Speedy grabbies :D

It´s fast!

Also plays into use of spears. They might not be good with something like a sword, but, a nice spear, light enough to be easy to manuver around, with the ability to spring load there arms to some motions, they can easily make very efective combatants. Yah, they are weaker than a human, and others, but they do have potential.
Should also add, there legs have very simular setup, giving them, potentialy, a lot of monuverability. Look at Bezal getting around Val Salia. It would requite training, and practice, and a mind to think about it, but, it would work. Told people a while back, don't sell the yinglets short. They are so stupid, not because they are stupid, but because of how they are brought up, start teaching them for real, and expect some great things to come from them.

Vinglet spearmaster with multiple spears, pogo-ing around the battlefield like an anime weirdo.

All of the mentioned things are in fact, well, things!
But Casifar is already pushing the limits of what the little ones are able to learn at once, from what little they have been shown today.

It´s best to make them understand WHY stuff works before showing them HOW it works!
Small steps :D

Short lifespan will start hurting in a few centuries when the planet reaches the Information Age. By the time they would each equivalent of college graduate they would be senile or dead.

Honestly, tell fairly recently, the GP did not live much past 25-30 years old. A lot was dependant on area, and diet. Of course, some of that was by breeding early and often, a number of girls died in childbirth cause they where actualy too small to give birth, and the baby tore them up and killed them. THen never mind the level of child deaths was quite horrific. I should mention that culture actualy played a part in things as well. Like the egyptians had a higher childbirth servivability because birth was normaly done at a temple, and they liked to keep things spotlessly clean, thus saving a lot of lives because the clean helped keep illness down. Greeks, at lest the well off greeks, tended to live longer as well, again do to things like cleanlyness and diet, more than anything else. The general populas did not live all that long, and, europe and such was quite horrofic for the death rates. China, and japan had a reverence for the older people, so they made a serious effert to provide better food and more. Thus alowing people a better chance to servive longer.

With yinglets, I expect the short lifespan is a side effect of what was done to convert the yinglets from low level live births to the multiple eggs that are present currently. For that matter, our fave yinglet here is an oddity, before the accsident, he knew his perents, and it felt like they where a throwback group, running away from the constraits of the current yinglet society.

Average lifespans when including childbirth mishaps of all sorts and infant mortality is very misleading. Its not that people were constantly dying at thirty, its that the infant mortality was dragging the average way down.

Far more statistically significant to seperate this into two numbers, average deaths before 20 and average lifespans otherwise. Around retirement age is when most would actually be unable to support themselves anymore, and thus if they didnt have a thriving family farm or grandkids to care for them, would go beggar themselves out, then die soonish after. IF their family structure was robust though, these were very valued members of the community who could teach quite a lot of skill to every other age group right from age 2 to age 40.

Medieval peasants were actually quite capable of and often did reach ripe old ages of seventy, eighty, so on even, when their families were thriving enough to support them with false teeth crafting and food mashing and such.

Now speakin of yinglets, since a whole different brain doesn't evolve virtually overnight or even over 300 years rather than half a million years absolute minimum, considering the truly volatile genome even considering brood size and frequency, and taking into account some other hints, they're clearly an uplifted species. I mean, BLUE fur. Gods, no. Haha, no no. You have no idea how ass backitup sideways chemistry has to go to get SHARPLY blue coloring instead of blueish gray or violets. Violets and purples too, to a lesser degree. Forget animal biochemistry when said creature is not 99.9998% water like a jellyfish. They are definitely either recently and violently mutated, or a designed or guided species.

That made clear, I'm pretty sure it would be easier to make a whole ass new creature than to change their reproductive strategy through biology rather than culture. Very likely that they did evolve as monotremes and early mammals to nurse their young in batches of 8-12 eggs laid one per day, then incubated, like chickens. What changed was what the males then DID for the mothers who would otherwise be tied down to a single brood for about 1.5 years or so before feeling safe enough to breed again. The communal raising did do a lot for the yinglets clearly. Its far more likely that the designers just made them smart enough to do that, then suggested it at earliest opportunity.

