Monster Family Questions for Fern

[finiteHP]

Another thing to keep in mind, Skies, is that many of the largest creatures to have existed were cold-blooded reptiles. Tyrannosaurs Rex... The Sauropods like Brontosaurus... Size has nothing to do with something being cold or warm blooded.

This is actually a pretty big debate in paleontology. Just because modern reptiles are "cold-blooded" it doesn't mean that it holds true for all ancient reptiles. In fact crocodilians have adaptations that are more common in "warm-blooded" species and evidence to suggest they were at one point warm-blooded and later reverted back to cold-blooded. There is also the matter of at what point did modern birds become warm-blooded?

As for scalekin vs. beastkin for Adamantoise, I would also side with scalekin based on modern turtles and tortoises. Then again creatures in fantasy don't have to follow what we are familiar with. After all FFXI had a race that reproduced through reincarnation.

[Lusavari]

This is actually a pretty big debate in paleontology. Just because modern reptiles are "cold-blooded" it doesn't mean that it holds true for all ancient reptiles. In fact crocodilians have adaptations that are more common in "warm-blooded" species and evidence to suggest they were at one point warm-blooded and later reverted back to cold-blooded. There is also the matter of at what point did modern birds become warm-blooded?

As for scalekin vs. beastkin for Adamantoise, I would also side with scalekin based on modern turtles and tortoises. Then again creatures in fantasy don't have to follow what we are familiar with. After all FFXI had a race that reproduced through reincarnation.

That's true... Because birds are pretty much glorified reptiles. But I digress... I'm still curious how it was decided Adamantoises go there... Fantasy or no, they are based on a creature that is a reptile.

Meanwhile... Here's another question for Fern.

T.) What are Mindflayers? Are the Wavekin, Soulkin, or Voidsent? In FFXI, they were Blue Mages who abused power or became corrupted, which would make them cursed beings, so they would be similar to Soulkin, though it seems soulkin is making itself out to be animated objects. It could be wavekin because if its association with squid, while voidsent would also make sense.

[Catapult]

T.) What are Mindflayers? Are the Wavekin, Soulkin, or Voidsent? In FFXI, they were Blue Mages who abused power or became corrupted, which would make them cursed beings, so they would be similar to Soulkin, though it seems soulkin is making itself out to be animated objects. It could be wavekin because if its association with squid, while voidsent would also make sense.

The Mindflayer in question is Galvanth the Dominator.
As per the story of the Tam-Tara Deepcroft, the Lambs of Dalamud are trying to ressurect him for reasons I'm not going to even try and properly understand. But to do so, they bind him to a body of grotesque form, which we can probably presumed was created for this purpose.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Th...Tara_Deepcroft

To simply define him as voidsent is to slightly miss the point, as the whole concept seems to go beyond basic taxonomical classifications known in Eorzea (hence the current categorisation of "unknown", I guess). In some ways you could say he is a soulkin, because his soul (which is of this world) has been bound to a form that he did not grow in. However, that form itself is "not of this world" and thus voidsent in nature.

It might be best to leave him without a classification, at least for now.