Living Magic of Kaimere Part 3: The Skin Changers
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- People who can take the form of animals are one of the oldest and most common archetypes in folklore and fantastical stories. In Kaimere, these stories are very much grounded in truth. Learn about the skin-changers found throughout Kaimere and on Earth in our own history!
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This is the one I have been wanting to see the most! It's literally Theranthropy with a scientific explanation.
The way you make werewolfs and vampires realistic by making the magic realistic and connected to Kaimere is just brilliant.
Thank you!!
Skinchangers are probably my favorite of the Kimerian "magical" being as I've always liked the concept of a person being able to shapeshift into animal. I wonder for how long on can a skinchanger maintain animal form? Are there any limits (I suspect there probably are) and does it depend on the individual's health, physical shape and experience?
The transformation process itself can be quite strenuous and to do it an individual must be in good shape but more importantly have a healthy heart and lungs. It’s a super demanding process. Once transformed though they can remain indefinitely. There are accounts of skin changers in animal form with their simplified thoughts that went too long and forgot how to turn back, basically trapping themselves, so most try not to stay in fur for too long but for mental reasons not because it’s difficult to maintain. More intelligent forms like the indrakai, which are almost sapient, don’t run into this problem since their minds remain pretty much unchanged.
Probably should have mentioned that the physiological transformation includes a brain size and function matching the animal form thats a pretty important component. Oops lol
@@TalesofKaimere Thank you for the detailed reply! You ended up also answering another question that I was going to ask about how the transformation affects their brain and mind. The fact that they can get trapped in animal form forever makes it quite dangerous to use this ability for prolonged periods. Also since they need to have a healthy lungs and heart does it mean that at a certain age it's better for the person to stop or atleast minimize transformation? Not that Kaimerians have to worry too much about that since their lives are quite long anyways.
@@Andrey.Ivanov that is absolutely correct. Elder skin changers are often in much better shape than their peers and can often skin change as long as they’re in good health, but unfortunately heart attacks can drop shifters of any age so they are usually more careful with it than younger shifters, letting the process be more meditative and easing into it over the course of several minutes.
I think that's amazing that shapeshifters exist in Kaimere given how magic is used with Kaimerans shapeshifting into different animals like the indrakai.
Thanks!!
@@TalesofKaimere You're welcome, normally I think of shapeshifters I tend to think of the Skrulls, Morph, and Mystique from Marvel Comics but also Martian Manhunter, Beast Boy, and Miss Martian from DC.
Your version of Shapeshifters reminds me to Animorphs and also those mythologues between realms and secrets of between others... I love it!!
Thank you!
Yes yes and yessss! Brilliant video, artworks on point as per usual! Loved it!!
Thank you so much!
@@TalesofKaimere dude honestly im always commenting on your insta and been a huge fan for a while now, inspired a beasitery of my own, imo the best spec ev world creator around!
So I guess the main way that an individual would be able to change into multiple different species would be through the use of enchanted items?
That could work, although to safely use an artifact you have to attune your it (basically let the magic into your system slowly and create a bond so your body doesn’t have an allergic reaction). Most artifacts don’t like to share a host so you’d be playing a dangerous game.
So then, in the rare cases that it does happen, would it be some of the more concentrated of the hives of Kaimereian organism (witches) that would be able to do it?
@@PaleoAnalysis yes, but only if the witch is strong enough to overpower the magic of the artifact or develop a bond with it so it doesn’t take them over and basically just make them a host. That’s why only witches are advised to bond with artifacts. If a regular person does it the artifact with probably just take them over, and if the host fights back, the process will probably kill them as their body fights it off like a deadly virus.
@@PaleoAnalysis someday I’ll do a video on artifacts because they were super fun to develop and there’s a lot of fun and deadly rules and lore about using them safely
In my Fantasy World, Magic is a form of energy that functions as a radiation and certain individuals are born with the innate connection to this energy and casts spells by converting magical energy into another form of energy. For example Magic to electric for a lightning spell
im straight about to learn everything about this setting and turn it into a ttrpg, and keep it to myself
I really need to start reading these. Didn't even know there were earth humans in the lore
Anybody remember Animorphs? Because this video starts to remind me of that show!
