#shen gaoren

[damnwyverngems]

TEPPEN official artwork for the Shen Gaoren card.

[sentientballofpeas]

Hey everyone! I drew a shen gaoren badly.

Will post more soon.

[acrosaurotaurus]

Shen Gaoren

Drawn in pencil, colored digitally.

[iamthekaijuking]

[the-blue-dance-road]

Shen Gaoren traveling through the mountains

[narcoticwriter]

Shen Gaoren 🤝 Lao-Shan Lung: Get out my way.

[es46]

A goof, but something of a snark to how elder dragons continue to proliferate in spite of increasingly absurd notions of influence conflicting to rarity meanwhile other clades still stumped on a few singular members.

[mhsexymonpoll]

[katyvern]

Teppeki Shen Gaoren and Guren Shen Gaoren Hybrid because I got lazy

[monster-hunter-tournament]

Shen Gaoren vs. Rakna-Kadaki

[damnwyverngems]

[sentientballofpeas]

Hey everyone! I drew a teppeki shen gaoren poorly.

Will post more soon.

[ancestral-steppe]

Love the Dire Miralis gifs !! Thank you :)

you’re welcome!!

[sansastarsa]

111. Shen Gaoren

[iamthekaijuking]

I didn’t have a part in this one since no organ system illustrations were needed and the bones of crabs are on the outside, but it’s still a really fun video because crabs are always a really fun thing to research.

Like UHC said, the duo having half the legs of other decapods is actually advantageous at a larger size. Less legs means less energy expenditure and more focus on the legs you have, and many of the fastest running animals only use 4 or 2 legs so it’s also a speed advantage.

And surprisingly, at least in sunbreak, Hermitaur and Ceanataur have somewhat realistic crab mouths. While their mouths are surrounded by spikes, they do have 2 out of the 3 maxillipeds visible. Albeit just oriented weird.

I do have to disagree with UHC thinking they’re unrelated though. They have too many anatomical features in common and their juveniles are identical as well. But as far as where they and by extension Shen Gaoren go in the decapod family… it’s hard to say. I’m not entirely sure since I’m not very knowledgeable about crustacean phylogenetics. Hermit crabs are an obvious answer but the ‘taurs have abdomens that are very different from real hermit crabs (although it’s entirely possible the person who modeled them didn’t know what hermit crab asses looked like).

(Image curtesy of @krmoaten-blog)