Vondunke (Species)

### Reproduction

Sexual, followed by an Ovoviviparous period of sixteen months resulting in three to five births.

### Diet

Analogues of Fish, Algal surface colonies, Shellfish, Crustaceans, and Large bacterial colonies called "Ae"

### Movement

Two powerful hind legs with webbed feet and eight tentacle appendages in the front front arms allow them to move across moist land at around 10 KPH (5 MPH), movement in water is much quicker at around 30 KPH (20 MPH)

## Classification

### Species

* Erç Amfus
* Çey Amfus

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The **Vondunke** is one of the two last remaining species from the taxonomic family **Içvolen** along with the **Vravven** from the genus "**Kroçfoç**". Other now extinct members of the family are the **Siedunke** and the **Krakken**.

## Physiology

The Vondunke are large, amphibious, vertebrate, Cephalopod-like, creature. They are covered in a thick dark grey skin and divided into two segments.

### Manipulation System

Eight arms are located in the front segment of the Vondunke. The arms can be folded into the body while swiming. They are used to grasp on to objects, and are very similar to that of a squids or octopi's in appearance covered in numerous suctions cups to provided better grasp. Each arm has three, small, retractable, claws near its extremities shortly after the last cup. The claws can be used to cut into or through soft objects. They were also used as the first form of writing, often cutting into shells to make markings. This method of writing lays the foundation for Enorvta's syllable structure.

Inside of the Vondunke torso adjoining each arm, directly beside the each joint, is a pumping organ similar to a heart. Each of these pumps has a correlating ganglion that connects to the Vondunke's left brain. The ganglion itself goes from the joint and extends down half the arm, the nerves forming concentrations around the arms suckers, Some sucker have a series of retractile "r" shaped hooks that come out to hold onto something slipping away.

The Beak of the Vondunke is comprised of two primary mandibles. The bottom mandible is thinner than the top and has a caret ^ shaped tomia which fits inside the top, it also has a few sharp protrusions with corresponding notches in the top mandible. Inside the primary beak near the throat is a second, rostrum type, beak. On either side at the extremities of the back are two shafts which join together to form the tongue partially capped where either shaft extends through the second beak. When closed these caps perfectly seals the throat and keeps food bits from getting stuck at the shafts.

### Nervous System

The front segment carries the nervous center which is laid out around a primary brain. The primary brain for the most part holds the consciousness, short term, and long term memory of the entity.

Additional memory and emotion can be kept in two secondary brains located on the right and the left of the Primary joined together by a cord of nerves called the "Klevaecto" or "Kleven". The secondary brains can sometimes be sealed of from the primary brain by specialized organs called "Cnetr" or Cuts. This sealing off can be intentional or the result of a traumatic event, either can be temporary or permanent. Even in this state the secondary brains can still communicate with the rest of the nervous system. The left secondary also specializes in motor skills and movement coordination.

Two long slender eyes are located above the beak of a Vondunke, though they provided limited vision under water they are significantly more functional while the creature is surfaced or terrestrial.

Pores located directly above the arms joints are used to "taste" water and air, testing for pollutants and nutrition. The arms also have a vain like structure that runs from the tentacles through the pores communicating feel, taste, and electrical currents, this connect to an intertwined ganglion leading to the right brain.

In addition to sight the Vondunke also have the external senses of; electroception, taste, touch, and hearing.

### Other systems

Critical organs such as two lungs, a digestive system, and a circulatory center are located in the back segment.

### Locomotion

A Vondunke have two powerful hind legs with webbed feet, these work in conjunction with the creatures arms to walk around on terrestrial surfaces. The legs can also be used to assist the Vondunke will moving through the water.

### Articulation

The Vondunke have two primary methods of articulation. One, voicing, is used by forcing air through and out the mouth. The other whistling is caused by forcing air through a specialized organ called a pDriove producing a whistle like sound. This is easiest to use when making plosive sounds.

### Reproductive System

The Vondunke's organs rest behind the "Açra" , a set of six overlapping frills behind the Vondunke's head. The frill's normally covering egg cavities, reverse orientation during procreation, covering the Vondunke's eyes instead.

