Scorpisaï expansion

Well with all the talk that has been going on with the nemesis, I thought that perhaps some of the other minor species could use some elaboration. For those of you not familiar with the Scorpisaïs here is a copy of their wiki entry:

Scorpisaïs wiki entry:

Now then one trait that I hate to see in any species are weapon traits, to me they make no sense, especially in a species that (being based off of scorpions) are solitary. This prevents them from making any form of complicated weapons as they lack the society for individuals to specialize in different tasks (the miner, the smith, ect). At best they could find a tree and break off a branch, somehow make some rope, and find a sharp rock to sharpen said branch or tie several sharpened rocks the end of the branch assuming that it splits. Now I'm not saying that communities wouldn't exist, but I would assume that they would be rare in this species due to their aggressive nature, and in a species that is already rare stumbling upon one would be highly unlikely.

As for how the species mother their children I would expect it to be similar to how scorpions do. The young ones are born alive (scorpions eggs hatch inside the mother) and as they fall out they are prompted by the mother to climb on her back. The babies are highly venerable and require their mother to provide them with food until they molt. Once the babies are capable of surviving on their own I would expect the mother send them on their way, perhaps with some tattoo unique to family (like humans last names except passed down by the mother).

Now the statement in the wiki about scorpisaï being immune to their own kinds venom leads me to believe that there are several different species of scorpisaï. I would expect that there would be a large difference in size between them some species being giant while others being human size. I would also expect that like in scorpions the smaller varieties would be more venomous than the larger varieties.

A trait that I found to be interesting in scorpions while researching them is that they are sensitive to vibrations. They use this to help them locate prey and detect danger before it arrives. It would make sense that the Scorpisaï would have a trait like this mimicking the predator sense with its own advantages over it and its own disadvantages.

advantages:
1)more accurate (depending on terrain) this would likely be more accurate than the average naga or faires predator sense
2)Because it's based on vibrations and not magic non magical creatures show up just fine.

disadvantages:
1) because it's based on vibrations anything in flight would not be able to be located by this.
2) this would be very terrain sensitive, areas full of sand where the energy dissipates quickly the accuracy and range of this ability would suffer.

So what does everyone else think?

I for one agree with this, they did always feel a bit off when checking their entries

Maybe with the issue of poisons and sizes we could do like in many species of actual scorpions. Those scorpisai that are human sized could have strong venoms and very developed tails -as well as stingers- but their claws would be thin and not too strong. Giant ones would have thin non-poisonous tails but their pincers would be massive and almost club-like

I'd also add the detail of the mother scorpisai possibly eating her own young when stressed or starved like real ones, but it's going to raise another shitstorm like the mantoids so...

The thing I don't like with the cannibalism is that these are sapient creatures, and thus are capable of higher thinking than the species they are based off of. I do however like the idea of pincers and stinger development being based on size.

buddha66667 wrote:

The thing I don't like with the cannibalism is that these are sapient creatures, and thus are capable of higher thinking than the species they are based off of. I do however like the idea of pincers and stinger development being based on size.

Okay, so moving on...

I have to wonder why scorpisais would even need to make stuff. They have already built in-armor, a deadly natural stabbing tool and limbs that both serve to hold stuff and crush it to death. Plus scorpions can burrow. I'd imagine they wouldn't need to build much of anything to get by

That was my thought process behind the tridents. It's not as if they form societies, they are solitary, and essentially live to survive. They already have all the natural weapons that anything could ask for so a weapon really doesn't seem like the kind of thing they would waste their time making when they can go out and hunt without it, without any problems.

I support this. It makes sense.

As a rule of thumb, pretty much all minor species seem to be solitaries, which I guess contributes to their rarity.

Looking back at the article for the scorpisais, why are they only located in the Great Rocky Fields and Lamina? Real life scorpions live in almost every environment (excluding subarctic regions).