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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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