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Behold the alkoriki, an elephant sized gliding sapient from a methane moon covered in colossal thermosynthetic trees. Life on this moon absorbs methane (a reducer) and is made up of and stores oxidizers- the reverse of life on earth, which intakes oxygen and is made of reducable fuels.

The alkoriki homeworld is also extremely cold, with liquid organic gas rain, methane lakes, and cryovolcanoes. They share this moon with another sapient, a giant ameoba-like blob species. Their biomes are separated by a mile of ice, with the ameobas living in a dark subsurface ocean of liquid water. These two realms have biota as utterly distinct from each other as alkoriki are from humans, as the division between them was completely impenetrable until society advanced sufficiently in magic and technological prowess to drill or teleport through the ice and survive. As such, the two species are as alien to each other as any biomes divided by galaxies could ever be, despite their adjacency.