There are all sorts of amazing creatures all througout Teyvat. Although, from talking with many of the others here, it seems almost like they're something out of stories in otehr worlds...
... A little. Your vishaps sound like the kind of thing you'd see in a fairy tale or a fantasy series. I'm not sure what else you have though, so I can't make too much of a comparison.
Hehe. They developed a type of symbiosis with mushrooms in the forests to provide them with camoflauge from predators.
...um, animal predators, anyway. Humans who go hunting like Shroomboars a lot because you get both meat for a steak and mushrooms for a side dish at once when you catch one...
Still, kinda sad for them really. You go through all that evolution just to end up down the food chain anyway. [ says i, the most prolific of shroomboar killers ]
It might take a while to isolate the cause, though... especially if it's a gradual sort of change. Not every Shroomboar would have the bad kind of mushroom on it, so if there were some that were fine to eat, and others that weren't, people might assume they died of other causes...
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This thought exercise is getting a little macabre.
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[huh...]
How come? Was there some kind of natural disaster...?
[one might say....... a cataclysm?]
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An asteroid, I think?
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Oh... that would have caused a lot of widespread destruction, depending on its size.
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Yup. Sure did. It must’ve been a big one, given it wiped all but a few out.
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But you guys live in the same place as these Geo Vishap things? And you said dragons a moment ago.
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There are all sorts of amazing creatures all througout Teyvat. Although, from talking with many of the others here, it seems almost like they're something out of stories in otehr worlds...
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Lead the way.
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They have a Shroomboar... and a Sumpter Beast. I didn't expect that.
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at this. ]
Your boars have mushrooms?
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...um, animal predators, anyway. Humans who go hunting like Shroomboars a lot because you get both meat for a steak and mushrooms for a side dish at once when you catch one...
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So they made themselves safer from some predators, and a prime target for others. Clever.
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[alas, poor shroomboars...]
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Still, kinda sad for them really. You go through all that evolution just to end up down the food chain anyway. [ says i, the most prolific of shroomboar killers ]
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Like... becoming symbiotic with mushrooms that aren't safe for people to eat, so they'll leave them alone.
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That would be pretty clever actually. And a little sinister, people wouldn't realise for a while.
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I wonder how long it would take people to realize that was the cause if it happened...
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The more people die after eating them, I think.
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[a beat.]
This thought exercise is getting a little macabre.
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