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Magic exists in a similar manner to most other elements, and exists naturally in a gaseous form all around the environment.
Both the Terabo and Rotid are able to naturally siphon the magic out of the air and convert it into Mana (liquid magic) from Miasma (Gaseous Magic) via a process called thaumosynthesis.

Every starting creature can use mana, but non-thaumosythesis capable creatures must get it either through eating Mana filled creatures or items.


Rules:
- No spamming, try to wait for someone else to evolve a creature before posting another evolution
- Do not evolve the same line more than twice in a row, I would like to discourage people from favoritism for certain species
- The Overlord character is going to act mostly as a free agent and not be played much outside of world events and such, you are free to have a specific creature/species interact with them but the focus should be on evolution for now

How to Play:
- Open an image of a species in the editor of your choice
(Use something that doesn't leave a blurry line, like a pencil tool)
-Illustrate a evolutionary change to that species
-Save as .PNG! Anything else is going to effect the quality negatively
-Post your new species in the thread with a brief description of what change you added and why.
-Indicate what generation your creature is. (The starting organisms are Gen 0)
-A creatures size or name aren't required, but strongly recommended and encouraged.
- Link back to the creature you evolved so we can establish evolutionary lines.

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Gen 0
The Terabo produces geode-like spore pods that eventually pop after too much pressure, produce dirt as a waste product from breaking down void-rock

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Gen 0

The Rotid uses its "fan" to make short strong bursts magic-assisted puffs air as a deterrent and for spreading spores, produces a low-level light as a result of absorbing magic

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Gen 0

The Nakk is a fuzzy climbing and burrowing creature, has moderately good hearing and excellent low-light eye-sight.
Channels magic to change the density of its bones to help dig through stone and increase its jump height/distance. However keeping the bones at a non-normal density causes deformities and/or bone loss.

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Gen 0

Hu'tes are two-headed slithering creatures that can sense vibrations through the nubs on its body, as well as hear through the small fins on the sides of its heads.
Can phase into a gaseous form to squeeze through tight passages and increase speed, staying in gaseous form for too long causes deformities and/or muscle loss.

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Gen 0

Zomem are quick six-legged scavengers, its strongest sense is taste, though it can also roughly detect light sources with its eye spots.
Uses magic to decrease the size (while increasing the density) of its food so it can gorge itself between meals. If it eats too much it can imobilize itself, or tire itself out by using too much magic.

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>>4522646
this seems fun

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>>4522646

A subgroup of Nakk have developed thicker fuzz on the pads of their feet, muffling the noise they make while foraging. The reduced sound makes them less likely to be heard by their predators.

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>>4522645
With thinner caps and slim slightly twisted stalks this reduction of there weight to air resistance has given higher chance of rerooting with there low center of mass.

they are more common in areas with more foot traffic as they are better at surviving being dislodged compared to other rotids even with there reduced spore mass there slightly longer lifetime in active areas balances this out

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>>4522648
Some Hu'tes grow slightly longer feelers to help them identify prey

>>4522680
Sorry forgot to add that it is gen 1

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>>4522649

The Zomem's plate grows slightly larger, forming a protective case around the sides of its head as well.

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>>4522680
their need to identify prey evolves further into eyes

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>>4522670
some nakk have a bone spike from a deformed vertebrae in its tail poking out, this bone is used as a mild deterrent to predators while fleeing or struggling as a hardened bone being jabbed in the face is atleast something if it hits a sensitive spot

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>>4522676
now poisonous cus aint no fucker eating me

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>>4522644

The Terabo has made an evolution on a minute scale, that nonetheless has great results. The lightweight spores have taken on a 'winged' shape, allowing them to spin and drift far further from the parent organism. This greatly speeds up the propagation of the slime mold.

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>>4522644
Some Terabos grow spikes on their stem for protection

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>>4522680

The Hu'Te's protrusions grow longer and more sensitive, improving its sense of touch and allowing it to sense vibrations from further away.

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Oblivious to the new properties of the Rotid, the Nakk consume them and are promptly poisoned. The Hu'te who are unlucky enough to snap up the toxic carcasses have their own systems flooded with the toxin as well, and soon succumb to it.

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>>4522648
Some Hu'tes start developing scales for defense

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>>4522685
>>4522723

It's free real estate.

After passing through two separate bodies, the dose of poison is diluted and weakened enough. Zommem that are lucky enough to stumble upon this occurrence are able to scavenge from Hu'Te corpses and receive drastically weakened doses of toxins, which linger in their body while causing them minimal harm.

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>>4522648
The Slu'ge are the result of the Hu'te spending too much time in gaseous form - that is, the ones that didn't melt completely. While it is much slower and unable to go gaseous, it's gelatinous state lets it slip thru cracks anytime and makes it tough kill.

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>>4522728
The Zomems plate continues growing.

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>>4522645
Due to being uprooted often, the Rotid lowers itself and secures itself more to the ground

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>>4522713
The Terabo gains a funnel to further shoot the spores. The popping is done inside so the Terabo can "aim" the spores instead of having them land randomly

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>>4522671
The Nakk loses its tail to be less heavy and be more sneaky. It also gains a sharper mouth to more easily pluck things

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>>4522785
The Zomem gains a poisonous tongue, which thankfully becomes very long.

>>4522823
sorry, meant to link here >>4522728

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>>4522701
Nakks that livd near water develop naturally low-density bones to both swim and run faster.

>>4522832
woops! meant to post this after someone else posted! sorry for spam.

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>>4522805

Certain Nakk move further out into the Void-Rock fields to escape predators. The decreased temperatures cause them to grow thicker hair, and they boost their bone-density to grow larger and stockier.

>>4522692
I can -maybe- see those as light-sensitive eye spots, but im afraid that growing eyes like those is too big of a evolution in one generation

>>4522838
Also you are fine, the spam rule is mostly in reference to people posting upwards of 3+ evos at a time

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>>4522714

The Terabo evolves into the Terapo with the addition of extra spikes that grow along the slime-covered part of its body

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The first Phenology chart of the evo,seems the Nakk and Zomem have evolved rapidly to deal with the environment, though they aren't the only ones to experience random mutation due to magic.


Overlord Update:

The Overlord watches over the slowly evolving creatures, sitting for long periods of time in the highlands near the water. It seems like they are waiting for something specific to happen.

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>>4522701

A branch of Nakk develop thicker, stronger neck muscles, to better facilitate a head-lift technique of burrowing, where they drive into the soil with powerful muscles. Additionally, the same breed utilise their bone-density alteration to intentionally deform the spikes on the ends of their tails, forming flatter pieces to scrape and collapse tunnels behind them.

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>>4522785
The Zomem has developed a secondary plate allowing them to protect more of their body without sacrificing movement!

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>>4522790

The rooted Rotid lowers itself further and spreads out, further reducing its centre of gravity. Clusters of them form springy fields of mushrooms.

>>4523713
Is there a physical change between this evo and the one it evolves from? (even just smaller Rotids about it would be ok)

>>4523767
There is, I made the cap wider and added a bunch of spots.

Ah fuck, apologies im blind as shit apperently

>>4523792
what happened?

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>>4522676

The Bell-Fanned Rotid evolves a larger fan to create stronger puffs of wind, as well as create a softer landing when it gets disloged

>>4523818

I thought that two very different designs for evos looked the same rip

>>4522643

Forgot to mention earlier, both the Terabo Species and the Rotid Species produce through asexual budding, creating near perfect copies of themselves that can have mutations.

The other three species, the Nakk, Hu'te, and Zomem all produce sexually and lay eggs, though the exact mating and laying habits are completely up to y'all.

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>>4523592

The Zomem's plating continues to develop, protecting it from frontal assaults. They tend to butt rivals with the solid plates now. Since little harm comes to either, they can afford to be more aggressive.

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>>4522790
grows deeper into the ground sitting securely now unable to dislodge its whole body(except possibly weaker caps shooting off, hint hint;D) with the extra tissue underground its more likely to survive the loss of a cap by regenerating

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In the far north-east of the world, there is a stretch of dark rimland; it lies behind the great delta and beyond the central mountains, a quiet and inaccessible region tucked away out of sight. This place is the Cluthian Climes, and already some unique species have begun to evolve.

