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Published: 2015-11-06 14:57:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 620; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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Description Here we have the first new species which will be introduced in Tales of Forthwall: The Polyps. (and the new banner that I'm planning on using for the comic).

These guys are the first alien life forms to have openly invaded Earth, but in no way did it go as they planned. The invasion failed, their mothership broke and they got banished back to their own dimension. This resulted in a civil war on their homeworld, which caused so much destruction that a large group of war victims banded together on flinging their last spaceship away from their homeworld. Sadly, that ship was flung to the same coordinates as their latest invasion: Earth.
Despite their species' kill count, one human professor, Reginald Cottonwood, made a decision that left him as one of the most unpopular individuals on Earth, since he allowed the Polyp refugees to land on his family's island.
However unpopular he became with the population, however, first the company ZinTech and later the Aegian government decided to approve of and fund his research on the alien species. The fact that Polyp technology was way ahead of that of humans, coupled with our scientists actively reverse-engineering their tech, ensured that human technology had a rise like never before.

The Polyps - slowly being integrated into human society through combined research stations and internment camps - are now finally becoming part of the society of Forthwall, though they are generally mistrusted by the majority of the population.
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Comments: 16

Siseja-sama [2016-03-22 21:36:37 +0000 UTC]

the only one language thing really gets my sociolinguistic juices flowing~

ah so THAT's what cottonwood did to get himself so despised. nice
and here i thought he was the deciding vote for donald trump

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JNRedmon [2016-03-04 20:21:21 +0000 UTC]

Heheh..."Polly."
I like the bird mask on the elder.

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Phandenstein In reply to JNRedmon [2016-03-07 08:04:18 +0000 UTC]

"Polly" actually started out as the nickname for the first alien I drew for the comic, and then it escalated XD
And thanks! I had a lot of fun designing this one!

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IcarusHector [2015-11-28 16:09:32 +0000 UTC]

What do you mean by charged ink? What is the difference between arcane magic and eldritch magic?

what do they refer to humans as?

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Phandenstein In reply to IcarusHector [2016-01-05 01:53:38 +0000 UTC]

Arcane magic is the "Jack-of-all-trades" magic that uses mana and is generally capable of performing next to any spell. Eldritch magic in comparison is also called "chaos magic" and is a more unstable, but much MUCH more powerful equivalent. It's basically Arcane magic on steroids, with a risk of exploding in your face. Eldritch magic also runs on "chaos mana", which is mana saturated with positive and negative energies at once, which is what makes it so unstable. Normally only one of the charges can be present in mana.

Charged ink is then the ink produced naturally in the Polyps' bodies. They use their chaos mana to add a magical effect to the ink, so when they spew out the cloud, it might as well have a freezing effect or blast out as a ball of fire.

As of now, I haven't made up an official term for humans yet, but there will be both a demeaning and a "true species name" for them. The current candidate for species name is "Tihren", which just literally means "human". The demeaning term will without doubt refer to how they differ from the Polyps though, and most likely will be something along the lines of "the dry-skinned ones", "the hairy ones" or "the ones with the weird mouths".

(also sorry for the partial wall of text :U)

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IcarusHector In reply to Phandenstein [2016-01-05 05:26:59 +0000 UTC]

tHAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY COOL. AND AS A MAGICAL SELF DEFENSE MEASURE... VERY EFFECTIVE. oh god, the capslock...

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NutmegPirate [2015-11-07 03:06:02 +0000 UTC]

The little cthulhus are welcome to live with me.  

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Phandenstein In reply to NutmegPirate [2015-11-07 10:18:51 +0000 UTC]

You can have a couple if you want
Just remember that they don't want to be served cuttlefish or squid in any way.

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Kamikam70 [2015-11-06 18:48:09 +0000 UTC]

Damn invadors. Still sad for the newborn ones who won't be trusted anymore, while having done no bad thing.

I definitely wouldn't want to meet one of them at the corner of a street... Looking really well-thought, though ! Congrats, can't wait to discover more species x3

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Phandenstein In reply to Kamikam70 [2015-11-07 10:20:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, firsthand impressions to a whole species is kind of a bitch. Especially to the new ones.

Buuuut you're right about not wanting to meet them on the street, 'cause I'd probably expect them to try eating my face if I saw one of these in real life.
But you're in luck then, 'cause I might finish the next one today :b

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Kamikam70 In reply to Phandenstein [2015-11-07 19:49:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, their face isn't really attractive. These mouths... *shivers*
Go on, I'll be waiting

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RagnaLocke [2015-11-06 15:53:02 +0000 UTC]

I blame Lovecraft for people not liking them.

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Phandenstein In reply to RagnaLocke [2015-11-06 16:37:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, people are so judgmental when you look the slightest bit like Cthulhu.

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Karura-Art [2015-11-06 15:48:51 +0000 UTC]

The hype is still real! Looks awesome Phan :3 Inventing new species is amazingly difficult, so I tap my hat for you, my sir (if I had a hat, ofcourse). Can;t wait to see the other species!

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Phandenstein In reply to Karura-Art [2015-11-06 16:43:47 +0000 UTC]

The reality of this hype is making me happy!
But thanks a lot, and I would tap my hat back if I had one too!
Depending on how fast I work tomororrow, another one of them might be up by then :0

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Karura-Art In reply to Phandenstein [2015-11-06 19:42:33 +0000 UTC]

Oeh, well, I look forward to it n.n

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