Difference between revisions of "Category:Sentient"

Many native Cyantian wildlife have memories passed through genetics, much as the Cyantian Undersea species do. Only the water species gain the full memory set of their parents. Shivae, Gryphons, and Scythetails only gain a partial one, consisting of language, territory, and clan members. The others species do not retain memory in their genetics.

There are basically two kinds of Cyantian animal, those that are wild, or not far removed, and those that are domesticated and have spent their entire lives in captivity. The latter lose something of what makes them sentient depending on how they are raised. An animal caught in the wild and raised as a sentient reature will generally retain its sentience. Children of animals who have been domesticated, or ones that were raised as domestic animals become little more than highly intelligent animals - they have minimal self awareness, about that of your average dog and are quite willing to live to serve. The first Shivae to be brought in... which was one of Cler's chicks, were just as intelligent as the wild ones, and so were their chicks, but the ensuing generations were treated as nothing more than animals until they became 'dumb' and lost their language due to their owners not believing that they really could communicate and was nothing more than a cheap trick. Similar processes occurred with the gryphons and other captured creatures. They were seperated from their kind and eventually became 'dumb' as generations passed. Shivae, Gryphons and others are just recently being recognized as having their own sentience the first time a technomage attempted to make a wild one into a familiar and it went completely psychotic on him, hence the reason that the ones that are currently used are all essentially 'dumb'.