Raimdelle Reborn: The Neverending Bestiary

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Compared my notes to your master:

We've come to a lot of the same conclusions.

The ladybugs were a little fuzzy, but based on the V1.0 items and cross-species quest names, eventually I came up with the Species "Weevil" and "Ladybug," and Genus "Beetle," towards which both genera make references (Carrion Beetle, Beet-Red Beetles Beat Red).

I, too, was unsure whether to put bats in cloudkin or beastkin, as far as Eorzeans are concerned. For now, I actually gave Eorzean naturalists the benefit of the doubt and went with beastkin (land mammals) despite their wingedness, as they categorized dodos as cloudkin despite their flightlessness. One of the bats is also named a wingrat, which implies they know of the winged rat nickname based on their mammalian nature, lol. Still, it could go either way in reality.

Dragons and I are still having trouble. Territorial Dragon and Svara are both referred to as "dragon" to name two. It might not even end up a genus name. Coincidentally, the two I just mentioned as an example were both referred to as wyrms in previous Final Fantasies, so the struggle continues. At least we know wyvern! Hey, wait, that refers to wyverns as a relative of dragons. And now I've gone cross-eyed.

Up to M now. Should be able to open the 0.1 version of that chart for discussion within a few days

Any idea how to tell an ochu from a microchu? This Microchu and Curupira, "an especially savage microchu," use both palletes (womp womp). Maybe the FATE just uses the wrong model? A lot of the other Ochu / Microchu line up. Maybe it was accidentally switched with Lazy Laurence, clearly a Microchu to match the named one... but then if the Ochu referenced in that FATE description is a genus and not a species, it's still correct, technically, and look, I've gone cross-eyed, again.