitude toward their technique, it's more common for them to help keep the watch on prey and track it.
In an active hunt, the slomen direct the bigger prey to the usually-larger-breed bobola to deal the first hit, keeping the animal in grasp for a person to kill it with a weapon.
Some breeds are very territorial. For this, you will rarely see them in Ciwa, where you could consider them outlawed. Not because they could hurt a person, but because a kula could be at risk. The sacred feral population must live on.
Unlike a dog, bobolas are not as flexible to train. Little funny tricks are meant for a kula. These orbs are loyal and follow direction, but they take a lot of time to do their natural behaviors in ways most useful for people.
The easiest is for them to protect family members from threats, which is why many cultures have at least one devoted to the household kids and follow them on their mischievous journeys even when they sneak around the adults. Of course, one must establish what a threat is early on. Nobody wants an anxious bobola who bites their aunt.
In some regions, if you were to visit a village, chances are you would see them sitting by every third settlement, either sleeping or watching you. Sellers might even take them to the markets to keep thieves away.
Now, you might find these orbicular animals somewhat similar to the put-tut, but they are hardly related. Bobola are actually genetically closer to the 'slomland' bird than to slomen themselves. Just like with the raptorial shape before the mammal overtaking on earth, the upright biped is popular with convergent evolution. However, since vertebrates of the continent don't have true tails to balance them horizontally, most bipedal animals here keep their head high.
This creature has been pretty much designed for a looong time now, but I never got to actually rendering it.
I've noticed with your all your slomen art that the slomen in them all have short headfeathers and it makes me wonder, can they grown out their headfeathers to be very big and long? Does headfeather length depend on a specific ethnicity or is short headfeathers just a fashion trend thing?
Unfortunately for some, feather length is genetic and tied to sex and ethnicity, and a fully mature feather doesn't grow any longer.
Different parts of a sloman's body will have different feather types of various lengths. Though nothing as complex as that of an Earthly bird, they also molt and replace their old coat and deal with pin feathers.
So if someone isn't fond of their head feather length, they will have to fix it up each molt and hope to not get a terrible haircut that lasts with them for a whole season.
But feather extensions are common and a traditional modification in many families across the slom cultures, especially for women.
"Hairdressers" have a very important role in sloman society. In places, they can be valued as high as the local medicine people.
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