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What cutlery would rotifer monsters use?

The rotifer monsters are monstrous rotifers with a roughly human level of intellect. They are roughly 7 metres in length and 2 metres in diameter. They possess the power to manipulate gravity, ...
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Would my giants still have a functioning appendix?

In my world, there is a species from the Homo genus named Homo gigas. They are commonly called giants. They are as massive as polar bears, and they never stop growing like kangaroos. They have seal-...
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What type of diet would be needed to sustain the Seadominians and keep them thriving

I created this fantasy race called Seadominians, they are basically merfolk. They are mostly bipedal, have scales covering all over, and live all throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, also the ...
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a chemical component in vampire saliva to assist with feeding

I've been thinking about vampires lately, and I came up with the idea of a vampire's saliva containing some sort of chemical or hormone that assists with feeding. I think it would probably have to do ...
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Could this nauplius eat?

The nauplius of my world is a large pleustonic bivalve. It is around 3ft long. It floats belly-up on the surface, with an oddly-shaped shell that exposes the front and middle part of its ventral face ...
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What would this giant naturally eat?

The giant is a large humanoid with some paradoxical-seeming traits It is a mammal, roughly as heavy as a small elephant. Their mouth seems adapted for herbivory: Their lips are like that of a camel, ...
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Would a race with greater muscle density need more or less food than Humans?

In my world, the explanation for Elves being naturally skinny is having a much greater muscle density than their Human cousins, basically causing them to be just as strong but far less bulky and a ...
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Convenient teeth for a bloodsucking vampire

So I got this species of vampire-creatures (no conversion of other species, just mating and reproducing in typical mammalian fashion) that subsist entirely on blood. I'm using a bit of magic to imply ...
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How do I begin to explain that my orcs may survive by eating soil?

In my RPG campaign setting the orcs are tougher than most other races. In hard times they can eat wood (small bushes and fresh pieces of trees). In really hard times they can eat healthy soil and ...
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Honey as a form of currency?

I was watching Shoddycast's video on the value of bottle caps as currency in Fallout 4 today, and after having read part of Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance earlier this morning, my mind started ...
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Moral implications or ethics violated of eating other Sentient races in a fantasy world [closed]

A follow up of my question Cannibalism - Does Eating other sentient creatures makes you a cannibal What would be the moral implications and Ethics violated when you eat other sentient races. Given ...
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Cannibalism - does eating other sentient creatures make you a cannibal?

So I am now writing my novel regarding a man sent on a long term mission in a backward world by his employer. In the middle of war he ran out of provisions behind enemy lines with no edible flora or ...
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Would dragons cook their food?

Assumptions: Dragons are strict carnivores. Dragons are capable of flying, breathing fire, and otherwise sustaining life off some diet without the assistance of magic (however impossible that ...
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