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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.