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Life cycle of The Siren's Remorse siren species.

Immortal and wide spread, sirens are rare still due to the amount of time in between breeding cycles which is every twenty years. When a season arrives, sirens give birth to a single egg which has an external incubation period of ten days. Upon hatching they are fully capable of activity and awareness as in reptiles due to the infusion of dark magic by the mother. Breeding demands heavy feeding by the expecting siren of negative energy to ensure their young develop quickly and are supplied with all they need to grow their gems for the females. Males however, do not possess the gemstones nor do they sing, require the same treatment if their bodies are to be formidable enough to protect the pack. This feeding begins the year before a siren is fertile as their body begin siphoning off a little magic to host the ovum.

Upon hatching from their leathery egg, the hatchlings are greedily protected until they grow of age. As until they reach their puberty, hatchings or pups have an intense need to investigate or wonder off into their new world. For a mother they must watch over the roving attempts as lurking terrestrial as well as aquatic enemies like the four foot long Huntsman Spider that can easily snatch and grab a hatchling who goes into the underbrush. Drowning also happens in the first ten years from learning how to swim or stormy weather overwhelming their frail bodies. Should they survive long enough it is a rite of passage to simply age to adolescence. For the daughters, their gems breach the chest scales just above the collar region as a tooth would the gums. For the sons, their cranial protrusions start to take shape into ram-like horns, spades, or simple spikes though they are still cartilage until adulthood. Even so they are hard enough to pierce soft flesh, withstand some force, but will still be able to be damaged or broken off.

Adolescents are given the training and practice they need to thrive and contribute to the pod with the Matriarch ever watchful for dangerous pups or slackers. Males must join in hunts for fish, invertebrates, mollusks, or anything in the water as well as fight off predators or poachers and pirates with the veteran males. They learn the pecking order of the pack, ascending through validation of skills or trials by fire. Most often finding their ends during this part of their lives by falling in a battle or making a fatal mistake. Though under less pressure as the opposite gender, being able to sing is the sole talent a siren must achieve with harmonizing with the pod. Females who fail to sync or perform are thrown out to the wild where they are often at the bottom of the food chain, while those lucky enough manage to find other outcasts and form new pods. Yet another risk of failure is their magic, young sirens can strain their powers and die of exhaustion or put a pony harbor into an uncontrollable mess which consumes itself if the matriarch cannot break the spell. Up until adulthood a pod's clutch of eggs may only produce 9 offspring and depending on their life experiences or untimely misfortune at most 3 or less pups ever make it. Few packs are ever successful in bringing up every single hatchling, but they are the ones who contribute to the new pods being formed that venture off to seek new territories.

Adults are defined by the age of 300 years, which by then a siren can bare young. This issue is directly at fault of their immortality, their enchanted songs must be at their full potential in order to allow fertility to be possible. In those years their bodies mature and can convey magic to the developing eggs which drop for fertilization when their first season happens. Biologically speaking, this method of reproducing allows for a 100 percent birth rate and 0 percent in birth defects or dead eggs. The dark magic the female can make from the negative emotions corrects any problems in the developing pup and gives it a boost of life.

Siren Study by Scholar Arcana Adept Biologis Nickel Flame.

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Posted previously at: 2017-02-28T21:23:50 | Posted previously by: FeroxUltrus