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Bouchart

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[31.01] Eye teeth
« on: April 04, 2010, 01:01:12 pm »
Got a strange item generated: a stray dog right eye tooth.  Anyone having problems with teeth generation?
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Kagus

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Re: [31.01] Eye teeth
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 01:07:30 pm »
Dragons also have eye teeth, along with some animalmen apparently.

The only thing is, they're real teeth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tooth

I'm sure a slightly less confusing name could have been thought up for them, but I think it's more a naming issue than anything placement-related.
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Draxxalon

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Re: [31.01] Eye teeth
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 01:54:15 pm »
Technically, all mammals have eye teeth (whether toady has extended this to non-mammals is another question).   

If you feel right below your eyes, to either side of your nose, you can feel the top of your eye teeth, so named because they are immediately below your eyes.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eyetooth

Nothing particularly confusing about the name, it's quite apt, and descriptive :P
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Re: [31.01] Eye teeth
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 03:33:55 pm »
I should say "Fang" is a much more readily understood, descriptive, and applicable term. Even calling it a "Canine" tooth, as in dentistry.

I was confused by Eyeteeth as well. I thought that, through he course of combat, a tooth had gotten lodged in an eye, and now they were treated as one entity or something.
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