Elephants of Kaimere Episode IV: The Drenduga, Reclusive Giant of the Highland Forests
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2023
- In the highlands of Qajar, the mammoths have turns a barren steppe into a verdant grassy biome. In the river valleys that cut through the steppes, forests grow and support the largest proboscidean in the continents of the known world: the mighty drenduga!
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If there was ever a Kaimere tale that demanded a full dedicated novel, it would be Munarak's Campaign.
Oh absolutely! I could easily fill a novel with that, if not a trilogy if I'm being honest! The basic outline notes on that conflict and its major players is like 60 pages long lol
I look forward to it. I'm about 2/3rd's of the way through the first anthology, and have enjoyed much of it. I plan to dive (pardon the pun) into the second anthology afterwards.
Do the Manephants know the legend of the Red King?
An elephant army shaping a nation's history
This is amazing
This time the songs really hit 😂 it sound like Indian, Native something and Pop music combined together, perfect combination 👌
If you hear good indian pop it will sound like the intro song. I have a few in mind if I can remember the names.🙂
I agree
This song is fire
Thanks! Heck yeah I was stoked when I found it. Kaimeran Palaeoloxodon came from the European species not the one from India but it still felt like the right vibes. It's even titled Purple Elephant!
Can you do golem, actually non-organic life?
So in Kaimere, the spotting of a hybrid Elephant is like the spotting of a comet? That’s a really interesting concept.
Also, I would love a series just on the creation of the Qajarith Republic!
Munarak reminds me of Hannibal from our own history, taking elephants across the Alps in a campaign against Rome.
Heck yeah. Was definitely an inspiration
I would like to see if the other robust monarchs got redesigned, because the new zentaur design is incredible
Thank you! It is my hope to do so
The Zentaur illustration seen in this episode isn't a redesign.
It's an additional illustration for the specie.
It depict a Male specimen, while the first/old design depict now a female one. So still valid.
The differences between the two are due to sexual dimorphism.
@@dudotolivier6363 im fairly certain keenan has stated it as both a *redesign* AND a member of the opposite sex, though as male and female zentaur have only minor differences (larger crest in the former, larger size in the latter) it shouldnt matter too much
@@transnewt If he confirmed that is a sexual dimorphism, so that Can hardly be in the same time a redesign.
What is sure however, is that, now, this illustration of a male Zentaur is the one that will be used to depict the species for all the future episodes of the channel forever.
@@dudotolivier6363 he stated that only a few traits were results of sexual dimorphism
You definitely need to do a zoological overview of Qajar. It's the closet thing to modern Earth on this planet.
Would be a lot of fun!
@@TalesofKaimere Also I'm assuming the peninsula is a warmer climate than the highlands, does that mean the elephants and mammoths have less overall body hair?
@@dalekrenegade2596 Its comparable. The lower latitude is compensated by the higher elevation of the highlands so it evens out.
As expected, the Drenduga are truly magnificent animals! Hybridization was not something I expected to be discussed seriously, especially in detail of a specific individual! I wonder- is there any record of how social Dukilgun was? Did he follow in the sociality of his Mammoth heritage, or was he more solitary like a Drenduga bull? The last sentence of the episode seemed to imply that this rumored new hybrid lives amongst Mammoths and follows their social conduct. Furthermore, is there any information on his early life, such as which of his parents was the Mammoth and Drenduga, and whether or not that influenced his appearance/behavior?
After hearing the story of Munarak, I (surely alike many Qajarith people) have great respect for him, especially for the way he prioritized his elephants’ safety and still managed to achieve such great victories. It’s really nice to hear that Dukilgun, unlike many war elephants on Earth, was able to live to the end of his natural life in comfort and luxury! It’s also remarkable to learn that the Qajarith Republic originated with the help of elephants! I remember hearing from the episode on Nerotan Lions something about House Nerotan being somehow separated/distinguished from the Republic- would Munarak’s failed campaign there have something to do with this? I also would like to ask- how Munarak was able to convince so many elephants to aid in military conquest, and how many of his forces were Mammoths and how many were Drenduga?
Thanks again for such an amazing installment to this series! Considering how essential elephants seem to be in the establishment of the modern-day Qajarith Republic, it’s a wonder why they have not been mentioned prior! I’m incredibly hyped for next week’s episode, as I remember you mentioning a video about the Deinotheres being in the works some time ago! As always, keep up the incredible work you do!
I like all the part about the hybrid elephants !
That a Drenduga (Palaeoloxodon) and Bosuga/Highland Mammoth (Mammuthus) is called a Ilduga (Palaeoloxodon x Mammuthus).
And that the specific specimen that befriend with Munarak is called Dukilgun !
I guess that the two were most often always sen togethers, that their bond were big and complex and that when during a battle or in campaign, Murarak was always on the back of Dukilgun, in all the impressive stature/view the latter with its huge size and battle armor, leading their army into the battle !