Mostly didnt have much more to say on this, I actually took a few statistics classes in HS and Community College so it makes me wince when people claim that the ancestors of peasants never ever lived to 50. When the first evidence of civilized hunters and gatherers is a leg bone found that mended while living, showing that early humans were not abandoning each other to die for not being able to run down prey personally. The bones were those of a 55 year old man. At least 15,000 years ago if I recall that right. It could have not been homo sapiens sapiens either, could have been way earlier. I dont remember the specifics.

Inspite of how genetics, and all the rest work, that is what happened, in cannon. Originaly yinglets gave live birth, and nursed there young. Now they lay eggs. Yah, shound not be possable, but, that is the cannon.
As for lifespan, that gets really flaky as there are so damned many factors. Medical care, diet, activity, work load, and a spit more. Never mind how much of a factor just being clean adds into things. Take well, fuck, take lundon, even in the victorian area, people where dumping buckets of human shit out the window and onto whoever happened to be down there. Most of there water sources where so contaminated that it would be considered a hazmat site right now, and thats the shit they where drinking. Never mind that a lot of the serfs and sustanance farmers where basicly starving themselves to death via poor diet and living in level of flith that is hard to comprehend. Remember, in places like england they would hang you for hunting rabbits on your own land.

Ah, I believe Ran made an inference slash suggestion in a Field Guide that the advent of the shelltooth had not been long ago at all, and that rather than growing enough to burst out of the shell like typical users of such egg types, snakes, they began cutting out earlier, making for less developed, more risky, but higher turnover eggs and younglings. Not quite sure where the idea that they used to give live birth came from.

Not sure how seriously to take the smexy content once or twice posted here on FA, but fem yinglets have been depicted with nipples on the main Valsalia account. For sure, milk production is mentioned. Yinglet legend demands that the Great Leader's innovation to have male nurses release females from their duties as soon as possible to care for eggs and younglets. To me this points far more to a small mutation, naturally selected or artificially induced, on top of a big CULTURAL shift in younglet rearing and society structure.

Where did you get the canonicity of former live births? One, technically it's Ren's speculation even though Val basically has him acf as a rhetorical exploration device. Two, it definitely didn't even suggest they had NOT used to hatch from eggs. The egg type is reminiscent of snakes, the egg production is reminiscent of chickens, but while its rather alien and mismatchy its definitely biologically feasible to have a late cycle monotreme have behaved like this.

Ah... yeah he did say this egg type was more like an external womb than a hardshell in anatomy. That's the reptilian adaption I think. I am not actually an expert, just an enthusiast. If I'm wrong I would like to know.

Welp, this is definitely the first actual illustration of their shooty-outy arm phenomena! Now I've got something to refer people to that ask about it : D

Not very detailed, but it gets the basics across :D

"Now when they are confused and threatened, they will remember their shooty arm. Wha-PISH."

They will have other teachings that will be co-operating with this one to combat such situations :D
Like Casifar said he will teach them at some point:
"when to fight when wanting to run"
"when to run when wanting to fight"

They will "hopefully" learn that at some point :D

Clever yings. Utilizing fun into training. <^\/^>

Not so clever though when they implement that mentallity wrongly into guard duty :D
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31605877/
That is why Casifar is a patriarch and those two are just on duty cycle!

should've said, "besides, at this age, a yinglet with a spear is a tragedy, best to wait until they've learned NOT to impale themselves"

It is that old saying:
Better first to explain WHY it works before showing HOW it works. Give the wisdom before the knowledge.

But yea, also, don´t give very sharp spears to younglets is definitely a wise decision, for everyone.

Mori’rai must feel like an illiterate 35 year old who has to go to school with first grade kids.

When I first had to learn how to ski in my teens, I was put on kid team the first day to learn the basics.
It is just like that sometimes XD

But god how important it is to know how to plough properly!

Not to mention, their skinny limbs are like the legs of storks... and their lighter belly fur helps conceal them from the eyes of prey below. A white-furred Yinglet would be an exceptional fisher.

Yup, they are from natures side made for that kind of living.
They are pretty much the same since forever, some of them just chooses to wear pants today!

...Yinglets wear pants??