Cryptids of Kaimere
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Cryptids are animals that some people believe may exist, but whose existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by scientists. In a world with a magic portal and predatory reptiles the size of a bus, it can seem odd that there might be fictional animals, but the peoples of Kaimere are just as imaginative as we are, and there is an abundance of entirely mythical creatures. The Assembly classifies any animal regularly and consistently reported, yet does not fit the description of a known animal, as a cryptid. This space between myth and documented science has a wide variety of animals, especially in a world as vast and unsettled as Kaimere.
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I admit, this was a bit shorter and scanter on the details than I was expecting, but this was a solid episode regardless. The lore implications of the Harvestmen in particular have my eye - I would love to sponsor something about their various goings-on later down the line.
Thanks! I ran into the issue pretty quickly that by definition, I can't illustrate cryptids outside of some hypothetical reconstructions like the hechekha. They aren't known by specific details, and the line between them and folklore ruled out a lot of ideas I considered to feature. Harvestmen and their machinations was a segment I also considered expanding upon, but wanted to focus more on Kaimere for this particular episode.
@@TalesofKaimere Keeping some mystery and surprisses IMO helps to keep the setting fresh.
Seconded. The harvest men must be a source of the grey alien or flatwoods monster myth on Earth
As all cryptid video’s should be
One step closer to an episode on the religions and myths of kaimere’s peoples!
Seriously though, I would love that. Going into the cultures’ beliefs and how they effect their day to day would make an excellent subject, especially with how the amazing animals of kaimere would influence that.
Great episode in its own right of course. I look forward to the next sleep paralysis demon Kaimere will give me since the Silent Forest
Oh heck yeah that would be cool
I love how you have cripteds in your world it gives it that extra bit of color that makes it feel so much more real. Love this episode.
Thanks a bunch! It can be odd to think of fictional creatures when there are real demons and monsters, but people are always going to wonder what else might be out there!
@@TalesofKaimereI have Ideas for cripteds in kaimere, something akin to a werewolf or were-anything, but like cats, they HATE eye contact. And will threaten and or kill in order to stay safe. Maybe the kaimeren yeti would be it's natural predator. That being why they have the power to kill a human if given the opportunity.
I like that you used a calm, enjoyable and reassuring music for this video !
Instead of a scary one as its so overused when it's about such topic like cryptids :)
Absolutely! They're just animals science hasn't verified, not monsters or demons.
Let the spooky season begin!
In the world like Kaimere that has things like the silent ones Giants harpies merfolk it be pretty strange if these creatures weren’t real
Indeed, yet kaimerans have just as active imaginations as we do. It may seem odd for peoples who live with giants and demons to tell stories of mythical creatures, but everyone gets excited by the unknown, even if the known is spectacular.
Electric Eels/Fish and Velvet Worm sponsored vid when?
I guess that this "Cryptids/Homunculies Mania" that will run for all over this October month is more or less linked to Halloween at the end of it.
To put us in the theme of the odd, weird, strange, surnatural and somewhat sometime scary vibes and domains.
Which is fair and good !
After all, it's alway nice to pass a key mondial event ina way or another whe following a serie/channel such "Tales of Kaimere"
Don't know if the last episode that will end October with Halloween will be something very special to mark the event, but with this overall "mania" for most of this month, it's already very sufficent and good for us X)
I love the parallels of similar instances on Earth.
Man. The lore in kaimere is fantastic! a very good episode, and thanks for not outright dismissing the existence of Sasquatch. Honestly, I'm curtain they exist. It just makes more sense for them to exist than not to, not to mention the creature in the famous Patterson gimlin footage is without a doubt a flesh and blood animal, you can see its muscles bulge as it walks, the way it turns its neck, among all the other details.
Thank you! As I mentioned in the episode I'm personally very skeptical (I've spent a lot of time in the woods at night and it's easy to imagine seeing things that aren't there and exaggerating things that are) but I'm not going to say we've discovered everything and know all that's out there.
@TalesofKaimere Absolutely! And I can understand why you're skeptical, I once was too.