Man ! Such a duo and scene was for sure, completely, a strinking, spectacular and unforgettable sequence at view !
I can imagine that the mammoths and drenduga appreciate living in the Qajarith republic since there are no Zentaur present and the only theropods they have to worry about are the cockatrices.
I completely forgot that they had War Lions, that would definitely freak the elephants out.
This series is being a joy to listen to Keenan, congrats! Love to hear more about Kaimere history and of their peoples. What can we expect after the Elephants of Kaimere series?
Thank you! Falconry is next on the roster. Very excited for that one!
The Bosuga are a red Wooly Mammoth, amazing.
another bannger from the legend himself good job
Thank you kindly!
Now all I can imagine after watching this is Hannibal moving through the alps with his army of elephants but their just cooler looking
I like how even though you changed some things about them (most notably their range and social behavior), you made the Drenduga a significant part of Kaimere's history. Also, HOLY SHIT, DUKILGUN IS F**KING HUGE!!!
A few questions:
1. Would a hybrid like Dukilgun be viewed as a savior by other mammoths and Drenduga? Because I can see a Zentaur taking one look at one and just noping out.
2. Do Zentaur experience regional differences? Like in the Titan Gardens, they look like how most view them but have a thicker coating of feathers with those in the eastern Arvelith Highlands and are smaller to better maneuver through the dense forests of the Crescent Jungles.
3. Is there a reason why Drenduga are not as social as mammoths?
4. Does Munarak keep any of Dukilgun's bones or tusks to remember his companion? If not, what did he do with them?
5. Is there a reason why there are no proboscideans in Pakardia?
Absolutely! Once I finalized the highlands I realized it was a much better place for the drenduga to be than barely scraping by in the lowland forests.
1. Haha possibly! Unlike most bulls he was a resident (never really fit in with mammoth herds so once he bonded with the village he stuck around) and would absolutely have helped defend them from predators. The village was in the east, but not too far, so zentaur wouldn't be common but he may have encountered one or two.
2. There are several zentaur subspecies throughout the two continents. The Ni'Khari zentaur for example is more gracile and less feathers due to living in a hotter climate, while the now-extinct Qajarith zentaur was darker and the bulkiest, with a bit of a mane (would look more like an oritaku). Most common is the zentaur of the Arvelith titan gardens. The old design I have is of a female, which are more robust (and the art style is much improved in this one but that's life sometimes), while the new one is a male of the same population.
3. Just have smaller populations and larger size, so they don't need the herds for protection. The zentaur is the only thing in town big enough to threaten a cow, much less a bull, whereas a pair of cave lion brothers can bring down all but the largest mammoths so they really need each other.
4. He definitely kept the tusks. I've drawn them as part of a throne he used back when he was the leader of the Republic, but he may have them at his estate in modern times, especially now that Triarchs run the executive branch of the senate rather than one man.
5. There's very little grass or deciduous plants. Enough for deer, but larger angiosperm specialists like hippos and water buffalo don't have large populations because there's not a lot to eat. Black sloths have adapted to a largely conifer-based diet, which is why they've since returned to the known world and are doing quite well. Common drakes and jurazhent titans are by far the most common herbivores of Pakardia because the flora is much more to their liking.
@@TalesofKaimere A extinct Zentaur subspecies ! Whoa.... More we learn extra information, more things became interesting overtime !
A episode about Qajar's fauna before the arrival and massacre of the First Childrens would be cool to explore if one day we get the chance. :)
Ecology of a massive elephant AND history on one of the most important nations in Kaimere? Keenan you spoil us.
Someday I would love more videoes (or even a series) diving into the culture of Kaimerans more: various beliefs and practices of the different cultures; the histories of some of the nations; some info on their religions. I think that would be fantastic stuff based on what you've shown us so far.
Returning to elephants, where war elephants and mammoths used in the Three Spears or were they too niche to be used in this conflict? It would be quite a sight to have seen Dukilgun face off against a war Ghlanos. Also are there any famous war Glhanos now that I mention it?
Thanks once agian for the fantastic video!
currently working on spec evo proboscideans for my world, this series is a big inspiration, keep up the amazing work!
Thank you!!
Once again an awesome video on Kaimere! The relationship of humans with other far more imposing creatures has always been a fascinating topic for me and this hits just right. Looking forward to more on this series.
Glad to hear it!
It’s always nice to hear just how much a single species has impacted the history of people here - once again very detailed! Great work!
Thank you!
I want to take a moment and appreciate the music chosen for this episode. Makes me feel like I'm riding an elephant!
Elephants as warriors and protectors are amazing! I think the Drenduga is probably my favorite Kaimeran elephant.