The chonky rotid has become the dominant plant here. The key to its success to become even more broad, growing a wide, floppy cap which stretches far out from the stem. The cap of a chonky rotid overlaps with those of its neighbours, trapping pockets of air which insulate the plants, keeping them a little warmer.

As the chonky rotid is a larger species than its ancestor, the nakk has evolved to keep up, becoming the nacht. The nacht has a longer, more flexible tail with a greater range of upward motion, and a bigger claw on the end of it. This versatile tail has several practical uses for herbivory: to topple small rotids, to break the caps off larger ones, and to tear pieces off ones larger still.

The xomem has developed a depression in its headplate, which hosts mucus exuded by the skin. This mucus accumulates odours into its substance, gathering useful information about the environment -- when the xomem licks this "scent bath", it's able to taste these odours and receive a much more detailed understanding of its environs than by tongue-smelling. Because of the heightened risk of infection, the xomem incorporates less carrion in its diet than its ancestors, replacing the shortfall with egg theft from both the nacht and its own species.

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>>4522717

The Hu'Te develop larger fins to improve their sensory input.

QM are the magics the creatures can wield static or can they evolve with time?
I have no idea how magic works in your setting and if it operates on hard or soft rules.

>>4523940

Magic can evolve over time with creatures, the two hard rules is that all magic must relate to either Element Manipulation (aka the magic must effect something already there and as a result, displace that element slightly; like puffs of air or creating a shell of hard rock around something)

or Density Manipulation, which also effects the physics on whatever you are manipulating, increasing or decreasing size would cause lower or higher density, super dense materials would create their own miniature gravity, ect.

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>>4523075

The Wooly Nakk wanders the SouthWestern reaches, where it's colder and further from the Door. There, they slurp up the >>4522801 Terabo that have spread all the way to the edges. They're safe from predators here, and are able to spread around the basin.

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The World grows ever larger as we start seeing specialization into certain regions, Rotid species of all kind spread and bud around every slow moving source of water, the Terabo hang proud as their numbers dig more and more into the Void rock walls, and all the small creatures skitter and slither about among the narrow passages, shallow waters, and rocky highlands.

The Overlord waves their hand, creating dips and gutters in the mountains to the East, allowing for small lakes to form as the surrounding rock grows taller and colder due to lack of light.
They then go and sit cross legged facing Baba'guar from the northern tip of the center lake, becoming very still in a meditative posture.

Temperature: Average 55° F (12.77° C), Eastern Mountains + Cluthian Climbs 48° F (8.88° C)
Light Level:
Center = 15, Inner Rim = 8, Outer Rim = 3, Cluthian Climes = 2


PS: Feel free to suggest/discuss names for both The Overlord and Map Locations as the world expands.

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>>4522769
The Slu'ge has coated itself in a layer of reflective crystal. While normally this would seriously impede it's mobility, it's overly active magic means that the crystal is as pliable as any other part of it's body.
When laying flat on the ground, it resembles a puddle of water, which lets it lure in unsuspecting prey.
Due to it's low density, it's about six times as big as it's ancestor despite being just as lightweight.

>>4523999
Forgot to mention, the silt beaches are a result of the water levels growing and shrinking around the large bodies of water, as well as being deposited from the fast moving rivers.

'Rain' is somewhat common as the evaporated water condenses on the ceiling of this giant cave and then drips down, meaning all of the current world stays a somewhat equal level of moisture.

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>>4522692
The Eye Hute's mouths atrophy because it realized it can just solidify around prey instead of having to chew and swallow it.
It shits using the same process, but in reverse.

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>>4523075
Whilst the ancestors of the woolly nakk migrated south, descending into the lowlands and becoming >>4523963, others remained in the highlands to the north of the great lake in a region called the Spindlemounts.

These developed shaggy ears to defend their extremites from the cold; those of the males grow into tall, golden plumes which indicate that the bearer is sexually mature. For this reason they are called the Lucian nakks, after Lucius Verus. The Lucian nakk, the woolly nakk, and their common ancestor are not quite clearly defined species, maintaining something of a hybridisation continuum throughout the south-west.

Their main food source is the gnome bell, a more streamlined descendant of >>4523825 -- with a less exposed cap, it's not as prone to damage in landing from a fall.

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>>4522832

These Nakk further split into two subgroups. The ones that live in shallow water remain relatively unchanged, alternating between running and swimming. However, this breed have developed webbing between their toes to swim better. This impedes their running, so they tend to spend most of their time in shallow and deep water to escape predators, only wandering onto land in order to feed from the Rotid on the edges of lakes.

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>>4522801

Terabo down in the Southwest continue to develop. Each of the pods now grows a cannon when close to maturation, and the spores blast out with far greater force. The new volume of propagation leads to an exponentially increasing amount of Terabo, bordering on unsustainable soon.

The entire area, home to the Wooly Nakk, experiences periods of heavy sporefall. The plumes of orange powder rain down from the ceiling, dyeing the lowlands. The Speckled Basin's population continues to grow, with food in abundance.

>>4524001
As far as I can recall as QM there is no resource that is a reflective surface, nor a crystal, so that part of the evo is going to have to be ignored. The concept of it self-liquidizing and becoming a ambush predator is possible, but not that huge of a increase in size, I can see it being around 10cm at most due to most creatures being lightweight because of size.

>>4524010
If you change the eyes on this evo to basic eye-spots I can allow both this evo and its predecessor , but in its current state it basically developed eyes out of nothing, at least change it to simple dot eyes to imply a simplistic eye-spot.

I like the concepts, but please edit the art to reflect these changes, you can add both of them in a reply to this. If you do not I'm going to have to ignore them

>>4524038
hmmm i dont know IF we even have a ceiling

>>4524042
Ah fuck knew I forgot something, its around 7 km at the tallest point over The Door, and is made out of void-rock. As with the rest of the map that size will change as it both grows bigger and is potentially effected by The Overlord NPC

>>4524047

Spores definitely can't reach that high. Would probably just drift up and fall down as 'snow', then.

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>>4522644
A mutation in the first-generation terabo living on the southwest rim, in that region which has been earlier named The (Southwest) Reaches, causes it to produce a salt along with the dirt.

Small animals approach the saltyterabo and lick off this valuable mineral; when the time comes for the explosion of the saltyteragbo's spore pod, the spores are often flung onto one of its benificaries, which will transport them elsewhere. Evolving a unique method of spore distribution allows them to maintain a population without being overwhelmed by the spore clouds; still, they are very rare compared to the ubiquitous >>4524038.

>>4524059
For "saltyterabo" read "saltyrabo", typos reee

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>>4524010
here cus qm is crying

>>4524039
>no resource that is a reflective surface, nor a crystal
It doesn't need special resources from the outside world to become reflective; in the real world there is a spider that makes itself reflective using guanine - a compound that every single living creature has in abundance because it's commonly found in DNA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaitesia_argentiopunctata

>but not that huge of a increase in size
Well the reason it became a liquid in the first place was because it's density decreased, but now that I think about it decreasing the density to 1/6 it's normal value would probably be too much, so you can change it to 10 cm rather than 30.

>change it to simple dot eyes to imply a simplistic eye-spot
It can be just an eyespot for now but I'd like to keep the look, it looks cooler than just a dot

>>4524038
hmmm the dry spores would probably float ontop of the water like in real life but i expect blasting terabo to more likely sink. so another food source for any animal that would live near the water
and i had a idea for the overlord as mixing water and spores would possibly produce like a soup to be eaten directly from the water or a dough if the spores can form these small gluten strings, but well there would be no real fuel to burn so he would need to eat soggy raw dough for years to come

>>4524066
Its cool that there is a real-life example of a animal producing a reflective coating, though the example you gave was of a specialized type of webbing and not crystals, which is a valid enough explanation to put the lad on the tree.

