Next pair of attacks for @dimespin and @solanadotexe !!!
Anonymous asked:
where do alligator hydras fall taxonomically?
Roughly speaking they are a descendant of stem-turtles - they’re basically big turtles that never developed a full true shell
ALTUpdated Fitz and Fen ref sheet
Anonymous asked:
are there saratoan identical twins? if so how are they socially perceived?
Saratoan coloration isn’t genetic and is pseudo-random, with magic trying to make members of families not match in hue - so Saratoan identical twins aren’t the same color. Usually the tell is that they have the exact same face shape/ear shape/eye color/hair color/hairline type.
Many notice the identical ears but it’s just a small curiosity. It doesn’t have the same impact when one can be bright yellow and the other dark blue, or one can have stripes and the other checkerboard.
Twins in certain social positions in their culture can be a formidable force, because they are understood to be exactly the same age they are often given the exact same amount of power in certain roles - if they get along well and can coordinate it can make them a little bit terrifying to deal with.
For example heads of household like PenWell and FateLock generally have to deal with managing their social power alone, maintaining key relationships both within the house and with other families and legal entities and at that age with failing health it’s easy to get into situations where others conspire against you, or work behind the scenes to undermine you and turn you into a powerless figurehead to the house’s power dynamic.
Two strongly allied people in the same role can work together on such matters and to younger people in their houses it can feel like there’s always at least one of them in your business, and like they somehow hear about every goddamn thing. Two people can talk to more people and maintain more relationships, creating the feeling like everyone in and outside the house is already on their side before you even try anything.
Of course this is assuming they get along and are willing and able to share a social position - not all are, and regardless of identical genetics, will move on to different social roles and/or careers.
tattinglacework asked:
Would it be within the realm of social niceties for saratoans to dominance smile when showing their younger siblings memes? I figured it would be—and it’s very funny to me to go “come precious younger sibling 😃 i shall teach something very important 😃 who woulge? Dinner it is my firecracker mouse”
I think it is just very very neat how there is this species specific body language that implies so much!
Absolutely the ideal scenario for a dominance smile haha
ALTAnd thank you!
Anonymous asked:
wait. but. where did wax get money.
He busks - singing on the street for tips. Also sometimes he steals shhh
His diet is primarily prey in the magic ecosystem but he supplements it with the processed sugary food magiphages love so much by buying it with busking tips or just directly begging for it - and he usually offers to sing in return since he has a beautiful singing voice.
ALTMoment I thought of while thinking about - so if a creature is magically fully fluent in a language from birth does that mean they are familiar with all the concepts too or can they be ignorant of a concept and if so what happens when they hear a word and concept they weren’t previously aware of?
tattinglacework asked:
Do HyssopFall and AtlasKind know that the spell failed because the magic pigment didn’t give it an entry point? Because you wrote that AtlasKind gave himself that wound on purpose and I’m wondering if it’s because they realized what happened or only knew a wound for some reason was needed.
To them it’s the best theory but they lack the absolute certainty I can indulge in as the author.
They discuss it every few years and propose alternate hypotheses all the time, because neither of them accepts that explanation as gospel.
It’s the logical basis of Atlas’s spell, but he questions if it didn’t turn out right because it’s logic was off base and lead magic down an alternate path that the first spell didn’t follow.
Spellwriting is like when you leave a social interaction overthinking what someone said and why they’d say that, except you can’t ask for clarification - just having to deal with that ambiguity forever because coming up with a reasonable explanation doesn’t necessarily rule out some batshit reason because the “person” in question does things for weird reasons in addition to logical ones.
Which is frustrating for them since it’s their job to know for sure how a spell will perform when activated.
This is how their master overworked himself into a heart attack haha
Anonymous asked:
Whats your thought process when creating magiphages? What are magic's thoughts? Why the name magiphage? Im so interested in your work its so fun to read through!
My brain kinda just wants to create strange whatsits sometimes, magiphages are one of the things I end up doing with a weird idea once I’ve had it - when I make magiphages on purpose I try to recreate the circumstances under which I had the spontaneous ideas, taking sort of random objects and creatures to take inspiration from. Sometimes those ideas then need further refinement because I have to make them a little bit functional as animals, because of the way I defined how magiphages live in the setting.
Magic thinks about everything to some degree, it observes and records the natural world and connects and combines those things haphazardly. If you mean what are its thoughts as like, a physical substance, it’s a form of magic with encoded information.
“Magi” for magic, “phage” meaning “eat” - magic eaters. They get that name because one of the only traits they universally share is their appetite for magic.
Anonymous asked:
What kinds of ear shapes do saratoan media tend to focus on as the beauty standard? You mentioned that and now I'm deeply curious about marsupial beauty standards
The beauty standard is for larger ears with more ornate shapes - ie, deeper “cut-outs” and larger protrusions of the webbing, with a smooth clean exterior edge between each ray (the finger-like protrusions). It’s also preferred for the ray tips to extend beyond the webbing or have sections free of any webbing.
It’s preferred for the color gradient to be smooth, the colors saturated and to run across as many tones as possible.
Pretty ears are of course not the only thing judged, there’s also plenty of opinions on things like noses and bodies and tails and hair and teeth etc., ears are just their most obvious bird of paradise “yes they did this to themselves by wanting their partners to look like this”
Here’s a girl who probably gets scouted by modeling agencies.
