Kaishel: Polar World of Quiet and Cold

[@Akaryusan]

kaishel is honestly the best bit of lore you have ever written it has dinosaurs humans and all the familiar stuff but put into an utterly alien and unfamiliar premise that perfectly encompasses that this isnt earth and there are far more dreadful things out there than any kurujaku bull or even the greatest monsters of the sea because despite how much earth life has adapted to it this isnt their world.

[@GhazMazMSM]

I have a few theories of what exactly it is. 1. A flightless pterosaur 2. A unique tetrapod unrelated to any living fauna on kaimere 3. An alien species that one of the portals accidentally picked up. If portals from Kaimere can reach earth, what's stopping it from reaching other worlds as well.

[@FatFish7600]

Spoiler alert: Extremely derived amphibian

[@Fumango]

@@FatFish7600 how do u know

[@mosterchife6045]

@@FatFish7600 Source?

[@FatFish7600]

@@mosterchife6045 Keenan says it is related to Temnospondyls

[@BigBossMan538]

It could also be a homunculus of some kind

[@PaleoAnalysis]

By 10 minutes in I was like "BUT WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SILENT?!?!" Keenan: "The pressure that keeps everything silent is currently unknown to Kaimereian naturalists." Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo😭😭😭

[@mosterchife6045]

Ikr lmao

[@theyakmaster9984]

The spooky image at about 1:40 looks like a flightless bat to me. Im getting future predator vibes.

[@TedShatner10]

@@theyakmaster9984 That creature is akin to a flightless bat (and inspired by Future Predators) but quite alien and derived, exclusively arising on Kaimere from ancestors almost as old as Earth's own multicellular life.

[@theyakmaster9984]

@@TedShatner10 How do you know?

[@TedShatner10]

@@theyakmaster9984 Had a PM conversation with the creator on Twitter, that these creatures belong to a radically different evolutionary branch to all vertebrate life on Earth, their ancestors amongst the very first life transplanted from Earth long before Pangaea started splitting up. But that's all he let up on.

[@worldforger0]

I love the duality of noisy, lively Kaimere to horrifying, silent Kaishel.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Was a very fun juxtaposition!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Eastern continent is going to be more stable but packed with giants in contrast to the chaos of the known world so will have its own distinct vibes too

[@worldforger0]

@@TalesofKaimere cool! I didn't think the continents would be so distinct, but I suppose the dominant Megaraptorans will give off new vibes as they are everywhere, and not just dominant/apex in and around the Prairie.

[@SkylerTheCryodrakon69]

Part of me is curious as to just what was so horrifying to the first children on kaishel The other part of me is a bit too horrified to ask since im already horrified of the first children On a side note I really enjoyed this video had alot of things I wasn’t expecting such as bioluminescent sauropods It is an incredibly unique world and yet masterfully unsettling

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you so much!

[@sambeaumont4337]

I know a lot of your older videos don't have music and I think you've done a great job of selecting good tracks for your newer videos, but I think not having music is very fitting here and might be worth considering if you do an updated Kaishel episode.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! I did have some music in the episode on the silent ones, but a quiet episode may have been more fitting. It does fit the vibes here quite well I agree.

[@darrenheideman2546]

If I had the means, I'd put together a fully animated documentary styled series based on your ideas.

[@TalesofKaimere]

That would be delicious

[@LarsTonguesInAspix]

@@TalesofKaimere calling it delicious would be an understatement!

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere Yeah, very delicious to see ! PS : my first big commentary at the beginning of the commentary list under the video that you stamped by yourself with an appreciation logo at the end showing you read and enjoyed it was modified by me there some minutes (because of orthograph errors) and I involuntarily removed your appreciation of my comment. Sorry, but it looks like KZbin treats every modified edited comment as a whole new comment (which is very annoying and frustrating) and in fact treats it as is. So, please, would it be possible to re-evaluate my comment? Please!

[@darrenheideman2546]

@@TalesofKaimere Now, I do know some animators, so perhaps someday such an endeavor can be accomplished.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere Thank you very much ! You're awesome ! And you know what ? Your work and novel interested me more in novels, a type of literature that I was not so interested in before, but which now hyped me a lot, even the classic ones! And your book, I intend to recommend it to my godmother who is a language teacher in a primary school, I'm sure she will be happy! She loves the fantastic and the scientific! It's also nice of you to mention other speculative evolution projects from other people, and you also really inspired me and other of your followers to create our own speculative worlds! Thank you very much! Pass good end years and christmas with your family!

[@xuanluu4873]

“Something ancient, Something deadly” Okay, this might either be a great Homunculi or actually surviving First Children

[@yeraycatalangaspar195]

Well, I think than Keishel is my prefered part. The aero plankton has a lot to do with it, but than probably is one of the few places with the magical hives intact helps too. And those bioluminiscent dinos...

