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* SeldomSeenSpecies: The deuteragonist alone belongs to an extinct[[note]]unless one counts animals born from a selective breeding program ''specifically to re-create it''; but that's splitting hairs[[/note]] subspecies of zebra. And that's where this trope ''begins'' in this work.
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''The Katurran Odyssey'' by David Michael Wieger is an illustrated novel with art by Terryl Whitlatch. The latter is best known as one of the key concept artists to have worked ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
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''The Katurran Odyssey'' by David Michael Wieger is an illustrated novel with art by Terryl Whitlatch. The latter is best known as one of the key concept artists to have worked ''StarWars''.''Franchise/StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
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The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[ClicheStorm perfect storm]] of {{The Heros Journey}} Tropes and AnimalTropes. It's still cool to look at. See also a [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yO4-BQDrWhHXzSWiV1YA7uRUcXrlmrxoDYze_uiCGic/edit cinematic]] [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/13403769 script]].
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys - Writ large.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct subspecies of zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct subspecies of plains zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: The deuteragonist alone belongs to an extinct[[note]]unless one counts animals born from a selective breeding program ''specifically to re-create it''; but that's splitting hairs[[/note]] subspecies of zebra. And that's where this trope ''begins'' in this work.
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It was discovered to be a plains zebra subspecies defined largely by roaning and reduced striping, not a distinct species. (See: Rau project.)
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* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct species of zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct species subspecies of zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
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''The Katurran Odyssey'' by David Michael Wiegeris is an illustrated novel with art by Terryl Whitlatch. The latter is best known as one of the key concept artists to have worked ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
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''The Katurran Odyssey'' by David Michael Wiegeris Wieger is an illustrated novel with art by Terryl Whitlatch. The latter is best known as one of the key concept artists to have worked ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
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A very beautiful, underrated, and highly recommended illustrated novel by Terryl Whitlatch, who is best known as one of the key concept artists who worked on ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
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Although out of print for some time, in July 2019 a second edition was released.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's basically ''WesternAnimation/TheLastAirbender'' of furry settings.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's basically ''WesternAnimation/TheLastAirbender'' ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' of furry settings.
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A very beautiful, underrated, and highly recommended illustrated novel by Terryl Whitlatch, who is best known as one of the key concept artists who worked on ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I Did Not Make That Up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a young Ring-Tailed Lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.
The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a young Ring-Tailed Lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.
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A very beautiful, underrated, and highly recommended illustrated novel by Terryl Whitlatch, who is best known as one of the key concept artists who worked on ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I Did Not Make That Up" did not make that up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a youngRing-Tailed Lemur ring-tailed lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.
The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a young
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: It's basically ''WesternAnimation/TheLastAirbender'' of furry settings.
** The lemurs in the island of Bohibbah bear some resemblance to native Malagasy peoples.
** The thriving city of Acco is clearly based on Turkish merchant culture and architecture.
** The Kolloboo are architecturally inspired by East African kingdoms like Zimbabwe, though culturally they're basically Athens. Of all the civilizations shown, they are the only ones with obviously European influences, having books, renaissance-style paintings and even medieval illustrations.
** The Patah are based off nomadic Saharan peoples like the Amazigh, with plenty of Persian trappings.
** The Boskiis are based on native Indonesian and Malaysian peoples, with a few Papuan influences.
** The Dourahn are aesthetically based off the Khmer Empire, with a few Tibetan Buddhist trappings (ironically, given that they're a materialistic, religion-rejecting TheEmpire).
** The lemurs in the island of Bohibbah bear some resemblance to native Malagasy peoples.
** The thriving city of Acco is clearly based on Turkish merchant culture and architecture.
** The Kolloboo are architecturally inspired by East African kingdoms like Zimbabwe, though culturally they're basically Athens. Of all the civilizations shown, they are the only ones with obviously European influences, having books, renaissance-style paintings and even medieval illustrations.