Bigfoot nation rise up
@@TalesofKaimere www.youtube.com/@BobGymlan/videos
This is probably the most convincing person I have seen who has attempted to argue for sasquatch. He comes at it from a mostly scientific perspective and generally attempts to compare existing reports/sightings/etc with knowledge of accepted species of great apes. The earlier videos are a bit rougher but still easy to get into and summarize the style well.
Dr Jeffery Meldrum is also notable, as he is an accomplished Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and even managed to get a short paper on sasquatch track morphology published in the 2007 edition of Cenozoic Vertebrate Tracks and Traces.
The argument he makes is that we have dozens of trackways from across the US in regions unlikely to be traveled, all of which are consistent with what would be expected from a living animal of this description. These trackways have been discovered across many decades and state lines, and on top of that would require deep knowledge of primate foot morphology to fake.
Referring to Gigantopithicus, at the time known from only a few teeth and partial jaw, the study ends with this quote.
"That an “extinct” giant ape is accepted by science on the basis of such scant fossil evidence, one might ask why serious consideration has been slow in coming to the
hundreds of documented footprints (not to mention sightings, vocalizations, hair, scat, etc."
If you want to talk more about this or get the direct link to the journal (even though I am certain you could find it on your own), feel free to let me know.
Kaimere is such a unique setting, and one arguably well suited to a giant bipedal primate/hominid species in the vein of sasquatch. After all, the Known World is only a small fraction of the total planet.
"You can see its muscles bulge as it walks, the way it turns its neck..."
You can see lots of things if you really want to.
A cryptic video fastinating
7:38 "Whistle while you work it" sneaky little Keenan you
Holy crap holy crap I've been forgetting this for months!
Rubber trees for Kaimeran Bonk Sticks!
It's an economically expensive and time consuming process so, giving Kaimere's alternate paths of evolution there are *plenty* of alternative sources of natural rubber/latex!
Dandelions produce it in small amounts and there are already programs and studies now that are attempting to increase those yields.
Sunflowers also produce a small amount of natural latex.
There's also "wild lettuce" here in the states and that's about all, I was going to give dates and times these plants evolved and their ancestor's lines but that's all the time I've got on my break YOU DO GREAT WORK KEEP IT UP I just thought it would help if maybe Kaimerans didn't have to rely on rubber trees the same way we do for their weapons.
❤❤❤ Good video
It's Spooky time, and this episode fits *Spooky time*
I was expecting there will be a lot more in this episode but I suspect majority of the effort will be placed on Halloween night.
Unfortunately by definition there wasn't much I could conclusively say about Kaimere's cryptids. Will be going into a lot more details for later episodes on homunculi we know more about
I love cryptids this is well needed especially since it’s spookey month
Gotta say I'm surprised you aren't the biggest fan of cryptids. The idea of unidentified fauna that aren't just familiar looking species or animals small enough that it makes sense why they remain undescribed, but creatures that just demand our attention but still illude us in a time where it feels as if we know everything interesting there is to know about our planet is pretty cool. It really fuels the idea that no matter how much we know, there will always be something more to discover right around the corner.
It probably doesn’t help that a lot of supposed cryptids are pretty hogwash overall. Many washed up corpses attributed to sea monsters are just rotted and decaying Basking sharks and whales. Prehistoric “Living Fossil” animals like the Loch Ness monster and mokele mbembe are pretty awful in terms of actually existing for rather obvious reasons. Now of course this isn’t the case for all cryptids but I can’t blame Keenan for being skeptical.
At the end of the day, it's that so many are made up for bad reasons. I experience far more wonder and amazement seeing a black bear or even a skunk walking through my back yard than I do imagining undiscovered animals. I can see why people are drawn to the unknown, but the known is often underappreciated and astonishing, and so many cryptids being hoaxes for fame, self-important hype, or even political/religious agendas like Young Earth Creationism just turns me off to the whole concept. The real world is packed with wonders and again I find far more excitement in that. Cryptids can be very fun, and I have no issue with liking them, but the biggest ones often have the worst baggage.
