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So, the more I tinker with the Baleen world the more I get ideas for the plant life.
For example, their whole world isn't a mist desert. If you follow along the coastline you'll eventually hit a tropical region full of mangroves and other plant life.
The "pampas grass" mangroves are plants that thrive in brackish water. The outside bark is thick and tough, the upper half being flexible enough to open and close. The "grass" portion of the plant is used for spreading seeds. So, of course, the plant doesn't want that eaten by other critters (Or used for textiles by the Baleens!) So they'll try to close up tight when they sense a threat.
Unluckily for them, the "Tall Cousins" have little pseudo arms that aid them in prying the protective bark open. Tall Cousins are related to the Baleens in a similar way as humans are related to Great Apes. The family resemblance is there, but the genetic split is very far down the line. They're fairly laid back as long as they know someone is there. But if you try to be sneaky and spook them, they will stomp you or try to charge you. Like any big herbivore, they'll throw down to defend themselves.
There's the "rice" succulents that grow in tide pools. Small, little pods of yummy nutrients. Very delicious when boiled and mashed into a paste. Tide pools with strong populations of these succulents are carefully guarded and tended.
Walking plants, meanwhile, are carnivorous plants that can slowly move from place to place on their elevated, shallow roots. They attract prey with the pools of water they keep in their cones. They have semi-aquatic relatives who act almost like jellyfish, but their trap is the presumed shelter their hoods would provide- until the prey is inside it and cannot escape back out.
Salt extractor plants, meanwhile, are thought to be distantly related to walking plants, but chose a sedentary lifestyle to focus on the filtering of water instead. Also called popper or spitter plants, they're partially valued and partially seen as a menace. The pure salt chunks they create are highly valued as a trading material, for Baleen families who are willing to trek from the mist deserts to the mangroves. On the other hand, it hurts like hell if the plant decides it's time to eject the salt and you happen to be standing nearby!
For example, their whole world isn't a mist desert. If you follow along the coastline you'll eventually hit a tropical region full of mangroves and other plant life.
The "pampas grass" mangroves are plants that thrive in brackish water. The outside bark is thick and tough, the upper half being flexible enough to open and close. The "grass" portion of the plant is used for spreading seeds. So, of course, the plant doesn't want that eaten by other critters (Or used for textiles by the Baleens!) So they'll try to close up tight when they sense a threat.
Unluckily for them, the "Tall Cousins" have little pseudo arms that aid them in prying the protective bark open. Tall Cousins are related to the Baleens in a similar way as humans are related to Great Apes. The family resemblance is there, but the genetic split is very far down the line. They're fairly laid back as long as they know someone is there. But if you try to be sneaky and spook them, they will stomp you or try to charge you. Like any big herbivore, they'll throw down to defend themselves.
There's the "rice" succulents that grow in tide pools. Small, little pods of yummy nutrients. Very delicious when boiled and mashed into a paste. Tide pools with strong populations of these succulents are carefully guarded and tended.
Walking plants, meanwhile, are carnivorous plants that can slowly move from place to place on their elevated, shallow roots. They attract prey with the pools of water they keep in their cones. They have semi-aquatic relatives who act almost like jellyfish, but their trap is the presumed shelter their hoods would provide- until the prey is inside it and cannot escape back out.
Salt extractor plants, meanwhile, are thought to be distantly related to walking plants, but chose a sedentary lifestyle to focus on the filtering of water instead. Also called popper or spitter plants, they're partially valued and partially seen as a menace. The pure salt chunks they create are highly valued as a trading material, for Baleen families who are willing to trek from the mist deserts to the mangroves. On the other hand, it hurts like hell if the plant decides it's time to eject the salt and you happen to be standing nearby!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Alien (Other)
Size 1000 x 1000px
File Size 845.1 kB
Thank you! 8D
It mostly came about from me thinking over how animals and plants would handle the salt of living in a brackish/salt water heavy environment. There's so many ways life on our planet handles it, so why not have fun with oddball ways a different planets species could develop ways to deal with it?
It mostly came about from me thinking over how animals and plants would handle the salt of living in a brackish/salt water heavy environment. There's so many ways life on our planet handles it, so why not have fun with oddball ways a different planets species could develop ways to deal with it?
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