Don't the developers read everything that goes through the forums? It's only a trickle, so if your someone like me who only came to the forums a short time, you can read everything that was posted today, then read about the same amount of material in the past.
@Nivm: Which is safe to say that it's easier for them to explain it as this:
"Talad powers all kran like robots with a direct link to the crystal."
Anyways, what you are able to explain when it's late for you flies right over my head. I suppose you have a good idea there though with the whole 'extra body system' thing. I suppose you made it up. I may be wrong. Just sounds like something you'd say, which is not a bad thing. Perhaps this should be a good anatomy addition. People really have good suggestions for the races description, etc, and I wonder if the settings team would take it into consideration...*coughs* (fat chance!) *coughs again* Though, this was a good idea, and I agree with it. Just took a lot of re-reading to process though my complex brain, which is choked up on acetaminophen and tiredness lolz.
About the diaboli, I didn't understand a thing you said.
Why would anyone want to take the easy explanation for their art? (Many people have answered this question; I've yet to find a satisfying answer.)
I didn't say anything about extra bodies; I meant another bodily system, like your respiratory system, your endocrine system, your nervous system, or your circulatory system. It would probably be something akin to the circulatory system, but constructed to extract waste products that are solid instead of liquid or solute gas.
I'm sorry I didn't make it explicit, but these are all guesses I've made based on vague assumptions. It seems like all the setting information is very vague and poorly written.
Back on the diaboli, I was talking about how their biology will not conform to our normal understanding. I was under the assumption that they are beings whose evolution took advantage of the multiplanar nature of Yliakum and its connected universes/worlds. It's kinda hard to explain off the top of my head, but I'll go through all of it.
There's the "dimensions" people talk about; those systems in which we divide our universe so we can better understand it. Once past the three spatial dimensions, people start arguing about how they should be divided, but it's usually 8-11. There are some books and videos out there where the author tries explaining the divisions, I think one of them was called "imagining the tenth dimension". Anyway, pulling from Heinlein's Waldo, you can imagine multiple universes (space, time[lines], and all) as overlapping 2d planes (
plane shift!) that are an infinitesimal distance apart but not touching. Magic in any coherent universe you can name, can be described by places where these planes do touch; connections with their own complicated, non-arbitrary rules. (In some cases the entire plane of existence is in constant contact with another, a more natural relation.) "Magical" creatures are those that do not live on just one plane at any given time, and thus they are "multiplanar". The diaboli can be described "magical" by this definition, and by the common definition as well. I would guess that Yliakum has anywhere from five to ~twelve planes connected together, although it might also have the "nexus" property, making its connected planes infinite, although not functionally so.
On gender dominations, not all animals are male-dominant like humans are. Iguanas and hyenas are female dominant; as if they somehow became sentient races with civilization the males would be the ones staying at home cooking and cleaning while the females would be off hunting or acting territorial. There are also a few species that don't have a dominant gender, wombats was it? Annoyingly enough, although Yliakan races are many, they are not diverse in this regard; it seems like however they differ physically they otherwise act just like humans.