@@TalesofKaimere yeah that actually is pretty understandable. Nearly all of them are made to be impressive in the moment but usually make no goddamn sense or aren't that interesting after you get past that initial cool factor. Also on the other hand of what I said in the first comment, fantasising too much about them can make it feel like the real world isn't interesting or mysterious enough and is missing something, which couldn't be further from the truth. And yeah, the fact that practically all of them are either created or popularized for the sake of someone's personal gain is one hell of a turn off.
@@Stooltoad5017 oh no I wasn't confused as to why he doesn't believe in them, I was asking why he doesn't like them as made up creatures considering he's a spec creator.
I knew there were some cryptids in Kaimere, but not this much diversity. Although, some cryptids turning out to be animals, some like the Heterothermes and Fabodonts being so ancient and uniquely derived...
Hope we get to know the ogres, and Kaimere's most ancient fauna, hopefully with some Survivors from the previous harvests....
Ogres are to be covered next week!
@@TalesofKaimere So, far, we have 4 species of Ogres !
The Houze Prairie one, the Drenduga ones, the Titanosaurs ones and the Hukolgur ones !
Very interesting my friend.
also here a question will you do a episode about praying Mantis on kaimere?
Really loved the episode.
Thank you!
Could the Taki be a giant relative of the sapient tapejarids maybe? I love this wordbuilding so much!
A pterosaur origin of an ape-man story would honestly be fantastic I love that!
@@TalesofKaimere The helpful yet reclusive nature similar to the little arboreal guys and bird sounding calls made me think you were setting that up😁
Sasquatch lives! I like how the Tatki doing work around logging camps resembles the earliest "modern" Sasquatch reports that lead to the iconic name of Bigfoot itself. I myself an agnostic on the Sasquatch ordeal due to personal experience and being an anthropologist, as they are one of the few cryptids that sound somewhat possible in a mundane setting. Bigfoot is one of those 'monsters' which is both extremely easy to imagine, explaining the reports, but also biologically feasible by zoologic or paleontological standards and findings (unlike a modern day marine reptile or blood sucking goblins in Puerto Rico).
It’s almost akin to natural selection in a way - the cryptids that last are the stories that feel most plausible.
not bad in fact intriguing it to hear the mysterious cryptids of Kaimere as it mirrors earth's cryptids also excited to hear the holler coming, as it may make way for a Kaimere setting although I much appreciated Kaimere remains a book series until it somewhere 20th or 40th anthology or novel but it amazing to hear that you using savage world to make your kaimere roleplaying setting
I keep forgetting to check during the release schedule, ffs 😅
Really interesting topic.
Great start to spoopy month
My man just casually dropped a design of a surviving fabadont as if it ain't a big deal
I like to sprinkle in some surprises here and there
@@TalesofKaimere surprises to be sure... and welcomed ones... I'll see myself out
The thing about cryptids in Kaimere is that each account of an unknown creature can represent a misidentified encounter with a known animal, or a species yet to be discovered by the Assembly, or it can be a random homunculus. In that sense it's hard to fully dismiss anything when magically altered abominations are known to walk around and even the most outlandish story can still hold some truth.
As for my personal opinion about cryptozoology, I've always thought the idea of still undiscovered species adds some mystery to the nature of our world. I've had times when I would research about certain cryptids out of curiosity of the lore surrounding them. And it's sometimes fun to think about it as long as you don't get carried away and start to spread misinformation. Ngl I get annoyed when someone starts to explain how megalodon can still live in the Mariana trench.
For some people, nothing gets in the way of a good story. For some reason, we’ve evolved to be enthralled by stories and arcs.
By the way, the azhe is a Kaimeran procoptodon, right?
Yup! It is a species of Procoptodon
@@TalesofKaimereah I misheard that. Did procoptodon get that big?? If so, that is a big middle finger to my peace of mind. That a giant, walking roid bunny existed
They did, yes, and they looked like living fursuits.
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What a wonderful way to start the month of hauntings!
This is awesome! I can’t wait for your video on vampires, as they’re one of my favorite monsters. I wonder though, has anyone in modern Kaimere attempted to create their own Homunculi or at least during the Age of Witches?