PS: Keenan, you might want to adjust your microphone slightly. Your voice came in big blasts on this one.
Yeah I've got a new computer and didn't realize until editing this and next week that the sound quality isn't great. Going to go back to my old computer for recording until I scrape together some time to look into it and probably order a new mic.
Munarak sounds like a fucking badass.God talking with elephants what a madlad.Not only that but he reintroduced them to their homeland in the wilds of Qajar.
Also friendship with qajarith lord ended,now my best friend is dukigun.Just a question the boltons in a song of ice and fire were also called red kings.Was that a reference?.Also civil war in qajar happening in a future story or one about Munarak?
Heck yeah! Their bond was a lot of fun to work on. Wasn't a House Bolton reference, just that he was big and red lol. There are indeed conflicts ahead that Qajar will have to face and Munarak will be a major player in the novel series I'm working on.
1 - If Qajar isn't part of and shown in the current distribution range map of the Bosuga/Highland Mammoth and Drenduga, despite a viable population of both were reintroduced in the peninsula, it's because their number, while enough to made them subsist on the long term, still too low to made Qajar to count as a proper place to include in their official repartition.
2 - It's good to know that Elephants on Qajar are protected, and that the Ivory trade and hunt is illegal (due to the story of Munarak), or at least in a very low level.
Yet, since both the Mammoth and Drenduga's most of their repartition go very far outside the Known World to the west, both species isn't threatened by this Trade anyway (since the Ivory Trade only occurs inside the Known World region) at the oppossite of their Tugas relatives in the Southern Island.
3 - It's a nice addition to add sometimes in your video a story like the one displayed in this video, that could otherwise completely fitt in a typical novella (but that work too, why not ?!).
Mainly here because this story explained the establishement of the current governement of Qajar that still in display in Modern Times, and who was until today never truly explained before.
4 - Currently, Qajar is divided in 3 regions : the Qajarith Republic, the Nerotan Land, and the Forested Mountainous at the North region where the Loggers live (don't know if it's have a proper name, but that isn't important).
While all ther egion unified and in peace, some tension still exist, between the Nerotan (and from them in fact) toward all the others.
Nerotan (if I don't say mistake) never fall and lost again Munarak and it's army, never, and only accept ending peace with the rest of Qajar for Economic and Trading bussness and benefits. While still pretty independant as a country, and never search to colonise the overall peninsula, Nerotan don't see the current governement with a good eye (for some reasons).
4. The entirety of the peninsula is within the Republic. The Nerotans joined but voluntarily, not by force.
@@TalesofKaimere Ok. Thank for the precisions :)
Well ! 1 single mistake out of 4 overall info I give for the others, that a nice result ;)
Nice creature and I love the history keep it up.
Thank you!
As I said elsewhere, your crafting of languages and names for this world and creatures is genius.
Thanks so much! Making a conlang was the final project in my linguistics course back in undergrad and thankfully I made the foundations of all my then-canon languages using the notes because that has saved me a lot of time. These days I have a much easier time building off of what I started way back then.
Especially when you said Drenduga could be translated to "Elephant Elephant".
Drenduga: Will work for ample pay.
How awfully mercenary of them.
Lord Munandus: My son, the key is mercenary Elephants.
Figures.
its amazing to hear about these remarkably intelligent creatures and their impact on history. another great video.
Thanks!
Dukilgun is an absolute unit. He looks way bigger than 5m.
1. Is he the largest land mammal ever?
2. How long was his lifespan?
3. Would Drenduga and Grassland Oliphaunts theoretically be able to create any offspring?
4. Dukilgun vs Tyrant Queen 1v1. (I had to)
1. He’s definitely up there! Might have been other hybrids of other giants in the past in his size range but I think any bigger and he probably couldn’t walk. As it was he wasn’t as mobile as a normal bull of his age.
2. He lived into his 70’s.
3. Nope. They’re way too distant.
4. Assuming we’re putting him in his prime (a bit smaller than maximum but before joint issues came into play due to his size) I’d say it’s gotta be cutting it close but I’d put my money on the Queen. She’s an active predator and although he’s got several tons of mass she’s overall more lightly built and therefore more maneuverable. Real talk though, at the size we’re talking, if either of them fell it’s probably lethal and neither is likely to walk away from the fight so they’d probably avoid each other like the plague lol
As for #1, the largest mammal on Earth or Kaimere was a mammutid (probably a species zygolophodon) that grew to a maximum size of 25 tons.
one of the largest land mammals right next to paraceratherium paleoloxdon namidicus and zyglophodon maybe
Incredible work!! ☺️😊😄😃🤩
Thank you!
What an exiting lore! Maybe, someday we'll learn about the conlangs of Kaimere as well^^
I'm open to it! Just need a sponsor. Compiling my many pages of vocabulary, syntax, and lore surrounding each language into a digestible episode format would take way too long to do without being able to allocate some time to it.
