trail of thought...

take part in it, if ye wanna...


so undead beings, human(oid, -like) beings and spirits in the sense of natural- or nature-beings. with the humanoids, i include all that are considered as Elves, Orcs, Dwarves and all other that fit the bill of a human equivalent.

at all three of them, i realised a red thread of a per se possibility to par them into basicly three levels of ability and quality, -niveau so to speak: the lowest, the mid-level, and the top-class (terms freely chosen so far).

at Undeads, you have as the lowest, something as more savage and animal vampires, or the occasional standard zombie, whether if magical or viral, -as examples. the mid-level would be the ones simply with basicly human intellect, sentience and perception, adn the top-class would be those that i like to call 'Immortals', so the simply mroe powerful ones, or oldest for the vampires. at the latter, it may also include any other msot powerful kind of undead.

At humanoids, you avhe as the lowest the bushmen/savages or even lower, ones on the 'prosimian-/half-ape' level; erhe i ntend no offense, to point that out. the mid-level, well, us, or the standard Elf, Orc, Dwarf, whatever. the top-class woudl be what i like to call 'Ubermensch', though i'm not sure here yet, what abilities and pwoers or so, support that definition, as i don't refer to the philosophical figure of ubermensch, hereat.

at Spirits, the lowest are the simple form of a simple being, such as ltitle creatures whose appearances and existence is often related to their surrounding; think of the little head-flipping forest-spirits from Mononoke Hime hereat. the middle ones are often (not always) humanoid, and/or on the basicly human level of intellect, sentience and perception (again), while the top-class -and here it gets tricky-, i like to call 'pseudo-gods' or something, which i imagine like the many local gods we know from some of our mythologies, like from the Japanese mythology, for example. 'pseudo-gods' i call them, because they're technically often clsoer to spirits, in the sense of 'being of nature', rather than actual gods, whilst their powers and abilities often have somehting kinda god-like indeed.

now...a little jump of focus, while still remaining at this topic, basicly: aliens

at first, 'aliens' is a bit misleading to portray them as something own, for me speaking German, where 'alien' and 'alianation' are closer apart, while hence 'alien' means just 'foreign to earth', and means that aliens come from outer space, maybe to(wards) earth. the German word 'Außerirdisch' actually cleared this up for me as i thought of it, as it'd mean kinda 'outside-of-earthly'. SO, the point is, that Alien, technically says nothign about the type of being, but only about its origin, seen from out point of view. hence i can view 'Aliens' differently.

and there we continue: i came to notice strange paralleles between 'Aliens' and the three other species i talked about, above: you have humanoid Aliens which easily shape an equivalent to them, then you ahve undead Aliens, recently famously known as -for example- Necromorphs, and i have a strange feeling like there are also Aliens 'out there' surprisingly close to spirits. so again, Aliens are, now even mroe so, jsut variants of those three species, Undead, Human(oid) and Spirit.

so A this all makes me wonder, if there is a difference between those species that have this three-levels evaluation, and those that don't have, like maybe calling them pseudo-scientifically, 'true' and 'pseudo'-species, or something, or 'complex' and 'simple' species.

B, i come to the question, if there yet is something that i missed, that could be considered as, again, a 'true Alien', even though i get the impression, that such could then use a better term or title, than that.

and C, i yet get confused, since i vaguely get the impression, that also 'Aliens', that we just learned do not exist as a per se own species, still have their own three-level evaluation. the simple ones, might be all most simple life-forms, such as alien animals or little creatures, then the mid-level being all those from Navi over Vulcans to the MassEffect-races whose titles i can't recall now, and the top-class would be again just the more- or most powerful Aliens, maybe such as Halo's Gravemind or even 'cthullian' Aliens. if Aliens are jsut other species that simply come from outer space, then what does this three-levels-fact hint at. is it jsut that thr three-levels suport something else than a difference in definitions of species's?


...also, the general 'field' of beastman, i confess to not have tackled yet. but if you have any exampels, -ideas of lowest, mid-level or top-class beings of such an overall species, feel free to suggest them.side-note thereat: as 'beastmen' i thereat also count any being that is part an aquatic being, an insect, bird or whatever.

UGH! pS: i think i sjut figured, that the three-levels evaluation might also be able to get applied on Demons and Angels. ...think about it.


eh, jsut had to type that all down to get it out.