Kyrius

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They / Them Minecraft enthusiast based in Stockholm. Love making pixel art, building, organizing events and much more! Find me on Ko-fi! There you can make commissions and download free skins! https://ko-fi.com/kyrius

"Millions of years ago the Grow deer looked quite different, its ancestors were the ough deer, residing in the wet, dark forests of what is now the eastern savannahs. When the ice age lifted a new warm period began and the ough deer had to adapt. As you might know, the grow deer possesses one of the longest tongues in the animal kingdom, reaching up to 2 meters long. It uses this long tongue to access high shrubs as well as low grasses that its horns prevent it from accessing. Between the long horns of the Grow deer, you will almost always find a special creature that spends its whole life following the deer around. It's the coronated hornspider. When Grow deer reach around 5 months of age, at the end of its nursing period, its mother will reach her horns down to the calf, allowing the coronated hornspider to hop over and lay its eggs in the grooves of the calf's budding horns. When the spiderlings hatch they canibalize each other, leaving only one spider left. Using its siblings for nutrients, the spider spins a thick web between the horns where it lives for many years. This relationship between the spider and the deer is not one sided however. The web both collecs the flies that get attracted to the deer's smell. But also collects dew droplets that flow down the web and into the central grooves of the horns which the deer licks up with its long tongue. The spider is also one of the most venomous insects in the world, acting as a deterent for other carnivorous creatures to attack the Grow deer. The spider is known to be agressive, but due to the deer's pheromones the spider knows not to bite the host. This ends up being one of the most interesting symbiotic relationships between two species in the animal kingdom. You can learn more about symbiotic relationships on page 205." - Biogeography of north Sarsha, 2nd edition
Characters from the game ENA Dream BBQ from left to right: Taski Maiden, Coral Glasses, Dratula and Froggy