With the mammoths and drenduga introduced to Qatar, I could imagine that their effects on the ecology. For example, while probably not at the same scale as the titanosaurs, they probably opened up the forests much more so.
The effects must be beneficials/positives on both the environnement and for the Qajarith.
After all, since their reintroduction, most of Qajarith and Elephants interaction must be like the friendly/peacefull one there is in the Highland between the Mammoths and the Hinterland Giants (Homo altus).
Oh for sure! Open forests, probably healthier forests too. Once the First Children killed all the megafauna, the closed forests would be overgrown and filled with decay.
@@TalesofKaimere It's a nice cycle that was completed ! A balance put again in a stable position.
The First Children once killed all the Mammoths and Drendugas on Qajar, and they were reintroduce one day by a guy named Munarak (even if unvolontary).
Destiny often do things right.
What an absolutely amazing episode about The Great Drenduga.This is my favourite series created by you so far.
Thank you! It's been great fun so far!
Thank you for inspiring me to make my own project in the moon!
Heck yeah!
Hannibal himself would have been proud or even jealous of this Munarak fellow.
Just like last time, this video has been a wonderful insight of the proboscideans of this world. I am amazed of how, despite being capable of killing monarchs, choose caution and awareness to avoid them for the sake of their own, this along their sentience and relation with both humans and mammoths makes them one of my favorite mammals of Kaimere, and I will wait with excitement the chapter of the demon proboscideans of the East
In part inspired by the Drenduga, I plan to include a powerful Palaeoloxodon to one of the islands of my project, and while caution would remain a behavioural defense, this specie would have a much higher reliance of confrontation and aggression, for they will face a dangerous titan hunter that once brought down a demon of three heads
Thank you! Indeed it is often wise to avoid a fight. Even the winner might get an injury that could later make them vulnerable or even kill, and they are smart enough to anticipate.
I like it! Aggression is a tried and true form of defense.
@@TalesofKaimere Indeed, even animals that many would think as "defenseless" become a huge threat when aggression calls to action
And on the other hand, intelligence is a great weapon, for it allows victory and survival without a fight
You should use the story about the colonisation of Qajar in a book. It would be epic!
I'd be all over that!
Would be a lot grittier than most of my work lol that was a very bloody conflict.
Indian music and elephants always go Hard, og elephant tamers
100%
I wonder how big is the dukilgun compare to a koga, magnaolifantus maximus, ghlanos and even some predators like uktan, zentaur and bokodu?
Problaby the largest non sauropod land animal.
The music tho🔥
I like really a LOT the fact that Dukilgun don't die, even after so many battle and years of wars, (even if, for sure, it get scars from it, not not unaffected), and end up die of old age, peacefully and happily, respected and praised, numerous decades after !
That was indulgent and gentle from you !
Because, usually, such a creatures or characters in a story in science-fiction or fantasy genre, when being unique or part of a very rare cast (here a form of hybrid elephant) usually end up dying in a way or another (and sometime in such not honirific way on top of that).
Not only that a shame and very sad, even if most of the time anything is made or wanted in order that us, readers/watchers, fell sorry for them, but that show how the authors/producers don't care or give a single fuck to their value in many things.
For example, I was personnaly very pissed off in the last 2017 "War for the Planet of the Ape" movie, with the character of Winter, the albino Gorilla, that the producers end up killing by the others protagonists (in such dumb way in addition, by involuntary suffocation), thus he wasn't a bad character at all and who did , it's true, bad things but only by pure fear. Wasn't a bad guy that wanted to hurt the others.
If he wasn't albino, I would say nothing (ok yes, because as a character and due to his personnality he didn't deserved that) but that a shame that such a being, rare, is just eliminated like that.
To a point that it's questonnable why making him albino in the first place instead of a normal gorilla.
Same analysis can be made here for Dukilgun, but you din't decide to made it dying during a battle. Your reconized it's uniqueness and have respected that by leaving it alive and giving him a nice end life.
So, in short, to said, that a very good thing that you didn't fall at all into this shamefull trend/tendency that shouldn't even exist.
And for that, I'm very happy with what you just give us here :)
Wonderful.
Thanks man!
The coat of Drenduga reminds me of Manny from Ice Age. Also, I wonder we will get one day to know more about Kairul's human cultures?
They will definitely be explored in future stories and I’d be open to some episodes on them!
Great video Keenan! But there seems to be somethin wrong with the audio, it's pretty raw?
Oh thank god, I thought I was going insane.
Yup. New computer's mic is bad. Don't know if the quality can be easily fixed but my plan is to go back to my old computer for recording then transfer for editing since the old one kept crashing and I don't have time to figure out what's going on rn
@@TalesofKaimere good luck! Hope you can figure it out mate!
