CERVIMARDS! || UPDATES!

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However, that doesn’t mean that in YOUR story, it is not uncommon for all species to have wings due to the livable environment of your world requiring its organisms to navigate through the air. That doesn’t mean your world couldn’t be plagued by a curse that merges the features of multiple species. That doesn’t mean your world couldn’t let multiple niches of the ecosystem possess gills and other aquatic features because there isn’t any dry land for these organisms to thrive on without these features.

Remember, you can have all these features added on as long as you have a reason! Colourful humans with horns can be changed based on the stories they’re inside of, just like regular humans can! I hope this helped explain what you can and can’t do with your cervimards a little better, I was being pretty vague in the last project!

4) Another question I’d received is that of what their noses look like.

Cervimards can have human noses, and often do! Some have speculated the way i draw them (as a flat line rather than a human nose,) is because of a style choice. Originally, yes, this was the case, but over time it’s changed into a feature in Cervimard biology. The way I draw Cervimard noses is, as you’ve probably seen before, just a flat line. I imagine these noses to be very flattened versions of human noses, with nostrils a similar shape to a crescent rather than the round shape humans have.

Here’s an example my friend TheNuzzels did that captures my vision of a cervimard nose; check the backdrop of this project!

This isn’t mandatory when you’re designing your cervimards, but it’s an option I’d forgotten to mention in the original project :)

5) Lastly, I’d like to provide some more information on cervimard’s powers.

I forgot to mention how using powers is exhausting. How exhausting? Well, it depends. It’s kind of like running. Sometimes, you don’t run very fast, but you can run for longer. Other times, you sprint as fast as you can, but can only go for so long. Cervimard powers are like how fast you’re going - the more vivid the sensation your cervimard is inflicting on someone, the harder it would be to keep their power going!

Take Draven’s power, for example. Draven has the ability to make himself appear invisible. If his surroundings are similar to him in appearance, the easier it is for him to activate his ability. It would be easier for him to disappear in a dark forest than a wide open, sunny field, because he has to change less about how anyone looking at him would perceive. It’d also be easier for him to disappear in the summertime when everything is green rather than autumn when there’s an array of contrasting warm colors, since the colors of his surroundings are closer to his colors already.

The more your cervimard has to change, the harder it will be for them to activate their powers. The list of sensations cervimards may manipulate from easiest to hardest are as follows: scent manipulation, physical sensations (including things like balance or dexterity), auditory sensations, emotional or mental stimulation, and finally visual perception.

Another thing that might make using their powers harder is if they’re using their powers on more than one person. Focusing on more people means you need to spend more energy to get the same effects in multiple places!

As I mentioned before, cervimards get tired when they use their powers too much!
Just like how the extended use of a muscle would feel, eventually your cervimard will find it harder and harder to control their power smoothly. It becomes harder to focus, harder to hold, and harder to coordinate. Just like you can’t run forever, cervimards can’t use their powers forever! Eventually they will get so tired that they will be forced to stop, but usually no one would want to persist to that point. When you get tired while running, you usually want to stop before you collapse of exhaustion!

Like recovering from intense exercise, it takes a little while before your cervimard may feel recovered enough to continue using their powers again. Treat it realistically, you wouldn’t go back to running 5 seconds after you’d just finished a round of laps!

6) That's all I have to share! Hopefully this helped clear up some confusion, and I'm really happy with seeing how everyone engages with the species now that they are available!

Keep up the great work :)