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In the far future, a mysterious group of aliens known as the Patrons enslaved ten thousand different worlds, using their psychic-technology. After a successful, unified uprising, the Patrons fled ... taking their psychic signal with them. Can the many species of the former Myriad Empire learn to work together, before chaos rules the stars?
The piscine ELVERS have many advantages for space travel, such as the ability to survive in many different atmospheres and pressures (including both under-water and in air), a sophisticated suite of bio-electric organs, and an extremely long lifespan. If it weren't for their highly-complex breeding process, they might have over-run the Myriad by now.
The Elvers' design are largely inspired by eels. Many fish have bio-electric sensing organs, and the electric eel is unique with its organs of discharging lethal amounts of electricity to stun or to kill targets. Emphasizing the alien nature, their hands have two sets of opposable thumbs, and their throats have frilled gills.
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The piscine ELVERS have many advantages for space travel, such as the ability to survive in many different atmospheres and pressures (including both under-water and in air), a sophisticated suite of bio-electric organs, and an extremely long lifespan. If it weren't for their highly-complex breeding process, they might have over-run the Myriad by now.
The Elvers' design are largely inspired by eels. Many fish have bio-electric sensing organs, and the electric eel is unique with its organs of discharging lethal amounts of electricity to stun or to kill targets. Emphasizing the alien nature, their hands have two sets of opposable thumbs, and their throats have frilled gills.
Comments welcome!
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Fish
Size 1265 x 1280px
File Size 311 kB
Oh, these are all terrific. Again, I don't feel a need to "pick" from these; they all look like a plausible range of individual variation within a species.
I like the twin-thumb idea. Yes, you did it with the Lampyr, too, but there's no compelling reason why it wouldn't crop up more than once.
I like the obvious gill-slits that pop up in some of the images.
I'm not entirely sure the "cute monster girl" in E. works for me, but a) I know you want topander to cultivate that demographic, and, given your comments about "their highly-complex breeding process", there could be all manner of Bizarre Sexual Polymorphism going on.
Still, I'm reminded of Lensman, where Doc Smith gleefully describes the long, toothy snouts of the heroic, saurian Velantians -- and compares them to the ugly, flat faces of their kin, the sadistic and decadent Delgonians.
I like the twin-thumb idea. Yes, you did it with the Lampyr, too, but there's no compelling reason why it wouldn't crop up more than once.
I like the obvious gill-slits that pop up in some of the images.
I'm not entirely sure the "cute monster girl" in E. works for me, but a) I know you want to
Still, I'm reminded of Lensman, where Doc Smith gleefully describes the long, toothy snouts of the heroic, saurian Velantians -- and compares them to the ugly, flat faces of their kin, the sadistic and decadent Delgonians.
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