@@TalesofKaimere Don't worry, that isn't really discomfort. The video is still understandable from A to Z.
Very interesting I have been wondering about the ability of Kimerans and Probacideans to work together. Though slight note your narration seemed to have a slight buzz to it. Might want to double check your equipment as your sound quality is usually excellent.
Yeah this new computer I got has a messy mic. I thought it was just this one but next week's unfortunately ran into the same issue. I'm not good with tech so I might just use my old computer until I have time which... I will never have time lol
The music hear is ON. POINT. Best yet
Q/A time!
1. Your mike good bro?
2. Do drenduga protect mammoths passively or purposely? +ing to that I wonder what they think of eachother looking so similar
3.has anyone else tried to build a proboscedian pose?
4. Elephants are smart I wonder why super families don't just stick together -well ignoring food, but let me bully the monarchs they've taken enough already.-
5.WHY DO YOU HATE AFRICA!11!!!??1!?!1!? FIRST WILD DOGS, NOW AFRICAN ELEPHANTS(not me ignoring home erectus, leopards, and hippos.
Heck yeah I was stoked when I stumbled upon it! Song is even titled 'Purple Elephant'. I was sold before the base dropped and that's what sent me haha.
1. No it ain't lol. Just got a new computer and recorded this and next episode, only to find its built-in mic is garbled. Planning to see if it's a setting issue that I can amend or if I need to invest in an external mic. Don't have time to get into that anytime soon so for now I'm just gunna record on my old computer then edit on the new one. Wild that a 10-year-old computer has the better mic of the two but what can you do.
2. It's mostly passive. They recognize their distress calls and react accordingly. It's intentional, but also somewhat instinctive/reflexive if that makes sense. As for what they think of each other, they are more scent-based than reliant on sight. By scent they can smell that around 12 million years separates them, considering their last common ancestor was 6 million years ago, so basically are nearly as different from one another as us and chimps. They aren't particularly drawn to one another because of that distance, but do have a general sense of empathy. Only instances of hybrids are when both parents are young and inexperienced. They may look similar to us, but to each other, they look quite different and more importantly, smell extremely different.
3. A few Arvelith have. Non-natives who don't know how to build a relationship of trust with elephants in their natural habitat have always employed the same methods as human warlords, which means it's always an exploitative relationship and the elephants are never loyal or care much about their handlers. Munarak prioritizing their health and wellbeing while having the education of a lord with the focus and ambition of a conquerer really does set him apart from other peoples who have used elephants in war.
4. They do keep in touch by sound. Although they don't forage together, as their calls can travel for as many as ten miles, they can keep in contact pretty well. We humans think of a group as being in sight of each other, but for them, their matrilineal herds keep together just over vast distances because aside from zentaur they don't really need protection, whereas mammoth cows for example do need to worry about black sloths and cave lions as potential predators, and since I'm planning to make Homotherium larger, that will also be a bigger problem. Again not so big that a drenduga cow couldn't knock down a pack like a strike at a bowling alley, but enough that they're a threat to all but the largest lone mammoth cow so they have to stick together. In general though, proboscideans have such good senses of smell and their communication network is so widespread that they can detect, anticipate and coordinate responses long before a threat actually arrives, something we don't really have an analogue for before like... telegraph machines to let people many miles away know when an enemy was approaching. Basically every elephant has a short range telegraph system and a scent range of dozens of miles, so they're not nearly as alone as they may seem!
5. Haha that is a good question! It's going to be covered in detail in my episode on the Africa harvest in September. In brief: it was kinda doomed to fail. The harvest was made in response to the subtropical prairies getting depleted by houze grass, but since most of the herbivores brought from Africa couldn't readily digest the grass, most of them went extinct. Hippos went to the Seridic wetlands and fed on grass there, which wasn't competing with the hydrophobic houze grass, buffalo managed to adapt since they were predisposed to process bulk grasses, zebra (if I include them) are great at digesting tough grass, but most animals like elephants were facing an uphill battle, and even a large bull African elephant is a pretty easy kill for an uktan used to bringing down oliphaunts. It's basically like an entire species of easy-mode oliphaunts.
between this and prehistoric planet 2 today is a good day of plaeomedia fans!
I hope we get more videos on certain animal's roles in kaimeran history. Are there any animals that had as big a role in kaieran history as the drenduga and mammoth?
Ghlanos and horses helped shape the empire, and there was an important battle in Pakardia won by hippos.
@@TalesofKaimereI need to see this
@@TalesofKaimere Hippos? i think i might need more context.
@@TalesofKaimere Pakardiant have won a battle with the help of HIPPOS !!!!!
We must to have an episode on that on day :) !!!
Book 1 should be arriving tomorrow and I am looking forward to reading it.