We can keep the current look as long as it is labeled as a eye-spot, I just didn't want to set a precedent for being able to evolve 'proper' eyesight in one evo.

I will ask to add a bit more of a explanation as to how the evolution happen in the future though, as just saying "it evolves X" doesn't really mean anything if we aren't given a reason as to why it evolves something

>>4524070

I don't know why but the concept of this all powerful robed being sitting in the dirt eating raw-ass dough is the funniest thing to me right now

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>>4524062

Bad mutation causes several undeveloped eyes to appear on one side of the Hute. This weird mutation is calorie-hungry, causing this particular brand of Hute to be more aggressive when hunting.

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>>4523963
Without natural predators, it falls to the Wooly Nakks themselves to keep their populations in check. Thus, the Bone Slurper is born: instead of changing the density of it's own bones, it liquifies the bones of others, making them easy to simply suck out through whatever holes the body has.
It does this by connecting it's own bones with the bones of others through a spike on it's chin, then pumping the prey's skeleton full of bone-softening magic.

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>>4523592
The Zomem in an effort to better protect the rest of it's body now uses it's magic to shrink it's own body to better hit the armored plate on it's head, using it as a shell when needed. Food already shrunk in the stomach can't be shrunk again, so sometimes the creatures cause their own death by shrinking after a big meal.

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>>4524152
The Nakks begin to war within themselves as they find that cannibalism is better than eating Terabo. So they get softer feet to be more stealthier and longer ears to listen to less sneaky Nakks footsteps

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>>4523840
The Zomems plates increase in order to gain advantage in duels. Duels are now an integral part of getting a mate, and some sneaky Zomem develop plates on their tails to knock out the opponent.

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>>4524001

The Slu’ge wanders southwest to the Speckled Basin. The bounty of boneless carcasses provide a plentiful feast for it. More of its melting body reaches out, forming large protrusions that snag prey and solidify around them to trap victims. The lack of bones in the creature renders them immune to the attacks of the cannibalistic strain of Wooly Nakk

i have a question is >>4524198 when full sized does it look like this? >>4523592

>>4524198
or does it shrink until its completely hidden by the head armor?
>>4524231
the size only confused me slightly

>>4524231
>>4524234
i compared them in mspaint and its exactly 1 cm shorter

>>4524234
At full size it still resembles the previous gen yes. Once small, it can fold it's legs and tail in to either get all in, or almost all in to the helmet.

>>4524198
"uses it's magic to shrink it's own body to better hit the armored plate on it's head"
damn typo. Should be "fit" not "hit".

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>>4522648
In order to more easily move though the water some Hu'te lose their spikes and grow a slightly more streamlined body

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>>4524205
The Zomem more than doubles in size, giving more room to store food and making it much more intimidating to predators.

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>>4524001
In order to trick prey some slu'ge change color to look more like the roots of Terabo

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>>4523906
Rather than risk tissue damage in prolonged gaseous state, some Hu'te can use their gaseous form to seperate in to Hut'lings. While Hut'lings are generally smaller and weaker, they are much faster and can catch up to prey quicker.

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>>4524205
The Zomem now supplements it's diet with Terabo spores gathered on it's sticky tongue.
Sometimes it gets it's head stuck in a Terabo - while this makes it difficult for it to navigate and feed, it does come quite handy during duels. Due to this, the most successful males will most likely starve to death soon after mating.

Extinction event soon, make sure to get your Gen 0 - 2 evolutions in

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>>4522801
Some Terabo evolve into hydrabo, while each pod shoots less spores then before they can still reproduce even after one or two pods are eaten.

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>>4524270
The Zomem gains thicker legs in order ro balance better

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>>4523713
Some dislodged that ended up in puddles adapted to survive on the water surface

>>4524300
*Some dislodged Rotid caps*

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>>4523903

The Nacht develop a tri-tipped bone spike to better handle chunks of Rotid, and to help ward off predators. An unrelated mutation has been brought to the forefront in the process, giving them curlier hair.

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>>4524279
The Sluge begins looking more like Terabo, and some even develop bulbs which resemble the Terabo. They now eat using shallow holes in their body that absorb nutrients

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>>4524290
The Zomem finds a way to get unstuck:
https://youtu.be/25uhqaFO3lo?t=882

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>>4524059
The Saltyrabo evolves longer, more flexible stalks and stronger attachment points to deal with rougher treatment from other creatures

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>>4522728
the zomeme is a quite loud scavenger that *squeaks* and *mleps* to make its presence known to all blind predators and for those that can see it has a show of color on its belly, tongue and back all of this is to warn of its toxicity and if it is not enough it will aggressively rear up its front two limbs and neck.
they compete among each other by rearing up on there rear most limbs, leaning belly against belly as they try to flip the other over

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>>4524198
The Zoom-In uses a more flexable cartlidge based plate to make size changes more comfortable, make curling up inside easier, and make it resistant to the bone altering effects of the Nakks. Though it is otherwise weaker. Even more than before they prefer to hide rather than attack, or rely on ambush tactics against weak creatures.
They have also finally learned to upchuck their food and keep it held in their long tongues in cases where they must quickly shrink after a meal. No more exploding.
Their eyes have also had a change, becoming compound eyes to help them see in a bigger arc without needing to tilt their heads and give away their position when hiding. They also stay the same size even when shrunk. Otherwise, they remain a snack sized meal to the several more aggressive creatures.

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First extinction of the game, this one is tied directly to competition and mostly effects the early Generations, with all the Generation 0 creatures becoming extinct.


This extinction effected the Terebo species extremely harsly, and as a result of a bunch of space becoming availible that species seems to have gotten a increased drive to grow more rapidly and larger

(Until next world event all new Terebo species will grow up to twice the size of the largest species)


The Overlord still appears to be meditating, leaking excess magical energy into the surrounding lakes in the highlands

Also make sure that if your evo lives in a specific geological area or habitat to make note of it in the picture, mostly to just help with future extinction events. I don't want to accidentally kill of species that don't have a legitimate reason to become extinct.

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>>4524326
the salty gets saltier to be more eye catching and fragile to any potential salt lickers

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>>4524251
With the Floatids bringing more prey to water, the watery area Hute has evolved it's ear fins into longer stronger fins that allow it to swim better. It has no problem changing to the opposite direction in an instant as the other head takes over swimming duties. It's body skin has also stretched out to help it float safely on the surface whilst resting. Beware water that suddenly bubbles, as this could be a Hute bringing itself to the surface at a rapid speed in gas form!

>>4524361
What is the environment like on the roof of the region? Is it smooth, jagged, dry, wet, very dark, or cold?

>>4524378
probably jagged, cause of stalactites

>>4524384
and wet, cause of stalactites

>>4524384
>>4524386
>>4524378
i also heard it was EXTREMELY high up

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>>4524218
Some Slu'ge degenerate further, becoming little more than puddles of liquid. Puddles of very water-like liquid, that unlike water can snatch up whatever tries to drink it.

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>>4522726
>Having grown more scales for defense and more spikes for attack the scu'te no longer need to turn gaseous

>>4524389
Still no time the present to start working up there

>>4524378
>>4524384
>>4524386
>>4524389

Currently the Highest part of the Ceiling is above The Door, it has the shape of a smooth dome , the highest point being 7km with a diameter of 50km

The rest of the ceiling currently varies between .5 km to 5km depending on location though it tends to get less tall as you go toward the edge or the rim of the 50km diameter dome, though some of the narrow passages shown on the map have a ceiling as low as 75 meters.

>>4524410
Is the environment on the roof enough to support terabo and rotid?

>>4524415
i think Smooth dome could be a problem for getting high up because slime mold are bad at climbing up even in optimal conditions so i think if we adapt it right we could atleast climb up the walls slowly with like pockmarking or making the surface rougher. but atleast the smaller maze like tunnels would be a good start making a literal dungeon zone

the most interesting thing about slime mold in real life is that they are actually normal sized amoebas so like a single cell in most animals that unite there membranes to become one gigantic cell so they are just unseen until they start collecting

>>4524415
Yep, currently all ceiling space is livable, though only the space along the edges and highlands are currently in reach as the rest are incredibly high up

>>4524428
Oh also the northern part of the map with all the small tunnels currently has the 2nd lowest ceiling compared to the map edges

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>>4524280

Hu'te with this adaptation have developed a form of Asexual reproduction. The Hut'lings have become small enough to solidify within the body of prey, without disrupting vital functions at first.

