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I have idly decided I want rocs in my fantasy world (mostly because I'm fascinated by megafauna, my favorite of which is argentavis). For that matter I want wyverns too, but I think that presents even more problems, so I'll start with rocs.
I want them to be relatively plausible, so mostly I'm wondering if there's any particular reason a bird couldn't get to the size of the giraffe-huge pterosaurs. Of course, those pterosaurs are built nothing like the birds of prey or at least scavengers I'm interested in, but my mountains are pretty near the ocean so I could go with seabirds if that's my only good option for enormous birds. And they do live in mountains, so they don't really need to worry about a running or flapping start.
My world has .8g, which I assume means they can get bigger. Let us say for the sake of argument they don't also get weaker in the lower gravity, because they were originally genetically engineered.
"Magic" in this world is caused by very responsive nanites, so enhanced strength and durability or even small antigravity fields are possible, but they would become correspondingly heavier, so it seems like a bad route to go down.
I want them to be relatively plausible, so mostly I'm wondering if there's any particular reason a bird couldn't get to the size of the giraffe-huge pterosaurs. Of course, those pterosaurs are built nothing like the birds of prey or at least scavengers I'm interested in, but my mountains are pretty near the ocean so I could go with seabirds if that's my only good option for enormous birds. And they do live in mountains, so they don't really need to worry about a running or flapping start.
My world has .8g, which I assume means they can get bigger. Let us say for the sake of argument they don't also get weaker in the lower gravity, because they were originally genetically engineered.
"Magic" in this world is caused by very responsive nanites, so enhanced strength and durability or even small antigravity fields are possible, but they would become correspondingly heavier, so it seems like a bad route to go down.