#a theme and as their use in replika hierarchy

[schwarzgeier-side]

Good day! I've been thinking about your very badass Geier replikas, and I suddenly got curious - is there any specific vulture species that you took as an inspiration? If so, in what way?

Heloooooo thenk u for ur kind words and question!! I have both a suprising answer to this and a non surprising one fjfjfj

I originaly never really had a specific Vulture spieces in mind for my Geier replika , I just kinda liked the general idea of vultures being carrion cleaners and combining that with flamethrowers since. They clean stuff pretty well too, specialy in Signalises universe i imagine since the flares are the only thing permanently killing corrupted replikas.

But as general inspiration and looking into Vultures more i can say my Geiers fit the Black Vultures the most probably. Mixed with some esthetics from the coolest Bearded Vultures and I took yellows/oranges from Greater Yellow Headed Vulture.

Black Vultures lives all over both American continents and is small for a vultures but i liked their coloring and sort of balanced attributes. They live in groups as opposed to most other specied that are solitery/paired up. Toom that to form the Geier squad that exists rn cause i didnt want them lonely . And i think they mate for life? But im not sure 100% I heard that in one video . But i like their versatility .

Bearded Vultures , or LammerGeiers , are probably my fav vultures tbh because like. Come on. Look at them. I love them so much theyre fucking badass. Their diet is 90% bones and bone mearrow , thats insane I think. But I have seen others (I think even sosa specificly) made these their inspiration so I chose not to. But the size of them and coolness also chips into my design a bit.

Andd the Greater Yellow headed borbs! They don't have anything specific to them really aside from the fact they have a very good sense of smell that allows them to find carcasses but they themselves can't open up fresh ones , they need help of other bigger vultures. Also they miss a part in their throats that makes em make normal bird sounds so they hiss and gurgle more. Black vultures have the same . I took the yellows and oranges from these guys and gave em to Geiers.

So all in all I don't have. One specific spieces as inspiration which admitedly I should have worked more on. But I kinda just like all vultures :] I love their place in ecosystem as cleaners . Black vultures are even associated more with rebirth and goodluck rather than just death.