Where whims and dreams blend into reality...
Recently I just realised that I'd literally NEVER done coloured pictures of any mystery beings except the Insulator and the Eventuator. So I decided to fix that.
From top to bottom: Instigator, Nebuliser, Synergiser, Observers, Ostentator, Conductor, Postulator, and an attempt to make a default colour scheme for hexarts.
At top is the Seuwayote, and at bottom is the Synergiser! Or a rather rough version of it, anyway. The Seuwayote is probably not totally final either. But at least I can tell you about it now.
The Seuwayote (Say-ooh-wa-yo-tay) is like a coyote of shadow. Though individuals' colours can vary, every Seuwayote's body is split into two distinct colours which are usually fairly unsaturated. Usually, this split is symmetrical, but some Seuwayotes' colours seem to be able to shift such that more of their body is the light colour or more of their body is the dark colour, or even such that they are only the light colour or the dark colour. It's not really known how or why this happens, or even whether Seuwayotes do it at will, but people suspect they can. Their bodies are extremely mutable and seem to be able to change as quickly and freely as a shadow, and also seem to camouflage well in shadows, allowing them to accomplish otherwise near-impossible feats like weaving around closed doors. They're often curious, but almost never attack anyone, or even make a single sound. When they do, though, their call is said to be extremely eerie and otherworldly.
Also, every Seuwayote has a hat, and it's literally inseparable from that hat. If the hat gets blown away in the wind, the Seuwayote will disappear and reappear from inside it, wherever it ends up. Destroying the hat may or may not destroy the Seuwayote itself, since sometimes they have never reappeared after the hat was destroyed, but others, they've just reappeared from the shadows and sprouted new hats out of their heads.
I already told you about the Synergiser, and I've edited this picture into that post for a little more chronological sanity too.
Oh, and here are better drawings of the "main" eight mystery beings' feet. My goal was to make them all "different", so none of them would look quite the same.
This posed slight problems for creating a number system for them, until I realised that if each one is different each digit could represent a different mystery being and they could just use base eight. (If you haven't guessed what the theme is among all of them now that I've accidentally given you a huge hint here, I'll be pretty surprised.)
By the way, "heterogeneous" in the diagram means that their surface has various pigments and textures like "normal" animals, like patterned fur or scales, and "homogeneous" means their surface mostly just has a single texture that doesn't really look much like any you'd find on a "normal" animal, though the colour may vary a little.
Well, these two are the last of the "main" eight "mystery species". Of course, there are a lot more now... there are going to be at least twenty-seven when I get them all done. Can you guess why?
If not, the method behind this madness is coming in the next post or two.
Nebulisers are very furtive beings with light, fluffy fur that resembles drifting cumulus clouds. They are usually light, faded colours or hazy neutral colours like blues and greys, and fairly quiet. They also seem to prefer misty and/or extremely high-altitude places.
For some reason, they do not like to be seen by other beings, particularly if they're not other mystery beings, and seem to be able to somehow transform into a broad, diffuse haze or a bunch of thick, opaque clouds if they think someone has seen them. This is usually fairly effective at confusing and disorienting the other individual until it goes away.
Because of this, not much is known about them.
Synergisers are strange plant/robot/sea monster hybrids that almost always have at least one pair of Carp Concurrent circling around them but very rarely more than two pairs (the carp can also sometimes come in groups of three instead of two). The carp seem to have a strange symbiosis with the Synergiser in which their speed varies according to the Synergiser's energy level; when the Synergiser is asleep, the carp move very slowly, and when the Synergiser is swimming quickly, the carp also quicken.
Synergisers appear to somehow be able to use the rotating carp as power generators, and also to spread out their fins like plant leaves to do something similar to photosynthesis, and this seems to be enough to sustain them. They do not even have mouths, but they do appear to have something similar to a blowhole that they use to make sounds, and an excretory system.