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In my new world of Auzora, where all sapient species other than humans exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. Seen here is the grendel species, where females are goblins, and males are orcs. Grendels also have an additional quirk not found in other species - they reproduce by the females eating the males. After eating an orc, a goblin will become pregnant with a litter of a couple dozen mostly- male infants - in grendels, roughly one goblin is born for every six orcs. Because of this imbalance in birth rates, polyandrous marriages - multiple husbands for one woman - are the norm in grendel society. Grendel women are objectively smarter than their men, and most or all officers in the feared grendel hordes are goblins, whereas almost all foot soldiers are orcs. Elite dire wolf-mounted cavalry units of goblns provide support for the infantry. After a battle, goblin women seek out their husbands, and devour any whose wounds would likely be fatal so the brave fallen warriors' genes can be passed to the next generation.

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SmaxTheDestroyer

Posted by SmaxTheDestroyer 11 months ago Report

This is an interesting means of reproduction. I’d like to know more about this world of yours~

Cowrie

Posted by Cowrie 11 months ago Report

Well, no other species have this weird mode of reproduction, just extreme sexual dimorphism. And in some cases dietary dimorphism is more extreme than "just women can eat people". Specifically, in vampires the males don't drink blood, they're fruit eaters. In vampires, the females are humanoid, while the males are giant talking bats. There's also petrans, where the females are gorgons and the males are gargoyles, and both sexes are obligate lithovores (rock eaters). And dwarves and elves are the males and females of a single species called alvadar. There's more, too but I'll leave it at that for now.

doomed

Posted by doomed 11 months ago Report

aw this is kinda wholesome

Cowrie

Posted by Cowrie 11 months ago Report

It really is!