Adults assault prey and cause them to inhale their gases. The prey is allowed to escape, with a fetal clone of the parent Hu'te now gestating within the lungs of the organism.

After consuming the lining of their lungs and rapidly growing, the larval Hu'te violently tears its way out of the chest cavity, killing the prey and providing it with a large meal to start off its life with.

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>>4524205

These guys are really determined to continue the growth of their plates. More and more of their bodies are becoming armoured, providing protection against many hazards.

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>>4523566
The digger Nakks have evolved fur that covers the back of their ears to give them a bit more protection against being rubbed raw against dirt and stone whilst digging. And they now had a boney plate forming on their face to act as finer tool for digging in a small area, or into an extra tough bit of ground. More notable though is that they're bigger and their tail bone continues to grow throughout it's entire life. So even if it breaks the tip off, it won't be entirely helpless. When they grow too long, the Nakk intentionally break their tail bones off and have come to use them as supports in their burrows and tunnels.

They enjoy Rotinds, able to reach their bulbous base and eat without being forced to surface.

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>>4524290
As a result of a regular diet of magic spores, the Glomem gains the power to produce light from it's body. This is useful for disorienting creatures that live in a very dark environment.

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>>4524309
The Sluge has adapted as it changes enviroment to fit in with Chonky Rotids. It's tactics remain otherwise unchanged.

(Also I think it's gen 5, even though the last evolution said 3. Going by the extinction chart.)

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>>4524492
The Sludge's mouths have atrophied as it can just phase animals directly into it's body due to being a liquid

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>>4523592
>Due to the large amount of boneless corpses in the SouthWest some Zozems trade their tongue in for a feeding tube

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>>4524295
By restricting their rocky protrusions and developing rooting tendrils hydrabo tectorius are able to survive and develop on the cavern's roofs.

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>>4522702
Retids are barely poisonous, more likely to give the eater a really bad stomach ache and terrible gas. The air puffs it releases are it's main identifying trait, as it has a deeply foul fetid odor that typically makes one lose their appetite.

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The Gulping Hu'te heads evolve along separate paths its left head mouth has shrunk allowing its sensory tentacles to grow while the opposite is true of the right head where the mouth has elongated and its sensory tentacles have grown quite small. While the number of strikes the Hu'te can take are halved the large mouth of the right head rarely loses prey once it has it grasped and with its sensory organs far from thrashing prey fewer Hu'te are in danger of going "blind".

>>4525043
>>4524251
I forgot to link sorry

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>>4524544
In order to better stick to the roofs hydrabo tectorius' grow longer tendrils that secrete a slightly sticky mucus

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>>4524475

The Nakk's bone plate grows thicker. The bones on their front claws elongate to help dig through soil better, and to scrape at the roots of Rotids.

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>>4523825
While the Bell-Fanned Rotids in the Cluthian Climes mostly develop a darker coloration due to the lower temperature they also grow more and slightly brighter glow spots https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190702112754.htm

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>>4524336

The Zomeme adds another tool to its repertoire. It begins upchucking the toxins that it ingests, and storing it in a little throat pouch. Despite the size of the sac, it can hold a remarkable amount due to the density of the mucus being increased.

Spitting doesn’t work that well on predators that don’t have eyes, but if they can aim it into a mouth, the foul taste repels and hu’te. It also helps when the horrible bone-sucking rats have eyes that occupy half their face.

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>>4524407
With their scales now covering their whole body and protecting them from the boneslurpers (>>4524152) the scu'te have claimed the SouthWestern reaches as their hunting grounds and are starting to adapt to the cold by becoming smaller

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>>4525321
Some of these migrate north into the Spindlemounts, preying on the Lucian nakk.They develop the ability to tense the muscles on their chest, causing their scales to extend from the body. With these scales thus protuding, they can be pressed against the ground to provide more powerful and nuanced tremor-sense.

The spindlemount scu'te may also choose to move in an upright position, relying on the chest scales to provide information from the air -- although this is poor quality and is mainly used to discern wind direction and speed, giving a sort of primitive early warning system if the scu'te has strayed close to a chasm or cave.

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>>4524021

To escape predation, the Gnomebell grow longer stalks so that their juicy caps are kept out of reach of the Lucian Nakks.

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>>4524544
Some spores end up landing on the floatids (>>4524300)) in the Eastern lakes and while they survive the lack of void rock has weakened them

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>>4524518
North of the Reaches and west of the Spindlemounts, yet still to the south of the grand western confluence, is a squat chunk of lowland quaintly named Spindleside.

Some suckmem have migrated north from the Reaches into this land; since there are no bone slurpers here, the suckmem must put in more effort to get their dinner. When a Spindleside suckmem chances upon a carcass, it first pulverises the meal with headbutts from its -- now more robust -- headplate. When sufficient mushiness is achieved, the suckmem uses the suction of its powerful tube tongue to not only suck away blood and fluids but also remove clumps of flesh.

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>>4523903
When carrion is scarce, the xomem squabble over their rotting prizes, lashing each other with their venomous tongues. For this reason, their faces and necks are usually covered with protective boils which minimise venom absorption through the skin .

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Want some fun facts?

The Hu'te currently has 7 evolution branch ends.
The Nakk has 5.
The Rotid has 6.
The Terabo has 5.
The Zomem has 8.

Since the extinction event, the Hu'te has evolved 9 times.
The Nakk has evolved 2 times.
The Rotid has evolved 3 times.
The Terabo has evolved 4 times.
The Zomem has evolved 6 times.

The Hu'te seems like a favourite, but I wonder if I should have seprated the Slu'ge from it, it sure has diverged into such a different species. It doesn't resemble it's original form at all.

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>>4524447
What's this! More plates! Man little guy your are looking snazzy.

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>>4523963
>>4524022
Rakks are a result of Wooly Nakks and their taller cousins interbreeding. They still spend a lot of time swimming and eating Floatids, but the Water Hu'te has made this more dangerous. Then as soon as they get onto land they must be careful of Boneslurpers. Living in the southern part of the reaches they have begun to make their homes in the nooks and crannies of void rock pillars. Here they are much safer, and they can quite easily get to Hydrabo and their Tectorius counterparts, which they have begun to rely on as a secondary food source. No longer just efficient in water, and fast on land, they've evolved to be better climbers. The Wooly Nack continue to be a problem for them, eating the Terabo on ground level en masse and having the strength to bully Rakk away from the food source, but from the rocky sides to the cieling, the Rakk can eat as much was they want without trouble.

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>>4524152
Some bone slurpers in order to dissuade their new predators from eating them have bony spikes on their backs, while that does discourage the sc'ute somewhat their cannibalistic cousins can now more easily dissolve their bones

>>4524403
The Slu'ge has diluted the water.


Oh dear god.

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>>4525921

>>4525922
Congratualations. Everything is about to become extinct.

>>4525988
it will be so dilute other creatures will just move back out of it or it will die from how dilute it is

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>>4525399
To further deter predators, the Gnomebell grows tendrils that hang down from the inside of its cap that give a small electric shock to anything that brushes up against them.

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As the 2nd era dawns The Overlord is still, a meditating body slowly being covered in Rotids and Terabos as a unknown amount of time passes by, their magical radiation leaking further and further out, until it seems to condense into clouds and storms that throw strangely mutated spores of Rotids ( >>4524657 ).

Seemingly for years these violent storms sweep through the landscape, cutting through mountains and forming lakes; few of this new strain of Rotid survives, but those that do are pushed deep into the darkest reservoirs full of unspent magic creating bright spots among the growing darkness.

The lord sleeps, and the world grows bigger.