Continuing my mental fanfic of the witch with the multi species herd of giants. Which Titan species would you suggest if I could only have one for this wondering band of bachelors. Team thus far: 1 Boar Bokodu (Brom), 2 Ghlanos Stalions ( Wells and Irvining), 2 Bosuga Bulls (Jacques and Martin), 1 Drenduga Bull (Tolkien), a young Titan Crow (Dickens), and hiding his nest among the supply hut strapped to the Titan’s back is the Ru Kel (Loki). The witch keeps his herd on the move and avoids large bastions of civilization. He trades with wondering peoples in hides and bones of the mega raptorans his herd has slain for supplies and goodies for his companions.
Brom the Bokodu was the witch’s first companion and used to have a squire named Ichabod. Ichabod was unfortunately lost to the attack of the River Lord, the sailed back Mega Raptoran, and it was this loss that taught the witch that he and his creatures were connected as it hurt the witch to loose one of his herd. He still hates the River Lord and wants revenge on the Mega Raptoran but fears loosing another member of his herd to a threat that can be easily circumvented.
I love it! I think the best titan would probably be a common titan. More temperature adaptable than the edotan and modotan, but bigger than a jurazhent.
"The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon." - Pliny the Elder [1st century CE] (Natural History, Book 8, 1-13): [Book 8, 1]
cool episode as always!
Thanks!
Hey Keenan, I've been wondering for a while how you come up with the names for your species? I'm meaning like the first two names in the video, Bosuga and Drenduga. Etymology, naming conventions, languages you use in them, etc. I really like the names given to all the species in Kaimere and I'm asking this to gain a little more knowledge for my own speculative evolutionary endeavours. If you're able to answer this then thank you so much!!! Love your videos!
Thank you!
For the final project of my linguistics course, my professor assigned us to make a conlang. Basic stuff. Not enough to be a spoken language, but stuff like where in the mouth it was spoken, grammar, sentence structure, etc. Designing Pakardiant was what I picked for my final. Using those notes and the basics for that project, I designed the foundation of the other languages over that summer. Now, nine years later, I basically just refer back to that and expand the vocabulary as needed so they have a consistent vibe.
As far as creatures go, I generally default to the name in the language of the people closest to the given animal, at least within the known world. Drenduga for example is the Qajarith word for them, and I used that since it was a Qajarith-focused history segment. A common tongue/trade language for them is Graga, meaning giant elephant (ga meaning elephant, or more literally a shortening of the sentence 'he has ivory'. Tu denotes something as common, so tuga means common elephant). I could have also used one of the many Arvelith words since the Arvelith of the highlands have several languages, but I defaulted to the Qajarith one for the sake of simplicity. Bosuga is also the Qajarith word for mammoth.
Some of the more iconic creatures of Kaimere have a Pakardiant name because that's what I originally made. Motomazor and kurajaku are, for example, their Pakardiant names, even though the Kurajaku is more common in the tropics/subdropics and motomazor are more common in the Khalin Sea, but I got so used to using the Pakardiant names that they just sort of stuck.
@@TalesofKaimere Thank you for answering! It's much appreciated. I'll keep this stuff in mind when tackling it myself :)
1:37 and 10:01 Of course as on Earth, the largest land mammal is an elephant.
Really awesome episode. I also really like the armor on the drenduga
My one suggestion would be to get a new mic if its in your budget(although everything is understandable). Not that I claim to use an at all good microphone in my videos lol
Yeah it’s unfortunate that my new computer is so garbled. I’m definitely switching to my old computer until I figure out a new mic. Unfortunately I already recorded next week. It’s not as bad but I did have to record a few segments a second time to clean them up
@@TalesofKaimere I actually record my videos in tiny segments and just splice them all together.
I only noticed the audio issues in one part of this episode though, so its not THAT bad
Man what a fantastic story! It would make a phenomenal movie if done right.
Thanks! I would have a ton of fun with that!
Are there any elasmarans in the highlands? Considering they had polar members on earth they might fit in well to the colder environment.
That depend what was the Elasmarian species harvested at the base.
The Drenduga descend from a Eurasia Ice Age cold dry species and if it survived in the warm tropical and humid part region of its Easternmost range, it's because the direct, close ancestor of its direct ancestor was a species that lived in such climate.
So re-adaptating to this climate wasn't a big deal for the Drenduga.
So, for the Eslamarian, if the ancestors brought on Kaimere were only ones from warm tropical biomes and not from close or in the polar poles, the current species in Modern Kaimere are less likely to fitt in the Highland.
That's the plan!
So I will now be listening to Drenduga's theme song on repeat alongside that big band brass that you used for the sauropods video. Purple Elephant slaps! (That sounds painful, actually.)
OH wow! Does Munarak have a story out or will he have a story in the future? Because I'd read the heck out of that. Also that older portrait of Munarakus is spectacular. A man whot looks like he's seen some Shtuff.