[@CoralReaper707]

I like the detail of no music in the background

[@TedShatner10]

The Silent Ones must be really something if the entire local ecosystem is geared around not attracting they/it with sound at all cost (in the world of giant strange beasties and fierce warrior peoples). I'm thinking an alien or native hyper predator or clade. The salty ocean encircling the Polar Continent stopped them from overrunning the planet.

[@theluftwaffle1]

Maybe the creatures from bird box lol.

[@kenmorales9855]

@@theluftwaffle1 or the Night Feeder from Primal.

[@theredlindworm732]

Imagine if to exemplify the silence of Kaishel a documentary segment on it would have the narrator speak in a hushed tone or even have no narrator at all

[@TalesofKaimere]

Narration would almost certainly happen after filming, or would be in sign/captions

[@tinrobot8115]

If the first children fear this continent then the silent ones really must be something else

[@lochness5524]

The filter feeding hives remind me of Portuguese Man of Wars, or the Ocean Phantom from “the Future is Wild”

[@ariboehm115]

Love this worldbuilding! the description of the mysterious silent forest and images of the endemic lifeforms and whatever that monster in the mist was reminds me of the spirit world in The Legend of Korra, specifically the "Beginnings" episodes in Season 2.

[@TalesofKaimere]

I’m sure that had at least partial inspiration. My favorite fantasy setting and Avatar is probably my favorite show.

[@the_blue_jay_raptor]

7:29 knowing that the iguanodonts have survived makes me very happy

[@Lavey1917]

I took my time to check this out but the polar continent is truly fascinating, love the combinations of animals like the penguin raptors or the oviraptosaurus, something that I never could have imagined myself. Can't wait to check out the wiki and know more about Kaimere and the creatures and cultures that inhabit her

[@juanisol8275]

The most wild, full of life and grim marvelous polar realm i even seen! I love it!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@EJinSkyrim]

I'm definitely in the "flightless pterosaur" camp because of how the forelimbs bend. Like some kind of rhamphorynchus gone totally haywire. ... Or... a flightless mega-bat, considering bats probably have better ears than most pterosaurs did. Maybe. I think. Or some kind of amphibian from the depths of Carboniferous Tartarus, considering the Xuono.

[@joshdoz9234]

5:18 Ah yes, Demon Koala Kangaroo. My nightmares are complete. 😍😭

[@jonryder7269]

I love this one i always love winter settings As someone from more northern degrees im impressed they can live in all that snow and still be quiet. Snow is loud lol xD

[@verrdantwilds]

Absolutely love Kaishel, this video was so fun to watch! Currently building my own fantasy-esque world taking place on a South Pole continent, though I can assure you I’m being meticulously careful not to copy or borrow ideas from Kaimere. That being said, your channel here on KZbin has provided me with a great deal of entertainment and inspiration, and for that have my thanks! Not only are you a masterful creature and world designer, but your use of literary skills in your videos highlights all the care you’ve given them! While I can’t say I’m not disappointed to not learn the identity of the creature responsible for the silent fear emanating from Kaishel’s interior, the elements of surprise and suspense are valuable tools in storytelling, and I’m more than happy to speculate my own theories as the world of Kaimere learns alongside me. On that note, my reigning theory is a sapient, terrestrially-adapted cephalopod, with blue blood adapted for resisting the cold- taken from inspiration within my own story. Best of luck with The Lost Hellfighter and the future of this project! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and all those around you- I look forward to starting Tales Of Kaimere before the new year!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you so much!! Best believe their identity will be revealed. I kept them secret since it’s a major plot point of an upcoming novella. I had no idea it would generate so much excitement and speculation! Is certainly inspiring me to fast track that project so I can let folks in on all the crazy research and designs I worked into these funky critters.

[@TalesofKaimere]

And best of luck on your project! Do you have a platform you share info on?

[@verrdantwilds]

@@TalesofKaimere Not as of yet, but I plan to start perhaps an Instagram if nothing else- currently fine-tuning it enough for presentation! Thanks for asking!

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@verrdantwilds Glad to hear it! Well do let me know if you do make an insta I'm pretty active over there.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

I'm only 8 minutes in, and I can already say that you were right, I do love this! ♥️

[@TalesofKaimere]

haha thanks man! Was a ton of fun to put together.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

Now I'm wondering how sauropods manage to survive in a environment where they must remain completely silent. Must be some kind of Saltasaurus. 😅

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@PaleoAnalysis It's look like more a descendant from the famous Amargasaurus with his arranged spine on the neck than the armored Saltasaurus with his armor osteodermes in his back !

