Phoenix from the Ashes: The First Harvest after the Dynastic Extinction
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2023
- Fifteen million years ago, Kaimere went up in flames. A new era was born from the ashes. Discover the first wave of Earth fauna introduced to Kaimere following desolation, and the few surviving resident fauna that met the challenge.
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I really like how those episodes about the past are drawn, with black and white pencil sketches they look like taken out of notebook of someone who was studying that period
Thanks! It's a way for me to make a lot of drawings a lot quicker than the full color illustrations.
Speculative evolution of its purest form seed world multiplied by 10
And yet flim studios haven’t made documentaries and movies from those kind of things
@@canonbehenna612there used to be a few.
But the only one I know of is “the future is wild”
@@battlefora3dscollab they should try to revive it
This has been a spectacular insight into to beginnings of modern Kaimere! Which of the post dynastic harvests do you feel deserve a video most?
I'd say the Southeast Asian 1.5 million years ago is the most important in terms of how many animals we think of as modern Kaimere animals trace their ancestry. It's not the most recent, but has had the biggest impact.
Always great to hear more about Kaimere's prehistory
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. This is honestly a period in Kaimere's history I've personally been quite fascinated with, so I'm glad to see it get its own episode! Looking forward to next week, Keenan!
Absolutely! Just sets the stage of the Warring Clades period, which has a lot more than I was able to cover here, but at least gives a sense of the earliest years. Thanks!
Very excited for this new video.
Megalodon hype is amazing as always.
Also, how big were their greatest sizes exactly during their uncontested reign?
one thing very refreshing about this entire project is the certainty of its statements. Some workdbuilders like to use "maybe" in their historical explaination, but I appreciate The Assembly taking a hard stance on their understanding (at least, until new data comes to light)
I hope you do a video on whatever camel species survived into present kaimere!
I'd love to do a camel episode! They've been present in Kaimere since the Oligocene and have a long history of success. Known world has many species I haven't had much opportunity to cover, and Kairul also has a bunch.
*Oceans after Dynastic Extinction:*
Vassal Predators: Well, clean slate people. Let's get started on conquering the oceans!
*Doom Music*
Vassal Predators: The hell is that?
*All turn around to see a giant mouth full of teeth smiling at them*
Megalodon: Hello.
*Millions of years later, on land*
Monarchs, Titans, and Ghlanos: And that's how we wiped out most of the migrants in the first Miocene harvest from Arvel and Ni'Khar.
Pleistocene Species: Then who's that across the desert?
*Monarchs, Titans, and Ghlanos grab binoculars and see a hedgeback and hugoldun flipping them off*
Hedgeback and Hugoldun: Still alive, assholes!
*Binoculars crack*
Monarchs, Titans, and Ghlanos: Shit.
It is strange to see how fast most of the mammals took over empty niches, diversify, get large, then get push out as the dinosaur returns.
It was an extremely ecologically volatile period. Clean slate but fertile ground meant it was anyone's game.
@TalesofKaimere A game that dinosaurs, in all their badassery, more or less won!
@@TalesofKaimere from my observation, the ability to get humongously large is what gives dinosaur the edge most of the times.
@@leoornstein3963 Yup! A cockatrice can hit 200 pounds on almost half as much food as a leopard, and they are at least twice as large as that leopard for the same mass considering how lightly built they are. Mammals are often faster and stronger for their size, but when your competition is more efficient and much larger, speed and strength don't much matter if they're getting to all the food first or overwhelming you with a larger population.
@@TalesofKaimere One of the main reason dinosaurs, birds and reptiles in general reach greater size than mammals at a greater margin is mostly due to the fact they lay eggs and don't have to keep during all their incubation their babies inside them, in their belly.
That also allow them to made more babies at the same time. And laying eggs isn't as tiring than giving life birth, which of course, mean they end up being more numerous and both the parents and thank to their higher number they can take most of the food available fester than medium or large mammals.
