#tales of kaimere

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Urugetar eating a Mawiri (Kaimere)

i made some Kaimere fanart because spec yes please 🫡🫡🫡

here we see the an Urugetar eating a freshly caught Mawiri

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

Woe. More xeno dbz designs be upon ye.

Also a Uktan eating a Saiyan because why not?

[soylent-crocodile]

Moørkutlot (Monster)

(One of Kaimere's most unique and infamous monsters, the silent one was teased for a good few years before we finally got to see exactly what it was and what it evolved from! I have to say, while the titanosaurs and megaraptors and sloths of kaimere are the bread and butter of the setting, the moorkutlot is to my eyes one of its most iconic creatures. Here's a link to the youtube vid about it, if you're interested in alien monsters and/or spec evo, I'd reccomend a watch.

All that said, an animal is only as strong as its context, and while the moorkut is a predator so deadly it can scare an entire ecosystem into silence, I imagine it's kinda small beans in a world that has fire breathing magic lizards the size of a city block as an apex predator.)

CR11 TN Large Animal HD16

Moorkutlot are nightmarish predators of icy forests on a faraway planet, distantly related to amphibians but evolved to a far more active, predatory role. Moorkutlot have a number of adaptations that make them terrifying hunters- their metabolism fluctuates between high- and low- energy periods, making them capable of going months without a meal, but capable of long-term chases and bursts of extreme speed and ferocity. They are social hunters, and in regions where they live a single moorkutlot hunting may lead to a half dozen or so ganging up on a target as the sound of a struggle attracts more. Most notoriously, however, is the non-newtonian fluid produced by modified mucus glands in their body; this is both a defensive tool, protecting them from powerful strikes, and an offensive one. Outside the body, the fluid sticks to skin and joints and makes escape a struggle, but inside the body it is truly dangerous; it rapidly clogs blood and joints, making movement nearly impossible and quickly leading to cardiac arrest. This fluid dissolves in salt, however, and this means that moorkutlot universally avoid oceans.

In their homeland, they are integrated into the ecology of their world as much as any other animal- they are dominant predators, yes, but life around them has learned to accommodate for their behavior and deadly weaponry. Not so for other planets- moorkutlot are occasionally used as terrible biological weapons, something that can be dropped on a planet and allowed to run wild, killing sentients and destroying the local ecosystem.

This horse-sized creature has a face that opens like a flower to reveal snapping jaws, and craggy gray skin covered in strange slime.

Misc- CR11 TN Large Animal HD16 Init:+7 Senses: Blind, Blindsight 60ft Perception:+16

Stats- Str:26(+8) Dex:16(+3) Con:23(+6) Int:2(-4) Wis:20(+5) Cha:11(+0) BAB:+12/+7/+2 Space:10ft Reach:5ft

Defense- HP:168 (16d8+96) AC:21(+3 Dex, -1 Size, +9 Natural) Fort:+16 Ref:+15 Will:+10 CMD:44 Immunity: Gaze and other visual effects Special Defenses: DR10/Salt

Offense- Bite +20(2d6+12 plus Poison) or Spit +15(1d4 Acid, Non-Newtonian Spit, 20ft) CMB:+21 Speed:40ft

Feats- Improved Initiative, Power Attack (-4/+8), EnduranceB, Feral Grapple, Improved Bull Rush, Weapon Focus (Bite), Skill Focus (Stealth), Lightning Reflexes

Skills- Perception +16, Climb +16, Stealth +9 (+4 Racial to Climb)

Special Qualities- Metabolic Surge

Ecology- Environment- Forests (Cold) Languages- None Organization- Solitary, Gang (4-6) Treasure- None

Special Abilities- Blindsight (Ex)- A Moorkutlot’s blindsight is echolocation-based; it cannot sense within areas of Silence or similar spells. Non-Newtonian Spit (Ex)- The moorkutlot spits a spray of thick, viscous fluid that traps an entangles its victims. Creatures hit  by this saliva are entangled without a save. This fluid cannot be removed without a DC16 Strength check, universal solvent, or at least a ¼ pound of salt. Metabolic Surge (Ex)- Three times a day, a moorkutlot can push its metabolism into overdrive, giving it an additional move action. It cannot use this ability if it has used it since the start of its last round. Moorkutlot Poison (Ex)- Bite-Injury Save:Fort DC20 Effect: Victim takes 1d6+1 Con damage and is Stunned Frequency: 1/round Cure: 2 Consecutive Saves

[thedrawinggizzard]

Post-it note Kaimeran titan.

