DISCOVERING EXOTON

The Grave Horse is among the largest of the extant Bone Horses, named so by the native Takren peoples of the region due to its monochrome almost deathly appearance. They’re an elusive sight out on the moors and among the pillars of the Pillar Graveyard being nocturnal feeding and vocalizing to each other in surprisingly high pitched ghostly wails and whinnying. Grave Horses live in small family groups led by a lead stallion and his small harem of 2 to 6 females along with their young and other related males usually the stallions sons. To the Takren who live in the frigid moors and bogs, the Grave Horse is a sign of ill omen and death (another reasons why the name ‘Grave Horse’) and hunting and eat one is seen as strictly taboo.

One of the most abundant large herbivores of the Pillar Graveyard, the Crowned Lantern Horse is the largest member of the Lantern Horses, a linage of Bone Horse that have evolved a symbiotic relationship with a bioluminescent bacteria that live in a gelatinous bulb on top of their heads. The lights are used to communicate with other horses and distract predators by disorienting or blinding them with their biological headlights. The lights of the Crowned Lantern Horse shines a brilliant yellow and Takren of the Pillar Graveyard hunt these horses for their meat, the skulls (which make wonderful masks) and for the bacteria which can be made into a source of light with just a shake. The bacteria can be poured into membranes creating lanterns or be crafted into glowsticks for smaller light sources and are especially popular among Takren children.

takren hunter and tanner pose with their howling spirit trophies.

the dark striped spirit is a juvenile male, while the white one hoisted up is an adult female. they were mother and son. spirits are notorious takren eaters, and as a result, takren have made it their mission to destroy nesting grounds, kill adults, and either kill or capture their young. in this instance, juveniles are sought after due to their soft and unique hide.

Takren hunters use bolas to trip and incapacitate spirits.

Trilago are large carnivores that inhabit the small continent of Ropheus

Samson the Melanistic Polar Broadhead (an exoton oc of mine)

Fog blankets the pillar plains. A weary polar broadhead haphazardly drags his kill from the previous night back to his makeshift rubble den, made in the crevice of a petrified root tree. He pauses, mouth agape, expecting the scent of thieves circling near his pile. As he looks toward the sky, a colossal shadow engulfs the ground below. A hissing, guttural screech booms off the pillars as it crashes nearby. It whistles, whines, and writhes as it succumbs to its injuries and the effects of old age. The. broadhead slips behind rubble, hackles raised, catching wind that scavengers are high on the trail. Soon the mist stirs with hunger. Shapes creeping low, skittering, snarling, crowding the fallen giant. they tear, fight, and writhe atop still-living flesh as the spirit’s final whines echo thin and hollow.

Howling Spirit

two tribal northern takren. the top is the daughter of a chief and the bottom is a male hunter. these are my sapient, early iron age species for exoton.

The charred archipelago's tallest herbivore

A large carnivorous species from the plains of northern Alcazod

A species of the Prayer Mongrel, belonging to the Canducartus family.

questions are welcome about them. they're my favorite family of creatures currently for Exoton