#and im still mad that glaedr or whatever his name was said 'after all this is over ill gladly settle down and tell you about those beasts'

[spearxwind]

Hi Alex! I was wondering, since there's leviathans of all fuck off sizes, are there other species in this world? Like Wyverns that can fly above and swan dive to say hi to their leviathan buds?

Hiya! There arent any dragons if that is what youre asking, nor any other massive species.

Besides the leviathans and all the regular sealife, fauna in CD is mostly avian (primarily seafaring birds and jungle fowl on the islands)

There are some bigger birds around but they are nowhere near as big as the leviathans are. I think the max size for birds would roughly be around cutter class sized (the smallest leviathan class), and those DO dive for fish like ospreys, though leviathans might chomp at them if they get too close (the same would happen with wyverns too)

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As a note, there's a non-lore adjacent reason for it too, it's that I do not want the focus to shift away from the ocean and the leviathans. If I made giant flying things there would have to be logistics around that and I would not want them to interfere with what I already have.

Though now that I'm thinking about it, it could be really swag to have hunters who ride on big birds (I am immensely biased), though as much as I like it idk if I can make it work without pulling too much focus from the CD vibe haha

#it could be a small regional thing? limited to a biome hmm #I doooo really like the idea of big water beasts snapping things up out of the sky if they fly too close to the water #with talas specifically when he was in an older headworld that DID have dragons in it he would do that so i bet he would do that here too #and so would a myriad of other sea monsters #talas also has an ice beam attack so if something is flying high he can actually beam it and make it fall :) i do think about that a lot #theres uh. this one scene in the eragon trilogy where saphira is resting on the waves like a massive seagull after a long flight #in the middle of the fucking ocean. and suddenly they all get a chill down their spine and she takes off as fast as she possibly can #and then this massive monstrous maw just opens up beneath them and closes just SHY of her tail and wingtips as she ascends #i have thought about that vibe for A DECADE since i read that. its one of my fave things ever even tho it lasted for a paragrapth #and im still mad that glaedr or whatever his name was said 'after all this is over ill gladly settle down and tell you about those beasts' #AND HE NEVER DOES!!! AT LEAST WITH THE READER!! UGH!!! I WANTED TO KNOE ABOUT THAT THING SO BAD #anyway this is my mega random tangent hi hello good afternoon. thank u for asking !! #ask #anon #challenger deep