[thestreamingbird-2001]

Therizinosaurus Cheloniformis from Icons of Prehistoric Kaimere: The Tyrant Dynasty

[stormcrow13]

Time to inflict things I like upon you all. The Titan Crow from Keenan Taylor's Tales of Kaimere is a giant predatory pterosaur descended from a family of pterosaurs that never got large in earth's history.  Kaimere is a fantasy speculative evolution world building project where waves of life are taken from Earth to a Distant planet where they have evolved differently than on Earth. The life Native to Kaimere are microorganisms that are effectively magic and are referred to as such, A large Swarm of this Magic is what harvested life from earth.

Keenan's art is shared on his Deviantart and here is the main reference for Titan Crows

They were discussed in this video on the Tapejarid pterosaurs of Kaimere

If you want in depth ecological world building I recommend watching the Tales of Kaimere YouTube Channel.

If you just want to read well written Fantasy with Dinosaurs I recommend reading the Short Story Anthologies. Barnes & Noble link. Individual short stories from the first anthology are also available on Amazon 

If you want to help me keep making free models or to tell me what I should make next please check out my Patreon

[arminreindl]

Since I was weirdly motivated to stick to a single theme for once, I sketched out every proboscidean so far revealed by Keenan Taylor for Tales of Kaimere, his speculative evolution anthology series. Tho none have appeared in any of the available stories yet. Honestly was a lot of fun, the hair on the Tuga, Khorobi and Highland Mammoth had been surprisingly relaxing.

[siblingsweethearts]

If you guys haven't already, you should absolutely check out Tales of Kaimere, by Keenan Taylor! It's honestly one of the best original writing and worldbuilding projects I've ever seen, the amount of work this guy puts into it is phenomenal. I've been following his channel for a while & started the first anthology recently. Really enjoying it, and my bf got me the second too!

Anyway, I love Nasiri the hunter. Badass middle aged trans guy who kills maneating theropods, pterosaurs and big cats for a living? Yes pls. Might have to add him to my selfship list, haha~

[heroineimages]

Wow, they put a lot of work into that! Way more extensive archive than I was expecting. Thanks for the link!

Are you familiar with the Tales of Kaimere universe? It’s a fantasy setting where one of the central conceits of the universe is that various species of Earth get harvested, recreated and allowed to evolve on a new world where magic is present. So you end up with titanic Dinosaurs and giant sloths existing alongside harpies and mermaids. I ask because I’m curious as to what weird creatures of Earths history would like to see given a more love in fantasy

Oh, dang, that sounds pretty wild! I'll try to keep that series in mind!

Thanks for the recommendation and the ask!

[artechoceneexplorer]

Remember that wheel I posted like half a month ago? I finally finished it!!

Now here's some close-ups with the characters that are featured in it :>

Red section!! Featuring Garnet from Steven Universe, Red from The Sea Beast, Hornet from Hollow knight, the Scarlet Caviearer from Bivaltopia and a pointy creature by Equiëtum ❤️🍄❤️

Orange section!! Featuring Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle, Enoch from Over the Garden Wall, The Core from Amphibia, Rahang Besar from Project Temere and the Pomegranate King by Miguel11to.

Yellow section!! Featuring Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls, Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, the Plasm Wraith from Pikmin 3, the protagonist of Abzū, the Pangaloon from The New Dinosaurs and Amphinatans mirabilis from Polinices 💛🌟💛

Green section!! Featuring Kermit the Frog, Diamondhead from Ben 10, Link from Skyward Sword, Tighnari from Genshin Impact, the Emerald Bombardier from the Dragonslayer Codex and a Samara Fairy by samuelele_draws 💚🍀💚

Cyan section!! Featuring Rika from Pokémon, a Na'vi from Avatar, the Flish from The Future is Wild, the Giant Severateel from Sinedey and Furcagnathodon from the Kiatra project 🩵🐬🩵

Blue section!! Featuring Stitch, Modecai from Regular Show, Shiver from Splatoon 3, Dory from Finding Nemo, the Inkilatura from Tales of Kaimere and an aquatic sapient from Scylios 💙🌀💙

Purple section!! Featuring Amity Blight from The Owl House, Chameleos from Monster Hunter, Double King by Felix Colgrave, Thanos, the Amoebic Sea from Darwin IV and the Violet Bunting from the Birds of Novasola 💜👾💜

Pink section!! Featuring Nimona, Al-An from Subnautica: Below Zero, Kanroji Mitsuri from Demon Slayer, Perfuma from She-ra, an Axolotl from Minecraft and Apocleavis magnifica from the The Future is Far project 🩷🌸🩷

The B/W and final section!! Featuring Tui and La from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spiderman Noir from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse and Umbragrus huxlwyi from the Dragons of the World project 🖤🐧🤍

Hope you like it, took me like a month to finish :")

[suryp]

Date: unknown

Year: inconsequential

Region: central Tartyryn straight

The snow crunches beneath our feet, the wind howls like the devil, and while we all show fear, I've reason to think my brothers know not that we walk over a frozen sea, more than 30 metres deep with fish heavier than our entire platoon. I doubt my commander knows, either, but that suits our real mission just fine.

