Talk:Pandyssian Continent/@comment-26036825-20170114203442

I wonder if there are dinosaurs or something similar in the jungles of Pandyssia.

On a semi-related note, in Dishonored 2, you can hear a guard at Addermire talking about some kind of 'bear or ape' that has been brought in recently from Pandyssia. A creature that can be mistaken for either a bear or an ape? Sounds weird, but there are actually several creatures in Earth's prehistory that fit that description.

Ground sloths: Immense herbivores with subdermal armor that's strong enough to deflect bullets and bites from sabretooth cats.

Chalicotheres: Ground sloth-like herbivores with massive scythe-like claws whose closest living relatives are horses, and are said by many cryptozoologists to be the possible basis of a man-eating African monster called the Nandi bear.

And Diprotodon: A massive marsupial the size of a rhinoceros from the Ice Age of Australia that lived recently enough to meet the first humans who arrived there.

Given Pandyssia's Australia-like animal life (Both the rats and the flies there carried diseases that rapidly bred to plague proportions in the Isles), I'm thinking that this Pandyssian mystery beast is a Diprotodon, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was something entirely more exotic instead.

As another sidenote, I also wonder if those giant tortoises whose statues you see in the Royal Conservatory and the stuffed giant owls in the main hall of the place are also from that mysterious continent.