Mass Effect Turian Species Explained | Morphology, Evolution, History, Council, and Exoskeleton Lore 

Thanks for watching guys! I had a cold while writing, recording, and editing this so if I sound a little low energy, you now know why haha regardless I hope everyone enjoys it!

“Space velociraptor” best thing I’ve heard all day

I wonder if Garrus is super uncomfortable with Shepard analyzing his body parts with a sniper rifle😂

Sometimes I think about how Earth really got its shit together to support life. That nice metallic core you mentioned, a perfect moon to support tides and smooth axial rotation, and that sweet spot in the solar system to keep water nice and liquidy. Shout-out to you, Earth.

I love your biological analysis. Many people just repeat the kodex entrys and call it an analysis. Keep your work on😉

Roanoke: "and I believe, 10/10, I would drink a beer with." Turian: *gets poisoned and fucking dies*

Okay, I actually think about turian biology a lot, for reasons totally not related to drawing smut. (they're related to drawing smut) ------------------------ Turian gestation would likely be much shorter. Their thin waist implies less room to carry young than even humans. They would have to give birth to very small young, then carry them in the cowl until they can walk on their own. The information that turian gestation takes 11 months is from a fanfiction, it is never stated in-game. Child rearing would, from my guess, fall to male turians. Turian women have very different morphology, one of the most important parts being the eyes. Femtur eyes have the slit and a small sclera compared to the male having a more human pupil with larger sclera. Looking at the way an eye slit takes in light compared to a circular pupil, it can be assumed that they see more sharp at night and have relatively blurry vision in day. That paired with the more slender body and lack of a frill makes them exceptional for nighttime stealth, faster running, better pursuit predation. This leads to the assumption that men would guard young against threats and rear them, while women hunted. If they have exoskeleton, fat content won't be easily visible from the outside. It would be stored in already relatively empty spots, as it is with earth insects. Mothers would not chew the food for their children, because they don't have molars. This would mean that either a) turians used a mortar and pestle to chew food once they had tool use, reducing stress on gizzard and crop, or b) turians would regurgitate. Mandibles are one of the most important parts of their sexual selection and communication. They are the primary means of emotional expression, which is extremely important because of their similarity to human psychology as it relates to their evolution. You didn't mention it, but turian genitals would probably be relatively standard, considering their evolutionary similarity to humans, designed to just... stimulate. Not the corkscrew or something crazy like that. Teeth I'd say are less raptorlike, more pescivorous. This is odd, considering the inability to swim that turians are known for. This could imply that they started externally grinding and crushing food much sooner than other advancements, early tool use like the usage of flint for human stuff and cut chewing. ------------------ One final thing, Garrus isn't the best bro. He's the best ho. 11/10 husband.

Rumor is Garrus is still making calibrations.

Garrus is the best space husband.

“If you walked up to a Turian and punched them in the face, they wouldn’t like it very much” I can think of lots of aliens and humans who wouldn’t like that very much XD Nice job with the video!

When I'm watching these I can only imagine joining the fight against the reapers as a turian only to have my commander staring at the structure of my feet.

I'm amazed at how much new info you managed to gather, I'm a huge fan of mass effect and didn't know half this stuff.

No-one would mind if our turian brothers and sisters existed somewhere out there in the void of space.

Roanoke: "A race that I'd like to have a beer with". Garrus: *dies*

The Jeff Goldblum pic was unexpected but is appreciated

Strange to think that in the vastness of the universe, a species like the Turians may actually exist.

Tbh I never really noticed the comparison between Turians and theropod dinosaurs until now, I always just compared them to the sangheili or elites from halo, with the two toes, greyish colour scheme, blue blood, similar leg structure, height and armour in some cases and so on

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the turian anatomy is just this well thought out, or Bioware got extremely lucky. Given how much inane worldbuilding is in the codex, I want to believe the first lol

If I make d&d game with any game species as a species I'd use your content as a reference.

Neat to see you delving into Mass Effect, A universe I truly enjoy. It is even better to see you do your work and style of conveying information. Keep up the good work my friend, On the path to 100k.

'' Life.... [[UH]] ... Finds a Wei*

I love this but you forgot to mention potential husband qualities of Turians. Which are the best in the entire galaxy!!! Other than Urdnot Wrex.

I don’t know why, but the sight of a Turian beating up a Human why explaining how they both interacted upon first contact made me laugh. Especially with Shepard standing with and talking to the other Turian watching. Who would have thought apes and avian lizards would being standing and talking together in space?

Good luck doing the Quarians. :P Also, love your videos! Would love to see you cover the rachni or any other insectoid race in the future! Maybe the zerg from starcraft?