[@PaleoAnalysis]

@@dudotolivier6363 yeah, that was a lame joke not a actual observation. SALTasaurus. Because the mystery creature is repelled by salt. 😅

[@Skyypixelgamer]

This has got to be one of the coolest continents in the series! Love the ways the creatures work around not being able to communicate verbally. Also have creatures such as species of thylacine made it to kaimere?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!! I appreciate it. Was so fun to put together. Thylacines, if they made it, couldn’t compete with the resident predators, but I do have some nontherians on the Eastern continent that are quite similar

[@Skyypixelgamer]

@@TalesofKaimere oh ok. Well keep up the amazing work on the series!

[@theacro9108]

It’s amazing how life can take hold even here even if it base a quiet place vibes

[@placeholderhandle1995]

one of the best things spec bio series, and one of the best segments of it, that i've ever seen.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks so much!

[@federicobonizzoni5986]

This needs a movie adaptation or maybe a trilogy

[@TalesofKaimere]

That would be a dream come true

[@chermal7311]

Four minutes into the video and I'm already dropping my jaw in joy. Steller's Sea cows are a favorite of mine and it was sad of the fact they could've been around today if better treatment of their habitat was realized... Than you for preserving these one of a kind animals. :)

[@charlottewalnut3118]

That hyeanodont otter is a terrifying sight

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@stephenlamb6005]

I wonder how the natives of this continent keep their children quiet, particularly the infants. As I’m sure a screaming newborn would easily tick off whatever grumpy old demon lurks in these woods and is forcing everything to keep quiet. My first thought, would be that they keep the mothers and small children on the coast year round and they’re provided for by adults and youth who are old enough to stay quiet, but I wanted to hear if you had a solution.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Settlements are all coastal or within a few miles of shore so the salt in the air keeps the Silent Ones away. Hunters and foragers will venture into the forest, but they wouldn’t risk bringing infants and children into the silent forest unless they were truly desperate (escaping a terrible storm or something) and even then they would stick to rivers with a lot of noise and wrap the babies in as much salt as possible.

[@stephenlamb6005]

@@TalesofKaimere Ah that’s what I thought, thanks for clarifying that. Pretty sure the infants aren’t happy about being wrapped in salt like a fish but it’s better that than being sliced up by whatever horror is making an entire continent act like they’re inside a library.

[@кирилляцура-н2д]

Kaishel is wonderful! This is the best way to finish this year for Kaimere. Thank you for your work, it is very cool and inspiring!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!! I appreciate the kind words

[@CosmicCaribbean]

Will we ever know anything about the Silent Ones? The world may never know… Great introduction into Kaishel, and glad it was even weirder than I expected at first for a southern polar continent. And of course can’t go out without shouting off J for the crazy art and HE itself. Now I watch as others trample to get a chance to earn a shoutout lmao 😂

[@TalesofKaimere]

Their identity is central to a novella I’m working on. Once that goes live (probably next year) I will reveal all, although I’m loving all the speculation and excitement! Didn’t plan on it but I’m elated. The further we get from last contact the weirder things will become. The Permian Island is going to have some really funky things, not just familiar clades. Folks keep being sad that the gorgonopsids are gone and I’m like just y’all wait J’s pieces were delightful. So sad I missed the last few.

[@zakaryloreto6526]

10:01 the Titan crow looks even more scary than the beast of silence

[@TalesofKaimere]

I’m definitely happy with the design!

[@ianswinford5570]

This was quite an interesting video. In fact, you’ve inspired me to create my own fantasy/sci-fi world. Also, when is your book about Kaimere coming out?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Glad to hear it! The Lost Hellfighter follows Elijah, a human trapped in Kaimere for a year.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Oh sorry I totally misread your question lol. The bestiary will maybe come out next year. Depends on a few factors.

[@dudotolivier6363]

