Other Prey Races

One thing in particular that I like about Felarya is the whole dimensional connectivity thing. How it's linked to an infinite number of other universes. I mean, the way it's set up, it opens so many possibilities. But the thing is, I'm a bit saddened that there have been no real sentient life besides humans, nekos, and smaller versions of the predators. In a infinite multi-verse, I believe that there are more forms of sentient life than just that. Not everything needs to be humanoid either, though I recognize the need for identifying with characters, and that's harder with things that are physically opposite. So I still think humans should be the dominant, most numerous race in Felarya. But let's think of what other small, edible (or not, maybe a race that evolved to be poisonous to ward off predators in their own dimension or something) sentient 'aliens' that may have made their way to Felarya en masse.

Well it's not only limited to human and nekos or whatever, anything smaller than the predator and not his kin is considered food. And this is generally, some predators doesn't bother about eating his kin, that can be good, but I usually frown upon this because sometime, people make characters like that on purpose. What it may lead to is characters with no morale to prevents them to be used by noobs to bash another character just because he doesn't like it, and without morale to keep them at bay, it's technically in their nature. My favorite character in this category is Aya, she's a potential threat to other characters, but only when she reaches her hunger limit, in fact she almost ate Crisis once. What we got here is that in order to uses her to bash another character because you seriously fails at life, you need a plot device, and you can't have it makes sense unless you create a paradox; you'll have to have her reach her limits on purpose when she could have easily picked a fruit along the way.

But other alien humanoid life forms can do the trick; I made one that warps every few odd years in my sixth chapter. You just have to create them, human and nekos are the most common, the others are seldom seen, and only by reading the wiki will you find that minor races and other animals can be part of the food chain. Fairies are for the most part left alone by most predators because they can size-shift to huge proportions, and trust me, it really sucks to die by having your stomach blows up like a balloon. But they are vulnerable if you can suck their magic, but then again there's risks that this ability was given on a character on purpose. Only race I don't think can be hunted are Dryads, for the obvious reason that they are rooted in the ground, and giving a character the ability to uproot them might have been put on purpose.

To make a story short, every small creatures are potential preys, no matter their race. But having a giant creature able to eat another giant one needs to have a good medium to avoid it being targetted by noobs.

Aye. All that's true. I think I was a bit vague. What I meant was for people to come up with human sized races that may be the dominant life form on some other planet or dimension or something and has come to Felarya. I can't think of any myself, and I wanted to see if anyone had any good ideas.
For example, look at the myriad of races in, say, Star Wars. Mon Calamari, Bothan, Sullustian, etc. It seems like when a portal opens to another world, a human comes out. Why not something else?

If you read chapter 6 in my story, I made a new alien prey that warps every few odd years in Felarya, and they are humanoid.

Yep. I did read that. Although they really weren't that sentient. Just aggressive. And they aren't real inhabitants of Felarya, since they only appear rarely, and are immediately eaten.

Still, you forget that humans are in the Common races, the others are in the minor or the mundane. The problem with having an alien come out that is not human is that they are based on something else and not enough on an original idea; it might turn into a crossover, and most of the time, crossovers are very awkward.

Well I don't mean stealing alien ideas. In fact, I'm just using the word alien as just meaning 'not human.' So yeah, humans will be the most common. They are everywhere in Felarya, and are eaten most often. Though I doubt every human from every dimension refer to themselves as humans. The aliens don't need to be based on anything. They are just something that aren't human, but are about the same size and intelligence.

This is a nice idea I think ^_^

It makes sense and Variety is always welcome

I thought of this last night. XD

The rain was coming down harder now, and the traveler looked for shelter from the storm. Seeing a cave in between two trees, he rushes into it. Sighing in relief, the strange humanoid looks around the cave he found. Strange stones protruded from the floor and ceiling, and the cave seemed to extend further. A warm breeze came from the back of the cave. Using the intuition that made him so famous, Admiral Ackbar gasped. "It's a trap!" He yelled as Drayla's mouth closed around him.

But Mon Calamarians aside, I actually have an idea for another prey race. A rough idea that I'll expand upon later today, but here's the basics. I'll probably come up with a better name too.

Isliads

A race of winged humanoids from a dimension consisting only of vast skies and numerous floating 'islands' (And a healthy dose of magic of course). Isliads stand a little taller than a human, and from are easily mistaken for angels. However, isliads are as morally varied as humans, and the first clue one isn't an angel is usually when it flees leaving you alone with a predator, or some other less than angelic act. Angels view the isliads as 'cute,' and are able to tell the difference between themselves and the isliads. Many isliads have moved to Felarya in search of riches, and the sight of one flying overhead is becoming a more and more frequent sight. Able to fly away from most predators, and out fly many others, their only real dangers in Felarya are harpies.

Another idea real quick:

Anxotle

A race of chitinous humanoids. Smaller than a human, but with four powerful arms these insectoid aliens are disconcerting to say the least. In place of a mouth, they have mandibles, and they have four slitted black pupil less eyes. Small vestigial wings twitch on their back whenever they are excited, frightened or angry. Despite their decidely creepy appearance, the anxotle are actually very docile and intelligent herbovores. The anxotle are incredibly magic resistant and as such have an intense disbelief of anything involving magic. They tend to make up explanations to explain away any magic phenomena. Their main purpose for coming to Felarya is to expand their knowledge of the multiverse. They live in fairy infested areas because anywhere else, they are regared as a particularly squirmy snack, but fairies tend to avoid them since their shrinking magic has no effect.

Ack, will have to finish this one up later too.
EDIT: There we go!

The other thing that should distiguish an Isliad is the absense of Halo.

I like the Isliads idea

The idea of a "fake" angel is interesting and it's nice to think about the harpies of Felarya XD

Sean Okotami wrote:

The other thing that should distiguish an Isliad is the absense of Halo.

Gah! I didn't think of that! Um... Umm... Wait a minute... Who says all angels have halos? There are more than one kind of angel, and some don't have halos.

Karbo wrote:

I like the Isliads idea
The idea of a "fake" angel is interesting and it's nice to think about the harpies of Felarya XD

I know right! The poor harpies, always having to swoop down to eat humans on the ground. Isliads are convieniantly in the sky already. Not to mention they're much cleaner and more tasty! Or so the harpies say. And only harpies can catch a fleeing isliad. Nothing else can fly fast enough. ^^

Silent_eric wrote:

Sean Okotami wrote:

The other thing that should distiguish an Isliad is the absense of Halo.

Gah! I didn't think of that! Um... Umm... Wait a minute... Who says all angels have halos? There are more than one kind of angel, and some don't have halos.

Karbo wrote:

I like the Isliads idea
The idea of a "fake" angel is interesting and it's nice to think about the harpies of Felarya XD

I know right! The poor harpies, always having to swoop down to eat humans on the ground. Isliads are convieniantly in the sky already. Not to mention they're much cleaner and more tasty! Or so the harpies say. And only harpies can catch a fleeing isliad. Nothing else can fly fast enough. ^^

Did you forget Sphinxes? They are Harpies' rival as the dominant avian race.

That's true. But somehow, I don't see them as being as fast in the air as a harpy. Same thing with fairies. As I see it, harpies have the raw speed, fairies have the manuverabiity, and sphinxes have the power and stamina. At least in terms of flying attributes.