While dragons remain my absolute favourite furry (scaly) species by a pretty wide margin, in recent months I’ve gotten really interested in Felkins for a few reasons.

And if one thing about them sticks out to me, it’s just how weird the amount of porn they’ve managed to accrue is, considering that outside Furaffinity and e621… it’s like they don’t even exist.

I can’t think of any other species that manages that. Pokemon have absolutely earthshattering popularity, but they have a very reputable series of games behind them. Avali have Starbound and a 131-page lore guide. And other original species… regardless of design, generally don’t come anywhere close to the amount of great porn Felkins have.

But if you search for Felkin outside our favourite horny sites… well, they don’t seem to have any story to them at all. No media whatsoever. Not even memes. Even the official reference for them on Deviantart barely has a paragraph about them. (and much of that official reference gets gently ignored, like muzzle colourations and being herbivorous)

So… How to make them exist outside of just porn? I think that for that to be possible, the first, most essential step is lore. They need a story. An identity. A culture. If I asked someone what they thought a wolf or a dragon should act like, they’d have opinions.

While I know it’s ambitious, I’m going to tell the story of Felkin in my DnD game as the game expands and unfolds, in hopes that the lore I can create will lead to them being able to finally exist. But if anyone has thoughts and suggestions, I’d like to hear them.

  • purringfox@yiffit.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I suggest following lore for them:

    They are a species built for traveling.

    They are like the protectors of traveling people, like merchants. They roam around in the fields and help travelers in danger.

    They are strong, so they can help to move a caravan from A to B and protect it from possible aggressors.

    Some of them are messengers and bring news and important letters from faraway lands.

    Judging from the looks, they have a common ascendant to dragons. Following from that they are mythical creatures thus they are very strong, they could have even magical powers, but they are rather rare. They have a calmer nature compared to dragons, mainly because they are herbivorous.

    There are highly specialized to different terrain. This explains why they can look very different to each other.

    I hope this is a good starting point.

    • TacticsConsort@yiffit.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      These are all pretty reasonable ideas! I’ve got a solid idea of how I’m going to handle their lore within my DnD (which I can also in turn use to generate stories about some specific Felkin), and some of this aligns pretty closely or follows similar lines of logic. I’ll make a new post here perhaps tomorrow to talk about my lore ideas, since the ideas are pretty expansive and I’d like to have a whole discussion on them