History Literature / TalesOfKaimere

* MeekMesozoicMammal: Mammals, particularly multituberculates, remained as small but diverse generalists in the main continents of Ni'Kar, Arvel, and Kairul during the Tyrant Dynasty, even holding up against incoming competition from Oligocene mammals brought to Ni'Kar. This was subverted following the Tyrant Dynasty. While small multituberculates in the Known World faced competition from incoming rodents, marsupials, and rabbits; in Kairul they were able to grow to large forms even in competition against late Cenozoic mammals and dinosaurs like eudromaeosaur and sub-adult Monarchs. These range from the wolf-size mesopredator Komatu to the aptly named whale-like Kaimeran Leviathan.
* MistakenForDog: Inverted. Since homonculi and demons are known in Kaimere, many animals like monkeys and [[spoiler:the Silent Ones]] are mistaken as the results of either First Children experiments or rampant swarms of magic infecting a host. Monkeys, for example, were thought to be homonculi with human, cat and/or bear traits. They are actually the result of natural evolution like any other animal on Kaimere or Earth.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: For mammal predators harvested from Earth, particularly big cats, they have to contend with not just the far-massive Robust Megaraptors but also their vassals such as King Cockatrices, phorusrhacids such as Firebacks, and the sub-adults monarchs.

* ContentWarning: A warning for the upcoming [[ImAHumanitarian anthropophagy]] episode, coming out on April 16th, 2024, was added at the end of the maneater's episode.

** The Silent Ones are based on the Death Angels from ''Film/AQuietPlace''.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite having relatively small skulls compared to their body, plesiosaurs, particularly those from the genus Thalassocolubrus, are quite intelligent with complex social groups and hunting strategies. That's because they have the most neuron-dense and efficient brains of any tetrapod, allowing them high intelligence even with a small brain, such as the meadow serpant with brains as big as a beer can.

** The Silent Ones are based on the Future Predators from ''Series/{{Primeval}}''.

* PerilousPrehistoricSeas: The seas of Kaimere are dominated by the descendants of prehistoric macropredators. Macroraptorial whales and Megalodon from Miocene Earth were initially the dominate predators after the Dynastic Extinction, but Mosasaurs, particularly the Motamozar from the Northern Hemisphere, came to dominate the Known World. In the Southern waters, plesiosaurs rule the colder waters in competition with the Cachalot and the Sea Wolves, and the deep seas are ruled by ancient amphibians from the early harvests. Even in the past the oceans weren't safe, such as a large marine therapsid from the Permian Dynasty with an appearance similar to Pliosaurs and Mosasaurs. It's actually mentioned that the main reason why Kaimerans don't typically voyage far past the coasts of their home continents is because the open oceans are very dangerous to traverse due to attacks from the likes of Motamozar and open ocean elasmosaurs.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Three species of madtsoiid snakes are named after serpents from different myths on Earth. The Rainbow Serpent of the Known World and the Dreamtime Serpent from the waters of Kairul take their names from Australian folklore. The massive marine Jormungandr from the seas near the Permian Continent is named after the world serpent from Norse mythology.

** The Bilaruk was originally a non-therian mammal that came from the Eastern Continent [[WalkDontSwim by walking on the sea floor]] to the Inlands Sea of the Known World, with a misshapen skull to keep an eye out for predators while feeding on sea grass. Once concluding the Bilaruk couldn't make it to the Known World by walking, Keenan gave the Bilaruk's original design to a non-therian exclusive to Kairul, while Bilaruk instead is an old name for the Kaimeran Leviathan, a Basilosaurid-like multituberculates that feeds on sea grass and tiny crabs and worms it sucks up.
** The original elephant episode from 2021 had only two island dwarf proboscidians in the south seas of the Known World, the pig-sized Paleoloxodon known as the Tuga and the intelligent Chuga that are the descendant of Asian elephants. The 2023 elephant special expanded the history and number of species of surviving elephant on Kaimere. The Tuga is now an old general term for southern dwarf proboscidians of various lineages harvested from Earth, and the Chuga is the name of a mythical human-elephant hybrid based on the Manophants.

* PiecesOfGod: Pakardian legends describe every animal, from the tiny karakai to the massive jurazhent, as autonomous creatures that can be possessed by the spirit of their respective spirits. When [[TheTrickster Indrakai]]terrified the spirit of Man, she shattered into various pieces, and he quickly saved her by inserting her fragments into her human bodies, giving them both independent personalities and internal magic that lets them heal and live for many years.

* AquaticHadrosaurs: The spirit of this trope is reflected in the spirit drakes, a branch of thescelosaurs (who took over the niche of hadrosaurs in Ni'Kar after the Dynastic Extinction wiped out almost all hadrosaurs) that are proficient swimmers and [[WalkDontSwim can even walk on the river bottom for food]]. Notably, they are more predatory compared to other thescelosaurs and hadrosaurs of this trope, with fish and small games making up 50 percent of their diet. And for the larger drakes like the Jugashen, "small" game includes people.
* AquaticSauropods: The Wawakoku is a downplayed version of this trope, a semi-aquatic Titanosaur that swims across the inland sea to reach different small islands for feed and place to lay their eggs. They're also notable in that their lightweight bodies means that they're terrible divers, which is the opposite of this trope's usual depiction of sauropods as walking on the bottom of water bodies.
* ArtifactTitle: Fabadonts were originally named for their bean-shaped teeth, which were the most common fossils from the First Dynasty. Such name is viewed as a ridiculous choice for a minute feature after more fossils plus living descendants show them with stretched craniums, beaks, and three eyes.

* WhamLine: After Ra Maslani wakes up and sees the mysterious predator of ''Haunted Legacy'', he can identify it from both Library's records and stories from those in the south. The creatures's titles will ring familiar to those who watch Keenan's videos, particularly [[spoiler:the Kaishel video]] and especially back when ''Songs from the Inland Sea'' first came out in October 2022.
-->'''Ra Maslani''':The southern islanders call them Moorkutlot: [[spoiler:Through Death They Create Silence]]. Often called [[spoiler:the Makers of Silence, or [[TheReveal Silent Ones]]]].

* CitadelCity: Many settlements in Kaimere use huge walls and moats to keep out Titanosaurs and giant ground sloths.

** The Keynu, or Hound Cockatrices, is described as a dinosaur domesticated by ''another dinosaur''. When their ancestors arrived to the Known World, they form symbiotic bonds with Robust Monarchs as guardians of their nests and eggs while Megaraptors bring them food. This continues today with Zentaur and the oritaku contiuing to use hound Cockatrices as guard animals.

** The origins of the Simiomorph Sloths, who's location in the Parkadian rainforest means they are barely any fossil records. While genetically similiar to two-toed sloths, it's unknown if their descendants of sloths from the first Miocene harvest 14 million years ago in North America or the South American Harvest 6 millions ago. A similiar species in jungles west of the Cresent was genetically related to the Cougar Sloth, a known descendant of the North American Sloth, so it is believed by the Assembly that Simiomorph sloth could be related if genetic testing confirms.
%%** The timing of the Mid-Tyrant Dynasty Harvest

** The Nerotan Lions are kept as either guard animals, war companions, and even house pets. Justified as they have been bred over centuries akin to dogs on Earth, and even have notable physical differences compared to wild lions such as lack of manes (mainly for hunting and war lions) and different skull shapes.

** The Maku from the Eastern continent keep domesticated Marsupial Lions as their pets. However, those were domesticated by the First Children.