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Tadpod & Toaderation

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Tadpod & Toaderation

Designation: the TADPOLE FIGHTER & SOLAR SAIL SURINAM TOAD cillimorphs

Group: REPTOPHIBIAN

Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE

Size: MEDIUM & LARGE

Interesting Facts: Space cillimorphs can swim in it even though it’s just a vacuum, thanks to their silliness. Tadpod uses its bubble blasters to clear out any threats to its parent Toaderation before settling into a cell on its back to sleep. Toaderation is the largest of all cillimorphs, so big its children can use its back as a hotel. Solar sail flippers turn starlight into a free continental breakfast.

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Pummelbell & Champain

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Pummelbell & Champain

Designation: the BOX JELLYFISH & DEEPSTARIA ENIGMATICA cillimorphs

Group: COLONIAL

Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Pummelbells have metallic weights in their bells, which often clang when they swarm and run into each other. For some reason they don’t think it’s as annoying as everybody else does. Champain has three heads, and can control them independently, but three heads does not mean three brains, and two of them are definitely just for punching.

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Guzzjar & Swauldron

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Guzzjar & Swauldron

Designation: the NIGHTJAR cillimorphs

Group: BIRDISH

Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Guzzjar is constantly gargling all the guzz it generates. What is guzz? I don’t have enough of an iron stomach to describe it in detail. You wouldn’t want it on a sandwich, I’ll tell you that. Swauldron has way more guzz, and it sloshes and spills as it flies.

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Flicflam & Wheeleo

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Flicflam & Wheeleo

Designation: the FLICFLAC SPIDER & GOLDEN WHEEL SPIDER cillimorphs

Group: SEGMENTED

Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Flicflam flips itself across hot sand dunes like a coin, except it always lands on heads. This helps keep its feet cool. The darker side tends to be upright at night. Wheeleo rolls around in a wheel of fire, disguising its spiderish body as a ferocious lion face, hoping we’re all such dumdums we won’t know there isn’t a lion body anywhere in the vicinity.

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Corbor & Frozempole

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Corbor & Frozempole

Designation: the ICE CORE & TOTEM POLE cillimorphs

Group: COLONIAL

Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Corbor delves deep into ice shelves to see what it can find, mostly horrors that lead to its lower faces becoming angrier and more cynical. The top ones are more fun to hang with. Once it matures into Frozempole the sections gain some independence, but they always come back together when they’re done screwing around.

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Germalite & Bloomcast

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Germalite & Bloomcast

Designation: the SPACE SEED & SATELLITE DISH cillimorphs

Group: GROWER

Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE & PLANET WOODZY

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Germalite hangs out in space, turning solar radiation into rocket fuel and food for the plasma sprouts it grows on its ring. When it’s ready to mature it descends to the wooded planet and gains a much more couch potato-y form. Bloomcast uses its flower to send messages deep into space, telling Germalites about good places to bum around for the rest of their lives.

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Giftysit & Rulover

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Giftysit & Rulover

Designation: the GIF TZU & WRAPPING PAPER cillimorphs

Group: MAMMALISH

Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAC

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: An ornamental breed that loves the suburbs, Giftysit sometimes appears in piles of presents during the holidays, and there’s no way of knowing if people actually got you one, because they always take the credit anyway. Rulover enjoys rolling around in shredded paper, and sometimes its coat will change to match. Always brush a Rulover; you never know how long a shred of the holidays has been stuck under their topcoat.

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Snite & Sgnarly

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Snite & Sgnarly

Designation: SNOTTITE cillimorphs

Group: COLONIAL

Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Remember I said some cillimorphs were slimy and gooey? Yeah, this is them (also others). These nasty boogers live in caves, slurping around on the ceiling and hanging down way too brazenly. Snite focuses its vision through the clearest gemstones it can find, and searches out the best stalactite tips to make the best smile it can. Sgnarly stops caring about smiling, because it’s got buff crystal arms, and you don’t need a smile when you’re ROCK HARD.

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Snaked & Lurided

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Snaked & Lurided

Designation: SNAKEHEAD cillimorphs

Group: FISHY

Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET SPLISHY

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Snaked’s big eye is actually a false spot for intimidation; the real eye is far forward on the snout. These freshwater cillimorphs live in swampy lakes and rivers, often bullying their way into the best feeding spots and keeping others out.

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Cillimorphs Field Guide

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Cillimorphs

a creature-collecting universe

&

field guide

by

Blaine Arcade

What is a cillimorph anyway, huh smart guy??

A cillimorph is an organism created from a combination of organisms, objects, and concepts found on the defunct planet E-A-R-T-H, pronounced ‘urth’ for some reason and not ‘ear-th’, like you’re saying ‘ears’ with a lisp.

Anyway, you can’t just make a cillimorph with hopes, dreams, and sub-light speed engines, which was pretty much all those cave goobers had when they left that planet with a dumb name after absolutely trashing the place in a major rager called consumerism. What you need is a crystal of this stuff, cillium: Continue reading →