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KingsOfEvilArt — Mandibulus (Dream)
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Published: 2017-10-18 18:50:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1793; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 20
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Despite their utterly monstrous faces and 2.5 half meters at the shoulder, those monsters are very gentle and often highly educated scholars. In the dream, they were a group of librarians cooperating with human sorcerers while studying some arcane knowledge.Related content
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Looks like a Gug and sounds a bit like a Yith! Maybe they visited you in the Dreamlands.
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Yes, especially the Gug influence is evident but also Screamer of Tzeentch from Warhammer, whose models I've been painting at the time I dreamt of this.
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Awesome creature! Dang I was gonna name my Strange creature Mandibulus, well more of a scientific sounding name Brachii- Mandibulus.
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I hope you create some new equally cool name for your creation then.
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Thanks man, by the way I don't know if you saw but my right hand is healed up and now we can do that crossover. Just a heads up. Can't wait to see it.
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I know, but I have many projects now and I can't promise you any precise date when I make it.
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It's all good, I look forward to it even if the future is unclear, in the meantime I'll be practicing with my own projects as well but I might go ahead and attempt to take a stab at that God of Blind Luck. My hand maybe capable of drawing some but I have to get it back to top notch form and function after all the atrophy. You might like my new creation though it seems right up your alley horror wise.
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Good luck. You must be facing a difficult time now but it will surely feel great and satisfying to overcome this obstacle.
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Well I'm over the most difficult hurdle which is healing, thanks man I'll make just fine.
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Bibliotekarze? Odkąd przeczytałem "Metro 2033", to słowo trochę źle mi się kojarzy, zwłaszcza gdy widzę tak zniekształconą sylwetkę
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Ojc, no zdecydowanie nie byliby popularni, ale jaka cisze umieliby wyegzekwowac w bibliotece! XD
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I like the backstory a lot !
It would rock if a good scifi movie had some similar concept
But question,
Aren't librarians and scholars supposed to wear clothes ?
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Why would they? Such clothing is more of a cultural concept than envitonmental rewuirement in case of guys who read books, so a completely foreign culture could not have it at all
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Reminds me of a Hoath from Prophet a bit.
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The Hoath. The new lords of earth with the strange sideways claw-like mouths. They are kind of like what would happen if a gastropod turned into a human size intelligent animal.
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"Don't judge a book by their cover" is a strong saying with this creature
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Cool, and adorable. I can groups of these creatures shuffling through vast libraries, peacefully silent unless forced to shush passerby.
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I like this idea
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"Where is my damn cupcake? I know I left it here, you greedy bastards!"
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Even a peaceful and gentle creature would be angered by this.
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I call it a "which-way-does-that-bend?".
Background-story is cool. Kind of shadow out of time-y?
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I call it a "which-way-does-that-bend?".I'm imagining their jointing and flexibility works so all four limbs can potentially be used as hands. They'd prop themselves up on the three remaining limbs while fully extending the limb they'd temporarily designated as an "arm" from their otherwise-permanent crouching posture. Something like this for the forelimbs, this for the hindlinbs.
Also in the absence of clothing, possibly they could be identified by the crest of short horns or spikes protruding from their heads? Each individual has a unique arrangement? Possibly the "head librarian" would have the most impressive set, something like a naturally-grown biological headdress or crown ?
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I was mainly referring to the fact that the limbs look somewhat puzzling in their build, which from the way it looks is not homologous to that of a mammal. Or any animal I have heard of.
I can see what you mean for the for the forelimbs, however I am not convinced it would work for the hindlimbs as well. In Dugs (one of the cooler species that appear in the sw-universe!) the use of fore- and hindlimbs (compared to humans) apparently evolved the other way around, so that they walk on their hands and use their feet to perform tasks we would use our hands for.
A creature which could use both as hands? I guess some apes have feet which are more like our hands, but they are adapted to climbing, not to holding objects.
From the position this creature is portrayed in here it also hardly seems practical to use the hindlimbs (they appear to carry more weight than the front ones, so more human than dug-tendency in their habitus, also their body would be between the "hand" and the object in front of them). If they could change into a dug-like position, I imagine it might work, but the front limbs don't look long enough and also a bit weaker. Also for what reason should a species evolve in a way that enables them to use both pairs of limbs as "hands"? Seems to be of greater advantage/more effective to just specialize one pair to this point and leave the other to the task of bearing most of the weight. Just my thoughts though.
Headdress thing looks cool, and I don't see a reason against something like this working. It would be like antlers that cannot be used in fighting. Which would have the advantage of possibly attracting mates.
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I was mainly referring to the fact that the limbs look somewhat puzzling in their build, which from the way it looks is not homologous to that of a mammal. Or any animal I have heard of.The idea I'm getting here is basically forelimb anatomy similar to Wayne Barlowe's daggerwrist , only instead of a single immense talon, there's just another elbow-type joint and segment of arm with a hand at the tip. It doesn't exactly have a real-world parallel, but then again, neither does anything mammalian poesessing a vertically opposing jawbone.
Also for what reason should a species evolve in a way that enables them to use both pairs of limbs as "hands"? Seems to be of greater advantage/more effective to just specialize one pair to this point and leave the other to the task of bearing most of the weight. Just my thoughts though. Agility in climbing? Something like a primate brachiating? Capable of suspending itself upside-down from one hindlimb and a chandelier on the library ceiling while simultaneously using all three remaining limbs as manipulators. Sure they'd be slow on the ground but they live in an enormous library. There are bookshelves suitable for serving double duty as rudimentary ladders everywhere. A human could easily outrun and outlast the stamina of a mandibulus in a large open field but that's hardly relevant in a maze of bookshelves which the mandibulus knows how to navigate through and can unexpectedly drop from above.
