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‘Driven off the more productive and hospitable lands by the other southhounds, primarily due to behaviorally-unacceptable ancestors being exiled from their communities and finding other outcast members, the Outlanders are forced to make do with harsher territories where only the toughest can survive. Over time, through strict hierarchy and aggressive dominance through necessity, the Outlanders found a way to flourish despite all odds: and long to reclaim the welcoming lands denied to them by the other groups.

One such environment that the Outlanders inhabit are the regions surrounding a volcanic chain in the center of South Ecatoria’s mountain range. These highly unpredictable active volcanoes make life in these areas dangerous, as they from time to time spew large, deadly clouds of ash and smoke that can be lethal to any creature caught in its vicinity. Yet the Outlanders, in all their resourcefulness, frequent such regions once the dust has settled: for in the aftermath, the volcanic ash encourages the growth of abundant plant life nourished by the minerals, which in turn draw in plenty of herbivores for the Outlanders to hunt. Thus, in its destructive power, the Outlanders nonetheless find a reverence to the fiery peaks, for they too grant life as well as death. And it is in this reverence that their fearsome ideology arose: to burn down the enemies that oppose them, and build anew from the ashes left behind.

The increase of volcanic activity, both terrestrial and submarine, are in part due to increased tectonic movements in the Middle Temperocene that will only continue on throughout millions upon millions of years in the future. While now, for the moment, imperceptible to the growth of civilization, the landmasses of the Middle Temperocene proceed onto a slow march across the sea: perhaps heralding a collision course that will bring species together or drive them apart in the course of eons to come.’

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‘Pale-Beard was seventy-four seasons old, when he told his last story. But the stories he told would live on, far beyond their teller, so long as there was someone to tell them.

But as the waves of the sea washed sediment over a few bleached bones, picked and scattered by flyer-beasts, there became another part of him that would live on beyond his end.

A part of him still with many stories to tell.

A part of him that would live on, beyond even the story-tellers themselves.’

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‘Midwinter comes to the continent of South Ecatoria. In the warmer climate of the Middle Temperocene, snow now only falls in the southermost latitudes of the continent, yet even in the temperate and equatorial zones one noticable sign heralds the seasons: the two suns, Alpha and Beta, being closest in the sky, rising and falling in unison and leaving a full half of the solar cycle as true night.

Meanwhile, as clouds bring precipitation in the cooler months, a dazzling phenomenon makes itself visible: just as rainbows form on Earth as sunlight hits a prism, so it also does on HP-02017. Yet, as there are two suns and not one, their brilliant bands also come in pairs: the fainter second, cast by Beta’s dim red rays, are split by prisms into the same band of spectrums: but much brighter on the red side and far dimmer in the blue and green. And when atmospheric conditions are just right, this secondary red bow may be bright enough to rival the primary one: a dazzling spectacle that many of the planet’s creatures, the calliducyons included, can behold, with the red sun’s light over millions of years favored their trichromat vision.’

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‘The two moons that orbit HP-02017, known to the planet-seeders as Pyramus and Thisbe, follow an asynchronous cycle around their planet. As such, while Pyramus, larger and closer, takes roughly 30 days to circle the planet, smaller, farther, and brighter Thisbe takes slightly more than 60 days to complete a full orbit.

This thus means that in rare occasions, Pyramus seems to overlap Thisbe in the sky, eclipsing the smaller moon from the planet’s point of view. With two suns and two moons in the planet’s sky, this not only means that lunar eclipses and solar eclipses are more common, it also means that a strange “double-lunar” or “double-solar” eclipse can occur: one where Pyramus eclipses Thisbe, or where Alpha eclipses Beta, during the midwinter when the two suns are close in the sky and true night is at its longest, with Beta-twilight almost entirely absent.

The northhounds refer to this phenomenon as a “twomoon”, and its rarity has led to the figurative phrase “once in a twomoon”, to describe something that rarely happens. Indeed, such a phenomenon of the moons’ conjunction has only been recorded a handful of times throughout calliducyon recorded oral and artistic history. To some tribes, who depict the moons in their culture and mythology as husband and wife, this event is seen as the consummation of their pairing to beget more children: the stars. Other clans, however, who view the moons as siblings in their lore, find these interpretations, and their implications, quite uncomfortable.’