​@@TalesofKaimere Cool, it's great that you already decide to "expend" your own universe of the first novel, like the "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" book who describe wore deeply the 2005 movie version of the home of King Kong, Skull Island (and it's was a great succes). So, Yeah, it's really the thing to do because all the things you saids in your youtube channel and other accounts are not enterley explicitely said or mentionned in the novels and novellas (and same thing for the others following novels and novellas fot the coming years), but with a special world drived explanation book on the world of Kaimere itself, here, we can learn all the think we already know by your KZbin channel. This later will continue to be the main and important place to learn about Kaimere, like a extesnion of the book bestiary (even it's was created many time before the publication of the book itself) before theses same informations we got from the channel come to the book. It's a clever and ggood way to present the universe. And the channel is also good for th people who can't obtain or never learn about the Tales of Kaimere before, so it's alway a plus ! For the today video, I really enjoyed this later ! It's the first presentation of a place/continent outside the Know Wolrd of Kaimere. And it's secrets and mysteries are really thrilling and exciting ! Who is the mysterious and fearsome entity who impact and which obliges the entire ecosysteme of Kaishel to be silent and discreet ? And to be honest, I hope that is a sort of failed creation/demon of the First Children who turned against them ! It's seem that for this horrific creature you was inspired by the A Quiet Place's monster, the Death Angels. Because the look of the creature by his shadow look very similar to this later and even his predatory hunter mechanic and hunting methods (hunt his prey by the sound they made) ! His look ressemble a little, for my, also like the Future Predator from the Primeval serie and remind me also a bit the "Night Stalker", one of the most famous creature from the "After Man A Zoology of the Future" book by Douglas Dixon and who is a giant terrestrial terrific predatory bat. By the way, yous should to make a video on the bats of Kaimere, because in any speculative project, this order of mammals is alway given the beautiful part and one of the most prolific creatures the evolution give in term of diversity and interesting forms and even big niches. The Bats are really formidable and resilients evolutionary best result and are one of my favorite order of all animals todays ! Otherwise, I make others commentaries in your 3 last precedent video and you should read them, maybe they will give you others interesting ideas for future contents you can put into Kaimere ! Oh, and finally, it's great that you include recent paleontologicals informations in your universe, it's make him more credible to us !

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere There not already humans in Kaimere ? With the Kaimireans but with a sort of relical population ?

[@abysswalker2594]

Why hello

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

What an awesome video to end the year (besides the Paleo Rewind video that I'm also looking forward). Good luck with all your work during the hiatus.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks I appreciate it!!

[@alghoulaj7172]

This was the best surprise and early New Year gift I ever had! Thank you! Please do the East Continent, West obscure one, and North one?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Continent and biome videos are on the docket for next year!

[@alghoulaj7172]

@@TalesofKaimere Good to know. Ever since you mentioned the eastern continent, and the Tyrant Dynasty, and I was extremely curious...

[@runelessruneless9024]

Man, the Silent Forest just... wow. That's some terrifying shit.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!

[@eyeoftheswarm5708]

In my opinion this place is basically the deep ocean of the land especially since down there there is no sound only light through the creatures.

[@johnmarcrander3865]

I love the Koordu! Their bioluminescence is really cool! On a kind of different note, i notice that the sauropods of kaimere all seem to have a big claw coming out from the inside of their front legs. Did sauropods have those when they were around, or is this a trait only found on kaimere? I’m curious as to what their function is, clearing their path of trees perhaps?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! A lot of sauropods had the long claw on their thumb. There are many theories for its use, from mating and fighting each other to digging or gripping foliage as they pushed or pulled them down. In Kaimeran titanosaurs they are used in fighting other sauropods (males fighting over mating sites and females over ideal nesting sites and outside of mating season over feeding grounds. Very combative animals). The koordu are much more peaceful. The claws on them are sometimes used for intimidating predators but mostly for digging

[@danielbaldwin8930]

The fact there is something which can silence a entire ecosystem is terrorfying idk why I image your alone in the dark and you hear branches snap and the click clack of something stalking you. Then you turn around and before you scream silence....

[@MrT_Rex]

This world is absolutely incredible...and a little weird sometimes...

[@EATONWILDGAMING]

A very interesting place with even more interesting creatures,I do hope as time goes on we will see books set in this world and I'm sure we will,keep up the good work!

[@jorgedelatorre8897]

I loved every minute of this video, your creativity and talent has made me not miss a single video throughout the year. Do you think you could do a kind of contest or brainstorm to generate a creature in your world? Where we all put ideas and choose the one you like the most or give us rules such as ecosystem, group, niche or other characteristics to generate a creature for one of the videos?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Would be a fun idea, but I think it would be more appropriate as a creature design prompt. Something not canon but showing some of my process. There are so many factors I need to take into account when working stuff into Kaimere and I fear a group brainstorm would be 95% me saying “that’s a cool idea but wouldn’t work here” and that’s doesn’t sound that fun. I scrap a lot of the ideas I start playing with. The actual design process I take is a lot less exciting than the final product might make it seem lol

[@The_PokeSaurus]

14:40 This is giving me A Quiet Place flashbacks.

[@TalesofKaimere]

That (and Dougal Dixon’s creature that inspired the movie) were influences on this idea

[@The_PokeSaurus]

@@TalesofKaimere Ah, I get it.

[@dirandrous7682]

Oh this is gonna be so good

[@TRKPurgatos]

Just realized how you didn't put any ambience in the video, and it really fits Kaishel so creepy and misterious

[@ALLHEART_]

The otter demon hyaenodont and the non-therian panther possums are both sick. I dig the koala-like paw structure on the panther possums. Definitely aids in making it seem alien and terrifying.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Wanted to try for some really distinct vibes for both. Not quite like any other critter I have in the known world.

