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<blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1285521" data-attributes="member: 6398">As indicated, there is no &quot;official&quot; reasoning.&nbsp; I'll share my take on it though: Shortly after the dawn of time a great sin was commited (too long to explain, but let's just say a powerful deity attempted to unmake the cosmos).&nbsp; While disastor was overted, the act left great wounds upon the world.&nbsp; Even now, nearly 20,000 years later, EarthMother bares the pain of those scars.&nbsp; In the regions where these wounds exist, Dire Creatures tend to evolve, being physical representations of EarthMother's sorrow and agony.&nbsp;In addition, I sometimes Dire-up a critter (using the template) but then give it a description that isn't a Dire [Anything].&nbsp; For instance, Roomba Raptor Lizards are actually Dire Vultures with their Flight speed taken away and given a faster land speed, and Nagorian Blood Apes are Dire Tigrillas (see ToH: Templates, Abomination) that look like big apes with red fur rather than ape-tiger crossbreeds.&nbsp;So I guess the answer is: Where ever you want them to come from.<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;G'day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bendris Noulg, post: 1285521, member: 6398"] As indicated, there is no "official" reasoning. I'll share my take on it though: Shortly after the dawn of time a great sin was commited (too long to explain, but let's just say a powerful deity attempted to unmake the cosmos). While disastor was overted, the act left great wounds upon the world. Even now, nearly 20,000 years later, EarthMother bares the pain of those scars. In the regions where these wounds exist, Dire Creatures tend to evolve, being physical representations of EarthMother's sorrow and agony. In addition, I sometimes Dire-up a critter (using the template) but then give it a description that isn't a Dire [Anything]. For instance, Roomba Raptor Lizards are actually Dire Vultures with their Flight speed taken away and given a faster land speed, and Nagorian Blood Apes are Dire Tigrillas (see ToH: Templates, Abomination) that look like big apes with red fur rather than ape-tiger crossbreeds. So I guess the answer is: Where ever you want them to come from.:) G'day. [/QUOTE]

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