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I'm sorry this one is messy!
I just...was really unmotivated on this one, because perfectionism drained me at trying to get satissfying result with addition of blue rombs.
I went through 5 different patterns and the background concept doesn't give a good contrast with this Ancestral variation unlike my Ancestral Lapras...
Maybe I'll come back and quickly redraw this, but I can't promiss. I only promissed you to share more even if I'm not happy with my results, just for the sake
of sharing ideas.
- - -
I give credit for the idea to TipsyRa1d3n again, in case there's someone who sees this submission for the first time coming across it on DA.

tipsyra1d3n.deviantart.com/jou…

Imagine this idea of Ancestral variations being A THING.

You know what it could mean for NPC in the Pokemon World to find about them?
To be on CUTTING EDGE OF SCIENCE! ha! get it?
COLD STEEL weapons, who doesn't love them even if the modern ones are much, much better at their job?

I can't hide my fascination to how evolution often sounds like a great story...on how life came to be
in a form we know today or from certain point in time.

Even if Aurorus "sails" are clearly lacking spikes that the inspiration of it has, an Amargaurus neck outgrowths,
I always seen this Pokemon to have a previous form that had them. Over the time, they became thinner and made
more of cartillage, so the skin attached to them could move with the wind. Also, that's how these "sails" can stand.
That's my view of Aurorus since I saw it for the first time.
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Name: Ancestral Aurorus
Type: Ice/Steel
Based on: Amargasaurus (the reconstruction where the neck outgrowths are interpret as spikes)
Appearance: This Aurorus has...
- hard and sharp saber-like spikes growing on its neck
- small horn, spikes and claws made of steel
- a thagomizer- four spikes and a flattered sharp romb on the tip of its tail
- iridescent underside of its neck and the belly

Desc: This ancestor of Aurorus had saber-like spikes on its neck used in fights, also againist themselves in the mating season or to estabilish the hierarchy
in their herd, so the one with highest rank got the most of rare minerals to be eaten. When it held its head high, it took the pride of dazzling colors on its underside of the neck.

This Aurorus was able to fight against Tyrantrum, but it wasn't the apex predator that caused Aurorus to move with the time to different, more dangerous locations.
It was its high demand in rare minerals necessary to create steel parts of its body.
Even its claws were made of such hard steel, to help it dig up even in hardest rocks.

Over the time, this Aurorus had to move to live exclusively nearby mountains in order to find enough of rare minerals for its diet.
Most of them got themselves into volcanos and hot springs, having to compete with rock and steel types for valuable minerals,
while a certain population slowly adapted to live in cold mountain regions, where they lost their steel parts, because they haven't had many enemies
to defend themselves from. Saber-like spikes were used for decades as swords by humans and some think that iron age came after they reverse ingeenered
the steel from Ancestral Aurorus spikes digged up among its fossilized bones. Because they lived in short amount of time geologically speaking before evolved
into Aurorus we can revive today, the amount of these saber-spikes is pretty low and they're very expensive and very rare nowadays, found mainly on the black market.
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art and concept belongs to me, Marta Kłeczek
Ancestral variants concept belongs to TipsyRa1d3n
Aurorus as Pokemon belongs to Game Freak

Description
I'm sorry this one is messy!
I just...was really unmotivated on this one, because perfectionism drained me at trying to get satissfying result with addition of blue rombs.
I went through 5 different patterns and the background concept doesn't give a good contrast with this Ancestral variation unlike my Ancestral Lapras...
Maybe I'll come back and quickly redraw this, but I can't promiss. I only promissed you to share more even if I'm not happy with my results, just for the sake
of sharing ideas.
- - -
I give credit for the idea to TipsyRa1d3n again, in case there's someone who sees this submission for the first time coming across it on DA.

tipsyra1d3n.deviantart.com/jou…

Imagine this idea of Ancestral variations being A THING.

You know what it could mean for NPC in the Pokemon World to find about them?
To be on CUTTING EDGE OF SCIENCE! ha! get it?
COLD STEEL weapons, who doesn't love them even if the modern ones are much, much better at their job?

I can't hide my fascination to how evolution often sounds like a great story...on how life came to be
in a form we know today or from certain point in time.

Even if Aurorus "sails" are clearly lacking spikes that the inspiration of it has, an Amargaurus neck outgrowths,
I always seen this Pokemon to have a previous form that had them. Over the time, they became thinner and made
more of cartillage, so the skin attached to them could move with the wind. Also, that's how these "sails" can stand.
That's my view of Aurorus since I saw it for the first time.
- - -

Name: Ancestral Aurorus
Type: Ice/Steel
Based on: Amargasaurus (the reconstruction where the neck outgrowths are interpret as spikes)
Appearance: This Aurorus has...
- hard and sharp saber-like spikes growing on its neck
- small horn, spikes and claws made of steel
- a thagomizer- four spikes and a flattered sharp romb on the tip of its tail
- iridescent underside of its neck and the belly

Desc: This ancestor of Aurorus had saber-like spikes on its neck used in fights, also againist themselves in the mating season or to estabilish the hierarchy
in their herd, so the one with highest rank got the most of rare minerals to be eaten. When it held its head high, it took the pride of dazzling colors on its underside of the neck.

This Aurorus was able to fight against Tyrantrum, but it wasn't the apex predator that caused Aurorus to move with the time to different, more dangerous locations.
It was its high demand in rare minerals necessary to create steel parts of its body.
Even its claws were made of such hard steel, to help it dig up even in hardest rocks.

Over the time, this Aurorus had to move to live exclusively nearby mountains in order to find enough of rare minerals for its diet.
Most of them got themselves into volcanos and hot springs, having to compete with rock and steel types for valuable minerals,
while a certain population slowly adapted to live in cold mountain regions, where they lost their steel parts, because they haven't had many enemies
to defend themselves from. Saber-like spikes were used for decades as swords by humans and some think that iron age came after they reverse ingeenered
the steel from Ancestral Aurorus spikes digged up among its fossilized bones. Because they lived in short amount of time geologically speaking before evolved
into Aurorus we can revive today, the amount of these saber-spikes is pretty low and they're very expensive and very rare nowadays, found mainly on the black market.
________________________________________
art and concept belongs to me, Marta Kłeczek
Ancestral variants concept belongs to TipsyRa1d3n
Aurorus as Pokemon belongs to Game Freak