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Cordelier · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: New Mexico, USA

My fairest greetings to my fellow conworld creators,
Since about 2006 or so, I have started drawing my conworld bestiary. Unfortunately so, I have not, for three whole years, made a lot of progression in it. However, hither am I to post what I have so far.

Brief Note: I am more likely to update this topic frequently.

Éol/Éos/Hyporid (Elvish Horse):

Ruenor/Léon (Lion) from Destari region:

Ulzuru (Swamp-Duck):

More to come soon...

-- Cordelier
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Languages spoken:
1- French
2- English
3- Créole

My Conlangs:
- Unengwé (Elvish Speech)
- Bathgär (Dwarvish Speech)
- Amaviric (Daishiru Variant)
- Egyptar (Daishiru Variant)
- Draconian
- Kror (Eastern-Men Speech)
- Quria (Southern-Men Speech)

Kiri · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject:

Oh, nice drawing Smile

This particular one reminds me of hypogrifs (whatever the spelling is).

Can you provide us with some statistics of your animal?
For example, is it magical? Is it considered fast? Slow? Are the most of them wild? Domesticated? Can it fly? Swim? That sort of things Wink

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eldin raigmore · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 984 Location: SouthEast Michigan

A hippogriff is something that looks like a hybrid between a horse and a griffin.
A griffin is something that looks like a hybrid between a lion and an eagle.

Cordelier's Eol/Eos/Hyporid (Elvish Horse) looks more like a hybrid between a horse and an eagle, with no lion thrown in at all.

But it's not just a pegasus -- not just a winged horse.
In fact it has no wings.
Its eagle-like characteristics are its two front legs (or perhaps only its two front feet), its beak, and its eyes.
Its horse-like parts include its mane, neck, chest, everything back of the two front legs, and possibly the tops of the two front legs.
I don't think those are horns or antlers; I think that's its mane standing up.

"Eos" was the Titaness of the dawn. Her Latin name is Aurora and her Etruscan name is Thesan. She may be identified with Hemera (Greek) or Dies (Latin), the goddess of the day.
That might be a good proper name for an Elvish horse, especially if she were a mare and had some red in her coloring.
(Eos is also a genus of lorikeets; maybe cordelier's elvish horse is a cross between a horse and a lorikeet, instead of between a horse and an eagle?)

"Eol" is a "Dark Elf" from JRR Tolkien.

"Hyporid" I find in websites related to Greek archaeology and history, to German outboard motors and trucks and spare parts (axles? gears? oil?) and motorcycles(?), to a StarWars-related site, to the voyage of HMS Challenger, and a Japanese precision engineering site ("Solid Modeling and Finite Element Analysis of Hyporid Gear - A Case Study for Using the Modified Roll -"). So I don't know why Cordelier named the Elvish Horse a "Hyporid"; and I don't know why he named it "Eol" or "Eos" either. And I don't know which of those names is a species-name and which is a propername of that particular animal.

But I'll bet he'll tell us, eventually, or even soon.
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Cordelier · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: New Mexico, USA

@Kiri:
I am glad you like it. For more information, the Éolim (sing. Éol) are, in fact, dragon-horses, and not eagle-horses, as many of you might think (LOL!). Perhaps it is not as detailed as I had planned it to be... Perhaps need I to improve my artistic talents. Nay, the Éolim are not magical, except for a few (1/10,000 maybe).

Depending on their skin-color, they have a special attribute (I based this idea on Final Fantasy VII's Chocobos). For instance, a blue Éol would be able to swim (swimmer-type); a red Éol would walk on lava (I do not know how you would call that); a green Éol would be able to climb on mountains (climber-type); and so on. Right now, the one I drew is a light-brown one, a runner-type. Aye, they are considered fast, being able to run hundreds of miles without being tired (in my Chapter 2, two of them ran about 700 miles or so in less than two days without stopping).

They come up wild, just like horse, and they can be tamed. It is hard to do so, but once they like their tamers, they become the most loyal beasts of my conworld, preferring to die instead of their masters (and that is why the Elves prefer them over normal horses), ready to sacrifice their lives for their masters. The only problem with them, I have decided, is that they are somewhat like some loyal dogs of the real world, meaning that if their masters die, and no one of its bloodline claims them, they will let themselves die.

