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Create a list of at least five animal-cryptid pairings. This will involve research.
There will be a difference in size and scariness between animal and cryptid to go with the Duality theme.
So an idea was that we would have a variety of "biomes" which would spawn certain animals/cryptids.
Biomes suggested and thought of so far:
open meadow
forest
lakeside
mountainous
underground
swamp
river crossing
RANDOM LIKELY INCONCLUSIVE DUMP OF PNW ANIMALS
elk, beavers, black bear, mountain lions, otters, hoary bats, Pacific shrew, brush rabbits, western toads, coastal tailed frogs, western painted turtles and western rattlesnakes, quail, Cryptomaster behemoth (aracnid), Cryptomaster leviathan (aracnid), Camas pocket gopher, gray tailed vole, black tailed deer, haida ermine or daayaats or Tlag (cute!!), Marsh shrew, snail, marbled murrelet , northwestern garter snake, mountain beaver, pacific banana slug, pacific tree frog, roosevelt elk, rough skinned newt
townsend's chipmunk, black bear, spirit bear, vacouver sea wolf, mountain lion, coyote, nutria
Now for the animals, we're looking for cute, innocuous type stuff, right? I mean, I think bears could still count and pnw black or white bears aren't huge. they could turn into sasquaches.
or Gumberoos, which, based on their descriptions, seem like a bear with a really bad case of mange.
The Gumberoo is said to look like a fat bear in shape but completely hairless except for its prominent eyebrows and bristly hairs on its chin. Instead it has dark, smooth, and extremely tough leather-like skin. This makes the beast invulnerable to bullets and arrows.
*Anything shot at the beast, simply bounced off. Its weakness was fire and was the only known way to defeat it.
Gumberoo was also said to always be hungry and devoured anything it can find that looked like food. A whole horse may be eaten at one sitting, but it's not enough.
In the 2015 version of Fearsome Creatures, the Gumberoo now has thirteen limbs, ten arms and three legs. Its diet is omnivorous physically and literally. The bear is NOT a gentle giant. After being burned, if a human inhales the particles of the beast, the organs will get coated with rubber, which is easily misdiagnosed as tuberculosis. The Timberdoodle, a dog with big bug eyes (not insect) and humanoid teeth that clamps down its teeth and will not let go until thunder is heard, is the second weakness of the Gumberoo and the only animal the bear fears. Because of this, the Gumberoo is a coward when its rubbery skin is bitten. Its scientific name is Triskaidecapus elastica.*
I almost imagine like a bear with a huge smilish maw because of this pic:
We want some fairly innocuous, pleasant creatures, so here's some ideas?
bear -- mountain, forest
deer -- meadow, forest
nutria -- by a body of water
a bird, maybe a marbled murrelet? -- forest and mountain
marsh shrew (jesus shrew) -- swamp, body of water
crypomaster behemoth -- forest, near water aracnid
mountain "beaver" -- mountain
mountain lion -- mountain, forest
1.Sasquach
2. Gumberoo
3. Amhuluk
4. Baxbaxwalanuksiwe (https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/06/29/baxbakwalanuxsiwae/)
Here's another idea: the Akhlut, which is more an Inuit thing, so farther to the north.
Imagine an orca walking on legs, hunting like a wolf.
I believe that we can just use the Wendigo as a hideous morph of a deer or elk.
So Nutria, as water-side creatures, could turn into something water based.such as the Amhuluk, which strikes me as quite similar to the underwater panther -- the mishepeshu -- of Ojibwe mythology.
To quote the godzilla blog around a creature they made based of this: "Amhuluk is named after a water monster from the folklore of the Kalapuya tribe in Oregon. The creature, described as a horned dragon covered in spotted fur, was associated with drowning, disease, and the malarial fog."
So what do you, think? It would be in the lakeside or riverside biome.
Now, we could even bring the mishepeshu itself into this game, perhaps esp since meeg and I are ojibwe, even though that's a great lakes creature. That one could be what the mountain lions turn into. Imagine a giant dark waterdwelling panther-like but almost serpentine creature with horns or antlers, copper scales on the underside of its body.
I haven't really meant to assign you guys, but I wanted to see if there were thoughts. Should we have a smallish black bear, a deer, a nutria, a bird of some kind, a mountain lion?
So, we're looking at nutria, a bird, a deer, rabbit and a newt so far.
These could turn into the Amhuluk, some sort of as undefined yet flying creature, a wendigo like beast, and some twisted kind of fanged donnie darko jackalope thing.
So I think the nutria could be cool to turn into this:
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Amhuluk?file=Amhuluk.jpg
Imagine it elongates, growing horns, and we keep some of the rodent like features of the face... I'm thinking of the rodents of unusual size from the princess bride as another source of inspiration.
Hey, that's a nutria, isn't it?
https://easyreadernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rodents-of-unusual-size.rodent-1-1200x857.jpeg
For the turkey's cryptid, we can go with a combination of the thunderbird and a kind of "turkey-dactl" pterodactlish creature. A source of inspiration could be the raven mocker of Cherokee mythology. https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Raven_Mocker
imagine a monstrous turkeydino creature whose feathers crackle with the power of storm. Could be a joke that he's the joke failure cousin of the thunderbird.
The deer could turn into a kind of Wendigo creature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd56c4e4b07b4a7d220580/1569973959796-Y3JU7OS1SI7ERFAM8GRE/Wendigo5.jpg?format=1000w
Imagine an emaciated body and head, but powerful. almost undead looking deer stooped humanoid. and giant.
The rabbit could become like this monstrous donnie darko fanged jackalope thing. We could go for a bipedal stooped look for it too if we find that creepier. making these creatures more humanoid like that adds to the creepiness factor, i think. more unnatural, more supernatural, more twisted and intentional with its malice.
The newt could become something similar to the ogopogo which is a large serpent-like dragon. There's a lot of room for interpretation with this. We want it to stand out from the Amhuluk, the other water-based amphibious creature. One way to do this would be to make the Ogopogo drag its body more like a serpent or plesiosaur would while the Amhuluk would walk more like a land walking quadruped.
Grand job!