## Reproduction & Life Cycle

After procreation, five fertilized eggs will begin to develop in an organ called the embryomitra, the female will carry the eggs for around six weeks before laying them in water. After another twelve weeks the eggs will hatch as young Vondunke paralarva, these are identical to adults except without frills or maturity these will develop over the next twenty years. The Vondunke body will continue to grow for thirty five years, its mind will grow for another ten years.

All castes can intermate with at least one other caste, but no caste can successfully reproduce with all other castes resulting in an offspring capable of sexual maturity.

## Diet

Vondunke feed on may different varieties of Fish, Algae, Yakkev including the Ruçtrædra, Co'ervor a type of flying fish, and bacterial colonies.

## Sub-Species and Castes

The Species has split into two different sub species.

The first species the "Erç Vondunke" are the vast majority of the Vondunke species (>99.9%) they are comprised of eight different castes

### Drones:

They have a aided life span of 1100 years, they are intelligent and muscular and have slightly muted emotions, they have some of the most excellent senses of any caste and their brain is built around that, motor skills, and cause and effect understanding. They have very factually memories meaning they are not the most exciting people to have a conversation with (remind you of someone) but are always paying attention to what is said. They have more precise manipulation organs (equivalent to hands) and bodily larger with for longer thinner tentacles and four larger thicker ones. They share a common origin with the soldiers developed from the fittest of hunters from the early groups on Arçælo and in the dominant orders (nations) were breed exclusively with each other, they operated well in a chain of command government.

### Commons:

Along with the other six Castes they can achieve an average aided lifespan of 300,000 years but more commonly live to 40,000, they are allowed the most genetic diversity of any caste and are not born with a specialized function in mind but rather a general function acting to improvise wherever needed. Commons are the descendants of the unaltered Vondunke.

### Professors:

They are of smaller builds but are very intelligent, their minds more attempt to understand things by patterns and simulations, making them more abstract minded. The left secondary brain is also permanently closed in this caste. They have many heightened senses, but pheromonic receptors are blind to nearly a fourth of those emitted by the other castes. They originated from the civilizations individuals breed as the "tomes" class for their memory and conveying of history

### Scribes:

Scribes have increased responses to pheromones and have larger cells, scribes have excellent memory retention and minds similar to professors, and their eyes are somewhat split given them somewhere between two strong eyes and four weak ones. They have more precise manipulation organs. Scribes are the most artistic of any caste and are often put in charge of construction design. they have a common origin with the professors, judges, and paradigm.

### Judges:

Judges have a similar mind set up to the drone but are much more competitive and ambitious. Two of their tentacles are especially strong, while the other six are smaller than the usual. They were breed from tome class as tactical and strategic thinkers put over hunter groups.

### Soldiers:

These are similar to the drone caste in many ways, they could not bench weight as much but have a faster reaction time with improved motor skills, in fact the left secondary brain is nearly as large as the primary. Senses and emotions are heightened in the soldier caste this includes more disciplinary emotions. They eventually broke of from the drones during the industrial revolutions of Arçælo and were almost gone entirely by the time the mighty Krakkens (An early predatory species on their home moon) were driven far into endangerment and the Siedunke (An early competing species on their home moon) were driven from the equator. The soldier caste has two sub castes

### Paradigm:

The Paradigm were the first ruling class of the Vondunke, The paradigm are the largest built of any caste. Many times they've been referred to as the "Raxidç" of the Vondunke, A word synonymous to "Soul" or "Continuity". The paradigm exist as a make shift hive mind in conjunction members both present and former. Thoughts are kept and stored in their exceptionally large secondary minds, intentions of those who died a millennia of eons ago, and words of those miles away. They release pheromone that is received by individual Vondunke, so that the other nine castes are both consciously and subconsciously effected by it.

### Independents:

The Independents have the most diverse gene pool of any caste. Most notably the natural drones were moved to this caste after clones proved more useful

## The Siedunke

The Siedunke were a group of competing species of Arçælo during the early years of the Vondunke that mainly contended for the southern hemisphere, They were more akin to Octopi, and less intelligent then the Vondunke, they were also in the broad sense of the word "Non sentient". The Siedunke became endangered when the great "orders" of the Vondunke began to build cohesive civilizations developing early tools, strategies, and complex language. The last Siedunke survived as companions to the Eastern pods of the "South Order" in muscle farming and hunting expeditions, these eventual outwore their use and welcome as the species progressed and the South Order was replaced by the "pTrarçea Megapod"