Storytelling is just the best, ain't it Keenan?!

I think a series with this sort of format would slap. Honestly I’d say you’re my new favorite youtuber, even surpassing my childhood favorites. Also if you do continue the ballads as a series feel free to take as much time as you need, I’m happy to wait years if it means a better product.

I didn't mention it before but I am really happy with how mammals played such a big part in this story, while some other animals were taken as prey now and then all the notable hunting scenes involved mammalian prey.

This man is so close to making a Walking With Dinosaurs style nature documentary with this

Yeah definitely do more like this with other creatures, titanosauras, elephants, shield drakes, mosasauras, the possibility’s are endless. Great job as always

This was better than most graphic novals

"one ticket for the ballad of Ka'Hai please🎟️🗿"

I had to wait a few weeks before watching this honestly that story hit different

This is one of my favourite videos on KZfaq and I greatly appreciate all the work you put into it!!

I admit, this was one very pleasant surprise!

Honestly i'd be down for something like this again, seeing the lives of the creatures of Kaimere through their eyes is really rad!

I have to say watching the Ballad of Ka'Hai was such an experience. I also watched dino docs when I was a kid and this was so reminiscent of those that it became my favorite video. Then I began to watch other videos from you and it truly inspired me with my fantasy world (so much so that i went into this rabbit hole of breaking down one of my species in a similar fashion) to makes these interesting creatures that kind of resemble our own but evolved in different ways. I have to say that now you kinda are a bit inspiration to me to create fantasy creatures when I was struggling before. So thank you and I hope you well so you can keep creating things and inspiring so many others like me!

This is still the best episode i have sponsored so far, even better than the castles and sauropods, though i do want to fund another Sauropod episode. I cannot wait until i can sponsor the next in the series 😊

The Ballad of Ka hai was great. A very special video. I look forwards to any tale following the life of a Kaimerean creature. Or perhaps you could focus on part of an ecosystem? I'd imagine it set out in format like episode of Walking with Dinosaurs? Say, follow the creatures of a region through the rhythms and trials of a year, or perhaps follow one on it's voyage across continents. Perhaps follow a monarch to it's final resting place... RIP random Ornithicherus who was the king of the skies. May you ride upon the winds of heaven forever.

Ballad of Ka'Hai has become easily my favourite episode. I've watched it so many times I actually downloaded it and keep it on my phone, so that I can listen to it at work. Also after building my version of the Uktan for a dnd game, this series has actually inspired my own world building project, in which a prehistoric world is populated with various creatures and magical corruption is slowly turning some of them into more familiar dnd monsters (with plans being to feature the Owlbear as my first proper mutated monster, being a corrupted polar tyrannosaur with wings). I'm rambling... Thanks for being awesome Keenan! Keep up the amzing work

I absolutely loved the short story. I thought it was really well written and enjoyed the documentary format. I’d love if you would cover more species in different biomes as I think this best suits the setting of the world that has been written.

It's was a unexpected yet very welcomed video about the making of and behind the scene of the awesome last episode of 2023 that Ballad of Ka'Hai was ! I like to see the history and evolution of a thing, a media, ideas or concepts, from where it start to how it end. It always very interesting to see what can have influence and impacted the developpement of an aspect of the product or the whole product itself.

Just only for the presence of the feathers your dinosaurs are more accurate and realistic than every other show

It's really inspiring to see your progression as an artist. Seeing your grasp on naturalistic colors, proportions, scale and texture are so neat. Comparing your comparatively smoother and less defined old art goes to show how an artist can improve. I can even see a difference in execution compared to when I first subbed to the channel (though that's probably easier to see with the literal redesigns of older animals). The fact you're able to realistically draw such a breadth of animals (and even some plants) is just so impressive to me.

I am so happy that you get to devote all this time to a project you love and one that’s received so well this community. I absolutely ADORE all of your projects and they’ve influenced me greatly in making something similar myself. Thank you for doing what you do and I can’t wait to see what’s in store. If there’s ever like a discord server or something similar for kaimere and the community surrounding it I’d LOVE to be a part of that. Thanks again man, and best of luck!!

