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The other race on New Domina?
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MystLunaris
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Suehtam said :
I have two hypotheses:
Again though, Hallow is a world made mostly of water how would they get around the planet and how would they pose any threat once Saradomin had created New Domina?
Why not swim? Some gorgons were depicted with a snake's body for a lower half, and sea snakes do exist.
A natural predator wouldn't likely present an existential threat to the Icyene, however. If the Icyene population would dip, there wouldn't be enough food to sustain the predator's population leading to a reduction in their numbers. This, in turn, would reduce the pressure on the Icyene population leading to an upward swing in their population. The increased population of Icyene would then mean an increase of food for the predator causing a rise in their numbers, and the homeostatic oscillation continues. Sometimes there'd be larger swings, and sometimes smaller swings.
The only way they could present such a threat to the Icyene would be if their predator had such a large upward swing in their population that the resulting pressure on the Icyene population would lead to the Icyene's extinction fast enough to outpace the downward swing on the predator population (deer can do this to plant species they graze on when they can't freely migrate elsewhere). Though this still begs the question as to why such a boom happened after Saradomin's arrival (never dismiss something as a coincidence).
Suehtam said :
I have two hypotheses:
Lamia/Gorgon
: half human half-snake (similar to Medusa in Greek mythology) would be a natural predator of the Icyene and worship to the night. Although their have reptilian appearance they are warm-blooded creatures and more closely related to birds in the evolutionary scale. They're also an eusocial species, similar to bee or ants. That have adapted to the cold living in some of the Hallowed Isles.
Again though, Hallow is a world made mostly of water how would they get around the planet and how would they pose any threat once Saradomin had created New Domina?
Why not swim? Some gorgons were depicted with a snake's body for a lower half, and sea snakes do exist.
A natural predator wouldn't likely present an existential threat to the Icyene, however. If the Icyene population would dip, there wouldn't be enough food to sustain the predator's population leading to a reduction in their numbers. This, in turn, would reduce the pressure on the Icyene population leading to an upward swing in their population. The increased population of Icyene would then mean an increase of food for the predator causing a rise in their numbers, and the homeostatic oscillation continues. Sometimes there'd be larger swings, and sometimes smaller swings.
The only way they could present such a threat to the Icyene would be if their predator had such a large upward swing in their population that the resulting pressure on the Icyene population would lead to the Icyene's extinction fast enough to outpace the downward swing on the predator population (deer can do this to plant species they graze on when they can't freely migrate elsewhere). Though this still begs the question as to why such a boom happened after Saradomin's arrival (never dismiss something as a coincidence).
06-Dec-2017 15:19:18
Suehtam
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I like this better. An artificially caused change in the ecosystem composition much better explains the apparent drastic disruption to its equilibrium.
Not saying Saradomin himself did it or that he intended to do it if he indeed did, but I find such a change to be the more likely situation.
Paradox Icyene
: It would be a corrupted version of the normal Icyenes. But how did they become like this? ... and why not any information about them? I don't know. But maybe Saradomin has something to do with it or even taken advantage of the situation to gain the confidence of the remaining Icyene.
I like this better. An artificially caused change in the ecosystem composition much better explains the apparent drastic disruption to its equilibrium.
Not saying Saradomin himself did it or that he intended to do it if he indeed did, but I find such a change to be the more likely situation.
06-Dec-2017 15:23:15
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