Temperature: Average 55° F (12.77° C), Cluthian Climes = 39.5° F (4.16° C), Spindleside = 60° F (15.56° C)

Average Light Level:

Center = 17
Cluthian Climes = 4
Spindleside = 6

Newly generated clouds now cling to the ceiling, shrinking and growing with the new winds and storms, the light of the door obscured or snuffed for days at a time.

The extra magic effects all plant life, increasing the chance of magical mutations, but also increasing the chance of run-away magic (Rotids and Terabo species now have stronger magical capabilities; Creature magic has a chance to go wild, allowing any species to preform a minor version of any other species magic)

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>>4526240

A Height Map of the current world, Most clouds stick to 4km and above, and while allowing for more predictable rains, also brings less predictable weather.

Cluthian Climes now experiences minor snow storms causing Extinction Risk to creatures without: Have fur, Have fat, A solid form, Underground growth

Spindleside now experiences minor sand storms, causing Extinction Risk to creatures without: eye coverings, thick skin, burrowing ability

Every Lake and Sea area now has seasonal flooding, requiring any creature near them to have the ability to survive up to 50cm water heights on Silt beaches

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>>4526240

The newly mutated Rotid plant, the Lord's Lantid, uses the mild poison of its previous form as fuel, occasionally releasing a few spores over the course of its life time. When it no longer has the ability to produce poison, the Lantid burns from the inside out, igniting anything near it, including spores in the air nearby

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>>4525182
In order to shelter itself from more extreme environmental factors on the roof the Hydrabo has begun to cover all of the exposed body with rock usually used for sporing pods. This has simultaneously driven the slime mold to grow within the rock and emerge in other areas giving the appearance from outside of multiple Hydrabo that are actually one larger body sharing nutrients. The protected body allows it to grow into higher and colder regions upon the roof and the floor of the cavern.

>>4526240
when will we get a map of spread of roof hydrabo? but a more serious question can magic be stored in a more refined form?

>>4526240
another question. if the terabo varieties eat void-rock and the rock around the edge of the cavern is all void rock, wont the terabo eventually cause a cave in as a result of slowly expanding the cavern without creating new supports?

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>>4525678
Another wave of zomem migrate into Spindleside, competing with the Spindleside suckmem.

The large degree of plate covering accumulated by its lineage allows this species, the mozem, to weather the sandstorms of its new home; as a result, it begins to dominate sandier areas.

The mozem's adaptations are relatively minor: its plate covering has once more increased, but more importantly its neck scales have fused into a rigid structure called the "cape". By eliminating gaps between the scales, sand is kept away from the skin; erosion of the scales themselves by motion wear is also removed.

The cape also comes in handy as a defense against the suckmem's tonguelash when competing for carcasses. However, also the headplate is still unfused, the movement of the neck is greatly curtailed and so the mozem relies more on a long and dextrous tongue.

>>4526332
Honestly we only just hit a amount of them to show on the map, so I'll be posting one as soon as I can (my current drawing aid for maps is having severe issues so that might be a hot minute unfortunately)
Basically just consider the lowest places on the map with a clear view of light to be the areas they are in, like the northern passageways, Spindleside, and the south eastern area with the pillars.

If by refined you mean more concentrated pretty much all creatures store liquid magic (mana) in their body either through thaumosyntheis or eating creatures that already have mana in them; every creature currently stores it equally by dispersing it along their entire body, so the main way to increase ability/have a more complicated form of magic is to increase creature size.

>>4526345

Sure seems that way, thankfully any cave-ins would only be localized to certain areas, though it might cause some species to be isolated

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>>4524021
The lucian nakk migrates down from the Spindlemounts into Spindleside, its shaggy hair now growing long over its face, protecting its eye from windblown sand.

Also, as a result of the sexual selection for golden-haired males, both males and females are gradually shifting in colour.

>>4526247

Frogot to mention, this is basically a low key extinction event.

Around 12-18 hours or so from now I will be posting another phenology chart of what is left, expect a lot of death from this one folks

>>4526251
This is exactly how I was hoping that shroom would evolve! I notice though, it has no generation written on it. Is this a new generation 0?

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>>4526158
A new species of gnomebell emerges and quickly spreads south, into a small portion of highlands bounded by the tributaries of the Speckled Basin (for this reason this province is called the Interflume).

The innovation of the ohmbell is to incorporate the electrically-charged fibers into the outer flesh of its stem, preventing those desperate lucian nakks who simply push through their shocking curtain from feeding.

>>4526448
Note on this: I got confused between the Spindleside suckmem and the xomem, which is in the Cluthian Climes.

The Spindleside suckmem does _not_ have a poisonous tongue.

>>4526486
Yep! Any unique species introduced on a world event will be considered a gen 0, even though they evolve from a current species

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>>4524365
In the Reaches, the saltyrabo continues to evolve. This species exudes excessive salt from its stem, which encrusts the key part of the organism and makes in unpalatable to predators. Even if some other parts of the saltyrabo are eaten, it can regenerate if the stem is intact.

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>>4523532
The Therapo pod has become weaker and now tends to break into a pack of flakes with spores between each sheet. Instead of popping all in one go, it waits for the wind to pick up and become strong enough to tear the flakes off, sending them and the spores attached all around. Spreading far and wide.

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>>4526251
Some Lord's Lantids that end up in the Cluthian Climes begin adapting to the cold by turning darker and using their heat to keep the air around them warm. Downside is that with the lower temperature they burn though their reserves much faster

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>>4526448
Within the sandstorms of Spindleside the Mozem have begun to evolve more powerful jaws for ripping and tearing of flesh. With their expanding cape of scales protecting they from the sand they have begun to change from a scavenger to a predator taking down Suckmem and Lucian with powerful blows from it's head and tail. With this new more calorie dense diet the Mozem have also begun expanding in size to match their newfound ferocity.

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>>4523963
Some Wooly nakk living near the large Spindleside lake are starting to develop inflatable air bladders which combing with lower bone density allows to float on the water more easily

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>>4526329
With no competition or predation upon the roof ever larger varieties of Hydrabo develop the largest finds purchase in the highest nooks and crevices upon the cavern's roof. Using the recent deluge of magic newer hydrabo capsula have begun to utilize the magic of the Nakk to make their spores less dense than the air they float through.

>>4526473
my roof fungus shall will be the death of this cave then

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>>4524375
In order to better hunt the Wooly Nakk floating on the surface of the water near Spindleside some Hu'te become fully aquatic

>>4526541
As much as I appreciate your tenacity, I kindly ask to keep the evo pic within the frame (which you can make bigger if you need, within reason of course)

it just makes doing the phenology tree a tad easier

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>>4522702
The Notid soaks in the light and water near the center of the world, out competing slime molds and other fungi by dripping fungicides/pesticides under itself staining the earth, the dead spores and slime that collects fertilized the soil for the Notid and its spores, leaving a trail of death where ever it moves by hopping or reproducing.

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>>4523532
A mutation caused these Therapo to use some of the voidrock consumed to create their pods and spikes. After death the pods and spikes remain as food for future generations

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>>4524308

As the weather grows colder, the fleece of the Nacht continues to grow. Their ears also elongate.

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>>4524483
>>4526251

The Glomem lives around these newly evolved lantids. They’ve developed a gland where they store the flammable spores. When predators arrive, they return the highly compressed spores to regular density, causing them to billow out of their mouths in a pressurized stream. The adjacent Lampids causes the spores to ignite, allowing for very situational fire-breathing that’s incredibly effective in warding off predators.