The mission. Ha. Everyone knows the only safe spots for a town are off shore, we've already done the math, there's nothing out here worth finding.

Good thing Commander Reijean is such a greedy fuck, then.

"HALT!"

Thats him right there. Most would say he just wants to prove himself, but I know better. All humans hide their worst traits, tone 'em down for the public. We're all worse than we seem on the outside.

"..."

"whats out their c-"

"shut your trap private, I won't have my skill split be-"

*Crack*

"Mission complete, I suppose"

In an instant, Clark pulled out the rifle on his back. it was cheap shit, like all the gear for this trip was, but He's among the best "weapons guys" I've ever met.

Fortunately, the gun jams, and he vanishes into the blizzard.

"Clark? Buddy? Clark? Clark!"

"Circular formation, weapons up, we are-"

"...Commander?"

Just a few more to go. Our platoon used to be larger, but wandering for days on end through an empty void of ice and snow will take its toll. Just a few weeks ago, we might've won this fight.

Good thing banshees are smart, then.

"SpLit up!"

"Commander?"

"Split Up!"

"h- He's right. we're no more than a larger target like this."

"Just gotta find the right time for it."

Sabotage wasn't the plan, and it leaves a bad taste, but there's nothing for it.

"Now."

"..."

"..."

*Cr'Ack*

"..."

*Crunch*

"..."

And finally, a blood curdling scream cut short, by a few extra holes in the lungs.

I stand up, spread my arms wide, and make myself the most clear and easy target I can."

-...-

Two hours later

The blizzard dies, I see my siblings dead in the snow. Three have a mulch of bone and Metal shards, alongside frozen blood, in place of their heads. Commander has a crushed neck. Charlie's kevlar is punched through, frozen blood all along his chest.

There's a sixth carcass, some ornitherian, I think, though it's hard to tell considering how much was eaten. The ribs are gone, and only Two and a half legs remain.

I begin to walk off. A meal, even the frozen remains of a hippogriff corpse, is the last thing I d-

*crunch*

"..."

"you not fight me. why?"

"..."

"all humans try to kill us. take sea from us. take tyk'yk from us."

"...take egg from us."

"..."

"you not fight. why?"

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alright thats a wrap! The official intro to Fisher and the Flame and the world of... well, I suppose she doesn't have a real name yet but hey, we can make this work.

for a bit of context regarding appearances, if you need that, "Ornithere" and "Hippogriff" refer to pterosaurian animals, most similar to (and heavily based on) Trollman's "Cuvier's Isle" a small spec one-shot. It does not refer to the serinean animals of the same name.

Banshee are a bit easier to describe, being a rough combination of Utahraptor osstramaysi and a Leopard Seal, very similar to @tales-of-kaimere's *Updated* xuul design, along with the Adzakoordu and the White Cockatrice, as well as the Tamakai.

The narrator, Jake Fisher, is getting a drawing, by someone who appreciates men far more than I.

now go read about kaimere on Keenan Taylors twitter, bluesky, deviantart, and youtube channel, along with trollman's various sickass works on the same websites.

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edits: minor word changes, removal of unneeded dashes, and Commander is now cishet, because killing the first queer confirmed in story feels a bit too rude.

Reijean is still his name tho, since there has to some reason this unit was sent out.

also added a new tag. sorry y'all.

(im just gonna use the most extreme and broad tags that, since im exceedingly apathetic but do want to tag things correctly)

[smorgasvoid]

Endemic fauna from a new world-building project (Chortis: Territory of Magic)

Inspired by projects such as Tales of Kaimere and Hollow Earth (by j_stocky).

