Talk:Alpha Ray Species/@comment-45412337-20200421001252

I know this isn't perfect, but here's my theory on the alpha ray:

it has some location and map spoilers

it lived mostly in the mountains corridor of the lost river, and when it became the ghostray, they discovered the tree cove to be free of predators such as the river prowler and ghost leviathan, and have a large food supply. Meanwhile, the remainder swam up the corridor to the bulb zone/mountains. this would have been a dangerous area, so they eventually foud their way to the mushroom forest, which was relatively safe and had a large food supply (the tree mushrooms). There it evolved into the jellyray. after a while, the forest became overpopulated, so some split off to become the rabbit ray in the safe shallows, evolving a smaller size to be able to swim into the small caves. after a while, the ghostray species became overpopulated as well, forcing some to enter the inactive lava zone through the nearby inactive lava zone corridor. over a while they adapted red skin to blend in with the lava and red stone, and flourished, eventually spreading to the lava lakes.

This theory explains why the ghostray and jellyray are the same light blue shade, the rabbit ray's oddly small size, and the ghostray and crimson ray's very similar shape.

Please, don't pick it apart, i know it doesn't fit everything stated in the PDA, but it's something.