Wood Elves
Often mistakenly used synonymously with "wild elf", the term "wood elf" only refers to elves of the Alphorian colonies on the Foringean continent. Historically it has been used of colonists that used to build their houses primarily from wood and tended to live close to or even surrounded by forests. Though the term has never been in official use in the empire, it does seem to be wholly elven in origin, only later adopted by humans.
Wood elves are mostly descended from lowborn elves that moved to the continent to gain more freedoms, even pardons from criminal charges, afforded to those that willingly became colonial pioneers. Some also share mixed heritage with elves that had been exiled from Alpharion during the Cold Aion, before the forming of the first colonies. Those few survivors and their descendants that were willing to reintegrate to the empire passed on valuable survival information to the newcomers, though for a large part they were written out from
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The most areteic Alphorians, termed highborn, function as the privileged ruling class of Alphorian society, similar to the nobility of human cultures. However they only have to prove their lack of detrimental or undesirable goblinistic traits to be counted among the highborn, even if their parents were not. Thus high elves are less a people and more a social caste, although this is often lost to non-Alphorians.
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High elves are stereotypically tall (6-7 ft) and slender, the males lacking obvious masculine features of most human populations such as facial hair, a protruding brow or prominent jawline. Indeed there is little sexual dimorphism present beyond obvious sexual characteristics. This feminization of features has been explained with Elven beauty standards, but is probably equally as much a side effect of mildly goblinistic traits which have been adopted as the new normal due to their ubiquity in the population. This mild goblinization also explains
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To combat the goblinization of the populace a new policy was formulated to screen newborns and youths for harmful mutations. Those deemed 'areteic', i.e. free of negative goblinistic traits, were given special place in society but were obligated to only marry other areteics and produce at least five children, two of whom had to be areteic themselves. Those with non-severe of goblinism were either given limited options to marr
The history of the Elven race is intimately tied with the Alphorian nation. Arguably one would not exist without the other.
At the end of the War of Ruin, most of the surviving Andirite mages took refuge on the island of Alpharion and transformed it into a safe haven by erecting an enormous magical force field known as the Aegis Megas. Unfortunately the Aegis together with the fallout of the war exposed the inhabitants of nascent Alphoria to constant high levels of background magic, which lead to an epidemic of goblinistic mutations.
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Is it smiling because that is how its species expresses happiness, or is it trying to mimic human expression in order to appear less threatening? Whatever the case, I'm not sure it's having the intended effect.
This was just a bit of an experiment, maybe something more refined will come of it in the future, maybe not.
This was just a bit of an experiment, maybe something more refined will come of it in the future, maybe not.
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What could a maximally realistic mermaid that didn't completely do away with the classic fish-tailed anatomy look like? It wouldn't be a hominid but probably a tailed primate that had lost its hindlimbs while adapting to a watery element and developed human-like features convergently. It would have a layer of blubber to protect from heat loss in water but probably no hair, likely webbed hands but with prehensile thumbs for using tools to crack open shellfish, nostrils with flaps that seal them while underwater and large eyes to see better in the deep. Something like this model I started working for #mermay 2018 but couldn't get to a presentable shape until this may.
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Sapient Duck
Behold, the logical endpoint of Disney live-action remakes: live-action Donald Duck!
I got the idea for this from watching Guardians of the Galaxy, where Howard the Duck gets a mini cameo, and that got me thinking of how you could keep the look of the huge oval Disney-eyes in a more realistic interpretation of the character. I guarantee you, this is not the direction Disney is ever likely to take, but it could have worked for the old school look of Howard.
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I have been approached with offers to do creatures for Magestone by several people now. This seems to have all started because my friend form Speculative Dinosaur Project times Pristichampsus had done some spec-evo D&D critters as Magestone fan-art, and asked me what he should do with them. Now, I have always intended Magestone to remain strictly a personal project, but seeing as he had already put a lot of effort into it and the monsters he had chosen were ones I was unlikely to spend much energy on anyway, I reviewed them and noted which ones could plausibly be part of the Magestone canon, and Tim posted those in his gallery.
This was, however, a one-time thing. As much as I like collaborating with other spec evo-creators, I don't want to hand over the keys to the Magestone kingdom to anyone else, especially while I myself am indisposed. When I am healthy enough to resume working on Magestone again, I will be open to ideas and suggestions as before, but everything will have to filter through my brain and my hand to get in.
This was, however, a one-time thing. As much as I like collaborating with other spec evo-creators, I don't want to hand over the keys to the Magestone kingdom to anyone else, especially while I myself am indisposed. When I am healthy enough to resume working on Magestone again, I will be open to ideas and suggestions as before, but everything will have to filter through my brain and my hand to get in.
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