Minor inspiration from the Monster Hunter series

It involves some soft spec (this includes impossible stuff such as magic but that is for another day)

Taxa listed:

Keythongidae (family of flightless pterosaurs, only extant species is 𝘒𝘦𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨, the keythong)

Vormes (secondarily-terrestrial mosasaurs derived from Halisaurines, most are venomous) Top to bottom: 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘺𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘴 (Horned sandwyrm), 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘷𝘺𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 (Olgoi-khorkoi)

Hydroherperia (clade of aquatic herperians, biarmosuchian-derived amniotes) 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳 (Sea laggie)

Pseudodracones (clade of derived weigeltisaurian reptiles) 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 (Lesser andeda)

Antiquovivernes (clade of winged sharovipterygians) 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 (common antique wyvern)

Selenanodontia (clade of omnivorous or herbivorous aquatic stem-pangolins) 𝘏𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘹 𝘨𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘴 (Sea camel)

Cetodracones (secondarily-aquatic hexascelidans, accidentally wrote Cetodraconidae instead) 𝘙𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 (Ruby dragonwhale)

Dyptosauria (ichthyosaur-convergent sauropodomorph dinosaurs related to 𝘌𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘳) Stenellasaura caerulea (Muotopara)

Actual ichthyosaurs are extinct on Chortis

Pseudophocoidea (superfamily of aquatic feliforms related to Herpestoidea)

Thalassotigris umbra (Northern sea panther)

Domplerichthyidae (family of omnivorous pelagic mola-like pleuronectiforms/flatfish)

Domplerichthys hadeli (Giant critterfish)

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

Chimera Falin but she's a chimera with Uktan/Ghlanos traits

this was a sketch I made some time ago for fun and I decided to draw for fun!

[soylent-crocodile]

Wojun (Monster)

(Common Sloths by IllustratedMenagerie on Deviantart)

(I'm just a lover of speculative evolution, have been since Future is Wild aired while I was 7. Kaimere is one of two current projects I'm keeping up with, and perhaps the more approachable of the two; it's a setting written by artist and writer Keenan Taylor, and presented in a series of youtube videos on the Tales of Kaimere channel, as well as short story collections.

Kaimere is a planet where endemic microorganisms periodically replicate Earth organisms; they then evolve in a separate context from Earth. It's populated by creatures like gigantic megaraptorans, spiny sauropods, and a variety of ground sloths, including the first creatures I'm converting to Pathfinder.)

Also known as the common sloth in certain regions, or Volgarocnus by naturalists, wojun are large omnivorous ground sloths who fill the niche of large, powerful omnivores. They are somewhat slower, mentally and physically, than bears and pigs, but are powerfully built, heavily armored, and especially belligerent, making them able to compete with these animals.

Wojun are natural diggers; they sleep in burrows that can be as much as 50ft into a hill, or diagonally into the earth. This skill is also used to break into the nests of other animals, or the food stores of peoples they live near.

There are two recorded varieties of wojun; the black wojun lives in cooler uplands, and while it's less carnivorous, it's no less aggressive and territorial. The red wojun lives in hot grasslands and is a scavenger and a hunter of small or slow game first and foremost, although they still supplement their diet with roots and seeds.

Wojun Companions

Starting Statistics: AC: +7 Size: Medium Speed: 30ft Attack: 2 Claw (1d6) Ability Scores: Str:14 Dex:15 Con:22 Int:1 Wis:12 Cha:6 Special Qualities: Digger, Ferocity, Crushing Claws

7th Level Advancement:AC: +4, Size: Large, Attack: 2 Claw (2d4),  Str +4, Dex -4

This large mammal has the thick hide and long claws of a sloth, but is proportioned like a bear, and has boar-like tusks. Misc- CR4 Large Animal HD5 Init:+0 Senses: Perception:+7 Scent, Low-Light Vision Stats- Str:18(+4) Dex:11(+0) Con:22(+6) Int:1(-1) Wis:12(+1) Cha:6(-2) BAB:+4 Space:10ft Reach:5ft Defense- HP:53(5d8+30) AC:20(-1 Size, +11 Natural) Fort:+10 Ref:+4 Will:+5 CMD:19 Special Defenses: Ferocity Offense- 2 Claw +6(2d4+4), Bite +1(1d6+2) CMB:+9 Speed:30ft  Feats- Iron Will, Weapon Focus (Claw), Power Attack (-2/+4) Skills- +7 Perception, +14 Swim (+6 Racial bonus to Swim) Special Qualities- Digger, Crushing Claws Ecology- Environment- Mountains, Hills, Plains (Temperate, Hot) Languages- None Organization- Solitary, Pack (2-4) Treasure- None Special Abilities- Crushing Claws (Ex)- A wojun's claws deal damage that is both slashing and bludgeoning. Digger (Ex)- A wojun making a concerted effort to dig can excavate a 10x10x10 cube of soil, sand, or gravel in one minute.

[troythecatfish]

Art Credit: Keenan Taylor’s Tales of Kaimere

[thestreamingbird-2001]

I’ll be making some speculatively evolved Therizinosaurs soon… yeh