[@SlothOfTheSea]

Coming back to this video because we’re getting the episode on the Silent Ones very soon. Quite excited to learn more about them.

[@TotallyRedMist217]

Xuono sadly never get mentioned on the episode

[@michaelmisanik9787]

Very awesome video. I can't wait to see more tales and wonders of Kaimere. And I got a funny feeling that I know what inspire you to make Kaishel such a mysterious and silent land.

[@leoornstein3963]

Patiently waiting for the deep dive video into the Silent Ones's origin, biology, and ecology. 🗿 🙏

[@thesauriancreator1192]

Nice that there is a alternate Canada here

[@haydend.maniac227]

Really good video you did Keenan

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!

[@haydend.maniac227]

Keenan Taylor's Tales of Kaimere I’ll always give you my blessing on uploads my friend

[@taiko1237]

9:28 I'd say they are dromaeosaurs rather than avialans based on the sickle claw, maybe related to Rahonavis

[@chancegivens9390]

Man... how has it taken me this long to see this! It's absolutely fantastic, like the rest of kaimere.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@chancegivens9390]

@@TalesofKaimere No problem my good man!

[@dudotolivier6363]

Cool, it's great that you already decide to "expend" your own universe of the first novel, like the "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" book who describe wore deeply the 2005 movie version of the home of King Kong, Skull Island (and it's was a great succes). So, Yeah, it's really the thing to do because all the things you saids in your youtube channel and other accounts are not entireley explicitely said or mentionned in the novels and novellas (and same thing for the others following novels and novellas for the coming years), but with a special world derived explanation book on the world of Kaimere itself, here, we can learn all the think we already know by your KZbin channel. This later will continue to be the main and important place to learn about Kaimere, like a extension of the book bestiary (even it's was created many time before the publication of the book itself) before theses same informations we got from the channel come to the book. It's a clever and good way to present the universe. And the channel is also good for the people who can't obtain the bestionary book or never learn about the Tales of Kaimere books before, so it's alway a plus ! For the today video, I really enjoyed this later ! It's the first presentation of a place/continent outside the Know Wolrd of Kaimere. And it's secrets and mysteries are really thrilling and exciting ! Who is the mysterious and fearsome entity who impact and which obliges the entire ecosysteme of Kaishel to be silent and discreet ? And to be honest, I hope that is a sort of failed creation/demon of the First Children who turned against them ! It's seem that for this horrific creature you was inspired by the A Quiet Place's monster, the Death Angels. Because the look of the creature by his shadow look very similar to this later and even his predatory hunter mechanic and hunting methods (hunt his prey by the sound they made) ! His look ressemble a little, for my, also like the Future Predator from the Primeval serie and remind me also a bit the "Night Stalker", one of the most famous creature from the "After Man A Zoology of the Future" book by Douglas Dixon and who is a giant terrestrial terrific predatory bat. By the way, yous should to make a video on the bats of Kaimere, because in any speculative project, this order of mammals is alway given the beautiful part and one of the most prolific creatures the evolution give in term of diversity and interesting forms and even big niches. The Bats are really formidable and resilients evolutionary best result and are one of my favorite order of all animals todays ! Otherwise, I make others commentaries in your 3 last precedent video and you should read them, maybe they will give you others interesting ideas for future contents you can put into Kaimere ! Oh, and finally, it's great that you include recent paleontologicals informations in your universe, it's make him more credible to us !

[@1998topornik]

Fantastic video! Very interesting idea with silent continent but it's a shame that we don't know more about the silent ones, how exactly they kill, how fast they are, they are solitary etc. (PS. Are they more inspired by monsters from quiet place or future predator from primeval?). Among new creatures I like koordu and tezitlu the most.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you, and I am! Primeval, Quiet Place, The Silence, and Dougal Dixon’s bat predator that inspired them all were each partial inspiration. Imagining a context in which predators that hunt by sound would impact the ecosystem.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere Yeah I completly in too ! It's really a big and interesting idea and concept, and even original since there o exemple of beeing life in our world with this methods of only hunt by the sound (there creature in our world who hunt mainly by sound but not completely only by sound, maybe under the sea who's know, but not abore the sea in the surface and the airs). Ans so, I was right when I said the same thing than 1998topornik about the inspiration of he mysterious entity, and it's good to see she a complete accumulation of all these enumerated by him and I ! It's cool that you make some reference about the popular culture in your work with serious intentions ! By the way, 1998topornik is right to said that will be interesting to learn more about the Silent Ones people and their society ! PS : my first big commentary that you stamped by yourself with an appreciation logo at the end showing you read and enjoyed it was modified by me there some minutes (because of orthograph errors) and I involuntarily removed your appreciation of my comment. Sorry, but it looks like KZbin treats every modified edited comment as a whole new comment (which is very annoying and frustrating) and in fact treats it as is. So, please, would it be possible to re-evaluate my comment? Please!

