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Wanted to make a Crucible Knight build. It works pretty damn well.

Armour: Crucible Tree Helm, Crucible Axe Armour, Crucible Gauntlets and Greaves (Only Crucible combination that's unique compared to in-game knights)

Weapons: Euporia, Sacred Relic Greatsword, Partisan (With Aspect of the Crucible: wings), Siluria's Tree, Grafted Dragon, Sword of Light (Unpictured), Erdtree Seal (A mix of Crucible Incantations and Beast Incantations.)

I'm a very audio inclined, and I'd love to create a personal playlist for Welcome Home. Does anyone have any music they could suggest? The only one that comes to mind for me is Flavor Foley's Static. I know there's some fan-made music but most of it doesn't appeal to me, I'm very picky with lyrical music, but please, suggest whatever you enjoy! Who knows, I might like it too!

Redraw of this sophont. I just thought I could do better, and make it look more like it came from 'Subnautica', the inspiration of this design. Added a couple of 'features' - the fleshy 'beak' that wraps around the cheek and eye is muscle that can hold the trunk and mandibles flush against the face to enhance hydrodynamics while swimming. It also has a boney ridge on it's head for ramming, as ramming mouth first is less effective with more complex mouthparts. The upgraded patterning is designed to look similar to a penguin. The yellow might seem garish for a dolphin, but the common dolphin says otherwise. And the secondary smaller dorsal fin is mostly just for flavour and to make it look a little unique, sue me.

Gripper Whales, similarly to Killer whales, are in fact Dolphins - and are a prime example of convergent evolution as they did not evolve from Orcas but look very much like them, with slightly similar eyespots and countershading.

They are a sophont that evolved from dolphins that specialised in tool-use such as sponging and allogrooming and evolved a short muscular trunk above the mouth and 'mandibles' that cover the lower jaw (hence the secondary name), which actually stem from the base of the tongue and the cheek and are not connected to the mandible bone. Both of these have small gripping pads at the tips similar to lumpfish or remora and, in addition to use of the tongue, can be used to manipulate objects with an alarming degree of dexterity, though it doesnt work well outside of water. Some of them apply temporary adhesives to their mouth if out-of-water work is required. They also have a small series of suckers along the rim of the melon, which can be used to hold objects for later use or accessorization, though the Gripper will not hold onto objects if they need to swim fast. The melon suckers are likely a sponging adaption, while the mouth is an allogrooming and other tool-use adaption.

Other notable adaptions include long, muscular fins that allow the Gripper to shift their weight while on land, allowing them to more safely perform beaching manoeuvres for hunting. A minor adaption humans haven't figured out yet is the small thagomizer-like nub in the middle of the tail fin, as the Gripper whales never seem to use it, either for fending off rivals or hunting via tail-slaps - they always use the flat of the tail instead. It might be a previously useful trait that is gradually vanishing with time.

It is a major miracle that dolphins of any type have survived long enough for civilization to emerge due to the climate change and human-caused habitat destruction. Gripper culture is still pod-based and matriarchal, with matriarchs gathering for council at certain times. Matriarch-led pods are usually safe for humans, most have laws against harming us. Lone groups of males however are capricious and dangerous and should be avoided.

Blame this on Subnautica 2 (Orcas are Leviathan class predators, change my mind) and my obsession with designing non-humanoid sophonts.

Been waiting for this Tee for a while, but it's here, its adorable, its comfortable, and I'm wearing it as I speak! I couldn't afford much Neuro/Evil merch from the subathon, or Evils birthday, but I at least have something to wear to the eventually live concert. Relay are a surprisingly brilliant delivery company btw, or at least that's my experience.

A descendant of Elephants, from way, way in the future. A small Tapir-sized forest-dwelling creature with a forked trunk with little thumb-tendrils, allowing it to use it's appendage in a far more dextrous fashion. It's tusks are short, flat, serrated and used for scraping tree bark, but have also been used for tool fashioning, such as carving wood. It's long tail helps with balance, as it's hooved feet are far smaller than it's ancestors to help with nimble movement through forests.

It's those colours 'cos artistic license. I just like the way it looks. Not quite as detailed a piece as my recent Swan pic but I really like this. Inspired slightly by Snootwackers from Pikmin. Not sure what to call it, any suggestions?

2rd redraw of this. Looks slightly more dinosaur-like in this one. I do have more Spec-Evo plans other than this Swan idea, I just wanted to perfect the design.