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Styraphant average size ref! They're p large. Lady on the left and gentleman on the right! The males are a good percentage larger than the gals and are mainly differentiated by their 'bottom heavy' crest. Which is mainly for show.

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NEW ALIEN AGAIN! This one I wanted to stick to being more Earth inspired, connecting with my roots. I'm calling 'em Styraphants cause they're mostly a mix of styracosaurus, elephant, and mollusk of course. Trying to make a quad walking sophont always lends to kind of a centaur-ish body plan, so tried to think outside the box for appendages this go around. They've got a pair of trunk tentacles around their mouth that they use as their hands, which have a fleshy 'zipper' to slot together at rest. They also smell/taste with them so gloves are a very popular purchase.

Oh also! Their eyes are on little stalks that peak out around their frill, they can hide them away if scared. Also all the fellas pictured here are gals! They have a male/female system in keeping with the Earthling megafauna theme.

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Didn't think I'd have the time but got my entry for the refugium creature contest done! Down to the wire as usual. More info on the life cycle found below!

I wanted to do a fun Squilloid line, but as fun belly worms! The life cycle is the host eats the eggs which hatch inside the digestive tract, once there the young attack each other and any other parasites they find. They 'eat' through absorption through their tails so their mouth parts are only for clearing out their living space, as a result most hosts generally feel a lot better once they are infected. The fools!

Once the role of top worm has been decided, the individuals morphs into the feeding stage of their lifecycle. Their tail sprouts a multitude of fringes to aid in absorbing food and gas exchange, while the mouth parts remain for dealing with any would be room mates! This stage of their life is by far the longest, lasting decades.

The burrowing phase is where the fun begins, this sub adult form can be brought about by age, stress, or most commonly lack of space within the host. In this phase they begin swelling grotesquely and once they reach maximum size, turn their mouth upon their host. They chew their way out to the surface, sometimes resulting in death, sometimes not! But they only stop once they are able to smell open air and then settle in to begin their final metamorphosis.

The dispersal phase adults only live for a few days, climbing out of the wound created in their host to fly off and find suitable places to lay their eggs. If their host died during the last phase they will generally lay their eggs onto the body, but some are always out looking to lay a trap for the next poor unsuspecting creature.

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In the post about Octavia it said that she got smote for eating the residents of her abby, but in a previous dragon post it mentioned Maria was different than other dragons in that she prefers to not eat human flesh, which seems like it's implying that the other dragons do eat human flesh and that's considered the norm.

So what was different about Octavia's situation that angered the gods?

Astute observation! You shall be REWARDED!

Basically issue is that the word 'human' has a very loose definition in this setting. The core factor is that the Gods and all those imbued with their power have this gnarly corruption that compels one to munch on humans. Anything that sates this hunger is therefore considered 'human'. Which includes regular folks, mutilated beasties, dragons, abbies, or even the blood ocean itself! Most dragons hunt the monsters around their Abattoirs, but of course regular unaltered humans in the abbies are the choicest of options.

Abattoir people are off the table for the dragons for most of the year, though when the gods slither over for their yearly feast you can always ask for some scraps. Usually they'll cough up a few if asked. But once the gods became MIA then those within are off the table entirely. Unless you're Octavia!

She crossed pretty much every line, briefly interrupting the circle holding the Abattoirs dome to let herself inside, letting her presence be known to those living within, reinstating the yearly feast, and eating her fill of divine worm food. Until the delayed reaction of the Gods saw the end of her, her Abattoir, and all those within.

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I'm SUPER curious to know what became of the populations in the Abattoirs after the gods left. Now that they're (presumably?) no longer being eaten, what're their lives like now?

It honestly depends on the Abattoir! The Gods bailing kind of left things up in the air for each Abattoirs choir to decide how they run things. The saddest part is the Gods never had much influence in the day to day lives of their people aside from eating them. At the current point in the story, none outside of the choir have ever even SEEN the Gods. Now that only a maintenance amount of people are feeding the Abby and choir, people kind of get to do their own thing. Abby 7 had the biggest change in that their Abby straight up stopped working so they are a lil more uh 'grizzled', but there is a wide variety within the others! 4 has a very lax atmosphere where as somewhere like 10 is very management heavy.

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Working on a new ref for Ed and NEEDED to draw his hands. One of my fav parts of his design, the gross necrotic claws. Beautiful.

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Finally finished the dragon for Abby 3! Octavia is/was the guardian of Abattoir 3, formerly one of the largest out of all the Abbies. She had a pretty no nonsense attitude, quick wit, and a fervent lust for power. She was the defacto get-things-doner of the dragons whenever the bosses were not around, as well as being the one to figure out the gist of the magical system that said bosses use. After the Gods began their absence she took up a greater leadership role among the dragons, living unchecked for a LONG time, up until she stuck her hand in the cookie jar to eat the residents of her Abattoir. The Gods made a brief, wordless return to maim her Abattoir and kill her. While she is dead, she still has BIG impact upon the story. Probably the MOST important dragon of them all.

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Critters from the coasts of Backera! Wanted to explore pentapods of varying pod number. Info dump below!

