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Happy Thursday folks! This is my first sheet of fungus artworks for Kaleida, drawn by the immensely talented Ryan Nieto. He's a delight to work with and passionate about speculative evolution; commission him immediately!
I've already come up with positions in Kaleida's ecosystem for each of these fungi (and 5 more that Ryan drew, which I'll show in a few weeks' time). There's:
Desert waxlobe (1) - an unassuming little fungus that shows up in a traditional stew made at the start of the wet season close to Kaleida's equator
Bowing agaric (2) - a marine fungus with a soft, bendy stem, which relies on the current to spread its spores
Cave stinkhorn (3) - a stinky mushroom that grows out of bloodied ground
Tushma coin (4) - a nasty, aquatic fungus that grows on tushma, a brightly-coloured poisonous sea animal
Scab cap (5) - an equally nasty mushroom that tends to pass between social apex predators, and is responsible for bringing the pinno' grath and kasulam together.
Fungi mostly break down dead matter, but they do a number of other interesting things including helping plants communicate and infecting living tissue, among other things. So weaving these bad boys into my ecosystem is all sorts of fun! I'll post each one with a profile over the coming weeks.
Possible ret-cons: None for now, although I am interested in introducing colour to these fungi and the ones on page 2, which I'll post up soon.
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Art type: Colour drawing
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Subject: Fungus
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Appears in: Kaleida
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Written fungus ideas and Kaleida project is © thecharacterconsultancy
Artwork by Ryan Nieto and used with their kind permission
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Species Alien (Other)
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Huge fan of the stinkhorn. Earth varieties look alien enough already, but this one looks even moreso. You and Ryan did a great job! 😁
Thanks! And yeah, shrooms are wonderfully alienesque all by themselves so it feels like low-hanging fruit to come up with species like these.
Awesome!
When I first saw the stinkhorn I honestly thought it was like a carnivorous plant, closing its branches together to form a cage around small animals to try and digest them
When I first saw the stinkhorn I honestly thought it was like a carnivorous plant, closing its branches together to form a cage around small animals to try and digest them
Nice theory! I've written up profiles for each of these and will post them up soon. That includes one for the stinkhorn.
Sweet!
And thanks! Wonder what actual carnivorous plants on this world would be like
And thanks! Wonder what actual carnivorous plants on this world would be like
I haven't had the chance to show you all my carnivorous plants yet, but they're on the way!
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