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  • Lugonu actually started as a goddess, before being turned into a genderless abomination. I think I’ve seen the devs use it/it’s pronouns.

    Yup. The panic buttons are nice, the easier rune is nice, and back when there was Ak there was a cheap blink+blink other ability. That character used a distortion-branded demon whip to great effect as well, IIRC. Happy playing!


  • Sorry, “jawed fish” is used a lot in when talking about the epochs where tetrapods hadn’t evolved yet - growing the first jaws was a pretty big landmark. That’s my bad. Ray-finned is pretty clear, though, and doesn’t include anything I can think of that’s unexpected.

    Close enough for a layperson, but for a biologist they probably should use Gnathostomata when that’s what they’re talking about.

    They absolutely do use casual terms as well as the technical names when talking to each other - I’ve been a fly on that wall. They tend not to get confused about their own subject. However, when they have to get into more specifics than “that’s a squat lobster” yeah, they have to go back to the jargon.


  • I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish might come up in that conversation. And don’t forget some of the formal names and roots are Greek as well.

    What kind of whale is that? “It’s a whale whale… you know the original whale… the proper whale… the right whale.” There’s actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

    Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?