#columbidae chimera

[harkthorn]

Today's sketch is a study of a classical chimera, but the lion part is a pigeon, and also the goat part is a pigeon, and would you believe it the snake tail is also a pigeon

-2450

[dsknsk]

If Terra is supposed to be some kind of alternate earth, then I tried to guess what the locations/organisations are supposed to represent. The races, too, seem to be a different name of ‘[animal kind] people’. (These are just my personal interpretations though)

Organisations

Rhodes Island - Knights Hospitaller. Started out as a medical crusader order but was forced to adapt and refocus to militarised force - interestingly when people started to call the order ‘Knights of Rhodes’.

Penguin Logistics & BlackSteel - Both international trading companies everywhere and nowhere. Don’t seem to be representative of a specific country.

Rhine Lab - Probably originates in countries representative of Western Europe. The Rhine flows through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Reunion - Modern terrorism.

Locations

Chernobog - Moscow? Either way, it’s a large city in Ursus. Ursus is said to have ‘large territory and fierce military might’. It is also the place where the bear people we know are from, also called Ursus (ursus is Latin for bear and the bear is Russia’s national animal)

Lungmen - Shanghai. It’s a large city and a huge one in terms of international trade, it’s also a port iirc. Lungmen is originally named 龍門 (Longmen), which is also the name of a county in Guangdong.

Victoria - United Kingdom. I don’t know if I should explain this because this one is p straightforward. The group Siege leads is even called Glasgow, sharing a name with the Scottish capital. Cat people from here.

Londinium - London. The name the Romans used for London is Londinium. I have no idea what Lentinium could be although it’s probably representative of another place in England.

Kazimierz - Could be Poland. Horse people from here.

Kjerag - Himalaya. Snow leopard people are from here, as well as people who are half Himalayan animal. The country is known for its snow-covered mountains.

Laterano - the Vatican. Angel people are from here. There’s even the Lateran council.

Rim Billiton and Columbia - seem to have inherited parts of the US? Dunno how to put this. Rim Billiton is Rabbit people place and Columbia is the place of the bird people; doves - Columbidae, although fox people also live here.

Far East - Seems to be Japan. Fumubuki is mentioned to be from here, as well as the Oni - in contrast to Wei Yenwu - for those not knowing, Fumubuki is a Japanese name while Wei Yenwu is a Chinese name.

Leithanien - Iceland.

Syracusa - Italy. Wolf people place.

Minos - Greece

Races

Anaty - Weasel/stout/ferret people.

Anura - Frog people. Frog = Anura in Latin. Same name as the real life thing.

Archosauria - Crocodile people. Representative of the Archosaurs are birds and crocodiles. Almost the same name as the real life thing.

Aslan - Lion people. Aslan (of Narnia fame) is Turkish for Lion.

Caprinae - Goat people. Same name as the real life thing.

Cautus - Bunny people. 

Chimera - Straightforward.

There seems to be a distinction between Dragon and Drake - Dragon is Eastern, Drake is Western.

Durin - Dwarfs/gnomes.

Elafia - Deer people. Elafia is deer in Greek.

Feline - Cat people. Straightforward. Apparently also includes snow leopard people, chinese lion people (see Aak) and tiger people (see Waai Fu).

Forte - Bovine people. Forte = strength.

Itra - Musk deer people. Possibly from Arabic عطر ('itr) meaning 'perfume' or 'musk'

Kuranta - Horse people.

Liberi - Bird people. Liberi means free.

Lupo - Wolf people. Lupus means wolf in Latin.

Manticore - Straightforward.

Oni - Demon people. Seem different from Sarkaz though; they can have either a single horn (like a unicorn) or two.

Perro - Dog people. Perro means dog in Spanish. (I know this because a former classmate had a dog named Perro...) Seem to be from alternate South America and Spain. (see Dobermann)

Petram - Seem to have something to do with stone. Might be turtle people.

Rubeba - Hyena people.

Sarkaz - Horned demon people. Usually have two horns. Vampires are a subrace of them (see Warfarin).

Sankta - Angel people. Sankta = sanctus = holy in Latin.

Savra - Lizard people. Savra is Greek for lizard.

Ursus - Bear people. Like I said before, ursus = bear in Latin.

Vouivre - Wyvern people. Vouivre is wyvern in French.

Vulpo - Fox people. Vulpecula = little fox in Latin.

Zalak - Rat/Squirrel/Capibara people.

[rainbowrosegames]

*bequeaths my sandwich and classic Lay's chips to the creature*

Today's sketch is a study of a classical chimera, but the lion part is a pigeon, and also the goat part is a pigeon, and would you believe it the snake tail is also a pigeon

-2450