Absolutely! Vampires are a lot of fun.
The dragons represent a good example of a more modern homunculi, as the Permian Islander witches that domesticated them incorporated some magic that librarians and Assembly naturalists agree is likely influenced by First Children magic or perhaps even a late-surviving community of the little dudes. Many witches during the Age of Witches made creations. A Seridic witch-king is said to have made a dragon of his own, for example.
I think it would be cool to either be a Homunculus or be able to create Homunculi.
Here’s an idea: goblins. Perhaps a relative of Homo florensis could have evolved on Kaimere to look like goblins.
Well who needs cryptids when there are 20 to 30 ton megaraptarans and giant sloths wandering around
2:45 don’t forget manatees which were mistaken for mermaids and okapis of Africa
If I listed every option it would take over an hour lol I just covered a couple examples.
Can we get a video on the Beastfolk?
If I can land a sponsor for it, absolutely! I haven't picked a video topic in over a year lol it's all determined by sponsors
hey man I've been watching your content for a while and I have been loving it and would love to support but I have no money so I have one request for you could you do a story about the knight and squire Bokodu.
No lake monsters? Or did the Kura Jaku eat them all? XP
Spooky season is fast approaching
The idea of cryptids being on a world with magic, demons, and homonculi is wild
So I guess there are worker drones left in kaimere:)
Cryptid are truly a fascinating topic, there are some that are clearly just misidentification’s and some that may just be a flight of fancy inspired as you say by the dark. But there are others that just have too much information around them to be anything but a mystery. And I think it’s better that way, if we discount all the mysteries what is there left to find?
Me: Don’t y’all have enough spooky naturally?
Kaimerean: No! We need more spooky! Lots more spooky!!!!
Me:😋
I like this interplay between folklore and the natural world
Thanks!
You are truly a great world builder I hope others will be inspired to make their own world, speaking of which have you ever heard of RWBY?
Thanks! I have heard of it but am not familiar with the property outside of some friends watching it back in college and seeing art and whatnot online
@@TalesofKaimere just wanted to know how it is in world building.
Any specific ocean cryptids planned? I understand that most can easily be explained but I feel like there's gotta be some.
Oh there's plenty
hope we get the taki in the new anthology...
though, north of quajar aisbt exactly a whisper beyond the known world.
hey, I got an off-topic question: I know answer is probably no but is there any Phytosaurs in kaimere?
Probably not
thank you@@TalesofKaimere
Phytosaurs only lived at the Trias, and there was any triassic Harvest, so it a definitive no.
I hope we'll get to know more in-depth on the vampires of this setting! Like do they have the traditional full set of chompers or just measly sharp canines of pop-culture vamps, are they carnivores or senguinvores, do they suck or use incisors to cut and lap up the blood, aka scrape and lick, etc.?
All shall be answered on Halloween!
@@TalesofKaimere I KNOWN it there would be a Special episode of somekind of Halloween !
At every key event of the years, like April, you never forget to give us a special episode that will show us greats and fascinating things !
It is true that, for someone own point of view, when you are in a world where fantasical creatures and magic is a truth, at first glance, you mindlessely think that every possible creatures a little out of the ordinary to extremely surnatural looking that is sighted, even not directly and well-confirmed, must be obviousely something that exist, as a sure value.
But yes, as shown in this video, a lot of factors interfere in the people judgement to what they think to have seen or to see. So a lot of things that are biased occured.
And a lot of these critters being either in a more simple form that was exagerated, aor already recorded creatures.
Especially in a world in a pre-industrial era.
how much impact to unnatural creatures like homunculi have on the ecosystems of kaimere?
Not as much as you might imagine. While they eat more food than a person, they are very slow to reproduce and are vulnerable to predation from even vassal predators so they have a somewhat restricted range, tending to prefer regions without large theropods.
Hey man, I just saw your channel and I’m very interested for what else you have in store!:) you give me hope for me to one day, become an author
Thank you so much, and best of luck!!
Perhaps unrelated but. Do Kaimereans see Ursa Major on their night sky? And if so does they call it differently? Like "Great Hukoldur" or something like that?
