Creature:Antic
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| Antic | |
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| Creator | Zithpith (more content by Zithpith) |
| Stats | |
| Diet | Carnivore |
| Environment | mountains |
| Lifespan | 30 years |
| Personality | Industrious and Inquisitive |
[edit] Biology
The Antics are an insectoid race, that have many resemblances to earth ants. They have a queen that lays eggs at a rapid rate, and the majority of the population is sterile workers that can be either male or female. There are some difrinces from ants, however, for example they can eat solid foods, and have a more complicated digestive system. There eyes can make out shapes and detect movement, but they are uterly coler-blind. There antenas are used to smell as well as feel.
The antics are divivded geneticly into sevral cassts, the queen who is the only sterial females in a city, and the king who is larger than any other antic save for the queen, and acts as a last line of defence should everything else fail, and when they achived sentiance, they co-ruled (or took power for themselves, or had no power at all) with the queens. Then are the workers, who make up the majoraty of the population and do everything from manual labor to defending the antic race, to everything one can think of.
[edit] Culture
The Antics are an insectoid species that evolved in a hive society were there is a king and queen ant who rule over the rest of the nest. The king is the actual ruler of the nest, the queen mostly lays eggs, however with there rise to intelligence the structure of Antic society changed and the queens became more involved with running the nation. Unlike what many species believe however, the Antics do not share a hive mind, and each Antic is it's own individual, but because of there complete devotion to there nation many species believe that they are not individualistic in any case. But unlike what one would think the Antics are not loyal to the king or queen specifically, they are loyal to the species as a whole. Even the ruling casts share this unceasing desire to better the species, and even the kings and queens can be heard saying "To live, work, and die for the colony". This has been proven to be true again and again, as even the kings and queens have been known to give up there lives if they believe it will help their species.
Interestingly, the Antics have not concept of gender, and in there language there is no word for male or female. Instead they have Tikit (queen), Tchta (kings), and Prmuz (workers). Although the kings and queens are male and female respectively, the Antics do not denote gender with any importance and rather hold the cast of king and queen instead. The worker class, which covers every Antic in a city other than kings and queens,can be male or female they are completely sterile, and they have almost no difference in outward or inward appearance. Indeed with workers there is no noticeable difference between male or female, and one would assume that they are all of one gender or the other.
