Cael, the first person on Earth

I like making monsters so I thought id do some fan arc sketches! I pictured a pikmin - ish stealthy adventure with lots of weird predators when I saw your drawings.

“Darkened Mistwood”

Essentially something drives a bunch of predators here to become more active and cooperative at night. While hiding and running, Cael crosses the path of a symbiotic frog and scorpion-like Hoplunge and Pokerstung. The motherly Pokerstung protects Cael as he tries to find what is driving predators to act so oddly in the odd, dark, poison adapted biome. However, the other predators begin to focus on him as he does.

Creatures pictured

-  Jubjub Splatterflap - Persistent, bioluminescent offshoot of a bat, disorients prey by flashing lights, changing color, flapping its wings and shrieking. Very smart, but omnivorous and easily distracted by fruit.

- Lizaken -  Clever leopard-like lizard that generates electric power and distributes it via the spines on its back. Males are small and blue while females are large and green.

- Catsquid - A dim-witted aberration with feline and cephalopod traits. Mist keeps them hydrated while they scavenge other animals kills. Poisonous, but cowardly, they often try to climb trees using tendrils. Easily tamed and loyal.

Hoplunge and Wapole -  An amphibious hunter that lacks arms and has a larger mouth than a comparative frog. Lives symbiotically with to take care of its charges. The Hoplunge provides easier fast movement and carries food back to the nest. Wapoles are juveniles with a stinging bite.

- Pokerstung and Link Scorpion - a deeply black scorpion evolution that easily moves across vines in trees and digs out nests with its new tail. Symbiotically pairs with Hoplunges (often bigger males), offering its appendages and protective shells. Females can be matronly and gentle to other more obviously defenseless or juvenile creatures. Link Scorpions are young Pokerstungs that line up and advance stingers first as a defensive measure.

- Gloomwing - tiny sleep inducing moth with large dusty wings and antennae. Create safer areas in the Mistwood (aside from one specific kind of predator) by merely flapping around in groups for a little bit, tiring creatures until they're pacified.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I said the mushrooms here glow.”

The Lantern Bug-

A supposed evolved form of the typical lightning bugs (fireflies), lantern bugs span to about 9 inches in length- to around the size of an average housecat. They tend to be passive creatures; vegetarians which feed off of exclusively fruit and other such plants which give off sweet nectars.

As their size may suggest, lantern bugs are particularly lazy animals, and over the courses of their years and years of evolution, have lost the help of their shells to hide their wings, as well as to defend themselves. They are large enough, however, to not have many natural predators- which was possibly the reason why their shells were lost in the first place.