"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"
- Winston Zeddmore, Ghostbusters

 
uke Dan (a.k.a. Daniel Bensen, Dangod) is the High God of Specworld and it's sovereign ruler and Grand Editor, as well as the webmaster of the Spec pages. The first of the Original Eight, he is often credited with the creation of Specworld. Duke Dan has blessed us with such creatures as the North American neohadrosaurs and the bandersnatch grassbag. All the other specgods revere and worship Duke Dan (in his dreams).

zgod (a.k.a. Brian Choo, Poogod) is a trigger-happy Elder God of Specworld. A chaotic and powerful deity, Ozgod is responsible for much of the weirdness of Spec, not to mention grossness. His most notable creations include the rhynchoraptors, penguins of DEATH!!! and baleen squids, but this terror from down under has also released a plague of rectal probes, caripoo, arsegill turtles and other unnamable things upon the unsuspecting inhabitants (and gods) of Speworld. A rumor has it uttering the name of the Ozgod is now considered a felony in certain parts of the USA.

umetterasu (a.k.a. Tiina Aumala, ADgoddess) is Specworld's Solar Deity and Specgoddess of Graphic Design. Abandoning a parallel creation Dinosaurs of the Ice Age, Aumetterasu joined forces with Duke Dan even though it meant sacrificing the owlosaurs and other creatures too improbable for Spec. Afterwards she has created numerous dinosaurian as well as nondinosaurian taxa to make up for the loss, and is mainly responsible for the unpronouncable "indigenous" names of specbeasts. Aumatterasu is also responsible for the graphics of the Spec pages and is now the Art Deity of Spec.

ave the Golden (a.k.a. David Marjanovic, Zlatkonut) is the Archvillain of Spec. Though basically well-meaning, this destructive dragon has among other things driven the classic pithecosaurs to extinction, prevented the evolution of dinosaurian ovovivpary and inspired Ozgod to create numerous species as mockeries of him. He has also disgraced Specworld with such vile miscreants as toothed carrion-birds, and sprawling mammals. This doesn't mean all the other specgods hate Dave, though, but maybe they'd like him better if he didn't try to kill everything in sight.

rhoz is the generally inoffensive dolphin-headed Specgod of the Wet and Spineless. To this day this minor deity has been seemingly content to create cute mammals, un-cute invertebrates, and suggest the occasional violently poisonous plant. However, in Specworld no-one is exactly what they appear to be, and few know what the future may bring...

 

avid Namen is a lesser spec-deity. This timid creature often remains hidden in the nether regions of Spec, periodically emerging from his cocoon to display bizarre and badly spelled creatures. Even though he doesn't wield the same power as the other Specgods, but he still gets a pretty nice parking space. His contributions include the Waitomo cave fauna, the freakishly adorable Nanoraptor, and several other scattered beasts.

 

rik Omtvedt (a.k.a. Erok the ZZZgod) is an elusive and transient deity of Spec. A habitual perfectionist spec-god, he exerts great energy producing landscapes of animalia primarily to hunt them down and eat them. The Erok is more often than not content to revitalize existing fauna designed by the other Spec gods such as draks, saurolopes and other creatures if it muses him and doesn't interfere with chronic hibernation and consumption.

 

There are other Specdeities, such as Brett Booth, Stacey Burgess, Ville Sinkkonen and that guy whose name nobody but Dave can spell, but I haven't made initials for them yet.
 

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Graphic design by Tiina Aumala, 2003