Great episode as per usual! It was really nice to see Amphicyon included in the Harvest
Have some questions about the portals (that may be a lot so don't bother answering all😅): How do their "3-D printing" activity shape the environment around them? How do the magic find the energy to sustain such an activity, at the same time as their biological functions and space travel (and/or defenses against potential threats)? How do they survive at all in space (I suppose they're solar-powered but what about matter to self-replicate)? Do they have to stop on planets or asteroids to have a "refuel" in matter along their travel? I suppose it does happen, but were they some defects on the "reproduced" species (maybe some "blueprints" mixed together), and some that appeared on viable specimens and were eventually transmitted (maybe Kaimerans' ears for instance)? And do magic have any natural predators, "illnesses" or have any particular weakness (maybe like auto-immune diseases, some cells or composite organs would sort of "rebel" against the hive at times)? Are magic one and only species, or a multispecies collective? How did they evolve to become a transplanetary species (even transgalactic iirc)? Did they know somehow they were going to find resources and energy elsewhere to implement on their planet? What was like magic's first interaction with Earth's environment?
Love your worldbuilding, it's so highly inspirational and thought-provoking🖤
It’s always a celebration when Keenan uploads a new video
Are there any small animals from this harvest that have species that persist to modern day? Like maybe some rodents, fish, or insects?
Always happy to see prehistory of Kaimere being more fleshed out!
Yup! Only so much time to cover, and megafauna are my interest/focus, but there were plenty of microfauna harvested that competed with the likes of multituberculates.
@@TalesofKaimere When we speak about Megafauna, people usually think first, legitimaly, of animals the size of currents Rhinos, Elephants, Giraffes, or Bovid like the Gaur, Bos gaurus, to upper, larger sized species.
These animals are, for sure, the representation of the specific line which separate the medium to giant class animals. At least by modern and Cenozoic standard (and also especially for herbivores).
But as a whole, Megafauna include every animals from around the size of a pony, aka around the half the size of a typical human, to upper.
While animals under this point are considered small fauna.
And the animals smaller to ones like a Fennec fox, small monkeys or most monitors lizards are considered micro-fauna.
So, yes, you right to called Teleoceras, Merychippus or Poebrotherium megafauna animals here, despite what for most of us is the medium class.
Key Keenan, was doodling today and came up with a new Sophont species for my series, an intelligent species octopi that are hunter gatherers in their respective archipelago within an inland sea.
Interesting video on the first harvest after the Dynastic extinction as it brought more about the Warring Clades Period. Some things to say:
1. 9:34 Paraotodus, not to be confused with parotodus.
2. Could cetovenator be related to albicetus?
3. What predators were brought through from the South American harvest 13.7 MYA and how did they interact with the mammal predators from the previous harvest?
4. I also find it interesting that this harvest brought in Kaimere's first baleen whales and desmostylians as you said in a comment within the comments section in the video about the Oligocene harvest, that large desmostylians (possibly behemotops) were harvested. Possibly implying that the Oligocene harvest might've extended to a tiny stretch of the Pacific (as desmostylians were Pacific animals). I then wondered if any aetiocetids were ever harvested.
Nice to see more content from this Era, I am curious to see some of the survivors in the coming weeks.
Also R.I.P Squalodon and Epycion.
Omg. This episode is so perfect, I have no questions to ask.
But, a small note..
Please do accept a sponsorship like this one and a Massive thank you for this pleasant surprise.
I have no idea what to say tbh. No question come to mind.
But, yeah. Like always, every Tuesday, I always look for an episode of your amazing world....
Thank you. I'm really happy for stumbling upon your D.A. account, watching, and for discovering this amazing channel.
Until next week or next post. Take care and stay amazing.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you enjoy!
@@TalesofKaimere You're welcome. The least I can say when I see a master at his craft is to tell him the truth and how amazing his craftsmanship is.
It made my day. Harvests and Dynasties are one of the most amazing topics of Kaimere tbh. Since... Well, it is as interesting as the mysterious realms beyond the known world tbh.
But if I had to ask something, it would probably be...
Which of these amazing creatures still have descendants?
Extremely informative video. It's great to see a video about this harvest and the fauna it brought in from North America. Great to see Megalodon being the Apex Predator of the seas and oceans like on earth. Can't wait to meet the great relics remaining on land from this harvest in the next episodes.. One question how many rhino species survived in Kaimere?
Thank you! Was a lot of fun to put together. No final word on rhinos until I get a sponsored episode on the topic.
