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Skin Coloration of the Elfes of Aquilon

Posted on December 1, 2022

The world of Aquilon is a diverse planet, with two main continents, named Arran and Ogon. Among the numerous sentient species, all of which established civilizations, the elfes are the most diverse and separated into several well-defined divisions, effectively subspecies of the same species. Besides important cultural differences, the most distinct feature of each subspecies is skin coloration, which differs greatly and is often used to name the entire clade. Although initially it was thought that each clade is synthesizing a different pigment, it soon appeared that the skin’s chemical composition is not differing from the human’s one and the color difference is entirely due to differences in structure.

Biodiversity of Okheania

Posted on April 14, 2022

The world of Okheania is a fabulous environment, largely shaped by gigantic trees, forming an evergreen dense surface with their crowns and a dark, hostile space around the trunks, similar to the Ocean’s depth and simply named “the profundity”. This green “ocean” developed on Earth after the sowing of the megatrees, initially developed in laboratory conditions to cope with the pollution of anthropogenic origin. As such, it forms a unique ecosystem with several well-defined biotopes and a flourishing variety of lifeforms. The dominant organismal group is that of Order Ichthymammalia, descendants of the common mammals that underwent extensive evolution and currently resemble in many ways the fishes that previously lived on Earth. Uniquely, the present ichtymammals evolved in a convergent way to these fishes and many similarities could be established between these new species and the now extinct fishes of the past.