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SELKRA FINALLY POSTS WORLD BUILDING MATERIAL.
It's a bit hard for me to describe the mental capacity of the Zrai. My best description is they have the brains of perhaps a Neanderthal or an adolescent human. Clearly intelligent and sapient but a bit below a normal human.
‘Zrai’ simply means ‘the people’ in an old extinct native language.
For the longest time, even online, this species was called 'venous', after their poisonous toxins they produced. But then I realized they haven't been that way for a long time so I opted for a new name (with one syllable since the other species all had two or three syllable names). :V
Some details about the species, such as physical characteristics or species typical behavioral characteristics, are subject to change in the future, but those changes are bound to be minor, so I figured it's best to put out species sheets now just so anyone watching me for Broken Yolk Galaxy can have SOMETHING to consume :V
And no, they're not an 'open' or 'closed' species to sell to anyone, they're just for me and my headworld.
QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME IF YOU HAVE ANY! :3
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How much of the original tribal culture has survived the Nedal uplifting? Are There any remaining traditions or were they completeley destoyed.
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That's a good question I haven't thought much into!
Well, in their homeworld, Zrai populations still exist, since only a fraction were uplifted. They can only thrive in tropical swamps so populations aren't exceedingly high. They still live their tribal lives almost the same as before nedals arrived, the difference in modern times is that some nedal scientists and 'xeno(anthro)plogists' live in orbit around the planet and occasionally come down to make sure they're thriving and helping them when hard times come by.
I would want uplifted civilized zrai to retain some of their original cultures! I just haven't though of what it's like yet, so thanks for putting the thought in my head! I imagine they might have holidays or clothes/trinkets manufactured that features their original cultures.
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"Males are smaller, more dainty and communicative, and they usually do service work."
So, I'm guessing the males are behaviorally more effeminate (by human standards) than the ladies?
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Cool! I'd once thought of doing that with an icthyoid species.
So does this reverse of gender roles also apply to the delorix? Because I read somewhere that males sound like low-pitch human females, and that females sound like low-pitch human males.
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What you read applies to the zrai actaully! Not the delorix. Delorix are all hermaphrodites.
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Well, yeah. I read that. 
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The link doesn't work, but I think you tried to link to an old post where I maybe called a delorix character he/she (sexually dimorphic), in which case yes I did change it :V
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"His third leg is showing! Wait.... is that a she? God damnit rutan, stop falling into tubs of acid and changing all the time!"
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I want it to happen at least once in the story XD
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So they have a retractile tongue-like genital in they mouth, huh? Do they still have protractile throat thing Rutan would sometimes display in these here pictures?
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I decided to scrap the retractable throat idea actually! I liked the bug-like mandibles and the tongue genitals more, and adding a large throat appendage would've just over complicated the design.
All my aliens are gonna have minor design tweaks here and there every now and then, hope it isn't confusing.
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Ah… Yeah, don't worry, it's all understood.
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What is that yellow patch on the female? Is it just coloration? As to tripodal running they can probably outrun a human by galloping. Middle leg forward and then flanking legs forward while the middle goes back, then the flanking legs go back and the middle leg goes forward to repeat the cycle. Watch a cheetah run. They can probably turn on a dime as well.
Also a note... you should check out Sculptris. It wouldn't be too difficult to make 3D models of these.
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Yes, the yellow patch is regular colored skin! It probably can come in various warm colors.
Hm! I have thought about that sort of gait, but was concerned it might lead to tangled legs. Maybe it won't :V
I'm not too good visualizing/drawing gaits so practice for me on drawing them should come in handy regardless.
I've never heard of Sculptris before. I'll try out the free download one of these days, thanks for telling me!
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Sooo it's a race of tooth-less three-legged frog pepole that never evolve past the intellectual mautirty of teenagers?
I salute you for this concept.
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:>
I still don't really know how the three legs are supposed to work or how they evolved in the first place but it's too good to scrap! >:U
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Maybe they could use their third leg the way kangaroos use their tail? Hopping is one of the most energy-efficient ways of locomotion but thanks to that, kangaroos lost the ability to move their legs individually (kinda like how we humans can't move our eyes independently) so they use their tail as a third leg.
//hides behind my massive nerdship
Edit: I just realized they're semi-aquatic and hopping + water isn't really very work good but I like this idea too much to delete everything so yolo
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At this point I'm kinda thinking the Zrais, when adults, aren't very aquatic anymore because their physiology just doesn't look fitting for it, although there are earth animals that swim well despite looking ill-fitted for it, like tapirs. I dunno.
I actually am also imagining that they skip around instead of run. But hopping like a kangaroo wouldn't work well for them since they move upright. I imagine they skip like humans do.
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Yeah I think that'd work better too. I got nothing further to say than that xD very informative I know
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But their legs are so bulky and have no webbing what-so-ever. >:I
I'm thinking they evolved from aquatic frog-like things but at this point in their evolution, they're barley suited for swimming. Kinda like how human ancestors were adapted to walking on four legs but modern humans aren't.
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I can imagine that some evolutionary ancestor of theirs was a pentapod of some sort, having evolved from a fish-like creature with a single fin situated behind the pelvic fins that eventually developed into a third hind leg.
Check out the anatomy of a coelacanth , and you'll see what I mean.
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WOAH that's pretty rad!
Another possibility is maybe they evolved from a starfish-like form (but with 6 arms and one of those arms is actually a head on a long neck) ... except I already have that evolutionary history for the delorix sooo.
I didn't know ancient fish could look like that, cool! I'll keep them in mind.
I STILL want the zrai to be good swimmers tho', I think I'll play around with their proportions a bit one of these days.
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Hmm. I definitely like the concept of them evolving from a six-armed starfish-like creature and one arm becoming the head to break the otherwise radial symmetry; definitely seems more original compared to our own evolution from lobe-finned fish to humans.
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