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»»————-★FurA★FA SD Info★Patreon★Website★DA SD Info★DevArt★————-««☆━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━☆Subtypes are regional variations within the StarDragon races, featuring unique features and traits. Subtypes are all COMMON, meaning you can switch your StarDragon's subtype to fit their home and lineage (within your rarity tier and number of >uncommon traits. Traits that are uncommon are uncommon across the board). Subtype traits are not locked to their types, meaning you can have a desert dasher with kelpie Dasher feet if you so choose! These cases can be chosen either for aesthetics, or to show intermingling lineage. HOWEVER, you cannot apply Dasher traits to Sweepers, etc.
DISCLAIMER: While we have created several subtypes with very lore-heavy concepts, no one is under any obligation to follow Jo’Arca lore for their subspecies. If a person simply wishes to apply the look to a StarDragon for no other reason than “it looks cool” that is perfectly fine! The lore is mainly there for people who like having an extra bit of concept flavor or want to make characters that go with the Jo’Arca lore.
Starshooter Trait and Info Sheet
Starshooter Leader
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Map Biomes Breakdown
STARSHOOTER SUBTYPE - SABER
StarShooters have done a great deal of work to cement themselves as the apex predators of Jo’Arca, however no other hunters are so high on the food chain as the Sabertooth Shooters. Unlike the others of their race, Saber Shooters are hardier, content weathering the elements of harsher environments and living among more dangerous prey. They shirk the use of their cousins’ magic-based technology in favor of pure warrior survivalist ingenuity, using what resources are readily available to them for both weaponry and in home-making. They boast mastery over all predators, including the terrifying riding raptors they capture, keep, breed and train as pets and mounts. They are proud and territorial, primitive in the eyes of their brethren but the Sabers in turn consider the city-slickers rather ‘soft’ and ‘hoity toity’ comparatively. Cultural differences aside, Sabers still share the StarShooter ideologies of conquest and power; claiming territories and hunting those who trespass, as well as hunting large fauna and even other StarDragons purely for the sport of it (big cats do like to play with their food). This predatory sport extends even to other StarShooters, as very few are exempt from “we will kill everyone who invades our homeland and eat them and feed them to their dinos”. This isn’t to say they won’t scavenge, especially if out of necessity, but Sabers deeply value the glory in the hunt.
The pack carries out days long hunting trips stalking silently through the rainforest underbrush or riding running raptors across savanna grasslands in pursuit of large herding animals. They can travel for several hundred miles and make as many kills as they can carry in a single trip. Large trophy hunts target Jo’Arca’s fiercest and most dangerous game, and can go for several weeks depending on the stubbornness of those trying. The size of the pack will vary by hunt and size of the clan they hail from, but hunting together is important familial and courtship bonding for wild StarShooter clans. Hierarchies and their importance vary between family packs, some subscribe to more democratic faiths while others hold competition for a position as alpha. Do with that information what you will.
Hunting makes up so much of their culture that it’s not uncommon they find more interesting prey than the animals on their land, kidnapping wayward stragglers be they other StarDragons, and even other Shooters, and releasing them deep into their territory with a ten second head start, and stalking them down to challenge themselves. The game of Cat and Mouse is one they’ve made into a For-Fun-Sport. A favorite pastime is hunting StarDashers as their matched hunting prowess and considerable speed make for worthy intense challenge.
Anything that steps foot into their territory is considered a resource they’re more than willing to sink their teeth into. They live largely in the basin valley in southern Vesper separating Southern Oakmoor woods and the Casain rainforest. The basin provides habitat for many large herding animals and their predators, and is the largest concentration of dinosaur type fauna in the world. The basin spans thick jungles in the west thinning to rolling savanna grasslands in the east toward the Great Expanse desert. Sabers stick to smaller family packs with very few large congregations or towns. Given Shooters of any subtype have difficulties producing children, their families are small and often all live together within one tree home.
With the more hands on nature of their society, Saber Shooters take great pride in making their own homes and will decorate and expand as a sign of power. In areas where great thick savanna trees grow - where it would take several Shooters touching fingertip to fingertip to hug the trunk of the tree - the Sabers hollow out the trunks high up to make tree houses, connecting neighboring trunks with rope bridges and constructing platforms. Thick rainforest jungle Sabers take a more traditional tree house approach, even repossessing grand StarSweeper stone temples. Desert grasslands Sabers will venture underground to build their homes exploiting mountain caves and rocky deposits. But all of them make a habit of adorning their abodes with trophies of kills, rare and interesting bones, luxurious furs, StarDragon lifegems, and anything interesting found in hunting and gathering.
Saber Shooters stand taller than the city dwellers of their species and wider as well with enough muscle to assist taking down anything in their way. They are very big. Hunting and gathering helps keep them fit. The most noticeable difference of the Saber Shooters is their large protruding saber teeth which are as much for use as they are for show. They stand on much thicker hind paws, similar to those of large predatory cats, and their thick meaty claws tend to be larger and sharper, sometimes with accompanying beans on the pads of their fingers. Their features mirror aspects of their dinosaur pets and neighbors, growing spiny elbow spikes and tail plates that look more like stegosaurus ridge plates. All StarShooters have at least four tail plates (joined plate traits notwithstanding) but Sabers have been known to grow a fifth or even sixth plate down the length of their strong tails, tipped with fluff and sporting a ring of gem shards reminiscent of curved claws or sharp teeth. Hilariously, for all of their size and imposing stature, Sabertooth shooters have the smallest ears of all of their brethren. So tiny. So so teeny tiny.
Both the Male and Female Shooters shown here exhibit entirely common traits.
Background by Sassmassacre
Shooters by Raptorslut
Lore by Raptorslut and Cloneclone
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