That transformation process was quite inspirational to me! Never read the books or saw the show but those covers lit an inferno of inspiration lol
@@TalesofKaimere I knew it!
Wow raptor skin changers!!! This world just reached a whole new level of epic for me!!
Heck yeah!!! The raptor shifters are super fun especially since they are one of the only ones that basically retain full mental functions
@@TalesofKaimere Well then probably best to stay on their good side then as a pack of them could put even the smartest of Jurassic park raptors to shame.
This is a great idea for a take on where wolves and other shape shifters
Thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere but could you imagine if earth’s authorities caught some of these people
@@theacro9108 good thing the Assembly has a lot of contacts in ‘the authorities’
Shapeshifters are the subject of controversy in my fantasy world. Some are perceived as unnatural lifeforms that have no niche in the ecosystem and others as just a useful ability to have. It wasn't until my native races independently discovered the process of metamorphosis that they had to rethink shapeshifting's place in the world.
It is such a mood to just... Become a seal.
Excellent explanation I enjoyed the info you give about the skin changers, and I have a question I haven't got the the tales of kaimere book yet but I wanted to know if indrakai was a skin changer
Excellent question! He is a spirit, a magic hive with an affinity for indrakai and jumps from body to body. He claims to have created the indrakai skin changers but is not one himself
@@TalesofKaimere
Wow surprising dude you very creative
@@sampanackal6184 Thank you!
Nice to see this world skinwalkers doing well.
Say if you can turn into any of the animals that you’ve created what would it be mine would be one of the megaraptors.
Also do you have any tips on shapeshifting magic and how do I make it natural?
Not sure if I have any good tips. It all depends on how your setting works. This system works really well with the rules of magic I have in Kaimere. In another setting it might be cool to have your shapeshifters be their own species that can turn into whatever they want
@@TalesofKaimere that is actually some pretty good advice still though what creature of yours would you turn into if you were given the ability?
Also will you see some kind of really messed up shapeshifter like something like the thing in the future?
Okay, this is very cool. One thing, can they transform only partially? Say, like developing the nose of a wolf but maintainin the rest of the body, or to develop teratorn wings while in human form (while losing your arms, of course).
Yup! It takes a lot of experience and control to do it though. In Truth Seeker, Declan shifts his eyes for better night vision and his nose to track to try and find someone that he thinks might attack Faith. He remarks that it’s not as effective (his vision and sense of smell isn’t quite as keen as if he fully shifted but can improve it). Growing fangs and claws is a pretty popular partial transformation, but again, it takes a lot of control to not fully transform and if you’re stressed, usually you just fully shift.
Some homunculi are believed to be skin changers that were locked in a partial shift.
Also some shifters have permanent partial transformations, like werewolves often permanently are colorblind but have good night vision in human form.
Question, how fast do the skin changers well change into the animal forms? Like is it a slow process or instantly or somewhere between?
Another thing I should have brought up! It’s usually a pretty long process. A minute or two, although if you’re in great shape and are experienced you can trim it down, but if you go too fast your body can go into shock. In Lost in the Woods, I make a point of showing Declan’s skin change taking a while and being pretty shocked when his brother Liam is aided by his partner, a witch, who uses a spell to aid and it only takes a few seconds. Their magic has to be familiar with each other though or the shifter’s body might have an allergic reaction to the witch’s magic which could kill the skin changer.
Are the skin changers innate endemic magical ability there power to shapeshift alone? Or can other magical hives coexist with the existing skin changing magic and allow a skin changer to shapeshifit and manipulate there environment (through the use of having a non skin changing magic)?
I get more into this in Halloween’s witch video and she short answer is yes, with a big ol caveat. Magic tends to specialize in its function and doesn’t share well. There is a lot of versatility, but if you don’t want to exhaust your magic, best to stick to a smaller specialization. If you overdo it you can kill some of your magic and will need a long time to repopulate. If you introduce a ew hive to one host you can risk them combating each other which can result in an allergic reaction that kills both strains and the host. Experienced witches say that it’s wise to have a few things you focus on rather than trying to diversify too much, but there are witches who have multiple things they can do including skin changing. The most common skin changers are the hereditary ones described here, and their magic usually fight off other magic that tries to enter the host. They have extremely powerful hives and it’s almost impossible to overpower their magic (making body and mind control spells quite ineffective against hereditary skin changers) but a downside of this strength is that most skin changers have shapeshifting as their only function of magic.