Haha that’s a neat question! So there are some stars visible from both planets, but they aren’t in the same positions and perspectives. Any constellations they have identified are unique to the planet
The Taki from Qajar is (most) obviousely just a Homunculi created by the First Children, become feral after the extinction of the latter, remained on Qajar, and survived the Homunculies Extermination War that start the Age of Witches.
As for the sigthing on Earth of this creature or a close relative, it must be (most obviousely) just specimens of it that were already on Earth, either directly created here and from Kaimere send by the First Children (workers of them obviousely made numerous back and forth when working at their era) and have ended up being trap on Earth when the First Children became extinct.
Because Bigfoot/Sasquatch as a natural animal, mainly presented a surviving population of Gigantopithecus that became bipedal, is in itself a idea/theory that is very, very weaky supported, debunked even, and even not taken into consideration since a good while.
So, having Bigfoot being a natural animal harvested on Kaimere isn't viable.
Especially that even if that was true, it would have been around only fot the Pleistocene North and Central American Harvest at 12,000 kya, so the Interrupted Harvest, and as such would have obviousely be entirely culled to extinction by the First Children when replicated on Qajar.
(a giant, more than 2 meters tall and bulky ape is a dangerous animal for a dwarf humanoid, so would have been considered as dangerous by them, and as such killed).
Wonder if there are any common animals on Kaimere that proves the existence of an Earth cryptid ancestor
did the harvest men and first children colonize other planets?
Absolutely, and some components of life indigenous to those planets has been found in the latest most sophisticated homunculi
The Taki, if real, is 100% a Homunculus.
A wild animal, sophont or otherwise, wouldn’t be predisposed to carrying out heavy labour for other creatures. A drone Homunculus created for the purpose of carrying such labour and programmed accordingly? Well, that is a whole another story.
Plus, Qajar is where First Children lived predominantly, so it is quite likely they would have a large quantity of such worker Homunculi running around there.
I won’t officially confirm this for the sake of maintaining the official status as a mystery but I will say that is a very sensible conclusion
Besides, why would a helpful creature destroy a camp just because it was being looked at or someone spoke its name?
Will you ever do a video on the giant salamander you showed a while ago?
Possibly! Don't have one lined up but there are a few topics, like the Abyss, which would give me time and budget to draw them.
@@TalesofKaimere cool
I don’t know why I didn’t expect to see a gray alien
Also how come the folklore versions of manaphants got left out
Was trying to focus on cryptids, not folklore, but they could have made for a good segment I suppose
I am surprised to see the Emerald Fabodont so soon. I can’t say I mind though. I could see why they would be a cryptid from the Assembly’s perspective, It would be almost like describing an elephant to somebody who has never seen one before. Is it known what animals prey on them? (Given the eyestalks?)
While Indrakai and red panthers sometimes do, they aren’t particularly easy to eat. Hard to kill, but osteoderms in their skin means the effort usually isn’t worth the prize. If they see you coming they either sprint to the burrow or hunker down, and both are challenging. If a predator can’t get them belly up and restrain the digging claws, it’s a very difficult takedown
@@TalesofKaimereWow, they are surprisingly brutal for an animal that looks like a cross between a snail and a particularly shaggy sloth.
SQUATCH
are fabodonts fossorial?
This particular clade is (which is how they survived the Dynastic Extinction while other fabadonts did not). There are non-fossorial fabadonts in Kaishel.
yoooo fabodont
What kaimeran Bigfoot?????????
Edit: okay but seriously this has lead for me to make cryptid for my own speculative evolution project which do include an unidentified ape harvested from the americas
Too bad, I was hoping for Sasquatches to be a real species. Like some subspecies of Australopithecus
Wouldn't be cryptids if I confirmed them though
True good point@@TalesofKaimere
Any Kaimeran peoples who go looking for cryptids?
Absolutely
I asked myself if your creatures in kaimere I'm not Based in real cryptid
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Wonder if there are any common animals on Kaimere that proves the existence of an Earth cryptid ancestor