Those are the only information I can give you right now, Kiri. Hopefully it was not too confusing (my English is somewhat limited by the French and Creole I speak). LOL!

@Eldin Raigamore:
You have a very interesting way of being logical. I really like that (after reading some of your logical comments on other pages).

To be honest, I just came up with hyporid like that, for when I first created it, I thought of hyppo (latin [??] word for "horse") and rid (from bird, with some letters omitted; if you see what I mean). In fact, I used not to care too much about the significance of terminologies. Like I said, I was thinking of Chocobo, before my story matured... As for Éol (or also Éos), they are just names I came up with, this without any researches of whatsoever. I needed a basic name for "horse" in my conworld, so I chose them basically based on Tolkien's Éo, as in Éomer, which meant "horse" in I-forgot-what-language-it-is-in...

Now, to answer your last question (to the best of my knowledge), Éol (or Éos, if you prefer) is MY elvish way of saying "horse", as Féol is MY way of saying "dragon-horse". I have no etymology on it, for I thought it was a whole new word I came up with in my head. There is no difference between Éol and Éos; it just depends on the elven region in which one lives. As for hyporid, it is, in my conworld, the Human-way of referring to this specific breed of horse (or dragon-horse; whichever you prefer to say).

I hope I had answered everything clearly...

Salutations,

-- Cordelier
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Languages spoken:
1- French
2- English
3- Créole

My Conlangs:
- Unengwé (Elvish Speech)
- Bathgär (Dwarvish Speech)
- Amaviric (Daishiru Variant)
- Egyptar (Daishiru Variant)
- Draconian
- Kror (Eastern-Men Speech)
- Quria (Southern-Men Speech)

eldin raigmore · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 984 Location: SouthEast Michigan

Cordelier · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: New Mexico, USA

@Eldin Raigamore:
I think your knowledge in etymologies and linguistics is beyond mine, unfortunately, so I ask you in advance to forgive me if I do not understand a lot of what you are saying. But I like your constructive criticisms, and I believe they will be important for the advancement of my story and the making of my conlangs.

Kiri · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:35 am Post subject:

Cordelier · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: New Mexico, USA

Update #2:
Dear fellow conworld creators,
I have added a few more animals to my Bestiary. Feel free to post constructive comments at will.

--Cordelier
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Languages spoken:
1- French
2- English
3- Créole

My Conlangs:
- Unengwé (Elvish Speech)
- Bathgär (Dwarvish Speech)
- Amaviric (Daishiru Variant)
- Egyptar (Daishiru Variant)
- Draconian
- Kror (Eastern-Men Speech)
- Quria (Southern-Men Speech)

killerken · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 107 Location: Florida

The lion is really neat! He seems to be very furry. Is Destari a cold region? I don't see it on your map. Perhaps it's one of the places off the map you mentioned?
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Kiri · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

I'd like to see the Ulzuru in all it's glory - full body, because the head, with the mouth open is... a bit freaky Very Happy

But that feature has always seemed freaky to me, so, don't mind me Very Happy

I like your imagination nevertheless Wink

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Cordelier · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: New Mexico, USA

@Killerken:
Aye, Destari is situated east of the Mountains of Thunder (see the map), in Bärad. I did not put Destari there yet, because the map, like I mentioned in the forum, is still incomplete.

Bärad is the dwarvish way of saying "frozen plain," being the mixture of the words "Bä(sh)" (frost) and "Rad(ush)" (plain). I did not want to say "Bäshradush," although it would be the plains' full name, if you see what I mean. (Dwarves love shortenings in my story).

And, to finally answer your question, aye, Destari is an area in Bärad (Bäshradush), and Bärad is a country.

@Kiri:
LOL! The full body would most likely be similar to a furry dodo or austrich, I would believe. I am still deciding. The Ulzurim have no feathers, but hair, though they live southward, near Egypt (see my map).

I hope it answers all your questions. Smile

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Languages spoken:
1- French
2- English
3- Créole

My Conlangs:
- Unengwé (Elvish Speech)
- Bathgär (Dwarvish Speech)
- Amaviric (Daishiru Variant)
- Egyptar (Daishiru Variant)
- Draconian
- Kror (Eastern-Men Speech)
- Quria (Southern-Men Speech)