** The Patah are based off nomadic Saharan peoples like the Amazigh, with plenty of Persian trappings.
** The Boskiis are based on native Indonesian and Malaysian peoples, with a few Papuan influences.
** The Dourahn are aesthetically based off the Khmer Empire, with a few Tibetan Buddhist trappings (ironically, given that they're a materialistic, religion-rejecting TheEmpire).
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The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[ClicheStorm perfect storm]] of {{The Heros Journey}} Tropes and AnimalTropes. It's still cool to look at.
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The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[ClicheStorm perfect storm]] of {{The Heros Journey}} Tropes and AnimalTropes. It's still cool to look at. See also a [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yO4-BQDrWhHXzSWiV1YA7uRUcXrlmrxoDYze_uiCGic/edit cinematic]] [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/13403769 script]].
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* CrystalDragonJesus - The allegory is obvious.
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* CrystalDragonJesus - The allegory Fossah is obvious.a stand-in for God (WordOfGod even claims inspiration from [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]]), and Katook is ultimately chosen by it and redeems his people's church.
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* GeorgeLucas
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* FantasyWorldMap - Actually has one on the endpaper.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Several animals are given ficticious names. Some are [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime land-before-time]]-esque, like "Bone Crushers" (''Andrewsarchus''), and others are creative neologisms based on the species' scientific name or non-anglophone renditions (like the various monkey species).
* CallASmeerpARabbit: For some bizarre reason the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird elephant birds]] are called "moas", even though the artist herself went as far as distinguishing them from moa depictions by giving them wings and cassowary-like faces.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: For some bizarre reason the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird elephant birds]] are called "moas", even though the artist herself went as far as distinguishing them from moa depictions by giving them wings and cassowary-like faces.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: CallARabbitASmeerp - Several animals are given ficticious names. Some are [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime land-before-time]]-esque, like "Bone Crushers" (''Andrewsarchus''), and others are creative neologisms based on the species' scientific name or non-anglophone renditions (like the various monkey species).
*CallASmeerpARabbit: CallASmeerpARabbit - For some bizarre reason the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird elephant birds]] are called "moas", even though the artist herself went as far as distinguishing them from moa depictions by giving them wings and cassowary-like faces.
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* FurryConfusion - Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.
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* FurryConfusion - A very bizarre example, actually. What determines an animal's sapience in this universe isn't very clear; for instance, birds are randomly either citizens (the merchant city), beasts of burdern (the "[[CallARabbitASmeerp moas]]"), or wild predators (the frigate birds, the "phorcus"). Just about the only animals consistently sapient are the primates, while everything else is determined by what the plot needs.
** Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.
** Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Several animals are given ficticious names. Some are [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime land-before-time]]-esque, like "Bone Crushers" (''Andrewsarchus''), and others are creative neologisms based on the species' scientific name or non-anglophone renditions (like the various monkey species).
* CallASmeerpARabbit: For some bizarre reason the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird elephant birds]] are called "moas", even though the artist herself went as far as distinguishing them from moa depictions by giving them wings and cassowary-like faces.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: For some bizarre reason the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird elephant birds]] are called "moas", even though the artist herself went as far as distinguishing them from moa depictions by giving them wings and cassowary-like faces.
* CorruptChurch: What kicks the main plot: the lemur religion is pretty much a catholic church-esque farce dipped in malagasy trappings.
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* ShownTheirWork - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book. You'll just have to take her word for it. That said, [[ScienceMarchesOn some prehistoric animal depictions are a bit outdated]].
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* ShownTheirWork - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book.book[[note]]It's a chameleon with pterosaur wings[[/note]]. You'll just have to take her word for it. That said, [[ScienceMarchesOn some prehistoric animal depictions are a bit outdated]].
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...
* CrystalDragonJesus - The allegory is obvious.
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* DistractedByTheShiny - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...
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* ShownTheirWork - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book. You'll just have to take her word for it. That said, [[ScienceMarchesOn some prehistoric animal depictions are a bit outdated]].
