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Old 06-01-2016, 03:43 PM   #11
Polydamas
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Default Re: [Banestorm] Minotaur 2.0

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Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
Assuming your minotaurs are even an evolved creature, rather than the product of cranky gods cursing mortals, demonic in-breeding, mad wizard experiments, or other fantastic origins... Once they evolve into tool using bipeds, horns lose their primary function as an offensive/defensive weapon - but they won't lose their sexual attraction. If anything, they're now freed to be nothing but an advertisement to females about how studly you are.
Yes, its important to remember that while creatures in our world are the product of evolution over deep time, nothing says that creatures in a fantasy world have to come from the same place. Assuming that a fantasy world works like science says our world works is a classic blunder; making excuses to allow for fantasy tropes, then hemming in the implications of those excuses, is a lot of work which can be avoided by a simple "nobody knows why" or "of course eyes emit vision rays! The idea that they absorb light was refuted by the great Abacadarius in the Year of the Red Fox."

I think that Banestorm is vague about where the different species come from on their home worlds, and what those worlds have been like since their creation/formation.
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