Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29684190-20181107222709/@comment-25936766-20181111011358

Insects are a horrendous example. It's a very specific and long process with multiple phases. A process that does not occur in mammals. So unless you can show me a pic of a Manticore wrapping itself inside a cocoon, I'll dismiss that analogy.

The second comparison fails too. A human baby simply grows what is already there as it grows, and the differences aren't severe.

The Manticore, in your proposal, literally loses a toe, loses bone armor which no other Elder has ever done, changes the skull from Lion-like to Humanesque in shape, and turns a scorpion tail into a snake tail, somehow.

You can't just compare a human to that in terms of "development". It's not even apples and oranges.