kinda fucked-up-looking foldy faces, like bald pugs.
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claws jagged like lightning bolts on their claws and toes.
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comically-long snouts and fluffy white sideburns.
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wings veined in spiraling geometric patterns.
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black fur and shining red eyes.
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fuzzy brown-furred backs and ridiculously-large ears.
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These desmodu eat
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fruits, pollen, and honey - their fruit-wines and mead are coveted.
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bugs and worms of all sorts. They like them best heavily spiced with dried and powdered cave-fungus.
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blood drained from beasts lulled to sleep by enchanting lullabies.
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wild grain pottage and cheese (from cave goats), mostly.
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fish, whales, and fermented sea-plants.
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the nectar of a species of flower they've selectively bred over many generations, deriving it so much it barely resembles a flower at all, being more of an organic fountain. Their crops are prone to various blights and pests.
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These desmodu live
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in caverns expanded and reinforced with stone that can resist natural wear much better than the sort that normally forms such cavities.
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in tubular longhouses hanging in the canopies of trees, built from countless leaves glued together with their saliva.
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in distant clusters of brick towers linked by long aeroducts that create easily-flown wind corridors.
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as much as they can in carefully-crafted spherical chambers that reflect their own echolocation at them in neuro-stimulatory echoes, creating a customized virtual environment.
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in adobe arcologies that contain appropriate micro-climates for their preferred food, and provide jets of hot air to launch into flight with.
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nomadically, with strict custom defining who can inhabit which cave, sinkhole, bluff, or hollow when.
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These desmodu's origin-myth
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is that they were bats who tasted the nectar and ambrosia of the gods.
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is that they are the music of the stars, refracted into flesh by the lens of the moon.
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is that they are the duet between the goddess of bats and the god of man.
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is that they are the scattered echoes of creation's primal birth-shriek.
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is that they hatched from certain crystals, eternally contained within the earth, and cracked by particular transcendent frequencies.
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is that they wandered in from the darkness of chaos beneath the bottom of all things, following the melodies of the ordered world.
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These desmodu can
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sing notes so sharp they cut you.
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hack others' brains with the right sonic waves.
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pick locks just by modulating their voice.
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call up a swarm of bats as servitors.
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heat fluids like a microwave by uttering the right syllables.
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soften materials to the point they can chew through them with focused vibrations.
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These desmodu may carry with them
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stiffened and waterproofed sheets of fabric to extend their effective wingspan.
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trumpet-shaped blowgun-like weapons that amplify their voices into killing noise.
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bandoliers of snail shells packed with explosives that combust when dropped from a certain height.
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eating utensils somewhere between brass knuckles, chopsticks, and straws, which can be used to eat while using your arms to fly.
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jars of anti-fungal ointment.
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circular wooden "maps" chewed through by specially-trained worms that reveal the location of treasures or caches when echolocated into.
I got: "These desmodu have comically-long snouts and fluffy white sideburns.
These desmodu eat blood drained from beasts lulled to sleep by enchanting lullabies.
These desmodu live nomadically, with strict custom defining who can inhabit which cave, sinkhole, bluff, or hollow when.
These desmodu's origin-myth is that they wandered in from the darkness of chaos beneath the bottom of all things, following the melodies of the ordered world.
These desmodu can pick locks just by modulating their voice.
These desmodu may carry with them eating utensils somewhere between brass knuckles, chopsticks, and straws, which can be used to eat while using your arms to fly."
I like the origin myth plus the enchanting melodies idea. Like they adopted the melodies of creation from their place in the darkness. Maybe they ate one of the singers.
I got: "These desmodu have comically-long snouts and fluffy white sideburns.
ReplyDeleteThese desmodu eat blood drained from beasts lulled to sleep by enchanting lullabies.
These desmodu live nomadically, with strict custom defining who can inhabit which cave, sinkhole, bluff, or hollow when.
These desmodu's origin-myth is that they wandered in from the darkness of chaos beneath the bottom of all things, following the melodies of the ordered world.
These desmodu can pick locks just by modulating their voice.
These desmodu may carry with them eating utensils somewhere between brass knuckles, chopsticks, and straws, which can be used to eat while using your arms to fly."
I like the origin myth plus the enchanting melodies idea. Like they adopted the melodies of creation from their place in the darkness. Maybe they ate one of the singers.