@@TalesofKaimere what about stuck between forms? and create a new species?
One thing the Assembly lacks: Amnestics 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
so if someone captured the purple lifefroms (sorry i forget the name) that "teleport" earth life to kaimere could they make some sort of teleportation gun using them?
Theoretically yes
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Was the Mask of Spider inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask? Were any skinchangers inspired by Twilight Princess?
Nope, I was recently introduced to the series by a good friend and absolutely love the designs though!
Does the transformation process still hurt?
Could Skinchangers transform into other humans since Kimerians and humans in general are still animals even with the heightened intelligence so if possible it could widen the possibilities for Skinchangers to influence history by potentially transforming into a important figure like a leader of some sort or something like that.
Shhhhh that maybe definitely will be a plot point down the road
@@TalesofKaimere Sorry, That cool though, Plus the enchanted Wooden Spider Mask is cool since wood is biological matter and having Magic work best with biological objects makes sense since Magic in Kaimere is biological life is super cool.
@@jacoblewis5230 nothing to apologize for! You stumbled onto a secret plot point down the road nothing to be sorry about lol. Doppelgängers are a really cool concept. And thank you! I appreciate the kind words
@@TalesofKaimere Also could animals that are near sentient or sapient like the Chuga have skinchangers?
@@jacoblewis5230 For reasons unknown, humanoids are the only creatures with a diverse population of skin-changers. Anything bitten by a host of a viral hive of skin changing magic could become a skin changer, although these are extremely rare and considered extinct in the known world (hunted by the First Children, then witches, and finally the Aznarith)
How do beings from kaimeer get to earth 4:03 oh
3:48 so kinda like the scp foundation they keep the supernatural a secret
Yup!
@@TalesofKaimere cool
what happens to their clothing and equipment when they change?
Usually gotta strip first. It isn’t absorbed or anything.
Hey, sorry I full well know I'm Kate, but what is stopping guns, electricity, tech in general from spreading to Kaimere?
Presently the people living around the portal don’t want that tech brought through. Kaimerans haven’t independently developed them because the huge labor force, need for mass production, and entrepreneurial motivations aren’t present so they haven’t and almost certainly won’t undergo an industrial revolution short of impending threats of invasion from Earth, which again the people in the portal city are taking great lengths to prevent.
I knew there would be small elasmosaurs
Why are skin changers an exciting concept for you? And of the three magical entities of Kaimere, demons, witches, and skin changers, which one do you like the most?
The idea is just exciting to me. Would love to be able to turn into an animal for a while. I like the skin changers the most, although some of the witches versatility is really interesting to explore and the homunculi can be so bizarre that they’re tons of fun to design since there are much fewer limits to them than other beings (I can make 6-limbed tetrapods for example)
If the wearer of the Spider’s mask takes takes it off, do they go back to normal?
Yup! They just need to convince Spider to release control.
How fast are the skin changers transformation
Depends. In Songs of the Inland Sea, the main shapeshifter is really quick (maybe 10-20 seconds I don’t explicitly say) but she doesn’t change mass. Her cousin, who turns into a much larger walrus, takes significantly longer, over a minute at least, because he needs to draw in mass, mostly from the sea.
@@TalesofKaimere Wow that's amazing and terrifying at the same time I love it
Who are the Maku?
They are indigenous people of Arvel who were mutated by the First Children as super-soldiers
Oooooooo
Humans: Demonic possession.
Them: "Magic" possessions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
OK But I gotta be honest captain yanochin could get it 💕~ if you know what I mean 🤣😂🥴💕
Haha that has been the consensus among my friends who saw the sketch beforehand lol
Are there any sapient species that aren't humanoids
Quite a few are sapient or near sapient. The tiny island elephants and the firebirds being the best examples.
Noice l