my friend @heavensblade-starbright got her lorebook today and was showing me around some of the Xaela lore until we came across…?
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Ah.
@drferox I saw this and thought “That looks… wrong… that would be some weird selective breeding maybe?” then I saw the bit of text in the picture and yeah ancestors probably didn’t look like that and these were bred for food and wool.
They still make VERY CUTE noises though (now I’m staring at the bone being part of the nose, which is off putting but at the same time I could try to explain as being used to dig the same way some tusks are??)
Let me preface by admitting I have no idea what these Opossum-Sheep are but they are cute.
They also look very wrong.
What’s going on with that thorax? The sternum is sitting in the middle of the body with all this undefined flesh below it. Is it fat? Can’t be all muscle, the sternum isn’t big enough for them to attach to. Is it an awkwardly placed fat pad? Why is it there? Are these things attacked from below or something? I suppose a large fat pad is useful to breed for if you’re trying to turn these livestock into candles but that body shape makes no sense.
Big abdomen might be fine though, if it’s eating a lot of fibrous plants. Suggests it only has few offspring at a time though.
That neck doesn’t let the head reach the ground. I don’t know what it uses that nose for, but probably not digging, or at least not when standing.
Those are awfully big horns for a very tiny head, with much of a sagital crest or anything to attach them to.
I made some very crude improvements to the skeletal structure, but this species is clearly artistic rather than anything else.
Monsters and Stuff 