Can't wait for the forest of relics! Also, what were the mesozoic dynasties and where were their harvests? Cause I'm guessing the latest one was in Gondwana which brought the megaraptors and much of Kaishel's fauna to Kaimere, but the other harvests are a lot murkier...
Not necessarily. Megaraptorans existed for a long time, with Australovenator for example having existed as far back as 100 million years BC. Plus, the latest was most likely in Asia or America, as that would’ve brought the ceratopsians, Tyrranosaurids, and Hadrosaurs to Kaimere
How do most Kaimerans react to humans? Can they tell the difference at a glance? Maybe a smell? Or is it something cultural?
Looking forward to more beast next week!:)
Kaimerans have elf ears, humans don't
As a distinct species, there are some visual queues like shorter legs, generally smaller stature, and pointed ears (mutation of Darwin's Tubercle) that can be used as identifiers. To the untrained eye both species could pass for the other, though there's a bit of an uncanny awareness we'd all have in person. They have dozens of distinct cultures, just like a sample of humans of a similar population, and our sense of smell isn't potent enough to pick up on such things at least not consciously
The period immediately following a mas extinction is always interesting evolutionarily and adding in new species from another world only species it up further. A really fun episode.
Absolutely! The harvest prevented a lot of the really crazy adaptive radiations you often see, but it still lead to some novel builds and strategies.
I have a question when is going to be a episode about Pseudosuchia?
I don't have one on the roster but I would happily do one!
Yay, Can't wait. We get to see the mystery Chalicothere. I was going to ask comparing horses to chalicotheres what would hugaldune closely resemble. Then I saw the ears. Shrek meet Donkey!
Very interesting topic, let's go!
"Ottodus...Megalodon"
*jaws theme plays*
A most fascinating period of Kaimere, probably one of my favorites of these marvelous world
SUPER NICE
So the first episode covers time of the first harvest, second will cover some relics of this period in western Arvel, so third one will be about some creatures from this period in the Known World?
14:56 Was it like that in the Northern Hemisphere too?
I find great that you put forward that most of the Legacy animals/species from this specific "First (Cenozoic) Harvest after the Tyrant Dynastic Extinction" at North American 14.2 mya harvest have mostly died entirely everywhere except on the Moonson Forest region (for the land species, the marine ones mostly survived), which become isolated from the Portal after this Harvest and was spared by the others Cenozoic Harvests.
Which made sens ! Because....
Well, if it's this Harvest that first introduce many clades of animals that weren't introduce during the Oligocene Harvest, like Chalicotheres and the Bear-Dogs Amphicyonid, it's the others Harvest that took place during the Warning Clades period and the rest of the Cenozoic that will introduce the real members/ancestors of the modern extant species we have on Kaimere in the Known World and most of the lands beyond.
Because the arrivals of these animals of the same families that arrived with the following Harvests have overtime outcompeted the earlier species of this First Harvest, due to being often slightly more evolved, specialized, adapted and bigger.
And as such, most of the legacy of these families members that came from the First Harvest end up disapearing everywhere, except in the location that became isolated from the Portal at the right time before the legacies members of the following Harvests managed to reach this place.
And that location is the Moonson Forest.
Like what this episode display, shown and put forward pretty well that animals of the same families, despite being part of the same clades or lineages, can compete between each others whithout any mercy toward all of them, something that don't usually pop up in people minds.
Would protoceraids do well
@@rylanbrewer3320 Maybe.
@@dudotolivier6363they we’re forest animals but I don’t think they’d survive to the modern day
@@dudotolivier6363 why you say that
What if there was a kaiemrean version of a hydra or drake what would they look like
Impressive work. I'm quite interested in that Enchodus species that appeared in the video. I remember seeing Enchodus as the main prey item in Sea Monsters a Prehistoric Adventure. It's very interesting to see them grow to such big sizes here. By the looks of it, the Enchodus took the role of Xiphactinus.
I wonder if Xiphactinus or any other Ichthyodectiformes appeared on Kaimere? I'd love to see if any of them still exist on the planet if they survived.
Yeah, finally we will see western Arvel.
Parankylosaur ❤
The Boy
Kaimarian pre history sure is fun to heare about
Will you make a dedicated video about all the dynasties
I'd be all over that! Someday I'm actually going to write that book I posted the cover of in the video, but for now, I do have a few other dynasty and harvest episodes in the works.
