Thread Questions: >What's a creature you think is particularly interesting? >What wildlife flourishes in cities or other settlements? >Tell us about an apex predator in your setting.
Hard Mode >What's a common domesticated animal in your setting? How is it different from its wild relatives? >What species are at risk due to the actions of humans or humanoids?
DMD Mode >What's a keystone species in your setting (i.e., a species with an outsize impact on maintaining its environment, such as beavers, otters, or mangroves)? >What regions have the greatest biodiversity?
If you don't feel like talking about animals, here are some other questions. >What are some common remedies to illnesses and injuries? Do they actually work? >What's an old wive's tale from your setting? A common superstition (related to health or otherwise)? >What's the life expectancy of an average person in your setting? Why?
Michael Allen
>What are some common remedies to illnesses and injuries? Do they actually work? Women will sometimes rub pig guts on their vag to increase their husband's libido for them. Usually has the opposite effect, as you might imagine, but it gets perpetuated anyway.
Most non-Mayyadian medicine is based on superstition and faulty cause-and-effect, so they're all pretty much the equivalent of crazy home remedies.
>What's an old wive's tale from your setting? A common superstition (related to health or otherwise)? Blind people are agents of evil and discord (somewhat understandable, as blinding is a main form of punishment for disgraced nobility).
>What's the life expectancy of an average person in your setting? Why? >States under the Third Eye (part of the Splintered League), Saravati, Ioniyus League, Greater and Lesser Sona ~65 if they don't get the Red Tip (somewhat equivalent to the Black Plague, only applies to the States and Greater/Lesser Sona).
This is mostly because of better hygiene and diet in general. In addition, the Red Tip didn't hit the states that it affected as hard because of somewhat draconian practices to get rid of it (in the States: body collection and cremation is a well-oiled machine, private cremation is illegal without the permission of the High Barrister and will result in immediate execution, people who are dirty or smell for significant amounts of time can be fined, etc).
>Elsewhere ~35 - 45, not only because of plague and ineffectual ways of fighting it, but because of wars, banditry, general instability as well as other diseases and maladies resulting from poor hygiene.
Adam Flores
Thread Questions: >What's a creature you think is particularly interesting? The Western Forest Velociraptor. It is capable of extreme speed even in the densely treed temperate rainforests, and uses said speed to quickly scramble up trees in order to get an edge over their prey.
>What wildlife flourishes in cities or other settlements? In the streets of Oalenne, colourful coalmoss flowers along impurities in the stone. Some locals swear it can sing under a full moon.
>Tell us about an apex predator in your setting. Tyrannosaurus. Unfortunately (well, I suppose fortunately for most), they are nearly extinct due to hunting and changes in the ecosystem
Samuel Sullivan
>What's the life expectancy of an average person in your setting? About 30-40.
>Why? Demons.
Samuel James
Are you going with properly proto-avian dinosaurs are you sticking with the standard scaley Jurassic Franchise package?
Andrew Foster
>Velociraptor
Do they call them Velociraptors in your setting too? If so, how come? Do they use a latin-vased phylogenetic nomenclature like us? Tell me more about your dinos.
Justin Rodriguez
Also, why do they call it coalmoss?
> pig guts on their vag Seems like a great way to get all kinds of nasty infections. Please tell me your world has some kind of cranberry equivalent.
Luis Gray
>What are some common remedies to illnesses and injuries? Do they actually work? One of the main remedies used to be embalments and various ailments made out of plants. Nowadays, at least in the Legio Empire it´s mainly prayer directed at their gods, because constant war made such supplies a rare commodity. And prayer only works occassionally.
>What's an old wive's tale from your setting? A common superstition (related to health or otherwise)? One of the most feared gods besides the nutjob at the top, is the Lady in charge of home and family. Children are thought to behave, otherwise she may asks her colleques for a few favors in sending curses or illnesses.
>What's the life expectancy of an average person in your setting? Why? For most of the civilian part of the world it´s around 50 - 70 depending on where they live. A foot soldiers in the Legio Empire however can nowadays be called a veteran if he reaches around 25 due to near constant war at it´s borders.
It´s basically a not!roman empire nearing it´s own collapse.
Isaiah James
They're classic Jurassic park style dinos. The naming is more for convenience than anything else: they're not even really truly velociraptors, they're much bigger. The ones on the plains grow to about the size of horses (and are used as such by some particularly gutsy warriors). All sorts of dinos can be found scattered about, both domestic and wild. The OP image has inspired me to include things like that!
They call it coalmoss because it grows on coal flecks/impurities in the rock, which is very common in the area.