I consider Ballad of Ka'Hai among my new favorite dinosaur docs, and like many of the greats, even the behind the scenes are informative and mind blowing! I can't believe the Uktan is just as old as Kaimere itself! And to think it started out as an allosauroid, with it now being a megaraptoran, a group which itself, was once considered a part of the allosauroid clade! Druk's ending was heartbreaking for me and my girlfriend watching together, but dang if Ka'hai, Oneeya, and Kian's success wasn't a perfect conclusion! Happy Year of the Dragon to you Keenan! May the great Drakes of prairie and forest bless you and Kaimere with luck.

AMAZING behind the scenes! hope to see more!

I loved the video, definitely can't wait for more in that format.

I really enjoyed listening to the ballad as I cleaned today and would love to see more videos with a similar concept for other species in Kaimere. Not only would it be interesting to see the other megaraptorans portrayed, but I would love to see a motomazor or hukolgur episode as well, going through the life cycle of each and exploring it. I did have one question after listening to it though. Throughout the story we see a variety of uktan and many of them have mutations or color variations that differentiate them aesthetically. Is this something that is acurrate to how uktan appear with significant variation in coloration showing up throughout their range, or was this a decision made for narrative reasons to help give each individual a easily seen visual identity? Either way, enjoyed it as always and can't wait for more videos in the future. Keep up the good work!

OH WE GOT A PART 2 LETS GO starting it now (hope we get nore videos like this with different creatures whoud be fun

I have voiced my thoughts on it already, however I am quite excited for the video on what looks to be the Arctic Ocean of Kaimere! I’ve thought about writing some form of either xenofiction, or something like ballad of Ka’hai for quite a while. First I was interested in red wolf xenofiction (because they are on the brink of extinction). Now I am considering doing something similar to ballad of Ka’hai for some form of Permian synapsid. Especially since they probably had unique behaviors and metabolism in comparison to modern mammals (something like Anteosaurus, Larger therocephalians, Gorgonopsians, etc). I’ve even thought about doing Kaimeran fan fiction for a thescolasaur (the Kodrankoku) in the ballad of Ka’Hai format. I will probably not go with that given I don’t want to unintentionally steal in some way or form and I don’t know your stance on that kind of thing.

When I first watched the video I thought it would be a really goofy slideshow with a narrator but I really liked the story and the video in general

I just realized how crazy it is that Ghlanos were never even mentioned in the Uktan doc. Goes to show some prey is just too dangerous unless you're specialized.

I'll admit it, I didn't make it all the way through Ballad of Ka'Hai(I probably will at some point). But it looks good. And Walking With was awesome!

If you were to make another documentary of this fashion, I think the Kurajaku or Indrakai would be the best candidates in my opinion.

Conner is a genuinely amazing guy for sponsoring a topic of this scale. it's one thing to sponsor the coverage of a whole group it's another to go into detail on a scale of a single animal at such detail. If you ever do such a video again I hope it may be on one of the endemic clades there seems like you could do alot with one of those, especially since they are arguably the most "kaimeran" group of them all long predating mammals and even dinosaurs

Such amazing dinos you created I wish Ka'hai and his wife to have many children

Haven't watched the video yet but it seems interesting! Question: What creatures were considered for the video but didn't make the final cut?

I wonder if there ever was a story like that of Pod in Dino Planet happening on Kaimere. an unlucky small to medium theropod getting washed ashored by a storm finding itself stranded in an isle where they are an apex predator due to insular dwarfism.

Especially the Okavango delta lions they are huge and that’s why they built a hunt down cape buffalo

I’d love a balled of kai hai type story but with the old stallion ghlanos that was Diggin in the dry river beds life

Awesome

Not bad. Do you have plans to try another biography, that time on another creature like… the An’Garu?

