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Vilous | Talyxian Bird Lore - Part 2
🕑 Added 2019-06-28 22:39:02 +0000 UTCHello there, Dear Vilous Fans! We would like to present the remaining Lore chunk as a continuation from our last entry, these sections which pertain to their Ecology, Relation with Eltus People, and the way of Usage up to, and including as a food source, as well as some bits of T-bird artwork drawn by Mick Ono!
After the translation members in the Vilous Team had a conversation over the SFXs which can be seen on page 2 of Gathering Herbs, it has been clarified that previous English version SFX was displaying a totally different type of sound from which the original Japanese version had actually expressed. As a result, here is a newly re-translated and re-localized version for this page.
Their sound which was displayed as a Fluttering sound in the previous version is actually comprised of these clicking and rhythmic sounds, like two solid objects colliding, as T-birds create sound by rubbing their firm carapace or joints in the same way which grasshoppers do. This is also noted in the lore notes below, within the Ecology section.
As a result, all the Lore with regards to Talyxian Birds has released, altogether with [Talyxian Bird Lore - Part 1]! We hope these Lore-focused entries could help everyone learn more about the wonderful world of Vilous!
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Ecology
They generally grow out from an inner part of the flower which blooms upon their host creature. This state is similar to that of a bud. They will ‘eclose’ from a stationary bud form in order to transform and emerge as a mobile life form. Then, they will take flight away from the base organism. This sequence is fully expressed in page 2 of "Gathering Herbs", Episode 1 of Vilous manga.
However, as previously mentioned before, there are some exceptions which will not fly off from their base creature or their birthing flower. They will spend their lifetime within a different ecology from that of flight-capable birds. Most pertaining to this type are Red birds.
When flight-capable birds have found a good place to land after traveling, they will proceed to bury themselves underground and stay there in order to sprout and grow their host creature, fulfilling the role of a “seed”, literally.
Some of these birds may choose other creatures body surfaces instead of the ground and will infest into their body to parasitize them or assimilate with a seedbed creature. As an example, the carrion of Dondoko is one of the options for parasitic birds. They will parasitize on its dead sprout and use it as their seedbed.
Some seedbed creatures may accept the invading bird in order to get benefits for themselves; intaking a bird within their inner body under the superior reign of their organism in order to turn the bird into their own organ. In these cases, an intaken bird will become a totally different species creature, or end up as a new part of organs which belong to a seedbed creature.
As such, mutations and variations which can occur during their life cycle have a greatly wide array of manifestation.
Aside from a few exceptions, birds generally do not enforce reproductive behavior as long as they are playing their lifetime out in a bird form state. Because their seed carrier role just means that their entire body consisting of themselves can be considered to be the seed of the host creature itself. Due to this, birds do not perform reproduction with other birds.
Most of the species of birds do not have an organ which equates to that of a mouth. These species are not able to eat food and ingest new sustenance. They instead rely on the bank of energy that they have stored within themselves since emerging from a bud. When they consume all of their inner energy, it will signify the end of their lifespan.
Due to the lack of a mouth structure and throat, they generally do not make sounds in the way which Earth birds do. Instead, they make a sound similar to the fashion of noisy insects, such as grasshoppers, by rubbing their carapace or joints. This is the same method Talyxian Wolves perform in order to make a sound, however, T-Wolves make a sound which is more akin to the sound of crickets.
For an actual example of T-bird sounds, two birds which can be seen in page 2 of "Gathering Herbs", Episode 1 of Vilous Manga, they were making rhythmic, clicking sounds "Click-Clack" and "Clatter Clatter"
Relationship with Eltus People
Because they generally originate from realms within the Talyxian biome, they are rarely seen near the inhabited areas of Eltus folk. However, as their travel course depends on the flow of wind, some of them may still drift to places where Eltus people take up residence and live.
Some types of T-Birds have carapace which grants them tolerance to salt, similar to the same function of various shellfish creatures. Compared to normal birds, the mutability which they could potentially cause happens in small frequency as long as they have not been given any chemical stimulus. These birds generally have either one of these certain features: One which is able to travel so far as to reach the desert or one which does not act by autonomous purpose.
Birds which usually act only within Talyxian Forest areas feature only thin skin. Due to this, if they coincidentally drift near the vicinity of a salt lake, they will be weakened and fall down by being exposed to the sea breeze.
Usage
As there is a wide variation in their shape, color, and pattern, they are popular as collectible items and souvenirs in many regions.
When Eltus people use wild bird species and process them into specimens and decorative items, they will go through the process dubbed "trial by fire" on the bird corpses, in order to bestow them a hygienically safe condition.
There is also a T-bird usage which focuses primarily on observing their fun behavior; First, one must affix them with a string in order to avoid them from running away, and when someone will go nearby them, they will attempt to fly away, but end up just turning around in the range of the string's length.
Some people may want to keep them as a pet, however, most of the birds are virtually impossible to be kept due to their ecology. In conclusion, such a thing would end in a very short term if attempted.
With regards to Southern Sieg who were living in the desert, birds were known as a common resource for them, as their partners, the T-Dogs often found out and dug up birds from within the sand.
As food
All wild species which belong to the Black Talyxian group generally have a risk of carrying infectious, biological threads, the same risk as T-Moles have. Due to this, birds are not recommended as food all too often. Additionally, birds which already flew away from their birthplace flower and traveled some distance will feature fibrous and stringy meat, as well as have a dried out mouthfeel, as they have lost their fat and energy. Due to this, wild species of birds have a bad taste in most cases.
However, they are still able to be "cultivated" as a source of food. Harvesting them from a cultivated flower when they are still in a bud form and state of gestation just before eclosion in their bird form, enables maintaining them as a safe food that keeps a good taste. Edible birds harvested in this process are also known to be a good ingredient for pickling.
This cultivation technology is the same used as the method employed in creating sessile Talyxian Pigs, a common creature used as livestock in Gold Ring.
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This is a two-part supplement lore update. If you've missed Part 1 click [here!], or head on over to the Wiki Article for T-Birds!
