#mythos lore

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Y’all voted on this one to be Mythosaur Anatomy so let’s get going!

Find more stuff here: Caburs/Kirirs , Vocalizations , Random Lore

Now onto anatomy break down! Let’s start at the top and work our way down. I did draw these out of order at my own fancy so have fun with that

LETS GOOOOOO

Now for their skulls as you can see I used a horse as part of my rework of these guys. The teeth were giving horse and when I put the skulls side by side you can see from the front why I used a horse to rework the bone structure. Also I’m sure y’all have seen edited images of horses with incomplete cheeks 👀 that’s horrifying and I love it. I also just hate the flat face it’s so goofy and I felt like it did these beasts of legends dirty with a being pug nosed like that.

I added in the secondary tusks for fun cuz I liked them lmao not really any other reason. They do affect the shape the mouth a little shown in the next image. Cosmetically some clans might cut the secondary tusk during infancy stunting the growth (similar to how pigs tusks are cut). Some bloodlines would cut them though for practicality where later in life they risked them curling and causing bodily damage to the owner.

Dentition (teeth) wise they have the sheering flat front incisors like seen on the skull but mixing those with sharp canines and molars giving them a set of teeth made for omnivorous diet. Though due to their size and energy output they tended to be more carnivorous and supplemented with plant mater.

(For those that don’t know a honing complex is where the teeth make contact with the teeth surrounding them. During the biting motion the teeth grind together and sharpen them. This is found in quite a few primates and resulting in some WICKED sharp teeth. Mythosaurs have this on their canines)

This one is the messiest of my anatomy doodles lol but it was mostly just to showcase a few random head anatomy things.

THEY HAVE SQUISHY NOSES!! I just had to have that carry over from the horse skull. I don’t know if any y’all ever squished a horses nose but it’s a delightful thing and these space murder horses needed to have squishable noses (: it was a must. There’s a few anatomy traits I flushed out particularly for their aquatic to semiaquatic habits. Their nostrils and ear canals for example are similar to seals in that they both air tight. The sealing ear canals protects ear drums when diving to great depths.

The secondary eyelid is semi-transparent and thick, protecting from debris when burrowing and digging out dens. They eyelid is a little reflective and causes an interesting effect if pulled over the eye which can be spooky in the dark. They do have excellent eyesight in low light. If in complete darkness they rely more on hearing and their force sense to navigate in a kinda echolocation kind of way

The neck of a mythosaur is decently flexible which helps with the fact a mythosaurs tusk and nose makes for some good blind spots. I don’t have to much to say about this part of the body but feel free to look at the notes for anything fun.

The neck alongside the waist/belly are the most vulnerable parts of the body on a mythosaur

The chest and shoulders are the widest and most muscular part of a mythosaur. They sit higher than the hips due to muscle mass at the withers and the way they stand on their forepaws (see paws and claws image). Where the ridged plating turns to smooth right above the shoulder is typically where a saddle goes when a mythosaur is battle bonded and working as a mount.

The muscles in a mythosaurs shoulders are STRONG and allow for some pretty mean swipes and hits from both the paws and shoulder checks. They do have a good range of motion with their shoulders but it should be noted they can’t reach up and over their shoulder. There in lies the importance of carrying a Mando on your back! They keep any smaller hard to reach targets off you!

Mythosaur hips are slimmer then their shoulders but no less powerful. Karirs are know to do some pretty good jumping and vaulting with their legs but their heavier set Cabur counterparts can take a good leap at you if they wanted.

If you note the distinct shape of their pubic bone shape is to help support the hips and tail when resting in a down position. The skin in that area along with the sternum is thicker plated to protect from pressure brake down wile stationary for long periods of time. (On my Mythos you’ll spot the area as lighter colored in some art)

A mythosaurs tail is easily as long as their body, and often grows longer than the body into adulthood. After the shoulders this is arguably the next strongest part of the body. The tail is used for swimming as well as a counter balance for sharp turns wile running. Cabur tails tend to be thicker with a higher fat content the. Karir usually resulting in a the tail dragging on the ground towards the middle to end. The scales of the underside are thick though so it doesn’t usually cause any damage unless the terrain is particularly corse. But adult Caburs tend to keep to their deep waters and dens so it’s not typically a problem.

The thicker plating at the end of the tail functions a bit like a sudo club. It’s not really a club and smacking your tail into things repeatedly will do damage. Instead a thicker spot a bit like sticking a nail on the end of a wip. The ridges if caught right will tear the object their hitting and the majority of the force comes from the pull back and the snapping of the end.

The thickness of the base of the tail also interferes with the position of sitting. Mythosaurs tend to stand or lay down when idle.

