Theories about evolution, genetic and stuff
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:48 am
[Now a general topic to talk about evolution, genetic and other stuff in WoW.]
Have been talked about (But there's always more to add!)
P1 : The unicorns
P2 : Dragonhawk and Hawkstriders
P3 : Talbuks
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I have a theory of a sort, and I wish to see if it seems sound to anyone else outside my head.
So, what do we know about scythehorns prior to Legion?
-High Elf use them as heraldry (on ship sail at least)
-The only mounts were from an Elf faction in exil
(There's a damn lot of their cousins with stripes on another continent, too)
For this theory, I'll go by the principle that a new model don't mean a new specie (see old and new hippogriffe), so Legion's Scythehorns are the same as WotLK's Scythehorns.
I think before the Scourge, there was three type of mounts in Quel'thalas; Hawkstrider, Dragonhawk and Scythehorns. I'm not sure which would have been used for which work but anyway. Enter the Scourge. BAM, Quel'thalas loose half its exploitable land, and probably a good part of their breeders. But the hawkstrider and dragonhawk are both predators that lay eggs and grow probably pretty fast. Their population stay steady enough to be useful still, or doesn't drop too low. (I think the dragonhawk suffered a little longer as they have to grow to enormous size before being mount, and you don't see that much of them as mounts before end of BC and WotLK)
But if the Scythehorns have a reproduction like horses, it will be one year gestation for one baby that can't be rided before another two years at least. Probably need more land to graze too, so the remaining population in Quel'thalas wouldn't be steady enough for years before being able to produce mounts (I guess the first ones would stay with the breeders for reproduction) So the only ones prior Legion would be foals coming from the stables of exiled breeders (the Silver Covenant) that suffered less than the ones still in the country.
So, the pvp Scythehorns Horde can get now would be the first young animals that the blood Elf breeders can allow to sell! Same with the Alliance but high Elf.
Does it look sound?
(Second theory about the origin of the Scythehorns : there was a lot of proto-scythehorns prior to the War of the Ancient, that were separated in two or three population. The futur zhevra and the futur runners. Depend if Broken Isles ones and Quel'thalas ones are different or not. Maybe there wasn't Scythehorns in the north first, but the exiled Highborns took some from the Isles in their way to the new country?)
Coming next week with a theory about the origins of the Hawkstrider. Dumdumduuuum
(I just like doing terrible montages)
Have been talked about (But there's always more to add!)
P1 : The unicorns
P2 : Dragonhawk and Hawkstriders
P3 : Talbuks
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have a theory of a sort, and I wish to see if it seems sound to anyone else outside my head.
So, what do we know about scythehorns prior to Legion?
-High Elf use them as heraldry (on ship sail at least)
-The only mounts were from an Elf faction in exil
(There's a damn lot of their cousins with stripes on another continent, too)
For this theory, I'll go by the principle that a new model don't mean a new specie (see old and new hippogriffe), so Legion's Scythehorns are the same as WotLK's Scythehorns.
I think before the Scourge, there was three type of mounts in Quel'thalas; Hawkstrider, Dragonhawk and Scythehorns. I'm not sure which would have been used for which work but anyway. Enter the Scourge. BAM, Quel'thalas loose half its exploitable land, and probably a good part of their breeders. But the hawkstrider and dragonhawk are both predators that lay eggs and grow probably pretty fast. Their population stay steady enough to be useful still, or doesn't drop too low. (I think the dragonhawk suffered a little longer as they have to grow to enormous size before being mount, and you don't see that much of them as mounts before end of BC and WotLK)
But if the Scythehorns have a reproduction like horses, it will be one year gestation for one baby that can't be rided before another two years at least. Probably need more land to graze too, so the remaining population in Quel'thalas wouldn't be steady enough for years before being able to produce mounts (I guess the first ones would stay with the breeders for reproduction) So the only ones prior Legion would be foals coming from the stables of exiled breeders (the Silver Covenant) that suffered less than the ones still in the country.
So, the pvp Scythehorns Horde can get now would be the first young animals that the blood Elf breeders can allow to sell! Same with the Alliance but high Elf.
Does it look sound?
(Second theory about the origin of the Scythehorns : there was a lot of proto-scythehorns prior to the War of the Ancient, that were separated in two or three population. The futur zhevra and the futur runners. Depend if Broken Isles ones and Quel'thalas ones are different or not. Maybe there wasn't Scythehorns in the north first, but the exiled Highborns took some from the Isles in their way to the new country?)
Coming next week with a theory about the origins of the Hawkstrider. Dumdumduuuum
(I just like doing terrible montages)