MORE FARMERS FROM ANCARDIA
Giants, known by their own tongue as the Faytun, are closely related to the Frost Giants (Jotnar) and the Hill Giants both, but differ dramatically in culture. They are hierarchical and agricultural to an intense degree, but here and there on the outskirts of their society you can find Faytun farmers doing what it is they do best, and without any unsavory bits that come with their authoritative and powerful leaders. Here she tends to some thriving spring crops as summer careens toward the region, each as proportionally giant as she is, while her pack beast, a huge auroch bull, grazes in the background.
An Adai Tribe gnoll, moving along their tamed pack of Underlands Hyena. Pale, stocky, and friendly towards humanoids especially the original breeders of this subspecies of spotted hyena, the gnolls, these guys are common as companions, sled-hauling animals, and hunting aides. Think a pointer dog, only very much not a dog and also can eat buffalo femurs. XD Also enjoy the tableau of the bio-luminescent forested areas of Ancardia's Underground.
A gnome farmer, checking on his herd of deepmara, finds a few dire hyenas creeping around a little to close to the herd. Time to saddle up the dire raccoon, get something to make a lot of noise and ouch, and chase those off. Never underestimate the ferocity of a 50 pound little dude… or a 500 pound raccoon.
Young goblin farmer tends to the javunwalla pens--javunwallas being one of many species of quite big lizards native to the Underground. Scales and eggs are pretty ubiquitous reasons to keep them, as they are tough, chill, and lay eggs the size of softballs. Though, if you're only about three feet tall, even these relatively small lizards can be a lot to handle.
A Doravn (grey elf) farmer on his horse, herding a bunch of young heifers to a new pasture. The grey elves don't have it terribly well, with their homelands being colonized by the high elves and their wealthy largely extracted by the more powerful Ayn kingdom, but when a doravn has control of their own lands they hang onto it very tightly. Nothing to see here, just some cows, what you starin' at? Yes, they are pretty cows.
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I heard it's Superb Owl Sunday so I have prepared some superb owls for you.
The barn owl is the most widespread species of owl, living on every continent except Antarctica. Their faces are shaped like a disk to help their hearing, giving them some of the best hearing of any owl. They mostly hunt by sound.
Snowy owls are the largest arctic predatory birds, They are born with black feathers and get whiter as they age. Females usually have more dark feathers than males.
Eastern screech owls have a few feather variants that make them look like completely different species.
The southern white-faced owl can increase its metabolic rate during winter to compensate for the cold and lack of food. They lay their eggs in nests built and abandoned by other birds.
The great grey owl is the largest owl by length, but a lot of that is feathers and they're actually very light for their size. Their hearing is good enough to hear rodents burrowing through snow and they can break through hard-packed snow to catch prey.
Blakiston's fish owl is the largest owl by mass and eats mostly fish. Despite the name, they may be more closely related to eagle owls than fish owls.
The elf owl is the smallest owl species, barely larger than a sparrow. They hunt bugs and play dead when caught. They like to live in holes in saguaro cacti.
Burrowing owls live in underground burrows. While they can dig, they mostly take over burrows from other animals. Farmers killing prairie dogs has severely reduced burrowing owl populations. They decorate their burrows with feces to attract bugs to eat.
The barking owl is called that because
Its nice to have a day to appreciate superb owls. Feel free to spread the love by reblogging with some more owl facts.
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Lord of the rings X druid!reader headcanons
Legolas x reader, Thranduil x reader, Gandalf x reader (platonic), Merry/Pippin x reader (platonic), Elanor x reader.
Legolas
🧚♀️ Legolas is very curious and excited! He wants to know EVERYTHING about you and what you can do!
🧚♀️ But he finds the fact that you can turn to different kinds of animals the most interesting, and asks you a lot of questions about every animal you can transform too.
“Y/n what is that for an odd creature?”