I have a question like how micro organisms like (magic) become capable of sending their satellites into outer space how micro organisms can evolve capability to travel in space naturally is it just a old world science or real science that you use when designing magic , can you make video about biology of magic and explain this in a scientific perspective in more detail

nice

If a ballad of Ka’hai style doc was sponsored for the Oritaku, would you make the protagonist a standard neotenic morph? Or would it mature to a robust morph?

I want to do my story similar to this as well

l would like to ask if there will be more videos of this kind?

Wait a minute there are cousins of leptictidium in kaimere? I didn't expect them to survive also is that an iceberg i thought the giant mosasaurs preferred warmer waters And is that a cousin of motomazor fighting a giant pliosaur?

10:30 holy shit. Does that mean Pliosaurs are still around in Kaimere?

Something I noticed. In the ballad we focus on five parings. We were given the age of the individuals of three. In all three the female was atleast one year older than the male. Was this coincidence or intentional?

1) To be fair, the Quadrupedal Uktan and the Indominus rex aren't really similar between each others. The Quadrupedal Uktan is... well quadrupedal and have lot of brown/dark fuzz on all its body. And is an natural animal who kill only when it have the need to. While the Indominus rex is entirely bipedal (ok, we see him using his arms/hand on the ground 1-2 times and to catch and manipulate things; but that it. Not in a regular manner), is white and naked, recovered by scaly osteoderms. And he is a straight up artifical monster made for killing efficiently (as in the 2015 movie we learn before the final battle that he was a proto-type for biological weapon for war uses) and kill on purpose because he think to be superior to any others creatures because he is intelligent and the tallest. Differences are here and are actually rather important. I don't think and see where you could even being sued for "copying" the Indo. Especially if you still have most of the draws showing the Quadrupedal version made before 2015 (like this one 3:37, this one 3:40, this one 3:49 and this one 3:53). However ! You would have definitely had problems in 2018 with Fallen Kingdom and the Indoraptor. The Indoraptor been actually way more closer to the Quadrupedal Uktan as it's is a mainly quadrupedal theropod. Sure, there still here too notable differences, but the main aspect of both creature are identical. And given the first anthology came in 2020, 2 year after 2018 and the movie release, yes, here things would have been problematics. Personnaly, I don't mind the Uktan appearance, but I prefer by far a regular bipedal theropod than a quadrupedal one, as otherwise it would feel more a giant typical lizard than a true dinosaur. Which, ironically, is what have occured for the movie "65" of 2023 with Adam Driver, and its gigantic oversized quadrupedal dinosaur which appear as the final boss near the end. And given the critics and reviews, this approach of a theropod didn't really work. So, long life for bipedalism ! 2) I am interested by the story about a young orphan T-rex raised by a Quetz and getting revenge on the evil Trike. Honestly, it could work as a small and children book. And it would be welcomed to see a carnivore being the victim and the hero and a herbivore being the great ashole of the story and deserving to have its butt kicked off at the end. Would be really novel and not a huge and tiring work to put in place. Maybe you could reused this general idea for a Non-Kaimere production if one day you want to do something out of Kaimere for once. 3) The Leptictida, order from which the Leptictidium belong, actually lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Oligocene (between 70 to 33 mya). Not only this mean these creatures are badass because they survived the K-T Extinction, but that mean they came on Kaimere by the Oligocene Harvest. I was afraid that you decide to edit the lore to include a Eocene Harvest or whatsoever, but happy that you stick to your own rules ! :) Anyway, I'm excited to se what evolutionnary path this group have undergone on Kaimere X)

10:31 A piece for the north ocean episode with a pilosaur like plesiosaur?

Was that the Arctic continent?

Where can I sponsor something like this for the Zentaur and/or Kurujaku.

DAY ONE OF DREPANOSAURS OF KAIMERE

Also love raptor red its great xeno fiction in gender tbh

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You are quite literally the LeBron James of xenofiction and spec evo