Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-25154376-20140718022618

I partially agree with Darkcloud, I think that cloud of smoke is some kind of pheromone that both alerts other CoG in the area and causes the nearest CoG to cause it to mutate into a more powerful one, like Alpha Beowolves of Ursa Majors. It could also be that that smoke is the think that is corrupting the CoG, so that when a CoG is killed the smoke corrupts another animal in the area; a sort of "One falls, two more takes its place" sort of thing, which could explain both why the CoG haven't been driven to extinction after millennia of conflict and as to why CoG just seem to "spring up" in seemingly random areas.