Skyrim Beastiary

cwandell · Post by **cwandell** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:22 pm

arn't imps kinda native to Oblivion?

other posibly creatures.
frost ooze? a ooze like creature that appears to be made of frost. It waits in gorges and the such, for unsuspecting victims, from which it devours. possibly an alchemy item as well?

ookami · Post by **ookami** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:18 am

I think that wolves and bears and such should have exaggerated dire versions in some parts of Skyrim.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:38 pm

Assassinace wrote: Kraken: giant squid basically.
"In tales told by Norse sailors, the Kraken was a great monster that would attack ships. It had many arms, like the roots of an upturned tree, and would seize ships and drag them underneath the water. While originally believed to be an agent of Aegir - the god of the sea - it is believed that the Kraken described in folklore was in fact the giant squid, which would easily give the terrifying impression the stories lent to the Kraken's flailing arms."

Wait, there was a kraken in fable, and it looked awesome. I'm currently working on a nordic sea creature coincedently, and It would work as a kraken methinks.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:48 pm

cwandell wrote:arn't imps kinda native to Oblivion?

other posibly creatures.
frost ooze? a ooze like creature that appears to be made of frost. It waits in gorges and the such, for unsuspecting victims, from which it devours. possibly an alchemy item as well?

I like the Idea. Maybe we could find a better name for it, but the general idea would stay the same.

Saibot · Post by **Saibot** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:21 am

The Udyrfrykte should be a one of a kind creature. It and the quest surrounding it were based off of the Grendel from Beowulf. Thus should not be duplicated.

Lud · Post by **Lud** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:04 pm

Yes, I agree with Saibot that there shouldn't be lots of Uyrfryktes running around the place. However maybe one other of the same species would be good.(In the original legend, Beowulf also had to kill Grendel's mother, who was a much tougher proposition)

Odowacar · Post by **Odowacar** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:45 pm

Shall we do the Udyrfrykte's mother then? Same creature but bigger and meaner.

And I think that there should be pike fishes in Skyrim's rivers. Also foxes and giant eagles would be great.

Saibot · Post by **Saibot** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:22 pm

I suppose adding one more Udyrfrykte to represent Grendel's mother would be good. There would have to be a good quest surrounding it.

cwandell · Post by **cwandell** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:46 am

prehaps the quest will only spawn after you've killed the original? and as a result ... you'll hear of a raging beast somewheres in Skyrim?

Saibot · Post by **Saibot** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:10 am

Yes it would have to be after the original Udyrfrykte quest. Grendel's mother attacked in order to get revenge for the death of her son at the hand of Beowulf. But that being said, this isn't really the place for discussing quests.

Savant · Post by **Savant** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:27 am

Odowacar wrote: And I think that there should be pike fishes in Skyrim's rivers. Also foxes and giant eagles would be great.

Oooooh, goody goody goody. Yeah, the benefit of human provences is that they always seem to mimic the real life world (e.g. pumpkins and horses in oblivion, or wolves in bloodmoon, but nothing outside rats in morrowind). You could probably rack up a great bestiary by just borrowing like that.
Other Ideas:
-squirrels
-mountain goats
-mountain lions (although its probably too similar to the sabertooth tigers)
-elk
-deer
-etc.

Graff · Post by **Graff** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:39 am

I had a concept for a horse/goat crossbreed native to Skyrim's mountain regions at one point, I'll find it out again, it was quite good.

Graff.

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:04 am

In case you're interested, Sabregirl created an "Ecology of Morrowind" mod that introduced new creatures to Solstheim.

Snowshoe Hare
Spotted Deer - Chital
Caribou
Mountain Goats
White Tailed Deer

Here's the webie if you want to take a look:
[url]http://www.sabregirl.com/mods/creature.html[/url]

Savant · Post by **Savant** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:14 pm

Oh, yeah. We'd be interested. Then couldn't we just borrow the meshes? There isn't, like, a copyright on that stuff, right?

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:35 pm

Orix wrote:In case you're interested, Sabregirl created an "Ecology of Morrowind" mod that introduced new creatures to Solstheim.

Snowshoe Hare
Spotted Deer - Chital
Caribou
Mountain Goats
White Tailed Deer
Here's the webie if you want to take a look:
[url]http://www.sabregirl.com/mods/creature.html[/url]

Um, the deer in that fourth pic look nothing like real whitetail deer. The antlers on whitetail curve forward, not strait up like that, and the ears and snouts are definatly not that big. Either rename these as "mule deer" or touch up the meshes.

Here:

[img]http://www.rocketaerohead.com/images/trophy-gallery/mark-aiello-1.jpg[/img]

Whitetail Deer.

[img]http://www.bigbearlake.net/animals/Mule%20deer.2%20cropped.jpg[/img]

Mule Deer.

I bowhunt whitetails, and I see bucks all the time, so I know how the antlers go.

ookami · Post by **ookami** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:33 am

Savant wrote:-mountain lions (although its probably too similar to the sabertooth tigers)

The sabretooths wouldn't be in the same area as the mountain lions, though, right? If there's more than one type of bear, there could be more than one type of big cat. As a fantasy variant, how about a mountain sabretooth?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:37 pm

Sabretooth tigers were really more plain animals I think...far more suited to somewhere like Elsewyr.

Im always a bit stuffy about using cats anywhere other than Elsewyr, but since there are pet cats over in High Rock there could be cats like the Lynx in parts of Skyrim

cwandell · Post by **cwandell** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:42 pm

Sabertooths are native to highrock as well...i suspect that the whole northern region has them. This is just a suspicion.

Odowacar · Post by **Odowacar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:55 pm

Whales? Could we make whales to the arctic seas of Skyrim.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:19 pm

There are whales, and much more, in abot's WaterLife plugin.

I for one like seeing seals and penguins among horkers on the northern coast of Solstheim.