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>>4525724
The Bone Slurper's fur now covers it's entire body

>>4526251
based

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>>4525922

A form of the Slu'ge develops a new way to use its liquidation ability. This proves to be fruitful as it allows them to turn the immediate water around them into a thick sticky slime to trap prey, they are still at risk of completely diluting themselves, to combat this the separated body will swim to and attempt to attach to the nearest swimming body

>>4526826
>based on what?
classic

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>>4525381
The Spindlemount Scu'te evolves more pointed bottom feelers that help it move around, it also develops larger flatter scales to perfect its tremor-sense as well as making a noise to scare other carnivores out of its territory

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>>4524309
The Camo slu'ge's bulb has grown more to closely resemble a Terabo and living Spindleside it has learned to harden itself, offering some protection from the sandstorms as well as making it's texture resemble dense dirt more then slime

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>>4524338
The Zoomin have developed their shells to be larger and more protective, and through a recent surge of magic they can harden their shells at will. Still just scavengers, they mostly live near the central region using their extra large tongues to eat up a lot. They can't shrink their food anymore, as it was causing them more trouble than it was worth when they had to shrink themselves too. But they have become quite the hardy little things that can roll away from danger. Their eyes also further develop, becoming larger compound eyes. This still gives them poor vision compared to others, but they don't need to blink, and they are even quite durable.

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>>4526541
>>4526661
fixed version, sorry about that

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>>4523899
The Rotid's cap changes color and texture to more closely resemble a patch of dirt. Incidentally it's new magic allows it to cover the cap with dirt

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>>4526487
The Ohmbell grows taller and longer tendrils as a way to further deter the Lucian Nakks from feasting upon its cap, as well as grows a small translucent "Pearl" at the very top of its cap in which to store the Liquid Mana that powers its newfound shock powers. The pearl itself also sends powerful jolts of as a way to deter predators, however is fragile due to its structural make-up.

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2nd Extinction event, the world is merciless

As the weather gets more extreme we see that certain biomes are starting to form ( >>4526247 ), though thankfully there are still moderate areas for the less specialized creatures.

Creatures use their newly acquired magical capabilities ( >>4526240 ) to evolve to newer heights, those that can't keep up die in droves, causing a extinction upon this still new world that it has never seen.

(Creatures can still copy a weaker version each other's abilities, but now it is limited to species that regularly interact with each other in their specific biome)

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>>4527886

The Overlord stirs, the many plants that once grew over them falling off or disintegrating into a fine mist; they look upon the once barren landscape of this void to see a thriving, if patchy, ecosystem of creatures.

They take a step forward, hearing a crunch under them, looking down they see a freshly dead disemboweled Nakk, and with curiosity overcoming them they examine the corpse for clues as to how these could have evolved from the minions they are so much more familiar with.

Every creature had two separate yet intertwined circulatory systems! The larger for blood, and a smaller for mana, certainly such a system could only get more complex and interesting from this discovery, though The Overlord wondered if these creatures even possessed enough instincts or brain-power to actually be able to use a larger mana pool, even if they did evolve one.


(Creatures can now evolve slightly more complicated magic, though they must evolve larger and more complex systems to store mana)

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>>4526251
Ditnal's uproot and float into the air, eventually escaping the reach of most that would try to eat it. They spend the last days of their lives before they burn up hovering close to the ceiling. The little floating lights at night are quite a sight.

>>4527906
Or I guess I should ask if there is a hard number for it, due to there being several different heights and I can't really see many things reaching above 3.5 km if its basic unpowered flight

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>>4526721
The voidapo grows more spikes on it's body and uses them to store unused. By tapping itno this it can make it's pod explode to both scare of any creature trying to eat it and spread it;s spores

>>4527962
*to store unused mana*

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>>4526477

The Wooliest Nakk has developed a magical mutation from proximity to the shrinking Zommem subspecies. Coupled with the massive chunk of bristles they’ve grown, they shrink their bodies slightly, becoming hairy, incredibly unpalatable hairballs, which are likely to cause impact in predators who swallow them whole.

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>>4525422 (You)
The hydrabor have completely covered the floatid and are adapting to the lack of voidrock by making lighter and weaker pods. Unfortunately because the floatid doesn't get any light to feed on neither it nor it's "passenger" live for very long

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>>4525212
fierce competition has began among the ground digging nakk against other more predatory species
and the harder to find rotids>>4527034
that hide under mounds of dirt they honestly prefer the taste and nutritional content they either dig away the dirt until the rotind exhausts itself or it waits until its force to uncover itself

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>>4528242
whoops wrong picture

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>>4526765
the small Glomem half the size of its ancestors is a fat little spore eater that licks spore bearing surfaces in crevices and gills of mushrooms or just slime puddles that it laps up with its sticky long kinda spade shaped tongue.

The reason for its success is heavy magic use in a expandable throat pouch where it puffs out a mix of density manipulated air and spores that it returns to a slightly bigger then normal size in a violently flammable even mildly explosive cloud.

but this use is quite magic heavy expanding matter beyond its natural state so they have a a work around a cheat to there magic density the lymph containing mana collecting in a abscess under the skin increasing there volume to body mass ratio of magic by expanding the circulatory system itself.

Summary they make stuff slightly larger when they expel it increasing surface area and making it lighter thus more flammable but its magic heavy so they have this abscess a cavity under there skin connected to there lymph heart to increase the volume of magic holding fluid

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>>4525447
instead of boils just soaking up excess toxins they collect inside the fluids seperating them from the body, and there tongues improved there lashing tongues filled with toxins gains a wider surface area making it much easier to sample smells from there cups and making there tongue lash so much more toxic

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>>4523566

A old species of Nakk has spent many years digging and tunneling, slowly migrating to the north.
As their front claws became larger and larger due to their density shifting magic, they spent less time underground, instead simply piling dirt and loose pebbles into small caves along the many walls in the north. Their tail has also changed to compliment this, turning into a hard club of bone to pack loose dirt and club apart spare carcasses for easier eating; every bit of calories matters when few creatures have come this far north.

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>>4526905
By putting one head of their body and other in charge of their mana the Spindlemount Sc'ute have learned to float in the air. They are less maneuverable than on the ground though and going too high means injury or even death when falling so they rarely go higher than 25 cm

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>>4524134
The Hute develops a primitive compound eye at each end, helping it find prey.
As edible creatures become bigger, so too does the Hute grow so that it may be able to engulf them.

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>>4523899
Having ended up in the Northern Passages due to spores getting stuck in the Wakk's fur (>>4523566) the Rotind grow mana sacks across the stem and develop the ability to "feed" on the cold. This is still inefficient however and if they run out of mana they will freeze to death before regaining enough to continue absorbing the cold.

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>>4526721

Voidapo that grow near Lantids have started to use the heat and light generated by them to strengthen their "roots" by growing a pseudo-bark that incorporates their void-rock 'shell' .

Meanwhile the shell itself becomes glassy as it thins, creating a dazzling reflective surface that makes it hard for would-be predators to see the main body.

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>>4526501
In order to better withstand the cold in the Northern Passages the Therapods that ended up there cover most of their "roots"in the same material their pods are made from

Quick Announcement:

24 Hours from now is going to be another Map Update as well as Phylogeny Chart Update. Feel free to throw out name ideas for the non-named parts of the map, as well as a name for the world!

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>>4524300

The Floatid has repurposed its magic to shoot small jets of water to control its direction and location of future spores. They congregate in large groups around the shore to shoot their spores into the soil, where they grow and detach back into the water.

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>>4525043
The Gulping Hu'te's heads further deviate from each other. While the right head largely stays the same, only elongating further in order to completely engulf its prey, the left head mouth is so small it is largely unidentifiable. The once thick antennae the head used to sense around itself have thinned, no longer in danger of being damage [comparatively], and become far more sensitive. A series of light sensitive patches of skin have appeared on the side of the head.

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>>4524299
With nearly all it's relative species shrinking down or staying small, the Zomammoth instead just keeps growing. It's bigger size lets it eat more, and the more it eats the heavier it gets. Being bashed into or toppled doesn't seem to work against these creatures. And even against their poisonous cousins, it takes a while for that to work it's way around such a large circulatory system. Speaking of which, both systems are very large. It's not just this creature's stomach that holds a lot, magic also collects inside this beast. Though it doesn't quite yet make the best use of all of that as it remains simple in it's life of eating.

>>4527916
Was this asking about >>4527895 ?
My knowledge of hot air balloons is minimal. But I've seen a few paper lanterns float around and then explode into fire and that's pretty cool, and what I based it on. Height... Well most of the creatures are 5cm high, so 350000cm sounds like plenty!

