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Here we are -- I finally get to discuss sapients! As the page indicates, there are literally thousands of other kinds of sapients aside from the ones listed here; if it's a four-limbed animal of any kind that has a backbone, then there's going to be a sapient counterpart for it... You can see why I settled for drawing just nine examples. I was a little finicky with the layout and design of this page, but I'm happy with how it turned out -- my intention was to show them all in anatomical position to make them seem more "scientific" and like they belonged in some kind of medical textbook.
The sapients "categories"/races on this page are:
Aves (all kinds of bird sapients)
Canis (canid sapients, not just canines -- includes foxes, wolves/dogs, dholes, raccoon dogs, etc.)
Pinnipedis (walruses, seals, sea lions)
Squamatus (all lizards, snakes, etc. - does not include crocodiles)
Humans (should be self-explanatory)
Felis (all felids, ranging from domestic ("lesser") cats to tigers)
Amphibius (salamanders, axolotls, frogs, etc.)
Cervis (deer, moose)
Lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas)
Annnd that's not even half the possibilities right there. Can you imagine trying to put together a driver's license for a sapient? As you might be able to tell, I decided to group sapients based off of biological orders, clades, or families instead of using just species names. I felt this would help ease the headache of classifying them all; so, in passing, both a fox or wolf sapient might be referred to as "a canis," but they may also identify themselves as a "fox sapient" or a "wolf sapient" respectively. Going with the driver's license example above, the fox sapient's license would have them identified as "Canis (Fox)." I realize this system sounds a bit messy and that it probably isn't perfect/foolproof, but don't worry too much about it -- it's not really going to pop up every five seconds. I'm actually quite happy with it, personally.
I was SO tempted to upload this page last week (I finally have a teensy bit of buffer again with these pages) but decided I'd save the Introduction's finale for next week. Why next week-? Well, that's finals week. I'll not only be working like crazy to make sure I finish all of my courses strong, but I'll also finally be going back home for the first time in six months (I've been kept strictly on campus due to COVID-19 concerns, and my college is several states away from my hometown). Summer is going to give me a lot more time to work on TCotC, and I intend to use that time wisely -- I want to get a head start on pages for Chapter 1~
Anyway, yeah. Let me know what you think of the sapients, I guess.
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The sapients "categories"/races on this page are:
Aves (all kinds of bird sapients)
Canis (canid sapients, not just canines -- includes foxes, wolves/dogs, dholes, raccoon dogs, etc.)
Pinnipedis (walruses, seals, sea lions)
Squamatus (all lizards, snakes, etc. - does not include crocodiles)
Humans (should be self-explanatory)
Felis (all felids, ranging from domestic ("lesser") cats to tigers)
Amphibius (salamanders, axolotls, frogs, etc.)
Cervis (deer, moose)
Lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas)
Annnd that's not even half the possibilities right there. Can you imagine trying to put together a driver's license for a sapient? As you might be able to tell, I decided to group sapients based off of biological orders, clades, or families instead of using just species names. I felt this would help ease the headache of classifying them all; so, in passing, both a fox or wolf sapient might be referred to as "a canis," but they may also identify themselves as a "fox sapient" or a "wolf sapient" respectively. Going with the driver's license example above, the fox sapient's license would have them identified as "Canis (Fox)." I realize this system sounds a bit messy and that it probably isn't perfect/foolproof, but don't worry too much about it -- it's not really going to pop up every five seconds. I'm actually quite happy with it, personally.
I was SO tempted to upload this page last week (I finally have a teensy bit of buffer again with these pages) but decided I'd save the Introduction's finale for next week. Why next week-? Well, that's finals week. I'll not only be working like crazy to make sure I finish all of my courses strong, but I'll also finally be going back home for the first time in six months (I've been kept strictly on campus due to COVID-19 concerns, and my college is several states away from my hometown). Summer is going to give me a lot more time to work on TCotC, and I intend to use that time wisely -- I want to get a head start on pages for Chapter 1~
Anyway, yeah. Let me know what you think of the sapients, I guess.
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Good question! So, I've actually delved into this idea before with some of my own side/in-universe characters -- let's say you take a Canis and a Felis and they try to have a child together. They can produce offspring, but more often than not these offspring are not capable of reproducing on their own; they can always try using magic to help them along, though, if they have access to it. As we shall soon see, magic has started "going extinct" in this story's narrative, meaning that not many hybrids are going to have this opportunity. The logic explained on this page assumes that, without magical intervention, most hybrid sapients cannot have children; in the event that they do use magic to produce a child (or multiple), however, magically begotten children tend to be able to reproduce with much greater ease than their hybrid parent.
Humans have an interesting ability to interbreed with every kind of sapient and still be able to produce fertile offspring. There are a surprising amount of half-human sapients running around the world's universe, and one of the main cast for my comic's narrative is actually half human. In the event a Canis and a human choose to have children together, there aren't likely to be any complications whatsoever; their half-human half-Canis child will be able to reproduce without issue with a human or a Canis sapient.
Humans have an interesting ability to interbreed with every kind of sapient and still be able to produce fertile offspring. There are a surprising amount of half-human sapients running around the world's universe, and one of the main cast for my comic's narrative is actually half human. In the event a Canis and a human choose to have children together, there aren't likely to be any complications whatsoever; their half-human half-Canis child will be able to reproduce without issue with a human or a Canis sapient.
Dragons(/dergs?) actually aren't sapients in this universe, they're classified as something else entirely -- they're much much more magical in nature than the sapients. I would say it's a toss-up either way if they could interbreed with sapients -- if we're talking strictly on a biological level, I don't know if they'd be compatible, but if we throw in the fact that dragons are very powerful in terms of magic then I'd say with a little magical "help" they could reproduce just fine with sapients and humans!
I'm glad to hear it, hehe! Thanks <3
I'm glad to hear it, hehe! Thanks <3
Ah, yes: I think you've mentioned the dragons' magical nature in previous replies. I apologise for this old dragon's memory: it's a little fractious at times. :-/
I suppose that if dragons are considerably more magical than sapients, the gods are a similar step up above the dragons, too?
By the way, have you ever heard of or read The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson? It was the basis for a film called The Flight of Dragons, if you've ever heard of that. I mention it because it, too, involves the waning of magic. And dragons.
I suppose that if dragons are considerably more magical than sapients, the gods are a similar step up above the dragons, too?
By the way, have you ever heard of or read The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson? It was the basis for a film called The Flight of Dragons, if you've ever heard of that. I mention it because it, too, involves the waning of magic. And dragons.
Fun fact: Due to their more digitigrade stance compared to most procyonids, some biologists place ringtails and their cousins, Bassariscus sumachristi, in a separate family known as Bassariscidae. Source
Upon further reflection of the categories, though, I think it would be more likely I'd be labeled a Homo sapiens musteloidea (Ringtail), since we seem to be going for superfamilies with the mammals.
Upon further reflection of the categories, though, I think it would be more likely I'd be labeled a Homo sapiens musteloidea (Ringtail), since we seem to be going for superfamilies with the mammals.
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