The eco system these guys inhabit are the vast shallow sea beds between the sea and 'land'. Where the microbial mat swells up to take in sunshine whilst keeping somewhere between a few inches to a foot of water above. This habitat favors walking over swimming for larger beasts, doing a separate post for the 'fish' of Backera. Those are a whole other brand of beast. For now we'll stick to the larger animals on the scene. Going left to right because I'm biased. 1. A quad-pod, a fellow who specializes in using mouth parts modified into clubs to break into shells and rigid 'plants'. While they have two very LARGE jaws, the other three are teeny tiny so they mostly rely on suction once they open their food. They have decided to be boring and use only their front four legs for walking, whilst their hind leg is to scrape out divots to lay eggs in the sea bed. 2. A TRUE pentapod, these guys spend their day swishing their heads back and forth. The wide arc of their eyes allow them to always have a lot of vision above the waterline at all times. Their dainty mouthparts are a constant scuttle against the slime mat to kick up organic matter to scarf down. The long horn jutting up their back is actually hollow and used to trumpet at each other at a distance. Very noisy. 3. With the least amount of feet in the lineup is the flag foot! These fellas are built to prance through the water and chase down any poor fish spotted by those big ole peepers. But they really shine when it comes to display. Upon meeting, the smaller individual will lower their head and wave around their display legs, wooing their potential partner with flashes of color. Most of the time their audience ends up wandering away.

Want to work on more FLAVOR for Backera, this is only the START!

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Tripods gotta stick together! Response to @goblinratcreacher s art of our two species! The Lirri and Whorls, I love how they have like the same leg settup but just rotated around! Could probably still share shoes tho!

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Started a new tabletop campaign w the boys! Wanted to draw the gang, below the cut is their TRUE FORMS. I just wanted to practice drawing humans for this go so I took some artistic liberty.

They're a desert dwelling bandit whose chosen to turn over a new leaf, a magical heiress with newly uneasy financial standing, and a loan shark determined to rescue his kidnapped debtors. Very fun party so far!

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Nothing better than a good gore draw of your sona!

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Wanted to get into the Abby choirs. These are some of the fellas from an undisclosed (read: the favorite) Abattoir! INFO DUMP BELOW!

Starting with names! From left to right, Daniel, Michael, and Kirstin! Have a big post cooking about how to get into the club but for now what the job entails. Choirs are those blessed with slivers of the Gods power, BUT unlike the dragons and abattoirs they are born from within the Abby they'll serve. Not that Abattoir residents know that there are any others!

Choirs are tasked with keeping order and stability within their Abbies, the two main tasks are ensuring that the populace stays in good condition and making absolutely sure the tobacco quota is met. The latter being far more important than you'd think at first.

The God Worms kind of give them free reign to do whatever they want otherwise, so it kind of depends on the vibe of the choir for how your internal Abby experience shall go! Some are more laid back, some are more totalitarian. Gods don't really care as much as they probably should. These fellas within the favorite Abattoir are more laid back than most, defaulting to a more democratic approach to keep the people they're watching happy. Michael has been there the longest, a few thousand years, Kirstin and Daniel have been there a few hundred years.

Another IMPORTANT NOTE is that every choir member looks like that is because to become a member you need to partake in some divine flesh to gain godly power. Such power violently corrupts those it meets! But should you survive the process, you get a fun monster form and power in one of two veins. That of either flesh or soul. Both the separate domains of the Gods so you can only be particularly good in one. Flesh is far more common than soul, as leaning too hard into the soul aspect may result in getting kicked out of your body. :(

That's the main gist! Oh another big perk is also the initial reason most people try to join the choir! Choir members are exempt from the yearly feast.

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Wanted to make more Abattoir outsiders! Thinking that most if not all of the critters made from human stock are going to be herbivorous. Which is slightly restrictive since there is no sunlight. But I'm thinking that the excess light/heat the Abby's emit allows for a radius of vegetation to grow around them. Still pretty chilly out there though!

Also lil bonus boy out in the snow cause I thought he was cute!

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Was thinking about the dynamics of big ass eyeballs for the Abattoir Worms seeing as they're basically human eyes scaled up. Thinking that instead of just fluid keeping the shape of the eye that the eyes are stuffed full of collagen ropes! Think like the mega eye floaters. They keep a small gap in the center of the eye though so that their normal vision is comparable to that of a average person but they can manually pull them aside to increase the viewing surface. Also the blind spot issue has been patched out.

Want to get more into the construction of the wormies, they are fun!

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NEW ALIEN TIME! This time it's a big ole paddle bug! Thinking they're from a global ocean planet where they like to absolutely shred the smaller wildlife. And GREEN BLOOD! Because I'm trying to embrace green more.

Also big thanks to my partner for help with the BG!

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Wanted to revamp Cellios's design/reference sheet. Love this lil lad and def planning to do something with him. His basic gist is you know when you start playing a game with your friend whose been playing for like a decade and so you just level up like crazy fast? He is that overpowered noob. But he's a nice dude who wants to pay forward the generosity granted to him as a lil grubbin. Though he will also partake in consuming his adversaries, he's still a growing boy!

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justice for abby 3. get that thing a bandaid

All better!