>>4529504
Yep! Apologies the link broke, also damn that sounds cool, I'm excited to see how that evolves

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>>4528419
A mutation brought about a 3rd head, giving it yet another set of sensory organs to help it find prey. Though it loses the nubs that it used for vibration sensing.

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>>4528405

The Spiked Hu’te develops longer, thinner spines. It develops a method of floating above prey, before releasing its magic and plummeting down to impale them.

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>>4523903
Chunky Rotids have spent so long poofing out a little bit of air over a long period of time. This breed called Liftids can't release their magic periodically like that as a film has grown over and sealed those vents. It is a fragile film though, and when disturbed or knocked over it is likely to break that seal and let all that magic out in one go! Lifitds have a single rocketing float up into the sky, distance depending on how long it's had to build up it's mana. Soaring above Spiked Spindlemount Scu'te, above Lord's Ditnal, sometimes all the way to the roof! Then once the mana runs out, they float down, releasing their spores as it parachutes slowly to safety. Or into water where it dies. Or into a Ditnal and catches fire. Or even with it's weighted bottom, it might just flip midair and rocket itself into the ground.

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>>4524308
Some Nacht develop longer legs capable of powerful jumps to help them catch low flying Ditnals (>>4527895). Unfortunately while in the air they are easy prey for >>4528405 and >>4529720

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>>4524198
the zobrak is a tiny tiny little detritivores that eats a tiny bit spores, flesh and rotten plant matter and due to its size any food lasts a long bit, likes hiding in small spaces and whos only defense is to artfully and masterfully shrink all its limbs and most of its skin and shell to become a hard and VERY heavy for its size stone colored brick with weird holes.

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>>4528633
By losing it's stem and covering all but the newest parts of it's with a shell the Therapo in the Northern Passages is not only protected from the cold but also becomes a tougher target for herbivores

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>>4527034
More successful Hydrabo have wholly separated their fruiting and vegetative bodies leaving them with 3 separate parts: the sporing stone cap, the vegetative body, and the dispersed mycelium throughout the nearby stone. The the life cycle is based on spores developing until a vegetative body forms and begins to regulate the production of reproductive organs. This diffuse system allows for the mycelium to regenerate the vegetative and reproductive body after trauma.

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>>4529068
>The Gulping Hu'te primarily eats zomem and nakk derived species that come to the waters edge to drink. The left sensory head floats above the water notifiying the right head buried in the sands near the waters edge. once told of prey the right head bursts from the sands wrapping its prey in its mouth before dragging them below the waters surface.
>Adaptations:
>The Gulping Hu'te has adapted in order to make parts of its body gaseous while other parts remain solid, the most common use of this trait is to detach its left sensory head and float it above the waters surface where it can tell the right head buried beneath the sands when prey approaches.
>The antennae of the right head have hardened and are now used to push sand away when the head buries itself beneath the sand.
>The right heads mouth flaps have split allowing for them to better grasp prey during its ambushes on land.

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>>4524443
With the coming of >>4529889 some hut'lings have no reason to grow to full size and remain tiny even as they mature

>>4530044 I think you used the wrong link

>>4530239
oh shit thanks for pointing that out
>>4530044
>>4526997
thanks again

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>>4528686
some floatids begin staying in the silt all their lives, with the help of thin, hairlike roots. They learn to extract nutrients from the silt, first because it provides an advantage in early growth but then permanently. When herbivores try to eat them, they can use their spray to make the soil around them into a sucking mud that suffocates the herbivore or scavenger, whose nutrients are then absorbed by the roots.

>>4525423
some suckmem grow smaller in response to increased competition, and begin burrowing under the now-increasing soil looking for rotting organic matter, Their legs become vestigial and eventually stop appearing altogether, and a new set of plates develops along the chest, which the burrowing suckmem uses to dig and slither through tunnels. Hidden from predators and competition, and requiring little effort to feed itself, the burrowing suckmem spread throughout the soil wherever it is deep enough to accommodate a nest chamber, which must be large enough for an adult to lay many eggs in

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>>4530381
lol forgot pic
>>4525423
some suckmem grow smaller in response to increased competition, and begin burrowing under the now-increasing soil looking for rotting organic matter, Their legs become vestigial and eventually stop appearing altogether, and a new set of plates develops along the chest, which the burrowing suckmem uses to dig and slither through tunnels. Hidden from predators and competition, and requiring little effort to feed itself, the burrowing suckmem spread throughout the soil wherever it is deep enough to accommodate a nest chamber, which must be large enough for an adult to lay many eggs in

>>4528640
you should call the lowlands south of the center and west of the big pillars the Dustbowl, since its the farthest from water and will likely accumulate a lot of sand and dust. The salt spore thing should spread there, and very sparse herds of >>4528393

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>>4527758
>>4526240
The Ohmbell uses its newfound powers to create electric jolts as a way to further the growth of their species, losing the many tendrils in favor of thicker, more powerful ones as well as growing in size in its stalk, fan, and mana pearl. During the days that the light is unobscured by the clouds, the Ohmbell simply waits and continues the status quo. When the light dims or goes dark due to the overcast however, the ohmbell will create little dancing sparks of electricity with its mana pearl to lure unknowing creatures deep into their fields. Once a creature is sufficiently inside, the Surrounding Ohmbell will electrocute the creature to death, letting its corpse decompose and absorbing its nutrients and Mana/miasma that plumes from the body into the air and soil.

>>4530612
Forgot to add:

However, the tendrils tend to be slow moving, and unless prey is sufficiently within a patch of Ohmbell, they have a decent chance of escape.
Furthermore, the electric tendrils take large amounts of mana to power, and if the Ohmbell fail to capture prey, they will take days of Thaumosynthesis/Photosynthesis to recharge the expended mana. Making them easy targets for herbivores in the area.

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>>4526501
Unlike the Northern variety that's hardier, the Sandy Therapo is notably more frail, but it's a fast grower. It thrives on the beaches north of Spindleside. Instead of using voidrock, it use the silt to grow their pods which creates even weaker petals. It does produce them more quickly though and sends it's spores out more often. So while it's head is sometimes entirely crushed by passing animals too tough for the weak spikes, it regrows after only a short while.

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>>4528297
Xomem don't need their face plates anymore, as most other creatures have gained the instincts to know to avoid it's head. And rival Xomem that try to attack it in the head are just going to feed venom into it's toxic boils. On top of this, they've evolved eyelids, which is the only protection their face really needed. So instead, face licking has become a sort of social activity for these creatures.

These creatures have remained fairly small in size, mostly only attacking when the target they've found is already injured or weak. They still smell around for dead bodies to scavenge, or eggs to steal. If they are unlucky to get into a fight with a healthy enemy they do have a new strategy. By shaking it's head rapidly left and right it flicks up a cloud of their stored venom, coating everything close to it in the stuff.

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>>4529720

The Spiked Scu'te Develops fins to better aide in it's mobility while floating. This allows them to better maneuver while in the air to become more accurate in both catching >>4529762
mid jump and in impaling prey on the ground.

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The world grows indiscriminately as larger and larger groups and individuals of Therabo eat away at the walls and ceiling, to the point that cracking sounds of loose void-stone become a familiar sound as thunder is to rainstorms.

Until one day, a deafening crack rings out, and the world shakes as humongous chunks of the ceiling comes crashing down and scattering along the South and East, creating both a large chain of mountains to the east of the Cluthian and revealing a previously hidden cave to the south-east.

The Gated Marsh is a newly uncovered area, it sits at midland height and has lots of strangely squared cliffs and tunnels carved into the wall leading nearly up to the ceiling. This area also posses unique volcanic vent lakes and ponds that both heat the water and air, which makes up for its near complete darkness due to it being blocked from the direct light of The Door.

The Cluthian Climes has gained much more land, most of it being rocky high-land mountains and a a few stalagmite pillars; the spread of Lantid species has created a few growth-zones in the lowlands, but the current species will need to adapt to grow into the Mid and Highlands as they get steadily colder.