Yeah, I'm probably undergoing some inspirational bleed-over from the Unseen University's Librarian here...
Also, they live in a library full of spellbooks. There's no reason why a pissed-off mandibulus would necessarily stick with animalistic attacks as opposed to just blasting everything with occult powers.
Headdress thing looks cool, and I don't see a reason against something like this working. It would be like antlers that cannot be used in fighting. Which would have the advantage of possibly attracting mates.Individual identification. Possibly mandibulus might also adorn their antlers with artificial ornaments , either purely for decoration or to store magical implements.
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I don't mind the "inspirational bleed-over"
Actually some really cool ideas in there!
Particularly the notion that they have specific adaptations to the library-habitat. The implication, I guess, would be that they either evolved under conditions posing challenges very similar to that of a library, or, even better, have been living in those libraries for long enough to have become adapted to this environment. But this latter version would then also beg the question why the libraries weren't built/changed to fit their anatomy instead of waiting countless generation for their anatomy to adapt. Anyway, I am rambling.
Seriously, you have some awesome imagination! Also seeing the story ideas you have posted, are you planning to write something based on them (or similar stuff)? Because I would be interested in reading that.
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Particularly the notion that they have specific adaptations to the library-habitat. The implication, I guess, would be that they either evolved under conditions posing challenges very similar to that of a library, or, even better, have been living in those libraries for long enough to have become adapted to this environment. But this latter version would then also beg the question why the libraries weren't built/changed to fit their anatomy instead of waiting countless generation for their anatomy to adapt. Anyway, I am rambling.Maybe they didn't develop their adaptations for libraries, just repurposed them? They'd have initially evolved as brachiators, then cut down their entire ancestral jungle habitat to pulp the wood into paper for the beginnings of their Library.
Or they're an artificial species. Whoever made the Library also made it a population of maintenance crew.
The Library is extradimensional. To access it requires a comparatively simple ritual consisting of drawing out a specific set of occult symbols, then making a sacrificial offering. Specifically, one book which the Library didn't already possess a copy of pays for entering the Library once. Sacrificed books will be added to the collection. Performing the ritual with a duplicate book has no negative consequences, it just doesn't do anything but waste time. The ritual can also be carried out using checked-out books to return them to the Library.
Seriously, you have some awesome imagination! Also seeing the story ideas you have posted, are you planning to write something based on them (or similar stuff)? Because I would be interested in reading that. Not actually sure. I'm good with ideas, not so much with actual write-ups and characterization. To an extent, my story ideas are just that.
Sorry.
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Sacrificial offerings required to enter would explain why they spend so much time there! If one has to "pay" to enter, better make the most of it.
And stories can be written in many different ways. In a way your writing them down as "story ideas" could be regarded as a different ways of writing the stories.
I am currently reading a book ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perf… ) consisting entirely of critiques for non-existent books. Some of these are just an alternative way of the author writing down the idea of a story he did not want to "write" as a traditional book. Story-telling can be done in many different ways, even on a meta-level. For example, an idea for a race of monster-librarians could be written as an encyclopdia-article instead of orthodox story-telling. Even writing down something that is "just a story idea" is still writing something down. 
But please do not feel pressured by me expressing my interest. There is no need to say sorry for that!
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Sacrificial offerings required to enter would explain why they spend so much time there! If one has to "pay" to enter, better make the most of it.
The rule necessitating sacrifices as payment to enter the Library just applies for visitors, not the mandibulus natives. They probably stay remain in their native habitat aside from retaliation whenever someone has an overdue book or quests when they're asked for a volume the Library doesn't yet possess a copy of.
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Hmmm, maybe a bit. But they are actually nice guys, cooperating with others instead of dicks who steal others knowledge giving nothing in return xP
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I was thinking the same. Haha.
And wow. I'd love to meet these fellows myself, KOR. Sound very cool. Monster librarians!
I'm reminded of the initial concepts for Alien, as well, in which the Xenomorphs were a race of peaceful, religious scholars, whose children are born as violent wild animals and have to be tamed and enlightened.
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I'm reminded of the initial concepts for Alien, as well, in which the Xenomorphs were a race of peaceful, religious scholars, whose children are born as violent wild animals and have to be tamed and enlightened.
Imagine a species. Adults are herbivorous, a necessity since their environment lacks any animal life besides themselves, sentient and superficially humanoid, though clearly not human. They're all hermaphrodites so any two individuals can reproduce, each of them impregnating the other with multiple larva. Adults lack any way of giving birth and the tiny, non-humanoid larva remain inside the bodies of their parent, comatose and sustained by umbilical cords parasitizing from the metabolism of their parent. They can remain in this state indefinitely. When the parent dies, the flow of nutrients and oxygen cuts off causing the parasitic larva awaken from hibernation and eat their way out. Larva quickly grow from tiny parasites to ludicrously lethal but nonsentient superpredators. Their population exponentially increases as the larva from one adult kill other adults and free their larva as well. The inevitable result is the death of everything. Adults, animal life, plants, etc all devoured by swarms of ecosystem-wrecking deathworld monstrosities.
Then, all at approximately the same time since they were all "born" at approximately the same time, all the larva cocoon themselves while encysted seeds in their dung from the plants they consumed take root. By the time their metamorphosis into sentient adults is finished, the ecosystem will have restored itself until the next cycle.
The civilization of the adults is permanently neolithic since it has to restart from scratch every generation and they don't realize what their lifecycle consists of. They have no idea that they're even capable of reproduction until it's too late.
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They are certainly nicer than Yithians.
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