>>Alicia probably has picked up art skills in her long life. Heck, I expect she can do several varieties of art - Impresionist, Renesance religion, line drawing, medical illustration to name a few. Medical illustration would be a shoo-in given her healing abilities and training...(she might even have met mythological folk before).<<

Sort of. She's good enough to draw things, but not always good enough to get precise details. Shiv ran into that issue.

>>I imagine Temujin's people may have had a few centuars who fought right alonside the rest of them. Ancient Greeca and Rome may have had a whole community...if they are still extant but cricketed, I wonder if your Amazons know anything? Or Aiden, for that matter? He did know a vampire... In any case someone should start checking historical and mythological records for ideas, too.<<

I don't know of any historic centaurs in Terramagne. It seems like a far stretch for something to occur naturally. Then again, Archimedes managed to build something approximating a solar cannon, so you never know what some brain might cook up.

>>While L-America has no supergizmology blood substitute, T-America probably does.<<

Oh, people have tried all kinds of stuff here. The problem is that all of them have drawbacks, and none really make a perfect replacement for whole blood in particular. There are sort-of-useful substitutes for clotting factors and plasma, but they're best used for people who can't use a regular transfusion or there isn't any available, and they only work to a certain point.

>>If nothing else there's always healers, too. I imagine the community spirit is good enough in most places that a healer needing more energy in an emergency might get like five people going "Here, take mine, just don't drop me on my face all of a sudden." Can you get problems from energy transfer like that?<<

Energy transfer is usually safer than physical transfer. While it's possible to have a conflict -- see the Gravel storyline in Shiv, where he and Aidan clash spectacularly -- it's quite rare. Yes, tapping too much energy from one person will make them faceplant. Thriver up in Motor City is an energy handler.

>> Allergies are a pain, but T-America should be handling it better than we are.<<

They are. The foodstream is much cleaner in general, and some restaurants either don't serve major allergens, prep them in a separate area, or have an allergy-friendly prep area.

>> For digestive issues, I know preparation can make things more edible (milk->cheese/yougurt, raw meat->broth, raw potato->cooked, any food->prepared as baby food, <<

Yep.

>> [for crocodiles ONLY] fresh kill->rotten one). <<

It's not just crocodiles, lots of scavengers and some predators use that.

>>I wonder if (for example) meat or fish broth would be easier to digest? If nothing else, look up vegitarian substitutes.<<

Possibly so.

>> (Also, hopefully the exibility of plants didn't change; immagine for example a dog-soup suddenly finding out that tomatoes are nightshades and noone has any clue what's happenig because they are safe for humans.)<<

Not to mention chocolate. >_< I expect allergies cause a significant number of deaths in people who acquire a new species. But what affects a dog might or might not affect a primal with dog features.

>>I wonder if dumbass mad scientist left notes...depends on if he was being meticulous or playing I guess. And I'd still want anything in the notes independantly verified by a trusted source... Blegh. Creepy guy.<<

Oh, he has copious notes. He is a mad scientist, not a mad engineer. The notes aren't trustworthy because he's batshit, but they are scientific in structure.