I love this kind of video that explores a specific harvest in detail, since they offer so much insight into Kaimere's prehistory and the effect they had on the modern day ecosystems.
Ive been meaning to ask for a while, but how did you come up with the full list of post-Dynastic Extinction harvests?
Since theyre not based around specific formations, it must be hard to determine exactly what animals were around at the time.
Did you come up with cenozoic fauna of Kaimere first and then plan the harvests around that, or was it the other way around?
Loved this video and cant wait to see whats in store for us in the monsoon forests!
If I were starting the project from scratch, I would start with the climate changes, continental shift, figure out when extinctions happened, then pick my harvests from appropriate regions.
Unfortunately, I had to do it backwards.
A lot of animals were already established and I had to stick with harvests that accommodated them (Miocene South America 6 mya, Pleistocene Europe, etc). Meant the worldbuilding was a bit backwards. However, this did mean in some cases the harvests influenced later harvests, like Homo erectus hunting mammoths. Hasn’t been a total bust in that sense, but building the project piece by piece rather than chronologically has come with its share of complications. In short: some animals came first, then the harvests, and once harvests were established, I chose other animals from those harvest based on other animals in the formations.
I don’t restrict myself to regions with good formations because that which makes for good fossils doesn’t mean it would be a good time or place for harvest. The South American harvest for example takes place before Lestodon and Titanis evolved, yet the ancestors of both were harvested, so I’ve harvested speculative animals. Also the fossil record is very incomplete, especially in regions like rainforests and mountains, so there is a lot of required conjecture if I’m to make a realistically complex biota from which the portal harvests. Also animals often have much wider ranges than their fossils might suggest (we might only have whitetail deer fossils from river valley meadows in Virginia for example but ask anyone on the east Coast US and they’ll tell you the range and ecology is far greater). Fossil formations are a helpful starting point but it’s almost never enough
@@TalesofKaimere Well can I just say even with that somewhat shaky foundation of "some animals then harvests then more animals from harvests" Kaimere still feels so well put together.
Sure there's still retcons and revisions and tiny edits but considering the project is still in development it's amazing that you manage to tie everything together so cleanly.
Thank you for responding!
Very good!
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic Video and Amazing Art! :) 👏👏👏👏 ❤❤❤❤ 💖💖💖💖
It won't be a Kaimere video without cool speculative creatures, some well researched science and audio issues
Lol at this point hiring an audio editor would be off-brand
good show
As time goes on kaimere becomes more and more fleshed out. I love it.
Are there any specific videos you have planned or are they all still sponsors?
It's a very fun project to expand upon!
So far it's all sponsors.
Are you going to an episode on desert ecology itself? Arvel's Western desert seems a cross between the Saudi and Sahara deserts.
It's isn't a surprise that Megalodon, Otodus megalodon, was first introduce on Kaimere during this Harvest, the "First (Cenozoic) Harvest after the Tyrant Dynastic Extinction" and managed to survived and hold on in the apex top niche it take in Kaimere's ocean !
Megalodon, on Earth, was an extremely and crazy long lived species, appearing at the Early Miocene and becoming extinct at the Early Pliocene (from around 23 to around 3.6 Mya), which in the species scheme is rare.
A single genus of a animal usually lived a pretty sort period, around 1-2-3-4 to even 5 mya in genenral, but longer lifespan for a genus are rare, so for a species, the directly rank under the one of the genus, even more !
Showing how adaptable this beast was, because if a species haven't the need to adapt it just don't evolved and remain as it is.
Not only that, but Megalodon, despite having faced a lot of harsh and strong competition from many, many diverse animals like macropredatorial whales such Levyatan and others animals, it succeed to win and survived upon and anough long after most see all of them, while these latter became extincts.
The reasons of it's extinction on Earth are accepted to be mostly climatic and preys item changes rather than competition.
Megalodon died at the Early Pliocene (to date, it was the time while in parallel the early hominin Australopithecus evolved around the same time) because the End (Late) Miocene-(Early) Pliocene boundary event was a striking harsh climatic change.
