Hadroquack & Mallarballast

  Designation: the HADROSAUR cillimorphs

  Group: REPTOPHIBIAN

  Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET SPLISHY

  Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

  Interesting Facts: Hadroquack looks very birdish, but its scaly skin and more reptilian maturation give away its true categorization. Mallarballast’s yellow nodules are extremely buoyant, making it ideal to ride across calm bodies of water.

  Thawtisaw & Puppentanz

  Designation: the SHADOW & SHADOW PUPPET cillimorphs

  Group: COLONIAL

  Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO & PLANET URBANIAK

  Size: N/A

  Interesting Facts: Thawtisaw hides in the shadows of other cillimorphs, but can break away when frightened and make off with their silhouette. It can borrow a wide variety of shadows, but when it matures it will mature into the silhouette of its currently borrowed shadow’s adult form. If you look closely, you can see the tendrils Puppentanz uses to control a shadow, which they can march right into daylight much more effectively than their juvenile stage can.

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  Widdlewaddle & Ornlitho

  Designation: the ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN cillimorphs

  Group: BIRDISH

  Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & PLANET BOLDERO

  Size: SMALL

  Interesting Facts: Widdlewaddle’s carefully sculpted rock pants make its waddle extremely loud and destructive. It falls over a lot, then blames everyone else. Ornlitho is a powerful stomper, almost never letting go of its grip on its stomp-rocks. Its longest feathers grow down and conform to them to try and make you think they’re just part of the body. They’re not fooling anyone.

  Trilt & Truggle

  Designation: the TRILOBITE BEETLE cillimorphs

  Group: SEGMENTED

  Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET BOLDERO

  Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

  Interesting Facts: Trilt is a timid noodle of a thing, wriggling out of most situations and vanishing. As Truggle it is much larger and armored, wandering lazily without a care in the world. It can be ridden, its long floppy antennae used as reins.

  Troof & Falsaur

  Designation: the SPECULATIVE EVO DINO cillimorphs

  Group: REPTOPHIBIAN

  Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK & PLANET WOODZY

  Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

  Interesting Facts: They’re crafty, and they’ve got fingers, always a dangerous combination. Troof form mischievous gangs and engage in thievery, but they become independent when they mature, bodies consumed by gray matter that lead them to plot endlessly but never actually do much.