My favorite Mass Effect species Ty very much ❤️

The Turians are my favorite Mass Effect race. Hey, I was thinking that you should do a video on the biology of the Quarians.

Love your stuff man, binge watched all the deadspace morphology videos, keep up the great work.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Grunt's quote from the Citadel party when he's drunk, where he says "They don't look like birds. They look like cats!"

You should do a video about the other races in the Mass Effect series including the Kett and Angara from Andromeda, just saying cause I enjoyed the videos you already did for Mass Effect and would love to see more of these

Turians... Calibrating the tools of Survival~

I love how much thought went into creating this universe

amazing video!! waiting for more Mass Effect Species!!

Omg this is so cool. I love the way you can just explain fictional creatures better than any biology teacher I ever had. XD

Bruh dont stop making videos. You feed my ever growin hunger on lore of all things video games. Thank you!

Yay! Roanoke Man again put down on the table an amazing video !!! 😎😎😎 Turians are awesome They look like Bird alikes : ))) Also Fem Turians look really gorgeous 😎😎😉😉

Turians: master sunbathers

Garrus: um... What are you doing Shepard... Shepard: just... Scoping you out... Bro

I guess some dinosaurs knew how to fly....

First time we meet aliens, we shot at them humanity at its finest 👌🏼

3:13 you mean sexy. I know what I said. The designers knew what they were doing.

I really love these videos. The amount of biology lingo I don't understand makes it sound even better. Krogans are my favorite I hope you do one on them soon!

Roanoke I have to say I love Mass Effect Universe and honestly I was thinking what other possible games you could go make videos from I must say I can not think of a better one keep up the great videos and good luck to you man. Truly love what you have done with this channel and I think although the climb will be slow could make it to 1 million subs in time.

And this is the point where Mass Effect dropped the physics ball hard. A magnetosphere doesn't only protect from radiation, but also from solar wind, which would blow the atmosphere away in years. Even our atmosphere is depleting, but slowly enough that it does not affect us. Mars has the exact same problem. Yes, Palaven is actually further away from it's sun than Earth, however, it's only 1.15 AU, 15% further away than Earth, which does not significantly decrease the power of it's stars wind. It's possible that Menae and Nanus, the moons of Palaven lessen this effect to a degree, if both of these directly block the star constantly, and for some odd reason both orbit each other around PalavenL1, effectively providing a shield cone against charged particles. Of course that would result in the weirdest day-night cycle ever, because even in daylight, the sun would be blocked out for a couple of hours, then shine again, then blocked out again, then shine again, seemingly randomly. Okay, physics babble is over. You can wake up now. I cannot expand any further on your breakdown, excellent job. However, what could possibly cause the flanging effect you hear in their sound? Is it possible that due to the high radiation of the planet, they evolved a sort of double vocal cord system to act as an airlock to their lungs to protect it from unwanted charged particles? That would mean they breathe and speak from different airsacks in their chest tho, and the speech airsack is somewhat resistant to radiation, and the breathing one is not. Or it could mean that it is a filter in their throats that somehow filters the charged particles from the air, and protects the lungs through that? Oh, space velociraptors? Lemme crush your childhood then. Velociraptors were about 2 meters at best, (less than 7 feet) from nose to the tip of the tail, and 7 kilograms ('bout 15 pound) weight. About half of the length, or more, is the tail. So basically they were large aggressive chicken. With teeth. Citation dump: Velociraptor info: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/velociraptor.html Palaven info: masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Palaven

Awesome video boss! Glad to see your alive and well and Unfortunately I couldn't watch it as soon as it was posted since I'm on duty but thankfully my break allowed me to now. I love Turians, not only are they a cool looking species (not to mention the Broest of bro you could ask for) they to me are so much like the Elites of this universe...honor bound by Duty and Service. I remember when Garrus pulled a Crackshot on a hostage situation when he was a cop in Mass Effect 1and I was like "bro bro bro... protocol be damned someone give this man a promotion!!"

Since you do biology typically for aliens and monsters can you also do it for unique characters such as Shepard or doom guy or master Chief so we can know how badass they really are?

You'd drink a beer with them, but not the same beer as them.

Omg I love have well you discussed the science and biology in this video on a fictional species, you sir have just gained a new subscriber!! Keep it up defiantly gonna watch more of your vides.

I like how to show off the structure of the Turians and Krogan, Shepard just kinda creepily hovers around his teammates. xD

I love video game lore and mass effect is my favorite game series I cant believe I only just now found your channel.

I love how much extra information you provide with your videos compared to other people

I like the subtle filters on their voice. It makes them sound like they have different voice boxes than humans.

Please continue on this Roanoke

Seriously... your videos are the best.