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‘Boarochs, the largest of South Ecatoria’s herbivores, sport tough, wear-resistant teeth that grow constantly as they are abraded, helping them cope with rough vegetation. Yet, as they age, this growth rate slows down, eventually causing the teeth to wear away, leaving the elder of the boarochs only able to chew with much difficulty. This leads to the phenomenon of the marsh boneyards: wetland areas, with plenty of soft aquatic plants, become sought-after by old boarochs reaching the ends of their natural lives due to the increased difficulty in foraging, the marshes coming to serve as a retirement getaway of sorts for the old, ill and infirm. Here, most of them eventually succumb to age, health complications and simply natural causes, leading to many of the dead to accumulate in such specific areas over centuries so long as the area remains wet and plenty of palatable vegetation grow in the area.

The abundance of carrion in these zones in turn attract veritable flocks of a close relative of the maned stormspirit: the nowherewing (Calvariocephalornimys nusquam), nomadic, scavenging pterodents with distinctive pale, bald faces that have no fixed home or preferred biome, simply settling wherever food is abundant, and moving on once food becomes scarce, a lifestyle well-suited for species capable of long-distance flight, searching for carcasses few and far between while expending minimal energy in the process. The nowherewings also perform a vital function in the marshland ecosystem by cleaning up rotting carrion, thus depriving diseases and their insect vectors a place to breed, and depositing their droppings far and wide as they migrate, spreading the recycled nutrients back into the ecosystem as they go.

Despite their beneficial impact on the environment as a whole, however, the nowherewing is feared by the calliducyons, especially the northhounds, due to its grim appearance and association with the dead and dying, especially its tendency to gather around ailing animals patiently waiting to feast, like a foreboding omen of impending doom. In some cultures, while its elegant-looking cousin the maned stormspirit is viewed favorably, at times even in a divine light and a bringer of rain, the nowherewing is seen as a dark and ominous harbringer of ill tidings. As both species are scavengers, which are known to feed on the remains of deceased calliducyons, the dichotomy of the two are pronounced too in their dealings with the dead: with those scavenged by stormspirits being seen as attaining a sort of ascension, but those scavenged by nowherewings being consumed by darkness and nothingness.’

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‘Three gleaming orbs seem to gaze back from the unmistakable visage of the saddled triclops (Pseudoculocervus triops), a fairly common ungulope from the temperate grasslands and plains of South Ecatoria. But its unusual looks belie an even stranger truth: what appears to be a third “eye” in the males is actually a scent gland they use for marking their territory, which, during the breeding season becomes so engorged with musky secretions that it grows large and shiny to almost resemble an additional eye in the middle of its forehead. The size and prominence of the organ may also play a role in sexual selection, as it is the males with the largest and most prominent scent gland that attracts the most receptive females.

The local calliducyon societies that share its territory hold this animal to great cultural significance, seeing it as a symbol of wisdom and enlightenment. The emergence of its “third eye” is viewed as a sign of its supposed ability to see into the deeper realm of the spirits and forces that govern the world. As the males rub this scent gland onto rocks, logs and trees, leaving behind a pungent reddish stain, some legends describe the male triclops as being so horrified of its supernatural visions that it weeps tears of blood, also making it a symbolic allegory to one who learns an unpleasant truth.’

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Hamster’s Paradise has recieved such a great amount of reception so I’m officially remastering it!

The original thread and sketches from 2017 can be seen here.

Art One-Shots:

Below are the chapters completed so far:

Prologue: In the Beginning…

The Rodentocene Era (1-25 million years post-establishment)

The Therocene Era (25-80 million years post-establishment)

The Glaciocene Era (80-120 million years post-establishment)

The Temperocene Era (120-? million years post-establishment)

(More to come…)

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“Welcome to world, newpup.”

“To you I am kind, but world…will not be.”

“Now you are weak. World destroy weak. Weak prey-beast to strong.”

“But you not weak always. You will grow, be strong. More big. More strong than other. You different. You special.”

“World want to destroy you. World want to destroy Us. Them want to destroy you, and Us. But you will be big and strong with many seasons. Stronger than other. Two strong put together. Two strong as one stronger. Two half made one whole.”

“Half of the Us who take sky-flame from Them.”

“Half of the silent spirits of the pale eye.”