Temperature, Light Level, Weather:

Average: 60 - 49° F (° C) , Light Level: 17, Rain, occasional fog

Cluthian Climes: 42 - 34° F (° C) , Light Level: 5, Regular Snow and Hailstorms

Spindleside: 63 - 55° F (° C) , Light Level: 6, Sandstorms and Flooding, occasional rain

Interflume: 68 - 58.6° F (° C) , Light Level: 12, Frequent Rain

Dustbowl: 78 - 65° F (° C) , Light Level: 15, Frequent Dust storms, rare rain

Gated Marsh: 75 - 70° F (° C) , Light Level: 1, Fog and Rain

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>>4531242

The Terabo species have made quick work of colonizing the ceiling, though they can't quite get a handle on the area above the Clouds (around +3.5-4km) due to the constant wind and increasing smoothness. Strangely it seems that the more Therapo grow and break down the void the stronger the clouds become, creating more extreme and far reaching weather.

(Any creature that evolves in a specialized environment must adapt for the weather in said environment or must evolve to move out of it, any creature that fails to do so will become extinct)
Seasonal Flooding around bodies of water increases in height from 50 cm to 1 meter

Creatures under 5cm in the Cluthian climes must evolve a way to keep warm (burrowing, pack warming, fat deposits ect) or become extinct.

Creatures over 5cm in both Spindle-side and Dustbowl must have ways to keep cool (less fur, water reserves, larger extremities, ect) or become extinct.
(Therapo species between 3- 2km on the ceiling experience less efficient thaumosynthesis due to clouds siphoning it from the air, while the Therapo species on the floor experience increased growth as magic is redistributed to the lower region through rain)


(The increased size of the area allows creatures to evolve up to 20cm, this does not apply to Mycelium)

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Era 3 Therabo Phylogeny Chart

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Era 3 Rotid Phylogeny Chart

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Era 3 Nakk Phylogeny Chart

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Era 3 Hu'te Phylogeny Chart

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Era 3 Zomem Phylogeny Chart

>>4531242
Also feel free to suggest more area names and also a name for the world itself, because I feel like void-world is a bit too on the nose even if it is accurate.

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>>4525224
keeps itself warm with a dark thicc but mostly just air filled mantle held up by air preassure and several internal stems

>>4531287
Don't have a name for the world but how about calling the two lakes Lake Spindle and Lake Cluth?

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>>4530044
>>4531273
Hydrabo have developed thaumo-sensitive feelers on their surface and larger retractable organs responsible for gathering more ambient magic. The control of these organs is controlled by a more advanced vegetative body and a simplistic chemical brain. This simple brain regulates its primitive macro-circulatory system and is able to delay reproductive actions until weather is most amicable. Further protection has also developed around exposed body proportions.

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>>4525707
Rakk continue to hone their climbing abilities, slowly evolving longer and more muscular arms and legs to keep them climbing longer, as well as a longer "beak" to pluck more strongly rooted Terabo.

Their ears also evolve to allow for greater range of motion to better hone in on any potential predators or Nack that seek to bully them out of areas.

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>>4524657

Retids that grow on the rocky midlands have developed a larger main bulb to decrease its chances of being dislodged, increasing the size of its base up to 300%

They also grow multiple stalks to increase chances of survival when encountering a predator, as well as using its puffs of air to shake its caps menacingly, spreading the immature yet incredibly fowl smelling spores in the area around it.

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>>4531544
The Climbing Rakk realizes it can save energy and become more efficient at getting to Rooted Terabo by evolving webs along its exterior limbs, allowing the flaps of skin to catch the wind and help them glide from one rocky summit to another.

>>4531697
we getting pseudo birds soon?

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>>4526508
The Mozem have migrated out of Spindleside to get away from the scorching heat and in search of larger amounts of prey. They would find a new home in the bustling Reaches with their tail evolving to act s their singular magical organ channeling all the mana they consume into a weapon that shrinks those it smacks again. By shrinking down creatures they hunt to a small size it makes them easier for the Mozem to feast on.

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>>4524492
>>4524338
A Slu'ge had caught a Zoomin. However, due to the Zoomin's desperate attempt at using its magic, they've somehow fused. The slime on its skin now serves as camouflage and is hardier than usual Sluges; a surprisingly effective way to keep body temperature within their bodies, especially in their shell. It doesn't have any property of the Slu'ge other than that.

>>4531759
or atleast bat monsters that glide and swim after climbing

>>4532397
probably anon

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>>4523899
In some rare cases this mushroom gets magically shrunk down, and then left alone. Allowed to slowly regrow over time back to it's normal size, that magic lingered in them. The Grotind has evolved to use Zomem magic to make anything that ingests it or it's spores to become twice as big. This does not give the Grotind better chances of survival against the creature, but it does do a great job of causing every other nearby grazing creature to scatter in a panic, protecting the majority of the other Grotinds.

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>>4531241
The Spiked Spindlemount Scu'te feelers garden into some kind of grabber fangs and it starts using it's tongue to sense prey

>>4532666
*harden

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>>4531697
Despite the occasionally beneficial flooding, the climbing Rakk still must go through a lot of predators to get to their land bound foods. They survive much better sticking above ground, their diet of hydrabo spores becoming a main resource for them. A sub species that doesn't touch ground has formed to take better advantage of their cliffside home, changing their webbed feet into cloven hooves. These are the Nook Nakk, and the food on the cieling is entirely theirs for the taking! Though their yummy spores are plentiful, the Nook Nakk has a habit of eating the entire hydrabo pods. Having forgotten how to alter their bone density from lack of use after becoming naturally very light, they instead use their magic to aid in digestion.

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>>4528440
The Rotice warms its cap melting the snow, This heated water drips down and freezes into ice this leeches more heat from it then snow thus resulting in a constant regulating of its temperature kinda like sweating when they become too warm,This ice even protects them keeping there cap in place from wind and the weight of the snow.

in summary it melts snow when it has become to insulated by it so it can continue feeding on the cold forming a protective shell around its stem

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>>4530239

Some Hut'lings have evolved to use their magic on the environment instead of themselves, resulting in the Hutl'. After tuning into nearby prey with their extended fins they will create a pocket of less dense earth for it to fall into. The only problem is that one individual has a very small reserve of magic, requiring multiple individuals to work together to trap larger prey or hosts.

>>4533896
Forgot to mention that this species only works together for hunting, they are still solitary for everything else

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>>4531316
These Rotid pump more and more air into themselves with each generations, using the extra energy generated by its light production to create a very light warming effect throughout its "bulb". It gets to a point that it becomes slightly see-through, allowing you to see its internal stems

It also has extra nodules that grow on its base to store more mana, allowing Ball Rotids to continue to create passive heat even when they get completely covered by snow.

>>4531387
just realized this should be gen 8

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>>4530989

Some of the Sandy Therapo of Spindle side managed to have a few of their spore flakes end up in dust-bowl, after a few generations of those descendants trying to survive they developed a technique to survive the high heat and constant dust.

During the periods of low dust or rain, the layers of the pod will open, exposing one of the few slimy, Thaumosynthesis capable areas on this creature, allowing it to store up quantities of mana without drying out or having its mana evaporate back into the air. Then when the dust kicks back up it closes these carapace covered appendages and spits out any stuck dust with a gentle movement of the layers

Alright I'm done for now, enjoy evolving stuff everyone

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>>4531387
To minimize the loss of resources the reproductive bodies in some Hydrabo have shrunk and become less noticeable and resource demanding to grow.

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>>4531387
To better absorb magic stalks lined with branching filaments designed to gather magic and water developed with the actual sporing pod sitting on the very end slightly separated from the stalk's rocky exterior. Slightly larger and more developed roots have also developed from the base of the exposed surface bodies.

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>>4531387
Some Hydrabo have developed sticky grasping tendrils used to seize
>>4533023
Nook Nakks before pulling them up into a cavity within some reproductive bodies. Once inside The captured animal is digested and used as supplementary nutrition to begin a reproductive cycle of spore production.