KOGAAAAA!!!! Koga Hype!! I was wondering when that magnificent beastie was going to show up!
Heck yeah I was elated when I found that song. Perfectly fit the vibes I was going for especially when the beat dropped.
He's going to be part of the novel series I'm working on, but I could definitely imagine a prequel story featuring him down the road!
Yay more phants!
What an episode my friend! I don't have anymore questions about the Drenduga nor Mammoths... But, about Grasslands Oliphants Magnaolifantus (pardon my mispelling please!) would it get some limelight on the fifth or final episode of this series?
P.S. Amazing soundtrack today! One of the best, most fitting earworms ever!
Thank you!! The grassland oliphaunt will get a segment in the last episode
@@TalesofKaimere Thank you a lot for that. I mean, they deserve it tbh...
If only I can be on Patreon, but I'm unallowed to do so... Well, one day, hopefully... Did anyone sponsor the Uktan or the Jurassic Islands, Permian continent yet?
@@alghoulaj7172 Keenan have already speak about the Uktan in the Megaraptoran of Kaimere mini-series, while the others two topics will be speak during the year 2023, around the summer.
@@dudotolivier6363 What can I say but thank you for the wonderful news my friend. It's just that... Well, the Uktan and Zentaur are extremely fascinating tbh... And the rest of the monarchs they do deserve a dedicated episode just for them, not only in the known world but beyond if I want to be totally honest.
Back to the other two topics, the Jurassic Islands, the earlier harvests, the Permian Continent, Kairul, the Silent Ones are my most anticipated topics tbh... Well, at least let's I hope we do live and thrive by then.
Man I would love to see the North American jaguar I mean just like the leopard in it But the pit bull version
nice
Imagine That Zentaur in battle armor.
Would be rad
It’s interesting that these elephants their noses are more powerful than a bloodhound. I wonder in the present day elephants noses are more powerful than a dogs they should.
They are indeed! Elephants have noses 2-3x more potent than a bloodhound. It sounds very impressive (and it is) but scent hounds aren't as good at smelling as their reputation might suggest. Bears and pigs for example also have superior senses of smell.
@@TalesofKaimere yes, I know that bears and pigs have better noses than bloodhounds, of course
Not even the elephants can escape baldness 😢
Yo, the intro music is slap🔥🔥🔥
Heck yeah!
while i do not know the true cause of the wild difference between mic quality of videos, i like to believe it due to a, ah, change of scenery. to make accurate documentaries and notes, one must visit the places you document.
I quite like that explanation lol
I’ve noticed that the audio is kind of muffled and doesn’t sound right. I could still understand what was said, though it was distracting.
Nevertheless, the episode was still really good.
Yeah unfortunately there's an issue with the audio with my new computer. Unfortunately I didn't notice until I was editing. Hoping to eventually resolve it but for now I'll be recording on my old computer.
I hope you write a story about Munarak and his father
Hannibal Barca would be proud
Any links to get the music of the intro. Because that stuff was fire
Heck yeah it was! I included the title and artist in the description but don't remember off the top of my head.
How do drenduga interact with other large herbivores like common drakes, common titans, highland orangutans, hugor, hukolgur, moose, qotaur, and rhinoceros?
I am a bit confused on how drenduga can morph between tropical and temperate form depending on the season or how bald males survive in the highlands without a shaggy layer of fur protecting them during the harsh winter months
Much like many animals, drenduga grow more hair during the colder months and shed it when it gets warm. As I said in the video, some males grow very little extra fur in the winter because their size means they can stay warm. It's a temperate zone so they don't need a ton of fur and when it does snow it's not more than a few times a year and rarely lasts more than a few days.
Okay thank you so much ❤
Insert meme: "OMG Tyler is so hot, Tyler (Insert Drenduga with winter coat)"
in the highlands there are many abellanos? since they were very abundant in the age of the hieno in europe, not to mention the immense recistencia (sorry for my bad spelling, English is not my native language)
None are planned but I will look into it! That sounds fascinating
Can’t wait for the video on the Koga.
But I do wonder, what’s next after the Koga?
Is it the grassland oliphaunt?
Next up is the manephaunt, or chuga. The grassland oliphaunt doesn't have a dedicated episode.
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Oh ok, good to know.
#6 of asking if and when we'll get a video(s) on the languages and writing systems of Kaimere
Keenan, thank you for your hard work, I really appreciate it. ☺️😊😄😃🤩😍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks!
Now that I think about it, has the atlas tortoise (the tortoise I did a video on recently) made it kaimere and been successful?
I’m open to it but haven’t studied their time place and competition to verify
Nice!! How does it feel seeing galloping giant Azdarchid Pterosaurs in Prehistoric Planet?
