General Q and A

Jasconius wrote:

Now here is a question of my own. Due chlaenas and their cousins die after reproducing like with most cephalopods, or do they simply continue living? Also involving this, due they produce eggs/egg sacs (though each containing only one offspring) or do they live birth?

(I can't be the only one here who thought of that Futurama episode involving Dr Zoidberg.)

I don't think that they should. That kind of thing makes culture very difficult, as who's going to raise and teach the young? The ones who weren't good enough to find a mate, that's who.

Ok I'm unsure where to bring this up so I'm putting it here.

Whats the height on Scorpisaïs? Its not given in the wiki. Also should ideas on them be put under the dridder and centaur forum? Do to the fact the Dridders are Half human or elf and half spider while a Scorpisaïs is half human half scorpion, and scorpions are the primitive cuisines of spiders both in the arachnid family. So would it make seance to have them in the same forum as the dridder?

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Now here is a question of my own. Due chlaenas and their cousins die after reproducing like with most cephalopods, or do they simply continue living? Also involving this, due they produce eggs/egg sacs (though each containing only one offspring) or do they live birth?

I don't think it's ever been officially addressed, but I would image they do not die after reproducing. Some animal traits just don't carry over to the hybrids. Its like how female Mantoids don't eat the male ones after mating (since they are the same size, that would be kinda tough). That's not even totally true in nature anyway.

As for the type...I imagine it would be either an egg or egg sac. Probably an egg sac containing one to three kids. I don't think any of that has been brought up before, so its more personal opinion than anything.

rcs619 wrote:

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Now here is a question of my own. Due chlaenas and their cousins die after reproducing like with most cephalopods, or do they simply continue living? Also involving this, due they produce eggs/egg sacs (though each containing only one offspring) or do they live birth?

I don't think it's ever been officially addressed, but I would image they do not die after reproducing. Some animal traits just don't carry over to the hybrids. Its like how female Mantoids don't eat the male ones after mating (since they are the same size, that would be kinda tough). That's not even totally true in nature anyway.

As for the type...I imagine it would be either an egg or egg sac. Probably an egg sac containing one to three kids. I don't think any of that has been brought up before, so its more personal opinion than anything.

Octopuses have their babies in "pillars" of rows and rows of tiny eggs the females keep around and oxygenate. I could see chlaenas doing something like that

Slimetoad wrote:

Octopuses have their babies in "pillars" of rows and rows of tiny eggs the females keep around and oxygenate. I could see chlaenas doing something like that

I figured something like that too. I guess most chlaenas and their relatives are good parents.... save for the kraken caelias. When one has a mother with a massive appetite and no concept of feeling "full", and a bunch of children which have the same traits swimming around her... well I figure the young head out on their own rather early after being born...




Another question involving these cephalopod-taurs, seeing as they have no bones whatsoever, wouldn't any blow to the head be extremely dangerous as it would damage their unprotected brains as they lack a skull?

The damage caused by a blow to the head would probably depend greatly on just how fragile their brains are. If they were relatively inflexible like a human's is, then I could see a head blow being fatal, but if their brains are more resilient, like muscle tissue is, then a blow to the head would probably not do much damage.

this was ignored re posting my quetion -_-

Whats the height on Scorpisaïs? Its not given in the wiki. Also should ideas on them be put under the dridder and centaur forum? Do to the fact the Dridders are Half human or elf and half spider while a Scorpisaïs is half human half scorpion, and scorpions are the primitive cuisines of spiders both in the arachnid family. So would it make seance to have them in the same forum as the dridder?

To answer, I think they probably have the same height variations as a dridder. So giant-sized to human-sized.

Ok thanks but should they be listed in with dridders cause there related?

Well, scorpisaïs and dridders don't need to be related, even if in real life scorpions and spiders are both arachnids. It's like saying that all tauric species should be related with humans in anyway, since they're half-human in appearance.

Unless, of course, someone says they share a common ascendancy.

Feadraug wrote:

Well, scorpisaïs and dridders don't need to be related, even if in real life scorpions and spiders are both arachnids. It's like saying that all tauric species should be related with humans in anyway, since they're half-human in appearance.

Unless, of course, someone says they share a common ascendancy.

Actruy i always asumed that most tauric races sheared a anseterl link with human thats why thy can mate with them in fact if one looked hard anuff they could find blood relations betwin humans and say a naga or centaur for exsample. So i think ther is sheared anceter to them and human maybe even with faeries and elves too some where in felaryas past.

Humans can have intercourse with human sized taurs and hybrids, but I'm pretty sure the union will not produce anything.
(harpies, possibly fairies and elves are an exception)

Truthfully I'm surprised tauren human relations haven't been explored more and in Greek history centaurs often had children with human lovers with rule that race fallowed the parents gender. example if a human male and a female naga have a kid fallowing that rule if its a girl it be a naga like her mother but a boy would be human.

Also if a human and giant can have a kid witch has happened i think then there is no reason why giant tauren or others couldn't have a kid with "Normal" sized mates or humans.

