Predator X-rays

Aethernavale posted in an early thread today this link about someone drawing their idea of naga anatomy, and I started to think, why don't we have those in Felarya?

This is probably just me thinking too hard, but it would be neat if the main races (except angels and demons because, well, they're angels and demons) had this little picture on their pages with a chart detailing their anatomy, organs and all. We already have nagas officially having two stomachs, dryads having a lenghty text about their reproduction, and simliar things with other predators, so why not SHOWING it for a change?

It's not meant to be serious either, just thought it'd give more depth to the tauric predators in general, some fun bit of trivia, and a way to establish how predators work for writers and character-creators to be informed

Probably will get a lot of differring views on this from everyone, but at least i wanted to share this idea .3.

Why not angels and demons? I think they should actually be one of the first as, they are very similar to humans so they would be very simple.

Because you can't really catalog supernatural beings as having the same biology as more "earthly" creatures or even be composed of matter as we know it? At least that's the impression I got

Damn that is really well done....

And angel and demons still have body parts as far as I know, of course there are many types of each, so maybe you would divide anatomy into subdevisions of the species like succubi etc.

That could possibly work, but I doubt many people have ever, say, gotten to dissect a dead Succubus to see what makes her tick XD

I support this and volunteer to do it unless someone more skilled would like to.

I'd love to try it myself, but i'm not exactly good at drawing anatomy, it'd probably come out as messy .C.

Would like to know what everyone else thinks about this before too

You know bug hybrid skeletons are going to be weird as hell.

/Fish/ wrote:

You know bug hybrid skeletons are going to be weird as hell.

If they even HAVE skeletons. I'm guessing the human half has an internal set of chitinous armor instead of bones

Can be an interesting idea, and I dont see why we cant do this for angels and demons (I really dont think they have a different anatomy from humans, other than the wings, tail, horns that aren't that difficult to add) But I admit that insect-hybrids are more complicated ... hmmm, maybe simply a switch from skelton to exoskelton when arriving to the insect part. I'm not sure how that sounds , but I can somewhat visualize it .

The switch from exo- to endo- skeleton would be... Awkward, to say the least. I believe it would represent a huge weak point.

Personally, I share slimetoad's opinion on dridder skeletal structure.

That's the one way I see it working, yeah. Plus having a completely human skeleton in an arthropod-based organism would only raise more questions.

Another problem I see in the whole thing would be the whole arrangement of the organs. Do the tauric races have two sets of lungs? Or are the lungs located in the animal half and the ribcage has nothing but a massive heart surrounded by muscle and bony supports?

This could take a big while o_o

Hmm, well , I'm not sure to get exactly the idea there, but they are still hybrids, going for one of the skeltons instead of the other would still be weird, dont you think?

... Maybe somekind of mix between the two? maybe have (for exemple) the backbone follow from the human part to the whole insect body (so both parts are still well conected) and then, the rest of the body (including some parts of the human part) covered in exoskelton?

I was thinking on something more like the cartilaginous skeleton of sharks, only in case of the dridders, scorpisais, gerridis and ariphormids it's entirely made of chitin like their arthropod half. If we had them with normal bones in the upper half they'd feel like artificial species instead of creatures that evolved naturally

Slimetoad wrote:

If we had them with normal bones in the upper half they'd feel like artificial species instead of creatures that evolved naturally

Felarya races evolved naturally? :V

/Fish/ wrote:

Slimetoad wrote:

If we had them with normal bones in the upper half they'd feel like artificial species instead of creatures that evolved naturally

Felarya races evolved naturally? :V

For all we know they could be .3. I'm guessing from all the predator variants out there

I won't believe it until you bring me a Bigtail!

I cover extensively just how I imagine Jewel Dridder/Eurhyssa biology to work, down to skeletal structure. I see the bug/spider taurs as having both an endo and exo skeletal structure, with Jewel Dridders being the most heavily naturally armored extreme and Eurhyssa being a much more opposite 'soft' style, though I wouldn't call it as far out as the Jewel Dridder's chitin since they were designed to be 'predator tanks' and Eurhyssa were not designed to be 'pushovers' even without their crafted armors (but they are much softer chitin structure wise than Jewel Dridders overall).

Turtles manage to get pretty close to a half & half endo/exoskeleton. Their spine simply is fused with the underside of the shell plates, so perhaps Dridders and such have something similar.

A more puzzling puzzle is the transition between spinal columns - vertebrates, e.g. humans, have a dorsal spinal cord while arthropods have a ventral nerve cord (on the belly side).

Perhaps they have a nerve cord that takes the place of the spinal column in the human half then bends towards the transition area to fit the arthropod half

that's a fascinating thread here
and that first link is very impressive indeed ^^ I m not completely sure how a dridder's skeleton would look though.

From the looks of it, and the ideas of everyone else, they might have a sort of proto-endoskeleton made of the same material as their exoskeleton that connects internally at the transition zone between halves. Would look monumentally weird i'm sure

Stabs pointed out that having their hears in their chest would give nagas a problem when swallowing large prey, so...would a naga's heart be located in the tail instead? It would probably look more like a big bag filled with blood to be able to fit in there.

But this probably could mean nagas can survive being impaled on their chests o3o

Or maybe nagas might have two hearts instead of just one.

/Fish/ wrote:

Felarya races evolved naturally? :V

Good question. I suppose that's one of the great mysteries of Felarya...
...Karbo?