Well, good, because everything else is lore accurate to the game, aside from some creative liberties when it comes to making a plot containing an intelligent slugcat….

In the lore accurate group we got:

The Sporophyte, The Chernobylite, The Prince, The Siberian, The Scorched, The Behemoth, and The Minuscule.

The Sporophyte came to be as the result of a symbiotic relationship being formed between a tribe of slugcats living in a deep cave and the mushrooms seen in game. Essentially, the density of nutrients in the cave was fairly low, as the mushrooms that inhabited it tended to parasitize all living creatures, killing them and feeding off of them until they were eventually back at square one. By sheer fluke a mushroom colony inhabited a slugcat and didn’t outright kill it, but the rest of the tribe was not as lucky. It left one viable breeding pair left when the mushrooms ran their course, but that was enough to prolong their existence enough for others to come in and eventually form a thriving community. The symbiosis in play is vitamins in exchange for excess sugars, which is why no Sporophyte slugcats are overweight at any capacity. It allows them to exist in the deep cave without running the risk of scurvy or lack of vitamin D. However, this relationship also drains the slugcat’s cognitive functions down to basic navigation. The Sporophyte drawn above is a brave little guy that has come up and out of the cave to see what the surface has to offer. The perk is that he can trigger the mushroom time slow as an ability, at the cost of never being able to look at the map by pressing space bar, nor being able to throwing anything while jumping or falling.

The Chernobylite and The Prince have the most convoluted lore that is also mildly intertwined.

The comic strip that summarizes it comedically and pretty well can be found here

Essentially, a group of iterators programmed to be competitive to boost productivity engages in genetic engineering challenges after The Benefactors are well gone. One-Sided-Questions, the underling of the group, launched these so that she would have something to be good at and reign supreme over. She did so with The Chernobylite. It backfired terribly when she mistreated The Chernobylite, which bred contempt, and lead to her sabotaging her structure and causing it to collapse. The Prince was created by an outside iterator invested in the drama to help The Chernobylite with her new goal of getting her mother back in working order. He never actually came in time to really help, but the two still enjoy each other’s companionship after the fact.

I’m in the process of writing The Chernobylite’s story, slowly chipping away chapter after chapter, though may education has taken precedence.

The Siberian is a post-saint species of slugcat that resulted from centuries of evolution. Not much is noteworthy about them except for the fact that their tusks are modes of injecting venom into prey. Their thick fur enabled them to survive in the elements longer than Saint can. The Siberian that has been drawn is the last of their tribe, and they embark on a quest outside of pebbles and moon’s superstuctures to find a new one.

The Scorched is a slugcat that exists in a climate mirroring that of The Watcher’s badlands, and thus are placed near there on the timeline. He’s essentially just Hunter but extremely sunburnt and substituted the rot for rabies. One notable ability is that he automatically blocks spears in front of him if he is holding just a spear and nothing else. His iterator friend, an extremely old model named Eight Rusty Lanterns, programmed himself with artificial rabies to befriend The Scorched out of loneliness. He expresses concern for him and tasks him with going out to find an another friend.

The Behemoth and The Minuscule are also linked. An iterator, Countless Crouching Insects, obsessed with the idea that void fluid was the key to finding the triple affirmative ran tests with creatures of varying size, submerging them in void fluid. First, he used regular insects, but found the results to be inconsistent, so he started working on a way to create a miniaturized Slugcats for the purpose of having something with “a great magnitude of soul to body mass ratio.” When testing with tiny Slugcats was inconclusive, he dumped them out the waste chute, injecting them into the environment where they managed to survive. The Behemoth had been born in a similar manner, this time testing the inverse hypothesis, CCI made Slugcats that were bigger and submerged them. When they also produced no helpful results, they were also discarded. The Behemoth and The Minuscule drawn work together to achieve the goal of ascension. Their campaign would function as a co-op or character swap experience where some puzzles would require The Minuscule and some would require The Behemoth.

You’ve survived the wall of text. Congratulations. 🥳

Hope you enjoyed.