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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5339142" data-attributes="member: 2067">So maybe not big things like birds, but small things like insects (and pixies!). Of course, there'd need to be something in the cold half to be appealing enough to ever travel there. Without sunlight, there's not gonna be a whole lot of life, but maybe it could be like the North Pole, where tidal action brings life that flowers on the light side into the darkside gradually, feeding great behemoths there. Only instead of tidal action, you've got wind action: insects hatching in the warm light side go high enough to avoid predators, mate, and lay their eggs up high in the winds, relying on gravity to draw those eggs down to the lower wind layer, to cycle them back to the light side where they can hatch. The adults, though, manage to get devoured hulking white constantly-flying balloon-whales. Mostly mouths, they gulp great clouds of small life, sustaining themselves on it like baleen whales.If the dark half is volcanically active, it could sustain some permanent life, even close to the "antipode." Even though Antartica is so far away from sunlight much of the time, the real killer there is rock + ice = basically lifeless (aside from moss, lichen, extremophiles, whatever). If you've got a few active volcanoes breaking that up, or a more open ocean like the North Pole, the odds for life go up nicely: the ocean can breed large quantities of fish and larger life (even migratory life that is born on the light side, but feeds on the dark side), and the volcanoes create lakes and melt icecaps and provide heat. Less Antartica, more Greenland. Maybe in a D&D-style place you have the "light side" as the above-ground critters, and the "dark side" as the Underdark. Dwarves and drow and beholders and whatnot over in the shadow, Terrasques and T-rexes and Assassin Vines and whatnot in the light.</blockquote>

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