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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3743493" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>Whilst applying animal taxonomy to fantasy monsters is at best inexact (to put it mildly) I think a cpollective effort could be made to catergorise things into families based on observable traits (afterall thats exactly what the Monster Types do<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p></p><p>The Basic relevant <em>animal</em> Phylum for our purposes are Amphibian, Reptile, Fish, Bird, Mammal and Anthropods and <em>Squishies</em> (a non technical term including Worms, Mollusks, Echinoderms)</p><p></p><p>Its a time waster but can be entertaining for instance I have suggested that Dragons are evolved from a double finned Pelycosaur. IRL Pelycosaurs are consider directly ancestral to mammals which suggests that humans might descend from dragons<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue :P" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></p><p></p><p>So heres my first attempt based on Woas list</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lizard folk are most likely reptiles</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fish, possibly reptiles, very slim chance of being amphibians</p><p></p><p></p><p>Skum are very similar to amphibians and if a natural race would probably be catergorised as such (even though they are technically afflicted abberations</p><p></p><p></p><p>Chuul are obviously anthropods</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd personally rule that Sea Cats were reptiles (crocodilian perhaps)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Merfolk are most-likely mammals related to Dugongs/Manatees<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Its not been established what Trolls and hags are so these just might be amphibians</p><p></p><p></p><p>SOme fish species can 'walk on land' so no reason the aboleth can't be entirely fish</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 3743493, member: 1125"] Whilst applying animal taxonomy to fantasy monsters is at best inexact (to put it mildly) I think a cpollective effort could be made to catergorise things into families based on observable traits (afterall thats exactly what the Monster Types do:)) The Basic relevant [I]animal[/I] Phylum for our purposes are Amphibian, Reptile, Fish, Bird, Mammal and Anthropods and [I]Squishies[/I] (a non technical term including Worms, Mollusks, Echinoderms) Its a time waster but can be entertaining for instance I have suggested that Dragons are evolved from a double finned Pelycosaur. IRL Pelycosaurs are consider directly ancestral to mammals which suggests that humans might descend from dragons:P So heres my first attempt based on Woas list Lizard folk are most likely reptiles Fish, possibly reptiles, very slim chance of being amphibians Skum are very similar to amphibians and if a natural race would probably be catergorised as such (even though they are technically afflicted abberations Chuul are obviously anthropods I'd personally rule that Sea Cats were reptiles (crocodilian perhaps) Merfolk are most-likely mammals related to Dugongs/Manatees:) Its not been established what Trolls and hags are so these just might be amphibians SOme fish species can 'walk on land' so no reason the aboleth can't be entirely fish [/QUOTE]
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