The original design went through a *lot* of different iterations due to a lot of push and pull but this was what was originally presented nearly 3 years ago. The Caprikid Line was originally designed as Fighting/Dark and the intension was to create a Fakemon line based off of the 3 Greek creatures, Satyr, Minotaur and Centaur. All centered around a goat child. When the line was presented again, I was given the go-ahead as long as the design was reworked to seem less human. Admittedly, I couldn't make the shapes I had in my head back then so I sat down to better present what I had intended. With a better understanding of what I was going for I tackled it using shapeform. So these were designed with repeated diamond and hourglass shapes, both in the limbs and body. I like being able to use shapes to create a recognizable silluette. There were several points I wanted to reuse. The "hands" themselves were inspired by gardivoir so this was kept and better expanded on and emphasised with shaping. It still needed to evolve similar to tyrogue (This was on purpose) Goatchild still needed to be cute, it's design was mostly unchanged. Keeping the cheekspots, Nub hands, long ears. Satyr received a *lot* of rework. I still needed him to be bottom heavy to clash with the large round horns. The "fluffy pants" of the creature sort of masks the legs of the creature creating a penguin effect. Centaur didn't receive too much of an update for this interation other than shaping. It was always intended to have a more umbreon shaped face so it was better portrayed here. We had previously discussed giving it a marking across its chest so it was presented here mimicking a false binder. Minotaur mostly received an update to its shape and then its hands. It originally had sorta first knuckle fingers with hooves on the end as kind of weird claws of sort but with this iteration it was simplified down into a hole finger hoof which gave it better shapes and less awkward fingers. <<;; Its "loin cloth" fluff was better expanded to actually hang down as intended. At some point the horns were changed to a steel because the black horns didn't contrast with the design well enough. They were changed to completely white under the reassurance it still looked like metal. Novie suggested this redesign after we had already started the spriting process so I don't have full Artwork of the changes that took place after. Just half-made sprites Some design elements were pulled over at this time (Mostly for Centaur) as I still refused to budge on a couple things, especailly Satyr's "fluff" proportions. I also *really* didn't like how the Minotaur looked, especially because it was hunched over. I'm not really a fan of hunched over bipedal mon. At this point I had introduced the "collar" marking on Satyr to fill in some space and off to the side is a suggestion of what eventually would become the chest fluff. Things did still change after this, such as the minotaur's ears getting the chop, a white mark being added to the Goat child's nose (It was a highlight but got mistaken as a marking, however it still worked)

Fun Fact! This line is male only because the greek minotaur and satyr mythical species are supposed to have only been male. Sagidamas was purposely designed as femme with a false binder marking but it is still male only. The theme for this evolution line is based on "Fight or Flight" and "Brute Strength vs Patience". Saytaries acts as the balance between the two. The naming theme is based on some of the western Zodiac, Capricorn, Aries, Tarus and Sagitarius. Sagidamas breaks the pattern of using the Greek name for their base inspiration. Instead, it uses a derivitive of the latin word dāma or damma, which refers to a tall horned creature with cloven feet, such as Deer, Gazelle and Antelopes. Fallow Deer, common in europe, are also often called Dama Dama. Names based off Greek famous fighters/trainers were also concidered They are all fierce competitors but it's not uncommon see individuals try their hand at games they obviously won't be good at. It's all in good fun afterall. In the wild, these pokemon often live in large communities intermingled with females of other species. When their communities are threatened the pokemon will work together to protect it.