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Rackiera In reply to raven-2007 [2015-04-14 19:29:36 +0000 UTC]

Hopefully we get to see them all but some of the outlying races may never end up showing their faces!

They're kind of like dogs in that respect, but it's nearly impossible for them to interbreed. They're more like lions and tigers - they can breed but they produce infertile young that's a weird mix of both the species. They're also close enough to be called races of one species, but at the same time different enough to be different species under a banner like "big cats", you know? I just refer to them as races, in the end. Makes it simpler. xD

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raven-2007 In reply to Rackiera [2015-04-18 02:17:28 +0000 UTC]

Alright, so the Wyverns lie in some kind of nether region, between being a full-blown species and just being several species in the same animal family? I guess infertile hybrids might perhaps be a rare thing anyway, with the Wyverns living in different regions that may or may not overlap (well, you would know if they do or not), size differences, etc. I can't imagine a Tundra Wyvern and Night Wyvern getting it on, for instance. xD

I also just noticed in the picture that maybe different Wyverns 'walk' differently, is that right? Like, the Sea Wyvern and Night Wyvern seem to be posed on two back legs (bipedal) with the wings being held up in the air, while others like the Forest Wyvern seems to use the wings as another pair of legs.

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Rackiera In reply to raven-2007 [2015-04-22 14:10:42 +0000 UTC]

Basically, yeah. And hah, yeah, they're generally kind of far. xD There's not much territorial conflict between wyverns.

Oh god, the image of a Tundra and Night Wyvern... I need some brain bleach! 

Yeah, they have different postures. Sea Wyverns' "wings" are more of a thick muscular flap like a penguin's flipper or a dolphin's fins. They wouldn't be great for supporting them unless they walked like a sea lion, and then their back legs would just kind of.. drag. Night Wyverns also have more grasping digits on their wings, which wouldn't be very nice for walking on on the ground - the other Wyverns have an extra joint in their wings that is meant to rest on the ground. If a Night Wyvern tried to do that, they'd be crushing their digits more than walking on their wings. So they just kind of evolved to stand on their hinds.

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raven-2007 In reply to Rackiera [2015-05-10 05:21:13 +0000 UTC]

Ah sorry, we're out of brain bleach atm! But here, try this new formula, it's ... oh wait no, it's the same stuff that turned you into a blue cat in our RP last year. :/

Ok, so the limbs/wings of each Wyvern have adjusted over millennia to suit each different environment. Makes sense, when you consider each different ecological niche that they occupy, and the comparisons with animals that share the same habitat (as you talked about with the Sea Wyvern compared with Penguins etc).

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Rackiera In reply to raven-2007 [2015-05-15 23:15:18 +0000 UTC]

Oh god, I'm not revisiting that experience!

Basically, yep. They're probably the most diverse species out there, alongside Dragons. They may as well be different species.

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raven-2007 In reply to Rackiera [2015-05-21 13:20:23 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, wise move! But you're still without brain bleach :/

Alrighty I'm sure Charles Darwin would savour at the idea of studying these different-but-related species... actually, anyone would. They're dragons! (ish)

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Rackiera In reply to raven-2007 [2015-05-24 13:52:54 +0000 UTC]

I love trying to figure out evolutionary theories for dragons and wyverns in general and try to make them as realistic as I can It's just fun for me.

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raven-2007 In reply to Rackiera [2015-05-28 23:35:16 +0000 UTC]

I reckon you'd have fun working as a taxonomist.
I like that fairly logical reasons can be found for most evolutionary features, like for example, the Sparkwings' wings gradually disappearing because of a lack of present-day need (kinda like a human's appendix) rather than the whole world and it's inhabitants being created solely on the basis of what appeals to the creator/author without thought as to the history of how the world and it's inhabitants came about. ^^

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Rackiera In reply to raven-2007 [2015-06-01 16:48:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh boy, I'm probably too squeamish for that But I do find taxonomy interesting in its own way, though I'd prefer if the animal was dead before it was found rather than killed for the skin. The latter's such a waste of life. I don't have much problem if the meat and everything's used, though~

Yep, I try my best to give as much natural logic I can to the world ^^ Evolutionary patterns being one of them. I like to think of Sparkclaw wings as something like wisdom teeth, since more and more kids are born without them every year, but appendixes work too. Except the entire "I'm going to explode and kill your internal organs, mwahaha" part of it

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