Lastly but certainly not least the paaaaws! Now our canon Mythos are a three toes bastard but I went for a five fingered approach.

Wile semi-aquatic in nature Caburs are more aquatic and Karirs terrestrial. I worked to incorporate that into these feet. They sport a good thick webbing between the digits of all toes. Even the dueclaw of the hind feet are webbed. Those duclaws are also opposable and can help grip when climbing. The pads of their feet are setae covered like most lizards, helping with grip on sheer surfaces and overall lessening the strain on their claws and fingers wile hefting their big mass up objects.

The webbing, like the secondary tusk is cosmetically cut by some clans. Typically Karir clans that live farther inland with no big bodies of water would trim them. Some like to cut small brakes into the webbing along the side of the finger to allow for armor to cover the fingers and claws. The webbing though is quite sturdy and flexible so it doesn’t easily tear.

Their claws, like their tusks, are another beskar heavy area of the body. Mythosaurs will click their claws along side verbal vocalizations to assist with sensing things with their force sense.

This is taken directly from my Cabur/Karir post but was relevant anatomy and wanted it here as a comment on mythosaur bones specifically:

"Their claws, teeth, and tusks have strong deposits of beskar in them, giving them their shiny silver coloring, though it should be noted that all their bones contain it in lattice work of support structures. When the sport of hunting mythosaurs became a thing before they disappeared the beskar pulled from their bones had a slightly easier time being made into armor vrs the stuff pulled from the mines. This had to do with the fact it still contained a fair bit of its host mythosaurs magic and ability to change forms, wile the older beskar in the grounds had time to settle into and ‘know’ it’s shape better. A skilled Armorer can tell if their working with ‘young’ beskar vrs ‘settled’ beskar. Despite being harder to work with settled beskar is more favorable because it holds up better under pressure."

Welcome to my ✨500 followers✨ post about my reimagining of Mythosaur Force gifts!

To start this off I’m gonna do a quick crash corse on my take on soul structures in the Star Wars Universe (it’s relevant)

Ok so average persons soul consists of three main parts: core, body(energy), and membrane. Soul membranes contain the body of the soul, but is functionally "porous" allowing excess energy to permeate the surrounding of the individual called soul output. Soul output fluctuates from person to person, stronger output resulting in a Brighter Soul. It is also left behind on things a person interacts with and is the basis for things like force echos.

Midichlorians cause the membrane to thin, allowing more energy to escape, but also doubles in strengthening and even enlarging the core. Jedi typically have a near non functional barrier meaning their soul energy and output can therefore interact directly with the force and its energy. A Jedi’s ability to move things with the force involves them encasing an item in their soul energy and sinking it into the object to be able to direct it at a molecular level.

I don’t really see the dark side of the force as evil, simply the parallel to what the light side of the force does, ei: life/death, growth/destruction, blah blah, that kind of things. Therefor I do not actually view Siths as actually conduits of the dark side of the force and instead have damaged the soul directly so instead of a luminous star, they’ve imploded inward like a black hole, eating and pulling in energy to feed a festering wound. Instead I think the Witches of Dathomir and their death magic to be closer to a true opposite balance to the life force of the Jedi.

Now Mythosaurs I’ve constructed a lot of their force gifts to work as a true neutral aspect of the force. Functioning more in the living force then other aspects (not that they cant) a mytho’s soul is constructed of a small but extremely dense core with a thick, non-porous membrane. I’m a really big fan of when beskar is force wicking and blocks most force users from being able to "see", functioning as a rock in a river, forcing the rush of energy to flow around and over, not though it. A mytho’s soul functions the same, (which makes sense when you consider the fact I’ve also put beskar in their bones lol)

The thick membrane means that Jedi cant "see" Mythosaurs, mealy sense the displacement of energy they cause when they reach out. Mytho’s reach out with what I’ve dubbed "whiskers", long tendrils of their souls that feel out into their surroundings much like a catfish whisker in water. Whiskers leave little tunnels in the force, allowing better flow of energy in areas where they dwell for long periods of time. Causing mythosaur nests to after form force nexuses, energy naturally welling up in the cleared space and flowing out though the channels carved though space.

On top of that stands of the membrane’s shed naturally over time leaving silk like threads behind. A Jedi walking though them might feel like thier very soul has walked though a spider web lol. Midichlorians like to feed on these threads, and it’s why the living waters of Mand’alor came to exist. Mythosaur dens dating back thousands and thousands of years where wild non soul attached midichlorians have made their homes in the life wells of water. It’s also why there’s such important to tempering beskar in the waters. It eats away at any soul energy left in the metal leaving it pure and force wicking.

