There’s a lot of details about Wonderland that doesn’t really make sense when you think about it too hard, which I guess is a pretty Wonderland thing to do. How did jub-jubs get medallions? Why don’t bandersnatches have them if jub-jubs got them? You don’t see it in the comic, but Mock Turtles have them too. Did sphinxes make them?? It Is A Mystery
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The SD version of the D&D answers: “A Sphinx/Wizard did it!” & “Magic!”
How much cross species transfer can you get from a medallion? Could related species like jubjubs and graphics share medallions?
Good sir, I do believe you mean “Gryphons” and not “Graphics” *sips hot cocoa*
No, they can’t. Even different types of gryphons can’t use other gryphon-types medallions. You need a medallion for an opinicus versus a regular gryphon versus a reverse gryphon versus an uncommon gryphon. I don’t even think things as closely related as a nixie and a nokk (basically sexually dimorphic variants of the same species) can use each other’s medallions.
I am not disappointed, this is a very Wonderlander thing!
Into the Gryphonator with thee!
Shrike + Grasshopper Mouse
Two seemingly cute and ordinary creatures, both renowned for their viciousness by those in the know. Shrikes will impale their prey upon thorns or occasionally barbed wire as a way of both storing it for later and marking territory. Grasshopper mice will eat anything from other, less cannibalistic mice up to entire rattlesnakes, and howl like wolves while they hunt.
I would not be surprised if the Sphinxes were making Medallions, and Wonderland spontaneously manifested medallions out of sheer magical envy for some species tbh.
These may have been suggested as weird gryphon variants, but:
1) Goose/Moose (what hath Canada wrought?!)
2) Turkey/Reindeer (cause of the holidays)
Honestly, I suspect that some Sphinx used Wonderland as a safe-house temporarily during the early Sphinx/Dragon War, and medallions were made for half the Wonderlander’s who were willing to interact with the Sphinx that were there, before said Sphinx either left to fight, or left to try to hide.
If a marsupial-ish creature used a medallion with a joey in their pouch where would da baby go?
Who’s Rupert’s Mum?
I just flashed back to a comedy clip from The Firesign Theater. “Why did the porrage bird lay his eggs in the air?” Sorry, had to share.
Since Wonderland is basically magical Pripyat, I was wondering, are there Avalons in the Chernobyl exclusion zone? What sort of effects does radiation have on magic?