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raygungoth — Aesca Races - Lineup 3
Published: 2012-11-17 20:55:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1093; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 4
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And one more lineup. A human woman with a Nuwep-like hairstyle.A narhoojai with two of its common forms, the "reptilian humanoid" shape and the "subterranean psychic lizard bat" shape. Not shown: human form. You can figure out what that looks like.
A Genesis. That's not a mask, that's its face. Genesis is an intelligent space virus that turns its host into itself the more its host learns about its culture and biology. Scholars infected who'd already been studying it turn within hours, the ignorant could take years before even showing symptoms. Infection is through prolonged physical exposure.
And an empty space. My notes say (This should be a race that exemplifies birth or being new or newness in some way), but anything could go there. I have some ideas, but "they're short humans!" is dull (despite being a thing - everyone has legends of little people) and "they're dinosaur people!" I have already done. This one needs to fill out the 5 by 2 dynamic, but its existence isn't immediate, but I would really like it to be weird. Something will come along. I will watch some old serials and something will come out.
So. What I have so far is: humans, fantastic metal men, dinosauroids, reptilian shapeshifting psychics, lobster mans, a language that talks back, shadow monsters, ancient astronaut style spacemen, and a demon space virus.
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What about something insect like?
Insects are the most common animals on Earth, they're built to survive
It's perfectly reasonable to assume that if we ever do encounter aliens, they'll resemble insects or some other type of arthropod
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Phoonkt are already a thing, that's the only reason >_>
For now, I've decided to leave the slot open - since it should represent "newness" in some way, why not just have them be the race of eternally being born (I also briefly considered a really gross race that was constantly giving birth to itself, but I made it a spirit instead).
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or you could go meta and just make the question mark the actual species
yes, a race of giant floating question marks
Maybe they're energy beings, or silicon based lifeforms
alternately, if you want to make some classic Lovecraftian aliens, look to the seas
I'm especially fond of creatures with radial symmetry like starfish and jellyfish
if fact, a good number of the alien races I have created have radial symmetry. If I ever get around to drawing them, I'll be sure to post them on DA, but right now I'm being a lazy bastard
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Genesis looks amazing, it's definately an original Lovecraftian horror, what with having a hive mind and infecting people through learning! Fucking awesome!
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For the Genesis: so if you know about them, and then get infected physically, you become one of them? If you don't know about them, you won't change, even if you are physically infected?
And is there some plan for what each race should represent?
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Yes. This usually takes some fairly extreme measures, though, such as organ transplant or lots of body fluid contact, and then, of course, you have to also start learning their history for the infection to progress. Some strains just infect and turn things into their local "animals," since some of their ecosystem came with them. They've been naturalized on Aesca, but on two of the other planets in the system, they're not, and are a major ecological problem.
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