Also I responded to you about an episode on the Tiktatik.
It was awesome to see it!
Fantastic! Planning to check my email this afternoon and will get to you then! Very excited!
Speaking of which, are there any animals from the highlands other than drenduga that wander off into the titan gardens?
Amazing to think that the elephants helped shape the history of an empire, and also to see that a hybrid of Mammoth and Drenduga has become a foreboding symbol.
By the way is there something wrong with your microphone? Your voice sounds somewhat muffled.
Yes indeed! Unfortunately my new computer seems to have a garbled mic. Didn't notice until I was editing this and next week's episodes. Until I have time to investigate (I never have time so who knows when that will be) I'm planning on going back to the old computer to record then edit on this one.
Proboscideans are top
Do you have conlangs from which you get the names of your creatures/places?
If so, is it on the list of possible video topics?
I have the basic vocabulary and sentence structure of over a dozen languages at this point. I would absolutely love to do a language video or even series! Got lots of material but putting it into a digestible format would take a lot of time.
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Neat! I would love to see that if and when you make it!
Whenever I see the a "bh" or a "j" or a "ü", I start itching to know how it's pronounced in-conlang.
One last question: Do you do diachronics with a proto-lang or do you make the modern version of the languages a priori?
What's the furthest place from their common range drenduga have wandered off to?
They’ve been found all the way up in Ni’Khari forests and even the houze prairie and the crescent, though almost all are males. Cows almost never leave the Arvelith highlands
Wait i just noticed something - if the steppe mammoth decreased in size to deal with the uneven terrain of the highlands, how come the Drenduga stayed the same size as their ancestors?
Not everything responds to the same pressure in the same way
He said that drenduga live in the valleys which have more level terrain.
Is Munarak partially inspired by Hannibal? I definitely would love to read a whole novel about that war, just for Dukilgun alone.
There was some inspiration there, but not so heavily that I'd say he's Kaimere's version. I would absolutely write that story someday!
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Nice to hear, I am already looking forward to it. Hope Dukilgun is going to play a large role in the story!
Questions :
1 - Why did you change the Dreduga scientific name ?
There was a problem with "Palaeoloxodon kaimerensis" ?
2 - What "alteregus" species name mean ?
3 - the thumbnail/first picture at the biggining a the video depict a average bull and a bald old specimen together I guess.
1. For a while there were two species recognized, but as P. alteregus was present earlier, it took precedent when they were lumped.
2. Mountain king
3. Yes. Young bulls have better tusks as weapons, while older bulls have superior size and intimidating tusks, so it's not uncommon for an old bull to have a few younger males with him in regions with a lot of zentaur.
@@TalesofKaimere Nice ! Such a badass name already indicate almost everything to know about this creature !
Have you watch the 1st 2 episodes of prehistoric planet season 2
I have indeed! Not going to have time for a review this year but I'm really enjoying it.
Zentars seem like a dinosaur version of sabre toothed cats
They’re rocking some similarities
Smilodon with out being smilodon
What would happen if some drenduga were introduced to Kaishel?
They’d probably do quite well in coastal forests but would be easy prey for the silent ones
They already look well suited for the cold
Also did something happen to the microphone or I'm going crazy? 😅
You're not going crazy, even I noticed the weird audio mix.
Yeah by brand new computer's mic is terrible. Unfortunately I didn't notice until after I had already recorded this and next week's video. Hoping it's a simple fix but until I have time I'm just using my old computer. Hate adding the extra step since my new computer is the one that actually has the space to run the editing software without crashing but hey what's life without a little nonsense
Just seeing them gonna make anyone poop their pants 😂🐘🥚👁️
How does the Drenduga understand the Mammoth's language?
They hear in the same frequency and many learn the words by context (if they regularly smell lions when the mammoths are chatting about lions, they later infer as much and moms teach their young to be wary when they hear those words)
are dire bobcats homotherium relatives? If so does that mean they hunt in packs?
Yup! They are a species of Homotherium
@@TalesofKaimere Awesome!
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For some reason I am imagining a race of gaints created by the first children as intelligent and connected guardians with traits from Sauropods and Mammoths and a smaller companion race with traits of Pterosaurs, Terror Birds, and deer incorporated. I think I just want a gentle gaint race for some reason.
Perhaps there is even a third or even forth symbiotic race in this racial regiment. A small race that many would consider cute with traits of rats, cats, and bats, and a race with traits of hippos and boars. The intended setup by the first children could be that the gentle gaints are the guardians and commanders, the terror bird/Pterosaur/deer folk are the interceptors and harassers, the cute bat/rat/cat folk are the organic surveillance system, and the hippo/boar folk are the shock troops that may or may not look like orks (hopefully not and some of the more appealing human traits were left in so that they wouldn't be remind them of the "dangerous predators" too much).