“It’s a seastar”
“A STAR!??” 🤩
🧚♀️ Asks you if he can touch you in your animal forms. He lights up with happiness when you say ‘yes’ and touches you with utmost care and curiosity.
🧚♀️ Loves carrying you around in your smaller forms. If you turn to a snake he’ll put you around his neck like a necklace, a bird on his head or any other animal that can be on his shoulders.
🧚♀️ When the fellowship was in the snowy mountains and while the others had to walk in the deep snow, you were a little mouse in Legolas warm pocket. Not needing to do anything and Legolas didn’t need to worry about your safety. Win-win.
Thranduil
“I thought the druids died out for 4000 years ago, guess i was wrong”
🍷 Like Legolas he is very much interested but in a more calmer and quieter way. He also likes the animal shapes more.
🍷 He likes when you turn to a little bird and sit on his shoulder whenever he goes to different places.
🍷 LOVES when he sits on his throne and you turn to a smaller animal and sit on his large hand and put your tiny paws on his fingers- the king has heart eyes. 😍 (yes you are his pet now lol) And he totally would feed you grapes too.
🍷 Other than that he also likes your plant and flower abilities. He has left the garden's beauty to you and it is shining more beautifully than it ever has since you came into his life- or perhaps it is just (amazing) you who has grown beautiful and colorful flowers in his heart❤.
🍷 And of course he will try out some of your abilities in the bedroom 😉
Gandalf
🧙♂️ Sorry Frodo, Sorry Bilbo, y/n is his number one favorite friend now!
🧙♂️ He is very fascinated over your elemental abilities. Wind, water, fire, plants/trees? “What can you do?”
🧙♂️ Gandalf would try (hard) to not sound too eager and excited when you show him. But he can’t help but smile and laugh when you make a phoenix appear out of the fire.
🧙♂️ Might show you his ‘magic’ if you ask nicely and you will inspire one another.
🧙♂️ If you have any difficulties with your training and elemental controlling he will give you advice and guidance with what he knows.
🧙♂️ Gandalf wouldn't mind if you join him for a while on his journey. He greatly enjoys your company.
Merry/Pippin
🤡 Oh no! OH NOOO! Gandalf will pray to god ... .PLEASE DON’T LET THE WORLD END!!
🤡 When they learn what you are, they will storm you with questions. They will drag you with them for every little prank and misery they are planning.
“Y/n, can you turn to bird and poop on someone's hea-” (pippin)
“No!”
“Can you poop in someones drin-”
“No!”
“Can you-”
“ENOUGH WITH THESE POOP REQUESTS!!!!”
🤡 If you meet on the ring quest, they will ask you to turn to a larger and fluffy animal, like a bear so they can sleep with (on) you on cold nights (like the bear in jungle book? Yes!) Boromir will get jealous because you stole his children. 😢
Elanor Brandyfoot
🐌 The others don't trust you and don't want you around until you show them how quickly you can turn seeds to flowers.
🐌 Elanor will try to calm them down and talk to them so they don’t ‘use’ you for their ‘food greed’.
🐌 You two will have a contest of who is quickest to fill a bucket with berries, buuut of course Elanor wins.
“Looks like ya powers weren't able to outmatch me!”
🐌 She loves to see your abilities and is very happy that others like you too and have accepted you to the group, but she gets a little jealous when you get too much attention because she wants to be alone with you too!
🐌 She loves the evenings when things have been calming down and laying under the stars with her head on your (larger) animal form. Petting you is very calming for her and she mostly falls asleep like that with you.
Thank you for reading! I hope you like it! 💖
Post made by me, @master-muffinn
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✨ my sketch commissions are open! ✨
a set of pictures with my warden, her name is Liinka, and Alistair! they are both silly and therefore friendly :'''DD
at the first one these two realized that they are now outlaws, and are waiting for their new forest witch friend to get them new clothes to replace their awesome armor, which they haven't had a chance to wear yet :^(((
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