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Now that the souls have been covered onto the actual gifts one might encounter from a mythosaur!

Mythosaurs cant move things like their Jedi counterparts. Instead they perceive things on a much deeper level than them. The universe shines bright to a Jedi but it absolutely sings to a mythosaur. The frequency they see and hear the force at enhances most base senses for them.

Empaths are common among mytho’s, emotions most often registered in vibration and taste, though the strength of these sensation varies.

Pyschometry is a gift more commonly found in mythosaurs than their Jedi counterparts. And before anybody goes "hey that’s a cosmic side of the force gift" hush I do what I want. Mythosaurs ability to touch things more solidly in the force allows them to resonate with items and hear the song of it! This gift in particular can be used with beskar’gam letting a mytho’s hear the life song story of the Mandalorian who wears said armor. It’s this that assists in comparability when forming a Battle Bond when a mytho’s chooses their Mandalorian rider.

Battle Bonds are a unique type of bond mythosaurs form. Unlike a bond between Jedi when gossamer threads of light tether and intertwine Jedi soul energies together a mythosaur instead attaches directly to the core or the soul of their Battle Bond. This allows a mytho’s to feed energy directly to their bonded, resulting in quicker reaction times, boosts in preexisting force gifts, and in some cases extension of their bonded natural life span.

Mythosaurs with their natural affinity for blocking Midichlorians also means they can block most force attacks/interactions Jedi do. Shielding items from movement, deflecting force pushes, and shielding others from view.

A battle gift mythosaurs have is to "cast a net" as I call it. Essentially they toss out a large web of whiskers coating the surrounding area in movement and sound sensitive visibility. The range and size of the net depends on the strength of the mythosaur, but can be enhanced and cast to larger areas using the strength of a battle bond, anchoring tendrils to their armor and allowing for farther reaches without straining their energy. This is particularly useful in battle to avoid stepping on your much smaller companions.

Now we know shapeshifters exist, Shi’idos and Clawdites are found in the assistant and spies circles due to their gifts as changelings.

Mythosaurs are also gifted in this ability. How else should they get anything done or travel if they fancy hits them. It’s impractical to go on a vacation of you cant fit in a ship, ya know? There’s some perks and drawbacks backs to this gift however. One does not simply go from being a ginormous murder horse lizard thing to a small humanoid without having to deal with some drawbacks.

Here I’ve depicted just the change in how the soul itself it’s within the body vessel for a mythos. When in their true form the soul sits nicely within the body, whiskers permeate the surrounding area and reach out with more directed intent. However when they become small and humanoid, it is usually only the small, dense core that resides in the body itself. There’s a MUCH less tact and control of the movement of a mytho’s soul and whiskers when they exist like this. On top of that the energy output that is required to work and move their large natural bodies doesn’t actually change when they get small. This often results in some discrepancies in personalities between a mythos in their true form vrs when small. (Kinda like when your friend forgets to take their very strong dose of adhd meds)

This is where the important of a Battle Bond or even a Mythos in beskar’gam comes into play. All those free flowing whiskers, being pushed around on the natural currents of energy around you and generally just having to feel everything and everyone can be quite overwhelming. But those whiskers stick and hold onto beskar quite well. Allowing them to anchor and stay mentally closer to the body instead of drifting away.

Holding a mytho’s attention will also direct those whiskers at you. So direct eye contact and the full attention of a mythosaur when they’re small still makes one feel like there’s a large scary monster baring down on you.

It should be noted force collars have extremely detrimental effects on a mythosaur. Particularly if collared in their small form. It effectively cuts off the whiskers of a mythosaur causing soul wounds that can cause mental instability wile those wound heal. Long term wear traps energy build up inside the small body making a mytho’s a ticking time bomb. Energy builds up, forcing the body to find other outlets essentially burning them up from the inside out. When removed after long term the whiskers are often atrophied and unresponsive. Mythosaurs are extremely sensitive and physically/mentally compromised wile healing up after long term force suppression like that.

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Welp that’s all for now folks. Mythosaur force gifts are pretty much just enhanced senses, force negation, shapeshifting, empathy, pyschometry, and the ability to boost others force gifts though Battle bonds. I hope you guys enjoyed my ramblings and doodles!

Y’all wanted more about the species redesign I’ve done so put you beskar’gam on and enjoy!

