Oohohooo, let’s see how you handle Elven arrogance!
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not specifically the middle earth races just any four races
though i will try and create orcs because that would be interesting.
is that possible? to create a race from weird mud spawning pits?
As possible as the red-lipped batfish and star-nosed mole.
Oh wait! I just remembered. Catfolk are on my bucketlist.
-Humans
-Some of my own alien species (that i’m developing for a series of Hard-SF novels)
In that order.
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Every single species of animal on earth.
And cat people.
And possibly a bunch of fantasy creatures.
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It’s kind of stupid, but I really wanted to recreate real species and evolve them into a civilization, imagine dolphins having a sub…Ahem, I mean, going to land and creating a civilization.
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I have two goals.
One, my main goal: An organism evolved PURELY based on what is best for me in my environment. No meta-gaming, no decorations without a purpose, just seeing how evolution would go if left in my hands.
Two, my goal for after I feel satisfied with that first creation: A snake. Nothing special about it, straight up just a snake. Probably non-venomous but if I need to evolve venom to survive better I’ll do it. Just my own, original species of snake. Slithering around with my weird bendy jaw, being a cute little noodle in a big world.
Also…
Look up Euphrynichus amanica.
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I wanna recreate the Sight Sword Loopy from Spore member KeegJam, which i have adapted to be my own creature.
i want there to be sexual dimorphism, with the females staying pregnant after birth (pseudo-parthenogenesis i guess?), and ruled by a queen in a matriarchal society.
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i think that’s just replicating a fertilized egg cell and putting one into stasis until the organism produced by it’s sister cell is born
Oh. Okay. How many times can this be repeated?
if you have a cell that splits into one of itself and one of another type that grows into a fetus then almost infinite as long as it has telomerase.
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Nice. I can finally have a perpetual pregnancy occur to my creatures! 
that sound like a degenerate thing to do
Sorry. It’s just something i’ve always wanted to do. 
sounds like something a person who should never be a DM would say
Says the person who has never seen the gacha club videos i made for my own entertainment because i cant get kinemaster to function 
why would you use kinemaster or gacha club. just use OBS, gimp, and olive to record and edit videos. they function better and if you do it right you cannot have to paint on every frame you want changed
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Corkscrew locusts
This species evolved in an ocean world covered with ice. The planet initially only had life around hydrothermal vents, but in regions close to the equator, the ice thickness can be as low as a few meters, allowing light to pass through, and the first photosynthesisers emerged. Because the oceans and the atmosphere weren’t connected, the great oxidation only effected the oceans and an ozone layer didn’t form. Because of that the surface of the planet was receiving a lot of radiation.
The corkscrew locust has two lifestages. In the first lifestage, it is indistinguishable from the other fish in terms of body morphology, in the second lifestage it gains the ability to fly. The planet has some plumes that spew water into the atmosphere, but the ability to go back and forth between the sea and the air first evolved when a volcano temporarily created a region in the planet without the ice covering. Because of the radiation, radioplastic algae thrived in that region, supporting a diverse wildlife. The corkscrew locusts first evolved into a form similar to flying fish, but since they couldn’t breathe in the atmosphere, they formed a symbiotic relationship with a radioplastic algae, the same reason behind the symbiosis between the yellow spotted salamander eggs and photosynthetic algae. While these were happening, oxygen was leaking to the atmosphere but the oxygen percentage didn’t permenantly increase because there were some hydrocarbon seas on top of the water ice in the planet and an ammonia based shadow biosphere in it. Those creatures hadn’t evolved beyond unicellular because they didn’t had oxygen. The increase in oxygen first caused a mass extinction for them, but later they evolved to use the oxygen and they broke down the hydrocarbons and ammonia around them into carbon dioxide and nitrogen, that is what kept the oxygen levels down. The corkscrew locust was adapting to the life in the air, away from its predators but the volcanic activity was slowing down and in order to complete its lifecycle and lay eggs in the ocean, it had to evolve a way to break the ice which was now forming whenever the gas outflow from the volcano stopped. With the decrease in additional greenhouse gasses, the planet was getting colder as well. No water based organism could exist on the surface, because any plant trying to live on the ice would freeze, and without plants there wouldn’t be anything feeding a warm blooded animal either. The slowly thickening ice allowed the corkscrew locusts to evolve into the magnificent forms they exhibit today.
The corkscrew locusts exit the oceans through the plumes. They wait for it to happen and once they are ejected to the atmosphere, they metamorphosise mid air and open their wings. They are colonial organisms, they form swarms and flow with the wind patterns like clouds. Radiosynthesis allows them to fixate carbon and grow in the air, but they haven’t adopted a permenant air sky whale lifestyle yet, the biggest problem seems to be obtaining liquid water, as trying to collect ice and melting it would be energetically expensive. They can be found flying anywhere on the planet, but have relocated the place they dig back to the oceans to the equator. As colonial organisms, they lock onto each other and form a larger structure, which looks like a corkscrew, or a vertical axis wind turbine. It is powered by the seasonal winds, and rotates until a hole in the ice is created, at which point the locusts dislodge and enter the ocean. The locusts that form the lower parts of the corkscrew or the tripod that is keeping the corkscrew from falling over, due to being in contact with the ice for a long period of time, don’t survive this process, but thats a sacrifice they are willing to make for the survival of the rest of the colony. In the oceans, they are heterotrophs again but not with a lot of food source, so they hydrate and leave their eggs as soon as possible. A lot of creatures hunt them in the ocean, in fact, they have become the biggest primary producers in their planet, more than the chemosynthesisers, sub ice algae and the ammonia based shadow biosphere.
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