valiums wrote:I want to know more about this.Cordoma wrote:The most fun I ever had with a conculture was my race of sticks. Yes, that's right: sticks. I shit you not.
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Can you tell us more, Cordoma?
valiums wrote:I want to know more about this.Cordoma wrote:The most fun I ever had with a conculture was my race of sticks. Yes, that's right: sticks. I shit you not.
No offense, but Cordoma last came to the cbb, 5 years ago, in 2012. I don't think we'll ever now the story (also this is like a mega-hyper-super necro)eldin raigmore wrote:valiums wrote:I want to know more about this.Cordoma wrote:The most fun I ever had with a conculture was my race of sticks. Yes, that's right: sticks. I shit you not.So do I! What valiums said!
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Can you tell us more, Cordoma?
I agree, I've done this as well. My planet's dwarves are mythological .... i.e. fictional within the fiction of my writing ... And therefore have traits that violate the laws of nature, such as being mostly males yet finding no difficulty in reproduction. I don't have a race I call elves, but I do have fairies and mermaids, whose sex ratio is ~80-90% female and are often believed to be immortal. Here again I am using popular culture terms for familiarity's sake .... the fairies don't have wings, and the mermaids don't have tails. However the fairies, being mythological, have magical powers, and can fly from place to place despite their large body size, and without needing wings. Mermaids are usually depicted as very large female humans with no special powers but some cultures believe they are a subset of the fairies and can control the tide and ocean weather.cybrxkhan wrote: ↑27 Jan 2013 20:54In my opinion it's because "elves" and "dwarves" are already established archetypical humanoids, even outside the fantasy context, so it's easier for an audience to get it rather than the "Xoijafoaijsfoisjfians" or something.Micamo wrote:You know, one thing that's always bothered me: Why build fantasy worlds with "elves" and "dwarves" that have zero properties in common with the prototypical elves and dwarves? Why not just give them an original name?
Thanks for the idea. There's different layers of reality here ... those who believe in the two groups might certainly think they could interbreed as well, with the children retaining the sex-specific phenotypes of their parents ... but there will be many who believe in only the dwarves, since they are based on a fantastic exaggeration of a real people, the Andanese ... and the Andanese who recognize these stories admit that the myths are about them rather than believing in dwarves of their own. Whereas by contrast the fairies are part of folklore and equidistant to all humans.WeepingElf wrote: ↑06 Sep 2018 22:58Perhaps dwarves and fairies are the same species, with an extreme sexual dimorphism - the dwarves are the males and the fairies the females. (I think this idea is not new. I can't give a reference, but I am pretty sure that I have seen it in some book about European folklore.)