[@bigboyart1]

I really REALLY want to know what this noise despising horror is. Edit: I can't help but think of the "A Quiet Place" monsters, which forced people to change how they communicate in a very similar way to these silence loving interlopers.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yup! A quiet place, Primeval, The Silence, and a few others were all inspired by a bat predator thought up by Dougal Dixon which to varying degrees influenced the idea of a predator hunting by sound and the impacts that would have on an ecosystem of animals that are used to having predators that at to varying degrees rely on vision and suddenly its all about noise

[@wildtoonproductions4427]

An amazing and well done video for the first look on a continent outside the known world, I really love the animals, location and Mysteries of this land. The animals are well done and you and your videos are well pact of this competitive and wild world, and you sort of inspired me ( and one of the comments ) to work on my Speculative biology and evolution project told you about in past videos and have fun making the lost hell fighter and the bestiary book ( do you mind if can tell what is this bestiary book is pretty please ) will comment on on Christmas on your paleo rewind part see you very soon

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! The bestiary is going to be told from the perspective of a team of Kaimeran and Earth naturalists and explores the flora and fauna of the known world.

[@lamnaa]

What a fantastic and mysterious place. Was wondering at work when this would come out!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Glad to hear it!

[@thelegate8636]

I really love Arctic settings like this.

[@jaydos2608]

10 out of 10 video and great way to end off the year. this video already has so much in it and only just scratched the surface, I cant wait to learn more about this continent and the other realms of Kaimere in the coming year.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!! So glad to hear it. I’m so excited to continue developing this project and elated by the reception

[@Luca-kd2sg]

One of your best videos yet! Will the reason for the silence be explored in future stories?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yup! I only don’t reveal it because it’s a major plot point on a novella I’m working on for the next anthology/possibly a standalone novella

[@Primordial_Soup]

I adore those colorful Enantiornithines, and honestly it makes so much sense that they'd have the edge over the Euornithines in a quiet world! You mention that the Firebird/Penguin-Raptor clade might not be Dromaeosaurs? Is that a new development? Thinking of reshuffling the Paravian tree with them? I'm quite curious there.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! It did make more sense that birds that have been there longer would have better adaptations to the environment, and having claws to climb rather than always flying also struck e as a potential advantage especially for the young. Firebird cladistics been a development for a few years now going back and forth. Making them basically derived descendants of Archaeopteryx. Will finalize by their video (although I’m maintaining the lore that Kaimerans don’t know one way or the other and there’s much debate about their placement as dromies or birds)

[@Primordial_Soup]

@@TalesofKaimere Makes sense honestly, all those paravian clades seem more inclined to dance madly around one another than settling down phylogenetically speaking. Why wouldn't Firebirds get caught in the same asylum gala?

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@TalesofKaimere So the Firebirds family are not a family of Dromeosaurs but a family of the paraves/paravians clade (who is the sister clade with the Dromeosaurs clade and the Troodonds clade in the Eudromeosauria order) who, at the opposite of the other avians/avialaes birds and modern birds, keep all the carateristic from their Acheopteryx ancestor and Dromeosaurs relatives cousin like the scythe claw on their feet and the three claws on their hands and a tail for the stabilisation. With a convergent evolution with the Dromeosaurs and Troodonds in term of shape of the body like the Indrakai in Parkadia. Ok, it's interesting like evolutionary way from a group who show in our own world an already big diversity and evolution forms, to the Elena humming-bird he smallest bird to the (extinct) giant Moa in New Zealand and the Argentavis and pelagornis (extinct) giant flying birds in history !

[@BigBossMan538]

Whatever the thing that put pressure on life for silence, it must be something pretty vicious if even sauropods have to be quiet

[@Bullmooseroughrider]

You best video yet. Fantastic work.

[@TedShatner10]

The Koordu is such a heavily derived diapsid, like modern birds, it ironically has more in common with derived synapsids, the placental mammals (with many non-placental mammals on Kaimere are still egg layers!).

[@sivanlevi3867]

Alright! Now we're branching out!

[@Lurtz848]

since a lot of kaishel animals are going to be redone, I was wondering if Onoketl and etlur will also get a new design? since they are placeholders

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yes both are on the agenda eventually

[@jimothyworldbuilding3664]

Sick of having to shush attendants, librarians regularly venture into glorious Kaishel, hallowed be its silence, in the hopes of acquiring whatever it is that makes everyone there keep their traps shut.

[@Shadowstrap]

So glad for this video man, nice job

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Was a treat to work on.

