Category talk:Creatures found in Aquallor

Do we want these categories?
Not wanting to complain or anything, I just wanted to raise the question if we want to be that detailed about creatures. We do have the categories for the different planes, on the basis of categorizing them as Category:Creatures by terrain. Planar layers would in my opinion more specific in this sense, and would be something like "Creatures by region" or "...homeland" or some such, a distinction we did not make yet. Opinions? Daranios (talk) 09:45, January 21, 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing that for most layers of most planes the list of denizens will be the same (meaning that categories for each layer would all have the same contents), but in some cosmologies these layers are infinite, which makes them exactly like planes except for how they are connected. In that sense, they are not "more specific", they are just farther away for a planeswalker. I'm willing to bet that somewhere there is a creature that is only found on layer X of plane Y, which would make this sort of category valid. Someone here may already know of such a case. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 14:52, January 21, 2019 (UTC)


 * The Oceanus dragon is a good example of why it is good to have these categories: it can be found in all layers of Elysium, but in other planes only in the layers that are visited by the River Oceanus. For example, it can be found in Arvandor and Aquallor, but not in Mithardir, since the river only passes through the first two layers of Arborea. In other cases, the dragon is found only in a specific realm (that happens to be a World Tree plane), but nowhere else in the Great Wheel layer that contains it: I can find Oceanus dragons in Heliopolis, but not in the rest of Buxenus.


 * Another argument in favor of keeping these intermediate categories is that some planes, like Arcadia, are very heterogeneous in the character of each layer. Although most creatures are indeed endemic to entire planes, there are several other creatures that are found in only this or that layer. And, since we are already doing locations, inhabitants, etc., it seems that it's informative to keep that step here too. ― Sirwhiteout (talk) 15:18, January 21, 2019 (UTC)