{"id":20,"date":"2023-01-23T19:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-02-02T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:51:55","slug":"phasianidae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Phasianidae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occasionally, my brain does strange things with syntax. Such was the case when I recently became aware of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maratus\">peacock spider<\/a>. If we have peacock spiders, I asked, why can&#8217;t we have spider peacocks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in my <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1401\/\">headcanon<\/a>, the spider peacock is now a thing in the 7th Sea game setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started out as a Montaigne attempt to breed a mute <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peafowl\">peafowl<\/a> that would be decorative without disrupting garden parties with its shrieks. The result wasn&#8217;t a mute bird, but rather one with raspy, rattling vocalizations &#8211; sounding, quite frankly, like a woman being strangled rather than one being knifed. As if that weren&#8217;t enough, the breed&#8217;s plumage lost much of its coloration, becoming silvery grey and the dark red-brown of dried blood. This might have been the end of the experiment if not for the elaborate patterns on the fowl&#8217;s tailfeathers, which resembled unique, intricate spiderwebs when raised in full display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a few eccentric Montaigne do still keep flocks of these &#8220;spider peacocks,&#8221; the primary market for the breed is, unsurprisingly, Vodacce. There, they are cherished pets, allowed to freely roam their owners&#8217; estates. Some Vodacce believe that spider peacocks also can sense when a <em>sorte strega<\/em> tugs the strands of Fate in their vicinity, and that their ubiquity in certain nobles&#8217; presence is more than simple ornamentation or ostentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, my brain does strange things with syntax. Such was the case when I recently became aware of the peacock spider. If we have peacock spiders, I asked, why can&#8217;t we have spider peacocks? So in my headcanon, the spider peacock is now a thing in the 7th Sea game setting. It started out as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[5,11,3],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encounters","tag-7c","tag-creatures","tag-cryptobiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}