A great swift in the climate that end up with it becoming cooler and dryer drastically, a change and setting which will also increased more an more overtime to reach it's peak at the Pleistocene and it's Ice Age glaciations periods.
This swift have made extinct directly and overtime most of the megafauna, especially marine more impacted always than on land, on which Megalodon preyed upon it.
Megalodon do well on Kaimere and as today without any disturbance since it's first introduction at this First Post-Dysnastic Harvest because justly of his overall adaptility to medium and large games, his resilience to similar to smaller sized competition predators and the fact that Kaimere climate remained pretty stable and unchanged since justly the end of the Tyrant Dynasty Extinction event, from 14 mya to today.
Of course, in addition, each others pre-Plioecene Cenozoic Harvests that have followed this First Harvest/Post-Dysnastic Harvest have all gived and came with new respectives, and numerous waves of introduction of the same species (since O. megalodon have a global distribution), giving to the species a welcomed high and healthy genetic diversity that helped it to hold even more on Kaimere and it's differents marine ecosystem !
The case of the Megalodon on Kaimere is truly a fascinating case of animal success follwoing the animal abilities in question as the context of the planet itself, and a good exception of a very large and derived animal that end us successfully establishing on a new setting and received and still have a permanent success to this very day !
I wonder what happened to the Megaraptoridaes of Arvel
Are there still at least some relict oligocene cetaceans outside of the know world?
None planned
Did any of the macropredatory xenarthrans like macroeuphractus make it to kaimere? and if so do they persist today?
Not sure on them. Most likely but will have to wait for a relevant episode to study and confirm
Let’s goooo
If the First (Post-Dynastic) Cenozoic Harvest take place in North America, it's because the previous harvest, the Oligocene Harvest, take place in the same location (in addition to a part of Europe), and since the Portal's population present on Earth have remained in this location as its Earth's territory at the time, after a long period of break, it harvested animals and flora directly present in this location after the Portal on Kaimere have asked it to harvested.
This method and choice was decide because as such, that have allowed to directly, quickly take and replicate organisms to introduce on Kaimere, inside the region of the Known World, the fastest time possible.
After this harvest, the Portal present on Earth will permanently move for the following Cenozoic Harvest, more or less randomely, before going again coincidentaly in North America at the Last Natural Harvest to which it will remained in this location to this day due to the First Children's actions toward it.
How big were the largest giant forest gomphotheres?
God bless
Hey, are you going to make an episode on abelisaurids?
I wonder if you would make a video on magically enhanced organisms?
yeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!
5:58 Why these proboscideans so small (at least by proboscidean standards)?
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I like the tyrant dynasty a bit more than the present, but I should be glad that iguanodonts aren't extinct
also there seems to be more stuff in arvel..., well this is unexpected, but it is welcome.
Excited to see more Arvelith wildlife. Gotta ask though, do the other sperm whales, the Sohiajoon and the Valuk, trace their lineage back this far?
Plus, Thalassovaranus? "Sea Monitor" am I right?
I'm pretty sure the sohiajoon is descended from these first harvests. Not sure about the smaller ones or grandfather (which isn't a descendant of Livyatan anymore).
Indeed! Sea monitor was given to that genus (including the modern khalutu) for their basal build and hide similar to monitors.
Are sea monitor the crocodile shark mosasaurs
What about Zygophyseter or Brygmophyseter? They were pretty fearsome whales in their day, with the latter taking on Megalodon contemporaries.
Yup, from which the modern Kalutu is descended.
Do am I right
I want help for my speculative universe please
What was kairul like during this time?
Kairul's Warring Clades period instead started with Oligocene placentals and multituberculates competing for niches, then the dinosaurs blasting past them to their modern dominance
What was pakardia like duri mg that time
am i imagining things or is this the first time ive heard the G word in kaimere?
I don't usually describe the eldritch entities as gods, but yeah I did just out and say it here lol
Can you put sea turtles in kaimere
I have a dozen or so species planned, just haven't gotten an episode to focus on them yet.
Ok
not aphicion
DO YOU KNOW AND OR PLAY THE ISLE
I know of it, but have never played video games aside from Mount and Blade a bit in college and Zoo Tycoon as a kid
YOU WILL LOVE TO PLAY IT@@TalesofKaimere