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A very beautiful, underrated, and highly recommended illustrated novel by Terryl Whitlatch, who is best known as one of the key concept artists who worked on ''StarWars''. She designed many of the incidental characters. The book may be her way of saying, "No, I Did Not Make That Up" by depicting the very real creatures who inspired her.
The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a young Ring-Tailed Lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.
The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[ClicheStorm perfect storm]] of {{The Heros Journey}} Tropes and AnimalTropes. It's still cool to look at.
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!!Tropes used include:
* BambooTechnology - Mostly. There's a bit of SchizoTech too in the form of a projector that is a fairly important plot point and in offhand mentions of metalwork and such.
* CarnivoreConfusion - And talk about confusing...
* DeliberateValuesDissonance - Katook meets five other tribes of monkeys, each with their own philosophy and ways of life. Considering that lemurs are just about the only primates that could be considered pacifists, much culture-clashing ensues.
* DistractedByTheShiny - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...
* DoingInTheWizard - Actually forms part of the denoument.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys - Writ large.
* FurryConfusion - Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.
* GeorgeLucas
* GiantFlyer - Of the few birds who ascend beyond the ranks of background characters, most are fierce flying predators.
* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct species of zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MisplacedWildlife - There are animals from every continent ''and'' geological era mixing it up in the world of Katurrah... which is fictional, so this is actually justified.
* MostWritersAreHuman - Or, rather, Most Writers Are Primates.
* ShownTheirWork - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book. You'll just have to take her word for it.
* SmallNameBigEgo - Quigga is not only [[AttentionWhore quite]] [[{{Pride}} vain]], but fancies himself an exemplary scout despite having no sense of direction.
* SpiritWorld
* UhOhEyes - The book subverts the SupernaturalGoldEyes variety, as gold is a perfectly normal eye color for lemurs. It's Katook's ''blue'' eyes that [[CreepyBlueEyes make him a freak]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain
* WalkingTheEarth
* WhereItAllBegan
* TheWorldTree
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The story is set in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. Katook is a young Ring-Tailed Lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.
The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[ClicheStorm perfect storm]] of {{The Heros Journey}} Tropes and AnimalTropes. It's still cool to look at.
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!!Tropes used include:
* BambooTechnology - Mostly. There's a bit of SchizoTech too in the form of a projector that is a fairly important plot point and in offhand mentions of metalwork and such.
* CarnivoreConfusion - And talk about confusing...
* DeliberateValuesDissonance - Katook meets five other tribes of monkeys, each with their own philosophy and ways of life. Considering that lemurs are just about the only primates that could be considered pacifists, much culture-clashing ensues.
* DistractedByTheShiny - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...
* DoingInTheWizard - Actually forms part of the denoument.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys - Writ large.
* FurryConfusion - Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.
* GeorgeLucas
* GiantFlyer - Of the few birds who ascend beyond the ranks of background characters, most are fierce flying predators.
* HorseOfADifferentColor - Quigga, being an extinct species of zebra, plays this trope straight in the most literal manner. Also there are antelopes, mastodons, glyptodonts, ad infinitum.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MisplacedWildlife - There are animals from every continent ''and'' geological era mixing it up in the world of Katurrah... which is fictional, so this is actually justified.
* MostWritersAreHuman - Or, rather, Most Writers Are Primates.
* ShownTheirWork - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book. You'll just have to take her word for it.
* SmallNameBigEgo - Quigga is not only [[AttentionWhore quite]] [[{{Pride}} vain]], but fancies himself an exemplary scout despite having no sense of direction.
* SpiritWorld
* UhOhEyes - The book subverts the SupernaturalGoldEyes variety, as gold is a perfectly normal eye color for lemurs. It's Katook's ''blue'' eyes that [[CreepyBlueEyes make him a freak]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain
* WalkingTheEarth
* WhereItAllBegan
* TheWorldTree
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