So for starters my mythosaur redesign has been a good three years in the making. I started working on them actually prior to season three dropping and when we got the official look at the species was royally disappointing. I biggest peeve with the canon design is it looks like they gave them the poor dinosaur shrink-wrap treatment

He just looks silly. This is not the beast of legends I wanted lol

I’m a really big fan of fantasy and speculative biology with a good bit of forensic anthropology, biology, and anatomy schooling under my belt so I actually did most of my starting design work by staring really really hard at their skulls to get an idea of what I wanted to do with them. Y’all gotta let me know if you ever want the behind the scene of designing these guys cuz it was fun!

So I have two distinct ‘types’ of mythosaurs Karirs and Caburs

Cabur Mythos have the more classic look that Mandalorian think of. They were the guards of the great mines and the coasts of the oceans before they were lost in the first glassing of the planet. Karir Mythos territories stretched more inland. Despite the looks to them they are the same species and capable of inter breeding so most Mythos that where seen before they as a species tactically retreated and vanished where mixed and bore traits from both lines of Mythos

Caburs are bigger and stalkier builds, spending more time in the waters of the planets than their Karir counterparts, who are more lean and fast runners. Mythosaurs keep growing though out their lives though it slows considerably once they reach mid-adulthood.

They sport "sticky" pads on their feet like a lizard allowing them to climb sheer surfaces even when wet and can even stick upside down for short periods of time (horrifying if you look up and see that lol). They have a semi-transparent thick second eyelid that protects sensitive eyes from debris when doing things like digging,swimming,etc. Mythosaurs also have extremely short ear canals, their external ears mostly being for show because I like them lol, and they’re useful in emoting. Their eardrums are protected by a thin bone plating instead of an ear membrane so they don’t deal with risks of tears when diving deep under water or sudden rapid climbs.

Their claws, teeth, and tusks have strong deposits of beskar in them, giving them their shiny silver coloring, though it should be noted that all their bones contain it in lattice work of support structures. When the sport of hunting mythosaurs became a thing before they disappeared the beskar pulled from their bones had a slightly easier time being made into armor vrs the stuff pulled from the mines. This had to do with the fact it still contained a fair bit of its host mythosaurs magic and ability to change forms, wile the older beskar in the grounds had time to settle into and ‘know’ it’s shape better. A skilled Armorer can tell if their working with ‘young’ beskar vrs ‘settled’ beskar. Despite being harder to work with settled beskar is more favorable because it holds up better under pressure.

There’s not much, if any, dimorphism between male and female mythosaurs. Male tend to grow into their tusks faster than females but that’s about it. The ends of their tusks darken and oxidize with age, so you’ll know an adult from an adolescent if their tusks tips have had time to darken.

They come in a variety of patterning and colorations, (sky’s the limit lol) but earthy tones with solid patterning and stripes being the moth common. The dark solid stripes of the Viinir [VEEN-eer] clan is what my Mythos sports. They hailed from a strip of volcanic desert near the equator and where known as one of the most aggressive and territorial of the Karir lines.

I’ve played loosely with their ability to transform and shift into humanoids with my own Mythos but have settled down with the idea that all Mythos can do it.

The original inhabitants of Mandalore The Taung are what they originally turned into, and those who still crop up here and there are ‘pure-blooded’ mythosaurs. But those who hid among their Mandalorian counterparts when they hid away bore children that looked like their mates. A mythosaur is a mythosaurs no mater the form they take. Someone doesn’t turn into a mythosaur but instead a mythosaur takes on a smaller form to walk among the masses hidden from sight.

Mythosaurs are also the natural counterbalance to beings like the Jedi/Sith. Wile they are luminous beings of the universe, their souls and presence in the force a glowing light or swirling void of darkness, mythosaurs are instead a force of nature, and exist more ‘solid’ in the force. They more presence something has in the force the easier time their have interacting with it. They feel a bit like sticking your hand into an enemy or sea urchin and having tones of wispy strands of beskar skirt all over you. Or getting yourself wrapped up in a giant spider web of force blocking tendrils if you’ve pissed one off. Due to the ‘solidness’ of their presence they can block and spear force presences, they cannot however move object like the Jedi. Their force presence is entirely on the mental plain 9this does not mean however one can not be born with such abilities but generally they cant).

The force flows easier and cleaner in mythosaur territories, their force tendrils naturally carving pathways through space and filtering out undesirable energies. The dens of mythosaurs are known to form nexus points as a result.

I’m over 150 followers so: Everyone officially meet Mythos and have a clear look at her design! Featuring a tiny lil Mando on there for size scale. Notes page is mostly for me but I think some of you will appreciate it to so have at it

I’ve been using an old not accurate ref and pictures I’ve drawn for a wile as drawing references and when I made the little gif microwaving her I decided it was time lol. Mythos has been looooong overdue for a reference revamp so this is what I’ve been working on between school and work.