[@rubenopdenkelder2771]

Taking a few pages from A Quiet Place I see

[@TalesofKaimere]

More Primeval but they all trace their inspiration to Dougal Dixon’s flightless bat predator

[@TedShatner10]

I'm going to draw my take on the Silent Ones.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Looking forward to it! Since their cladistics aren’t known so many different cultures have crazy takes on what they might be (bats, pterosaurs, demons, ghosts, frogs, people) it would be fun to include art made by folks doing whatever they think they might look like to represent all the different interpretations by the different naturalists who present their theories.

[@TedShatner10]

@@TalesofKaimere The monster from Mimic could also be an inspiration.

[@sunsetta9496]

Love the illustrations🥰

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@afrotheafrovenator318]

Sweet ! The vid is out after my last exam ! Gonna watch it and give my thoughts after😳👍 (It was delightful)

[@kenmorales9855]

The Silent Ones remind me of the Night Feeder from Primal.

[@qibli7679]

really impressed with the worldbuilding on this video. btw does this project have any kind of communal discord or anything?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you! Not at the moment. Someday I’d like to but between everything I’ve got going on I don’t have time to moderate and update it.

[@ALLHEART_]

Wonder if you've put any thought into using sebecids in an ecosystem, or if they'd not fit, considering you have straight up dinos. Barinasuchus seems like an incarnate nightmare.

[@TalesofKaimere]

They're possibilities for the Eastern continent. Will finalize more as I get to the croc video next year.

[@nemanjastanimirovic155]

Just curious, did Keishel's mainland fauna adapt to not involuntarily vocalize if startled? Also are there carnivores that purposefully make sound too hunt, leaving the killing to the mysterious entity?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Yes, there's a lot of pressure for that. The older fauna are in many ways extremely quiet in their behavior. Although newer fauna like caribou don't have these adaptations, and are in some ways thriving, they will over time be naturally selected for silence as a massive portion of the population is taken by the Silent Ones during the winter. In a few thousand more years they will have similar adaptations. Some do. The Jay Crow is notorious for this. Tlaton always carry snacks when they go in because the crows will call out if you don't pay tribute. It's a gamble because even flying animals aren't always fast enough to get away.

[@nemanjastanimirovic155]

@@TalesofKaimere so it does occasionally backfire for the jay crows? Also do the silent ones ever vocalize, or do they completely live up to they're name?

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@nemanjastanimirovic155 Sometimes the jay crows get got so yeah it's not a guaranteed meal, but most Tlaton pay them in snacks anyway just to prevent a scene. It directly translates to 'ones who make silence' but got misidentified as 'Silent Ones' in the common tongue. Downside of the telephone game that is translating from Tlaton to To Katon to Eskadin to Common. They make clicks as part of their echolocation (hence the bulbous snout)

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Or by the time the silent ones go extinct

[@MushyCupcake]

Cheers Keenan

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!

[@sivanlevi3867]

How do Penguin Raptors swim? And did I see a Hesperornis in that bird cast?

[@TalesofKaimere]

They swim with a combination of kicks and strokes of the wings. Their wing claws are laterally compressed to minimize drag. The stroke is most analogous to that of plesiosaurs but not a perfect comparison.

[@sivanlevi3867]

@@TalesofKaimere So it combines a foot-propelled and wing -propelled approach to diving. Nice! Also, is their a Hesperornis among those birds?

[@joshuagonzalez4183]

Once again, Freaking Good Job!! XD

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!!

[@joshuagonzalez4183]

@@TalesofKaimere Np

[@baeuy5019]

Good video man of kaimere

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!!

[@beastmaster0934]

Yeah, after hearing about how not even the First Children dared to step foot on this continent, I’d steer clear of it, and rather deal with the giant megaraptorans, dromaeosaurs, big cats, and other dangerous beasts in the northern, western, and eastern continents.

[@schnoz2372]

Ketlrek is so cool looking

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@fabricreative1930]

10:18 wait, the notzokideu is a Tapejarid? I thought it was an adzarchid, or has the classification changed?

[@beastmaster0934]

Probably changed the classification

[@TalesofKaimere]

Classification changed. Downside of going public with designs in a project with ongoing development is that y’all get to watch me refine things which sometimes means changes in cladistics like the notzokideu and byamdan

[@Primordial_Soup]

Bestiary next year?!? Dedicated Wiki?!? Hype!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Those are my perhaps too ambitious goals!

[@TalesofKaimere]

At the very least I’ll continue work on them

[@cataclysmuswind78]

So what do you use to create your maps? Do you free hand them yourself or use an online tool? I'm trying to work on maps for my own world, but nothing's really working out right.

[@TalesofKaimere]

I use photoshop. Draw the coastline then fill in with an appropriate color, then put it on a parchment background.

[@volcanoraptor8646]

this is one of my favorites ands down

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!!