“You are both but more. You both but greater. You both at once and more and stronger with time with seasons. The strong lead the Us. One day you lead the Us.”

“In seasons and many seasons, you lead in many days. Lead the Us to victory. The strongest will lead the Us and you will be the strongest to lead the Us. Chase off Them from good hunt-land, destroy Them if must. Land for the Us. Hunt-land for Us.”

“You will grow and be strong in many seasons.”

“When you are strong and big and lead, the unkind world will be prey-beast. Them will flee from the half-spirit. Half-spirit bring Us to greatness.”

“Like ash from fire-mountain, burn all, cover all. From ash of fire-mountain grow new life. Strong life.”

“Now you are weak, small, know nothing. But you will grow and be strong and learn. Learn to be fire-mountain ash and burn and bring strong new life.”

“Welcome to world, newpup. Now you are small and weak but not always. Time come in season when Them will run from your name.”

“And your name, new youngpup…will be Ashfall.”

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‘Every few years, populations of sand cricklings (Acridiscarabinus gregarius) reach perodic and explosive booms as their numbers swell dramatically. Normally solitary and inconspicuous, the sudden increase of these desert-dwelling, plant-eating beetles inevitably leads to a shortage of food supply in a few weeks’ time, and it is at this period of their life cycle that they begin to migrate in enormous groups: traveling many miles at a time, they feed and mate nonstop, depositing their eggs in suitable locations along the way as they form enormous swarms that at times may appear to be dark clouds from a distance, descending onto whatever vegetation they can locate and stripping them bare in a matter of days. During this period, their eggs and larvae develop much more quickly than usual, and they, too, become swarmers in a month’s time, born already in their gregarious phase when they emerge during this particular season.

The sudden appearance of so many herbivorous insects in an arid semidesert environment may lead to local epidemics of famine to resident herbivores, which at these times are too forced to migrate or starve. Yet, for the drysanders, residents of one of South Ecatoria’s most inhospitable regions, this plague is, conversely, a time of plenty. Seldom are they given such an abundant bounty of plentiful, easy prey whose only defenses are their sheer numbers, and with food and water quite scarce in their homeland, the swarming of the cricklings is considered a blessing. Indeed, in spite of whatever devastation they may cause to the local flora, the drysanders consider these seasons a cause for celebration, with their folktales and songs being ones of joy and thankfulness, citing a specific instance in their history many generations ago, known as the Summer of the Cloud-Bug Feast, when the timely appearance of the swarming bugs was the only thing that saved their people from certain doom in a grim time of conflict and hunger.’

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‘Found all throughout the rivers, marshes and lakes of the tropical northern regions of South Ecatoria, the olive muckgulper (Siluricochleus tinderus) is a bottom-dwelling freshwater pescopod that can grow to lengths of almost a meter when full grown. An omnivore resident to murky bodies of water with silt-covered riverbeds and plenty of submerged rotting tree stumps and logs which it uses to hide, it has very poor eyesight–but compensates with an incredibly sensitive sense of touch and smell, aided by its two lower sensory tentacles, equipped with sensitive branching filaments, that can pick up movement and chemical signals from potential meals in lakebeds and riverbeds, be it small live prey, decomposing carrion, or aquatic roots, algae and grass stems. Its internalized gastropod shell, now elongated and pen-shaped, is quite durable, but also surprisingly flexible, able to support its muscles but also allow its body to bend as it meanders through dense aquatic vegetation.

The numerous species of muckgulpers play a significant part of the diet of the numerous northhound populations, primarily riveners but also brownhounds, vulpins and talbots as well. Its pale, tender flesh is highly prized, but the stomach and its contents are typically regarded as distasteful, and are delicately removed before consumption to avoid spoiling the rest of the catch. Muckgulpers are commonly caught using crude poles and spears –not very different from the wood-tooth of the baywulves– which are, ironically enough, often tipped with the pen-like inner shell of muckgulpers themselves used as a spear point. This poetic circumstance is not lost on the northhounds: “catch the muckgulper by its own bones” is a rivener idiom meaning “a liar is exposed by their own words”. The muckgulper too finds a place in the vulpins’ figures of speech: a “muckgulper gut” is a term used in reference to “one bad individual thing, that ruins other good things in its association”.’

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