(lol) I think with me here felarya genetics and zoology will be investigated far closer......

dragonjaj wrote:

Truthfully I'm surprised tauren human relations haven't been explored more and in Greek history centaurs often had children with human lovers with rule that race fallowed the parents gender. example if a human male and a female naga have a kid fallowing that rule if its a girl it be a naga like her mother but a boy would be human.

Also if a human and giant can have a kid witch has happened i think then there is no reason why giant tauren or others couldn't have a kid with "Normal" sized mates or humans.

(lol) I think with me here felarya genetics and zoology will be investigated far closer......

First of all, giants and human-sized creatures cannot have kids. Their size difference makes their genetic material incompatile, not to mention the species difference. It just doesn't work. Can there be love between a giant and a human? Sure. Could they find ways to express this? Yep. Express it physically? Yep. But no children would come out of it.

Second of all, a copy of what I said about this subject in another thread...

"For the most part, no. Humans and non-humans cannot crossbreed.

Harpies are one of the exceptions because they are all female. Its just how their race has always reproduced. They mate with a male of similar size and compatible genitals, and if they get pregnant, something in their genetics overrides the male's genes and makes the child a female Harpy.

As for other species crossbreeding, no, most cannot. These are different species, and like in nature, different species cannot crossbreed except for the occaisional exception. They can still mate for recreation or love, but they aren't going to get a kid out of it.

The only real exceptions may be a human/elf or human/fairy combination. Honestly, I think fairies, given their innate wierdness, wouldn't be able to crossbreed with humans, but they are probably the closest to humans after Elves. I also think that Neko and Inu would be too different for it to be possible, but that's just personal opinion.

The other "exception", and I use this term loosely considering that no actual sex is involved, is how fairies can crossbreed with Elementals to produce various fairy/elemental hybrid species (Storm Sprites, Dusk Nymphs, Frost Sprites, etc). Since no one is going to have sex with an electric/darkness/ice monster (and given the extremely magical nature of fairies), it is likely that these matings are of a purely magical nature, instead of being physical like it is with most other species.

Also, given how rare elementals actually are, I imagine that fairy/elemental matings are not that common, and that nearly all new hybrid fairies are born from the mating of two other hybrids (two Storm Sprites having a kid, for example)." - rcs619

Ok i understand you did leaft out dragons some thing in ther blood lets them mate with any thing that has a pluse and git kids but ther uber magic. (i think more so then faeries in some ways)

Also deamon and devil can bread with anything that has free will. So there in there too.

dragonjaj wrote:

Ok i understand you did leaft out dragons some thing in ther blood lets them mate with any thing that has a pluse and git kids but ther uber magic. (i think more so then faeries in some ways).

In some fantasy worlds that might be so, but it doesn't mean it's true in Felarya.

dragonjaj wrote:

Also deamon and devil can bread with anything that has free will. So there in there too.

The wiki says nothing about this. I'd imagine it's possible for incubi and succubi, since that's their thing, but for other demons? No.



Also, everyone please try to keep to the 'one question at a time' rule.

LOL i missed that rule.

Speaking of Succubi, something has been bothering me with their name. If males are Incubi and females are Succubi, shouldn't they have a race name? It just didn't make sense that the race is named solely after the female, unless of coarse the Incubi and Succubi are two separate one gendered races.

Cubi is the race name

Im working a story that starts in Lamina but whats weast of there?

Apparently, angels and demons take souls to an afterlife that's based off of that whatever religion that particular soul practiced in life. So what happens if you believe in reincarnation?

I don't like the idea of seperate afterlives for each religion. I'd rather have every good person go to the same generic paradise and be glad they're not being tormented in Hell. I'm a not so devout christian while my wife is a very strict budhist. It would suck if we went to seperate after lives. That idea needs some work.

As for believers in reincarnation, that's another belief that runs into problems. I suppose they could always be reincarnated in Felarya, maybe even come back as a predator. o.O

dragonjaj wrote:

Cubi is the race name

They're a race of stainless steel sculptures made up of cubes, rectangles, and cylinders?

Jasconius wrote:

dragonjaj wrote:

Cubi is the race name

They're a race of stainless steel sculptures made up of cubes, rectangles, and cylinders?

No Cubi is the race name for sccubis and inccubis at least the name i heard use to refer to both.

gt500x wrote:

I don't like the idea of seperate afterlives for each religion. I'd rather have every good person go to the same generic paradise and be glad they're not being tormented in Hell. I'm a not so devout christian while my wife is a very strict budhist. It would suck if we went to seperate after lives. That idea needs some work.

As for believers in reincarnation, that's another belief that runs into problems. I suppose they could always be reincarnated in Felarya, maybe even come back as a predator. o.O

Not liking an idea isn't grounds for changing it. Offering multiple endings allows for variety and compromise - if you both want to go to the same one, then choose to worship the same. If not, visitation rights are allowed between certain dimensia.... and barring that, well, out of luck. Something else that plagues most Felaryan visitors.