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I guess nobody actually cares for these drawings... I'll upload them if you want, but I'm getting sick of myself making these dumb mistakes.

It seems to me that most of our artists have based Antareans on dragons, for obvious reasons, but haven't taken them much further than that. Your submission here Stix is right in line with one of the previous submissions (see the archived links in the current task; the one I refer to is by an unknown contributor). Not a good or bad thing, but it goes to show how difficult coming up with a unique Antarean design in general might be. :P

Hmm. That's an interesting idea ... but I think we do want a degree of realism for Antarean physiology. It doesn't seem like Antareans would be able to gain much altitude with the web-like "wings" of a flying squirrel.

I say that with regard to their dwelling, which are the high towering spires of Antares. They'd need powerful wings to propel them above the clouds. Perhaps we could go for something more batty, but give them a doggish-looking head with an anthropomorphized face (a la Akio's solo thumbs-up sketch of Dell). Bats have fur, don't they?

hmm. I always thought that an Antarean flew with his wings, but also with some kind of latent Eumonetic energy...

Another thing to note, don't forget, is that Dell loses these wings in Part IV. So I don't think we should attach too great a usefulness to them, apart from the obvious flying ability, since that'd really cut down (no pun intended) on his utility in later gameplay. We'll already be dealing with rebalancing the wingless Dell (I'm thinking he'll become a more powerful, versatile eumonetic character without wings). But I digress...

Visually, this means that his wingspan is probably quite large, so that when he loses them he's still the size of a medium-sized dog. In other words, making them too disproportionately large would effectively dwarf Delloran without wings. But I agree, that the wings should be a large, central feature of Antareans.

Another facet that we haven't really explored is the tail. Dell's bio has always listed his natural weapon as his tail, so perhaps Antareans have some sort of stinger or sharp edge along their tails.

Okay. I'm starting to feel for this.
So he needs some kind of sharp tail, a weapon... a blade seems not as invasive, but a morning star type attachment would make him seem too evil..right??

It'd also make him look like a dinosaur without those wings.

The Spires - I actually wrote a pretty simple but non-finished story about a homeland like that. Except in my story, my dragons were evil - but that's not the point.

Somewhere I read along the lines of - if the wings were positioned near the shoulders of a dragon, it could not possibly hold its weight because the back end would end up sagging all the time. Positioned near the middle, this person said, the flying creature would be more abalance, and more capable of manuevering without seeming ungainly.