Wyrssa (Edited/rewrote)

[Kitten 367]

What are they?  Wyrssa, also called the Crystal daemon deer.

 

 

How do they get this way?  They eat the Crystal Flowers.  They safely defuse the crystal’s chemicals by depositing it into their skin.  This causes the many large crystal’s on their fur.  However if one was to remove them, the crystals are all but worthless.  

 

Do the crystals help them at all?  Yes, for their natural predators it makes them back off, because of the solid crystals that can cause teeth to easily chip, or the overly salty taste will overload the senses of the animals trying to eat upon these creatures.

 

Why do they like Atgaard?  They stay there because its near a plant that helps them digest meat, and also gives them the large sodium boost they need.  They can live without it, but they only can eat plants if they don’t get that.  Which makes it hard for them to eat in the winter.

 

Are they aggressive?  Not towards people, but towards other animals they can be when provoked.  They are generally passive and loving, preferring to curl up against their riders and loving on them.  Will they attack someone, they will run if attacked, they prefer being non confrontational.  So No.

 

How hard are their horns?  The horns are actually covered in crystal, so they are extremely hard, however it is mainly used to fight for dominance in their herds.

 

What size are they?  Let me show you.  

 

 

They are the size of a moose being  6’8 feet at the shoulder.

 

How much do they weight? About 760 for a female, and 1020lbs for a male.

 

Can you get one?  Sure, you can get one, however anyone thats not an elf or a halfling can’t ride them.

 

Why can only elves ride them?  They have semi weak bones, dwarves, human, orcs, and Kha are all to heavy for them.  

 

What if the elf is in armor, and its not light weight?  Then it makes it extremely hard for the Wyrssa and their bones MAY snap.  They are meant for speed and being light weight.

 

What does it eat?  It eats really anything it can get, being a scavenger they find life easy when bonded to someone else, due to being fed daily that way.

 

How many babies does it have?  1-2.

 

How often do they breed? Once every two years, so two elven weeks.

 

How would you represent it in MC?  A grey horse, or a white horse if someone requires the beast to be there.   

 

Can you ride it?  Yes, its big enough to have a saddle.

 

What happens if it doesn’t have access to these flowers?  Well if its already eaten from it, it keeps its crystalline chunks and horn, if not then it just has a regular deer horn, and no crystals on is body, making it just pretty much a plain deer, with a tail similar to that of an arabian and cloven hooves.  So I guess you could mistaken it for a strange antlered unicorn.  

 

What types of group do they live in?  The Wyrssa are in a pack system when they aren’t domesticated.  Being extremely playful at a young age it takes several of them to take care of a baby.  The leader is always the largest, and the ones of its pack will obey it, of course unless a larger one comes around and wins.

 

Are they loyal?  EXTREMELY, being pack creatures, if one is domesticated by you, they will obey you similar to as if you where the alpha.

 

What is their behavior like?  Docile and playful, they are quite often seen loping around the fields, and walking up to socialize with those around.  They are rather skittish when people make extremely loud noises, back stepping sometimes running.  To avoid this you must have the full trust.  Of course don’t forget to eat meat they do have teeth similar to ours, and that can make it rather painful to be bitten if you do attack one.

 

Ok, so I’m an orc and I want one as a pet, can I?  Sure, just don’t ride it, you WILL kill it if you do.  

 

Why won't they accept other's?  Now these creatures also are semi repusled by other races, the smell of them is quite different from the almost nature scent.  A human would smell more of war, a dwarf of stone, an orc of blood and sand, but halfling and elves to them they naturally smell like plants, trees, fields.  This is a scent that animals can pick up, and its why humans, and other races though if you get one light enough, the Wyrssa would most likely reject.

[DecoLamb 959]

I'll give you credit that the artwork is rather nice, and the crystal aspect is interesting. As I've said before I love the flowers [i think you should also add trees and vines to this concept]. However I have some points of curiosity.

 

What causes the salted flavor? Are the flowers chemically made up and are actually cyrstalized salt formations, not plants at all? I haven't re-read it in a bit so I'm curious there.