Their planet according to Roanoke: it's almost the same as earth Also the planet: has no core

Amazing, I never knew so much detail was put into creating these characters! God I love this serious even more now!

Holy shit i forgot you had done videos on Mass Effect, now that i finished the trilogy ((playing Andromeda now)), this is perfect!!

whenever I see your videos. I'm like....sweet. something educational and video game related

I'm almost expecting Garrus to ask if Shepard is okay while he moves around him observing him.

Your videos are so therapeutic

Wow this is early it's 11:04 am here and I don't think you're videos have ever been at this time 😃. They should make an animation off The First Contact War.

Hope you feel better Roanoke, also the video was awesome muh dood!

Turians will not hold you back in a bar fight - they will join you

Yes yes more more!

*#TurianLivesMatter**#* *#TurianDinduNuffin**:P#* *#FemaleTuriansAreCute**#*

Mass Effect? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

I've been waiting. Grab your quads, its time for Mass Effect!

Honestly Turians are my favourite species in the Mase Effect universe.

I love that character im so glad u did a video on his species i use him all the time he is always on me team

The minimal magnetosphere would've resulted in the photolysis of water vapour with the resulting hydrogen and oxygen being blown away by the solar wind as well as nitrogen being blown away leaving a CO2 atmosphere which given the mass of the planet would've likely left a Venus like planet. Copper actually binds better with oxygen then iron but binds less oxygen than iron does. Consequently copper blood is good if it's difficult to extract oxygen from the atmosphere but it's bad if the organism requires a lot of oxygen as more blood need be circulated for the same amount.

Great video to, glad to see you’re branching out of mutations and space zombies. Looking forward to your take on asari.

Lol that device that pulled them dudes apart was something didn't seem to work to bad.

Must say, I really enjoy all of your lore and morphology videos. Glorious really. And, could you do a breakdown of the Quarians or Asari’s biology?

your videos are just awesome, so inspirational. Im always daydreaming about new ideas for creatures, spacial abilitys for humans like in animes or just about whole storys about those features. And in the way you explain all those creatures and where they come from and the lore around them, its just so entertaining and like i said inspirational. I love well explained abilitys like super strenght but like i said : its interesting how the strenght is explained not that something is just strong. The details make it fun and reasonable. okey....but the main thing i want to tell you is that your videos are so fun to watch and that i hope you keep up this awesome work. Thank you for your videos. love watching them.

3:11 No... I always thought it looked like a cat! No seriously their faces remind me of cats.

I love your videos, their pretty in depth at times and have a mind boggling amount of info. Also, I have a video idea if you don't mind hearing it out, the blacklight virus (prototype) vs the necromorphs (dead space) obviously. Also I love your voice.

Turians are my favourite aliens from Mass Effect, thanks to Garrus, and appearance.

Yes i was hoping so badly youd start doing mass effect

Wow 400k subs in 2 years that's pretty crazy man.

Could you do a video about Deathclaws from the Fallout series please?

Aw come on! No comment on Turian sexuality? I'm so curious about how Garrus figured out "how this thing should work".

I think a good morphology video idea would be the typhon from prey, I think you’d really enjoy doing that video

I only found your channel earlier today, and been bingewatching your biology analysis almoust non-stop. Love it man! After your done whit Mass Effect, Dead Space and Metro might i sugges you taking a look at various ghols and beasties in Witcher series?

I still Remember Mass Effect 2 when Garrus was shot by that Gunship and it gutted me lol.

So if the turian is the velociraptor is the Krogan the T. Rex

Turrians always kinda remind me of like velociraptors without tails for some reason

Aaand you just made my Garrusmance weird. Great video!

Thanks for the space bird boy content.

Really cool video. Thanks

Can you please so more of the Mass Effect species? I'd love to see videos on the angara, vorcha, salarains, etc

would love to see one of theses but for quarrians (if there even is enough info on them to do so and figure out anything about how they are under them suits)

I have a suggestion for morphology vids, idk if anyone has suggested this but it would be cool to hear your take on the creatures in the lost planet game series.

I'd like to see you do a video like this on the krogens as well

Can't wait for you to do the krogans and quarians

11:00 Yeah so would I, especially one like Garrus, he's my space raptor boi

The Turians are a matchmade in heaven with ghe Sangheili

I'm a simple Internet dweller. I see Mass Effect, I upvote. Quality as usual, keep it up man.

Suggestion: Half-Life 1 creatures. i love the series and my interest was rekindled when the black mesa remake released the xen trailer. it'd be awesome to get some professional insight from you!

Y'know, i really like these videos. Keep it up.👌

I couldn't think of a funny comment but i love the videos RG!!!!

I’m definitely looking forward to a video on Krogans. They’re my favorite species in the Mass Effect series.