Godhood XIV - Usurper [Honey Edition Turn 3]

"Thank you."

Nash-Marr finds a mountainous dozen or so with paler fur, sets them down on one of the craggier parts of the Scar, and gets to work. He loses a few to rather grotesque distortions of anatomy, but manages to produce a scant eight creatures that suit whatever aesthetic he's going for.

The new creatures stand as big as an elk, still sporting their ancestral horns and (now-drooping) ears. The creature seems built to cover most any ground, with three blunt, flat-faced claws it can use on rough terrain or switch forward, to act more like a conventional gripping/wedging toe.

The face is still rabbit-like - the teeth, still suited to vegetation - Nash-Marr feels a need to change it but decides to consider it at a later date. For now, he just wants them to survive until he can work on them further.

He slows the metabolism of his charges down, letting them live an unhurried existence with an extended lifespan (and significantly slowing down their rate of reproduction, also). Wary of the tiny population's predator, the Boledroms, Nash-Marr gives the beasts a particular alertness to their surroundings, and the mental faculties to process what they see.

Physiologically, Nash-Marr's first animals deviate little from their ancestral stock. They breed like (large, very slow) mammals, and their mental faculties are hopefully sufficient for the eight to recognise each other and stick together.

The expenditure of so many acts on such a tiny little thing is scary for the godling, but this is important to him for his own special reasons.

"Please do not name them yet," Nash-Marr asks of the other gods. "They're not yet complete."

1 act to change the shape of eight Woleperams into Medium creatures
1 further act to modify/adapt them to better-navigate the Scar's terrain
1 act to give them basic intelligence
1 act to compel them to be alert to changes in their surroundings
1 act to expand their lifespan