Wednesday 9 November 2011

ToK Size Chart

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This is a quick size chart I did for some of the dragons of ToK. I had to add the two humanoids on the far right because they're part of the main protagonist group.

There are several species of Dracona on Kenah, each with its own general size, i.e. a Scorral like Xeari will always be larger, on average, than a Nauvin like Vark.

In addition to this, dragons grow throughout their lives regardless of how old they've become. The growth slows as the years pile up, of course. Cym, having defied death and basically become immortal, has been around for way longer than any other dragon known to Kenans. That's why he's fucking huge. It is entirely possible that an existing dragon species could match his current size, but his particular species isn't meant to get anywhere near as big as he is.

Dauren's also quite old, though realistically so for dragon standards. Keelira's a bit young but she won't come up to Xeari's current size until she's near the end of her life.

The humanoid species, Wevlins, grow the way humans do because I don't feel like having superlarge humanoids in my story. Their wings do start off disproportionately small, though, and won't be big enough for flight until the kids are at least eight or so (in Earth years).

I just realized that I totally forgot to add any Zethyls to this line-up. Tisk tisk. Zethyls are... well, you know centaurs? Something that looks like a centaur on Kenah would technically be an equinoid Zethyl. Basically, take the body of an animal, size it up or down to about horse size, and tack on a humanoid body and head at the front where the animal's neck would be. Then add wings and you have yourself a freak of nature that potentially has ten limbs, because Zethyls need two pairs of wings in order to actually fly due to the added weight of another torso. I'll sketch a couple of my Zethyl characters for a later post. Zethyls, Wevlins, and Dracona are the three sentient species on Kenah; other creatures populate the planet, with varying degrees of intelligence.

Oh boy, it's been ages since I've thought about ToK! Maybe one day I'll put conceptualizing aside so I can actually focus on the plot.

- Hex

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