 

On the hardness of the horn, and the horn itself. If it's simply a crystal covered horn, I would assume there is bone underneath like a normal horn. Since they are based on deer, do they shed their antlers in a seasonal cycle like normal deer? Might be interesting to find shed antlers, and smaller creatures like mice could eat the bone out leaving a hollow or near-hollow horn. Lovely for decoration or something I would suppose.

 

And on the horn itself, does eating the crystal cause the antler to fuse or will the diet as they grow cause a different growth pattern? And do the crystals cause the tail to extend and plume? Since you said if they didnt have access to the crystal its just a normal deer, which this creature truly doesn't appear to be save for its bodily frame.

 

Also what causes it so that only elves and halflings can ride them? If its the statement that they are fragile, could small children of other races not ride them as well? Or petite/female humans? Or are they just sentient and make this choice, if so what bases this choice? ARE THEY RACIST?! Could a druid commune with them possibly?

 

On the aspect of birth size. i see that they're based on deer quite obviously, and very obviously there is pull form the mythological Kirin or Qilin, which makes me question how they could manage to hold that many young unless they have some kind of pocket demention inside them. 1-2 would probably make more sense, at least in my opinion.

 

Also are those solid hooves or cloven?

 

After those questions, I have to ask this. Have you ever heard of Glenmore? Other than the crystals, your creation is very similar to the deer that reside within that little story-rp thing hosted on DeviantArt. Very beautiful stuff, I recommend you check it out. And that leads to my other question;

 

Is there a possibility of color variations within the crystals? Could there be some that are more golden or more violet? Or do all of them share the same basic hue with slight variations in saturation?

[bickando 3399]

Why do you call them Wyrssa? Do they have anything to do with Wyrvun, or did you just think it sounds okay?

 

How is it that only Atgaard has this plant they like? Why are they Crystal Daemon deer if they're nothing like Daemons? Why are the crystals worthless if they're so hard?

 

Did you know that nowhere in the lore does it say Elves weigh less than Humans? And that if this deer was indeed the size of a moose, it would be able to hold a Human just as easily as an Elf?

 

Why can a 6'8" deer be represented by a cat?

[Kitten 367]

Edited the lore a bit.

 

I forgot to remove the cat bit as I said I edited my old lore.  

 

As for the crystals, they are hard because they are dense.  However its not valuable because its just extremely dense salt.  

 

The horns are shed yes, but are rapidly regrown, no eating them does nothing, as the crystals don't hold the same exact composition as the plant when they are eaten its pretty much useless but if crushed it can make a healthy supplement!  

 

I based the name Wyrssa off of a Mercedes lackey creature and they are called Daemon Deer because they are very strange, and may once or twice have accidentally impaled people when first found.  However they also eat meat, so that itself throws people off.

 

No Deco I've never read that series, or even seen it, when I was drawing the creature i was like should I do scales?  NO!  Crystals, crystals would be prettier.

 

The horns are hard because they are encased on top of the bone.

 

As they are animals yes a druid can talk to them, but a druid isn't guarenteed to get it to ride, as they can be rather proud.  

 

If you read the lore on the flower you will see it will change things to a salty/calcium crystal.

[DecoLamb 959]

Go look at 'Fawnlings' on Deviant art. You could probably pull inspiration from there on future drawings. Maybe the crystals can cause some crazy antler variations? Would allow for some individuality behind them. Or perhaps the feathering is possible as well? Maybe there can be patterns in the crystal growth as well?

 

Also a thought occurred, if the flowers and creatures are basically salt crystals, would rain bot melt away at them? Maybe they have a natural fear of water because they could melt? I didn't realize this when reading the previous sets of lore, but my eggnog swirled mind just recalled that salt dissolves.

 

And again on the crystals, is it possible for there to be variations of color? Even if it is salt, salt comes in a lot of colors;

 

 

You could potentially have pink variations of the deer, these flowers, and the cats, depending on what crystallization of salt makes up the batches of the flowers they eat.

[Kitten 367]

OH!  Thats right I meant to say yes, the crystals can come in different colors, forgot to answer that.  The crystals can be worn away after long periods of time, but its why they prefer to stay in Atgaard so if it begins to fade they can replenish by eating the flowers.

[Jistuma 1995]

This lore has been Accepted!

 

This means that the plant is accepted too, but first the plant needs to get some things fixed and what not. It exists, but it's properties need to be refined.