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Kazanlak10
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[2010-05-31 20:28:51 +0000 UTC]
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Wonderful gallery and good talent.
Check-out my stuff!
Happy Autumn !
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Thanks! I wish I had more time for art these days but I do what I can.
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oh I really like your Dinosaur illustrations
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hi looking to speak with you please sir thanks!
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do you have any plans to add a species ofΒ Dromaeosauridae to your Araean project?
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Not currently. The lineage was present in prehistoric Araea but is likely extinct.
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oh, okay. Thank you for telling me!!
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Do you have sizes for your Araean creatures? I think it'd be a good idea to make a size comparison sooner or later down the road.
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I agree that a size comparison chart would be useful. Β I've wanted to sit down and do one for a long time now.
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I suppose you'll start that once the other animals are remade? No rush, we've all got lives to attend to.
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That was part of the reason yeah, the other is just that it's going to be time consuming to scale the drawings to one another.
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Perhaps just saying how long/tall/heavy they are in the descriptions would work (at least for now)?
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I honestly can't believe why I haven't found out about you earlier.
Here, have a watch!
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I'm DA's best-kept secret, thanks!
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Heya, I was wondering if I could potentially 3D model some of the guns in your gallery?
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Sure, as long as you credit me I'd personally be pretty interested in seeing what they look like in 3D form.
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Thanks brother! Just so you know, it's not going to be anywhere near perfect, nor is it going to have any color. Anyways, the most probable candidate will be the CCM-750.
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No problem. Let me know when it's done if you don't mind.
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The CCM-750 is complete. Let me know if there are any major discrepancy's regarding the model.
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The grip portion of the stock could stand to be slimmed down a bit and rounded off but that looks pretty damn cool overall.
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Thank you! Like all my projects, I'm going to overhaul it a couple times and fix some of the other problems, including that one. If I get it looking significantly better I'll update the current one. Glad you like it though!
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Have you actually written any accounts of the anti skryke campaign? That would be an interesting read.
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Yes it would. It was an exceedingly brutal war with no rules and no quarter asked or given on either side. Yet another writing project I need to get to. Β
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Well what with the skrykes having a tendency to eat the people they killed I can understand that. And yea. It would be cool. Let me know if you want any help!
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Believe it or not the human side got in the habit of eating skrykes that they killed too.Β Plus both sides went out of their way to commit atrocities against each other.Β Skrykes raided towns and ate children and other non-combatants and human militiamen torched skryke bowers, incinerating brooding mothers and their eggs and chicks
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Sorry, that last bit sounds kinda gloaty...
Question, so the the current Stryker human relations are peaceful, if uneasy. How did the peace come about? How did they learn to communicate? I get the mimicry, but even that wouldnt give full language capabilities.
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The move toward relative peace between humans and skrykes is one of the great untold stories of Araea, I hope to tell it at some point but at the moment even I'm not 100% sure how it happened. Β One thing is for sure though, the individuals from each species who made the opening moves to this end were taking a big risk.
Skryke mimicry skills vary among individuals. Most can imitate human speech to some degree, some can do it better than others, with some developing a passable command of human languages, to the point where they can actually communicate with a human, but this level of proficiency is not common.Β
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Ah. I see what you mean. Well I'm waiting for when you write it up haha.
And that makes sense. Just like how not all humans are good at learning new languages.
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Really? I suppose it tasted like chicken then... And I suppose that was made easier by the species barrier. Easier to commit atrocities against a beast, whether human or skryke.
In the book I'm working on, killing mothers or eggs/chicks of the avei would have very very poor results. They are tool users. Iron age. And very, very good at incorporating new tech into their society.
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Yeah the fact the war was being fought by two enemy species from two totally different branches of the vertebrate family tree definitely created a different dynamic when it came to warfare.
Being able to adopt new technologies certainly helps. Skrykes grasp the concept behind some simpler human tech but anatomical limitations generally prevent them from utilizing or replicating it.
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As expected I suppose.
And yeah, and that makes sense. They haven't needed to make the shift towards more dexterity. They function fine without tools and fire.
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Yep, in their insular environment there was not sufficient selective pressure to evolve the use of fire or tools more complex than twigs for probing for insects and other similar tasks. Additionally their anatomy would probably be less apt Β to evolve toward using their forelimbs for these functions than would say, that of a brachiating primate.
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I gotcha. That does make sense.
The one I'm designing was only semi boreal, but it climbed and grabbed branches often enough to make the development of apposability in a digit worthwhile. Their main manipulator is the beak, but the hands can hold a spear or a knife. Using all three they can build and use tools that are just as complex a lot of human tech. Though the range of motion in the arms and the musculature means that they can't, for example, use a bow and arrow, or fire a rifle properly.
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Yes that sounds plausible, and that's good you have given thought to what they anatomically *can't* do as well as what they can. A lot of attempts at sapient dinosaurs end up copying the homind body plan too closely for my liking.
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Agreed.
Yes they can stand upright just as an emu might or something. But normally they have the stance of a raptor or similar theropod. Their arms are strong in different ways and weak in different ways from humans. They're really freaking good with atlatls because the downward motion of the arm is very strong. Intelligence is based differently. And so on.
Also, thank you.
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