[@griffinhunter3206]

This is still an old video, but i am curious. You call the Netlaru's antlers antlers, do you mean that they are seasonal growths like the antlers of deer, or is it just shape?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Just the shape. The To Katon call them antlers because of the vague resemblance to caribou antlers. Probably should have just called them horns to avoid confusion lol

[@griffinhunter3206]

@@TalesofKaimere thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense! probably should have been done that way; I was talking with someone else about your project, and i brought up this as the most conservative speculative evolution you have in your project and their responce was the first time id ever considered it could just be the horn shape, lol

[@szops9285]

I love this

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!

[@transnewt]

since im here, is this still canon? i imagine youve changed quit a bit of the silent forest inland

[@transnewt]

ketlrek, at the very least, is no longer apex predator, considering that kiss of lead blood

[@TalesofKaimere]

The information is all still canon. I will eventually adjust the art on some creatures (the antlered iguanodonts are likely to become elasmerians and get some feathering on the torso, the sauropods need to be downsized in accordance to a paper that came out a few days after the episode aired, and the nokutlot is now a multituberculate so will get a redesign as well) but I was careful when writing this episode to not reveal a lot of the interior work I'd been doing. Knew I wouldn't have time for the art and development, and also wanted to show Kaishel as most in the known world understand it. The coastal forests and fern prairies have a lot of dinosaurs and mammals, and the ketlrek is the apex predator. As mentioned in the episode, the further inland you go, the more strange organisms you see, such as the Silent Ones, other heterothermes, and fabadonts. This episode is entirely canon as far as the average kaimeran is concerned.

[@transnewt]

@@TalesofKaimere more diversity is a win in my books

[@stegosandrosos1291]

​@@TalesofKaimereCan you explain how the canon works? All information that we have is from in-universe people or is it external or both? How much of the old videos are canon?

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@stegosandrosos1291 All information is from the perspective of the Assembly. In broad strokes all the information is still canon, but some finer details like clade specifics is changing over time. Parksosaurs are now thescelosaurs and elasmerians due to our own advanced understanding of these animals, for example. The koordu is going to be downsized to reflect my own improved understanding of sauropods. As far as I know all the information is still canon in-universe, but some of the drawings are out of date because of my improvements in anatomical understanding and general improvement as an artist

[@aeonmatter6976]

Just the first second illustration in the video, I can tell the fauna would be weird asf

[@itsjustalf7747]

Yayyy I can’t wait for next years stuff! Maybe you could do a episode about sexual dimorphism within this word around valentines?

[@globin3477]

So, basically it's an entire continent dominated by the aliens from "A quiet place".

[@TalesofKaimere]

More or less

[@averyhill1084]

Is the Byamdan no longer canon and has been replaced with the Atluratu as a giant multituberculate or is it just a very similar looking relative within the known world?

[@TalesofKaimere]

The byamdan is at least getting revamped into something smaller. Possibly will be the big beavers.

[@TedShatner10]

Are there any fortified outposts and young colonies established on this continent by overseas powers? Judging by the continent's very uneasy feeling deep hinterland beyond the coast and the scary tales of the Silent Ones, I imagine most sailors, colonists, and traders from foreign urban states set up shop on the larger coastal islands.

[@TalesofKaimere]

The Tlaton welcome Khalin merchants to their coastal and island settlements. Some have permanent residence but for the most part the kaimerans are only seasonal visitors during the comfortable and bountiful summer.

[@TedShatner10]

@@TalesofKaimere The Khalin are relatively less imperialistic I see and ephemeral traders or explorers in the more pleasant months, with virtually all of them getting out of dodge when the long night winter descends and Silent Ones are presumably at their most active. 15th to early 20th century Europeans in their shoes would be more aggressive and would inevitably fall foul of the Silent Ones far sooner, horror B-movie style.

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@TedShatner10 The Khalin are just there to trade. There are imperialistic kaimerans, and if they ever try to colonize Kaishel (which is possible given the incentives of the high demand dyes and spices imported from there) they would likely fall victim to the Silent Ones like the First Children did when they tried to conquer the continent.

[@TedShatner10]

@@TalesofKaimere Though Khalin may have have demographs on their side and a material tech base less prone to blowing up in their faces (the First Children seemed very odd).

[@jzjzjzj]

on that map reoccurring in the video where is kaishel? i cant see it? is it the southern continent? or an island off of it closer to kaimere? so is kaishel the entire antarctica island?

[@sivanlevi3867]

18:20 Where could we find your friend's work?

[@TalesofKaimere]

To my knowledge he’s only on Twitter: look up @J_stocky

[@theprehistoricprofessor9076]

Urketl: Did I do that? But in all seriousness, great video!

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!

[@theprehistoricprofessor9076]

@@TalesofKaimere you're welcome!

[@bacleedon5670]

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