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ID animals, and figures from the books.

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Romulan Cmdr:
Okay since the older topic is locked. lets try this again!

So in the ruins of Apia, there is a reference to a carving of a mule getting used against a horn giant -any idea what thats referencing? 

And since so many of the creatures and spieces came from different places, does anyone recognize the references?

Romulan Cmdr:
I am wondering if taurgas were hairy versions of Pachycephalosaurus

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They are described as more bull-like but "considerably humpier about the shoulders" and cloven hooves. Though looking back the head description definitely sounds more like that thing than the oversized bull horns I was imagining. 

The closest thing Ive been able to come up with for the taurga was some kind of prehistoric version of a Woodland Musk Ox with oversized rear haunches made more for leaping. 

Romulan Cmdr:
What about the thangadant thingy, and the slives... any thoughts?
I know the grass lion is like the sabertooth, and herdbane is like that large prehistoric flightless bird

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--- Quote from: Romulan Cmdr on June 07, 2017, 03:02:51 AM ---What about the thangadant thingy, and the slives... any thoughts?
I know the grass lion is like the sabertooth, and herdbane is like that large prehistoric flightless bird

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Slives always sounded like Komodo dragons to me

Herdbane sound like Gastornis or maybe Terror birds
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Gargants are Megatherium (ie giant Ground Sloths)
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The Thanadents are feathered somethings with teeth, so best guesses ive seen are either a basal coelurosaur, a tyrannosauroid, or perhaps some sort of maniraptoriform.

As far Leviathans:
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No, really I think theythey are Plesiosaurus'
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