#centaur in the group

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Apparently the official ones are fey centaur. That's why they're small, they're elf/pony instead of human/horse. They're strong and perceptive survivalist fey! I refuse to believe I need to explain what a centaur is, or the appeal. These had an 84% smash rate last time, and the only thing thats changed is being 6-7 feet (1.8-2.1 m) tall depending on species. They even have enough supernatural strength that they count as if they were a full sized horse for carrying capacity and such. So riding them is still on the table, it's just easier to reach the human half.

[ratintank]

I blame @visionthefox for this one

[eschergirls]

I was gonna say this doesn't look that bad outside that they were seemingly in the middle of a lingerie shoot when war broke out... but then I saw the blonde girl in the back.

The girl on the far left with her butt facing us isn't looking so great either.

(Cover of I Make Boys Cry #3, Absolute Comics, submitted by anon)

[serfuzzypushover]

he was a horsegirl, she was a catboy, can i make it any more obvious

SHE WANTED HIM, HE'D NEPURR TELL, SECRETLY HE WANTED HER AS WELL

[sandsbuisle]

Poll time!

I have collected various responses for suggestions of possibilities. Please reblog to try and get as many inputs as possible.

[theletterwsartflap]

do we want another animatic update soon or shall i continue working on it quietly and dming it to those who ask

[rxttenfish]

downside to centaur clan structure: much harder to come up with lesbian situationships

[eyydragons]

I have Opinions about Fantasy Lizards and remembered this. And so this came about. Baku is pissed Kiri /doesnt/ need to go sleep in a warm cave every winter :)

[reginaldqueribundus]

[ghetsis]

I hate when I get woken up from a dream

[iturbide]

“I’m drowning in lore help”

*Throws you a life jacket*

Now tell us more Lore so we, too, may drown in it.

IS THIS REALLY THE SOLUTION???

too late the flood is already here

Unicorns have already been mentioned, so we might as well start there. Unicorns are magical creatures -- not in the sense that they can use magic, but in that they live only where the ambient magic is very dense: take them out of that environment and they will sicken and eventually die.

Magical creatures are interesting in that their environment plays a major role in how they look. Unicorns are specifically attuned to wood magic, and appear in heavily vegetated areas, whether that's an old forest or a thriving tundra; their horns are plant-like in appearance, often resembling branches or woody plants in their chosen territory, and their coloration similarly varies to provide camouflage. For example:

A unicorn living in a white birch forest will have a horn resembling a birch branch, with a pale coat barred with darker stripes and a short, upright, banded mane.

A unicorn living near water with willow trees will have a horn resembling the straight portion of a willow branch, with a dappled coat for camouflage and a mane resembling the trailing boughs.

A unicorn living around wisteria trees will have a horn resembling the supporting branches of a wisteria, with a trailing mane of purple flowers in the spring and summer.

This gets even more interesting when their territory has some elemental variance. Unicorns in a mountain forest where both earth and wood elements overlap may bear a resemblance to mountain goats, allowing them to traverse sheer cliffs with ease; unicorns in a marsh where both water and wood elements overlap are strong swimmers who can graze on lakebed plants.

Also, unicorns are dangerous. They're beautiful, to be sure, but they're also large herbivores. They will gore and trample at a moment's notice. Please do not try to approach the unicorns.

On the subject of magical creatures, there are others out there, not just unicorns. Dragons are part of the same category, attuned to earth rather than wood, with elemental overlap in their territory determining their overall body type: you'll find lungs and amphitheres in high, airy mountain peaks, sea serpents around oceanic mountain ranges, salamanders and lindwurms in the darkest of cave systems. Unlike unicorns, though, dragons can be taken out of their magic dense territories and survive -- but only if they're taken as eggs, and only if they're taken shortly after they're laid: once the dragon inside finishes developing in a magic-dense territory, they can't survive in a magic-poor area, and will not hatch if removed to one.

Dragons are something of a special case, in this regard: an egg taken soon after hatching and tended in a magic poor area can still hatch, but the dragon that emerges will not bear any resemblance to its parents; the eggs rely on the ambient magic of their environment for the development of their body plan, so a magic poor area will inevitably result in either a wyvern or a wingless drake, depending on the nature of whatever magic is present. Both varieties are significantly smaller than any wild dragon, and notably, both outcomes are infertile, meaning the only way to make more is to steal more dragon eggs.

Now, as you might imagine, that task is incredibly risky, and not just because dragon parents don't take kindly to thieves: the nests are often in extremely inhospitable areas that are difficult to traverse, meaning it's almost more likely for a thief to meet their end on the way to or from the nest than at the claws of the parents; dragon eggs, meanwhile, are incredibly durable and can survive even long falls thanks to their stony shells, so the parents can recover any eggs that a thief makes off with but loses.

There is, however, one group on the continent has gotten very good at that very task -- and that's the dragoons, whose reputation is founded on their use of wyverns. This mercenary group owes allegiance to no kingdom or faction: if someone has the coin, they'll accept any reasonable job, from fighting in battles to driving off bandits. Their members go through extensive training, first on just a physical basis to weed out those who can't keep up with the demands of the job, then with wyverns from their stables to weed out those who aren't capable of handling the intensive demands of controlling a dragon. Those who successfully pass through these training phases will get their own wyvern, who will effectively become their partner.

Leander, of course, is one of these dragoons; however, unlike most dragoons, he is one of the rare members who takes solo missions rather than being part of a larger flight taking more complex jobs -- though that hasn't always been the case...

[timeisacephalopod]

Y'all are aware of that 10 hour Harry Potter retrospective but the thing that gets me the most out of that whole thing that I never considered when reading the series is that wizards can obviously chose to adhere to the Statute of Secrecy but like... Magical creatures can't make that choice and Fantastic Beasts literally starts with Newt chasing down a rogue niffler, meaning that muggles probably frequently encounter magical creatures. There's no way that muggles and magical creatures could reasonably be segregated- Hermione's cat is half magical creature so how many muggle cats are also half neasel?

Like why on earth would you invent a world in which you have scores of animals, and also plants, that cannot reasonably consent to secrecy from muggles and the excuse of witch trials falls flat when actual magic exists that should factor into how those witch trials play out but never seems to come up. Anyway, the most unrealistic thing about a universe with magic and dragons and shit is that muggles would somehow never run into and remember a magical creature, there's zero way the wizards could catch every muggle who has seen something and obliviate them that's a herculean task designed to fail I refuse to believe no nifflers have ever stolen some muggles shit enough that they'd know what them little bastards were.

[aroaceofthesea]

Shapeshifter character who is usually in a different form in each group of friends

[thenixkat]

Yeah, I am not coming up with a whole language (or 4) for Prince of Gold. That is too much damn work. I do not have the energy or patience for that. 

[hall0wedwyrm]

I wanna... make Origins based characters... like the modpack... maybe also Infernal Origins characters mixed in... I have ideas........