Are the laws of nature and physics actually different in this world, or are they the same as in real life?
Tasha: The same, well as far as we know anyway.
How does magic fit in?
Sword: Well if Magic could be quantified by Science it wouldn’t be magic anymore. Although summoning the ‘All Father’ is done because Latover’s bloodline has the telepathic ability to talk to the hive mind microscopic life forms in the water…it could be a theoretical possibility that elemental magic could be some kind of empathic link to a different breed of life form in the mage’s cells, but I haven’t been able to prove that.
How do magical beasts fit in?
Terren: We’re not sure, there are documented tales of beasts that could perform magic, but the actual animals in the stories and legends died at the end of the time of light.
Is this generally an earth-like world? Is it an "alternate Earth"?
Tasha: Yuekaa is an earth like planet as in anything that lives on earth can live on Yuekaa, but it is not an alternate Earth.
Are there different human races, whether or not there are non-humans like elves or dwarves?
Sword: There are three human races. Humans, Clonii, and the Fairer. Everyone hate’s the Clonii, and for the most part it’s justified, the humans and the Fairer are trying to like each other but well, as a rule, they don’t.
Tasha: There are an awful lot more of Yuekaa races, to many to go into right now.
How does the cultural and ethnic diversity of this world compare to the real world?
Midnight: There was a lot of cultural diversity, but after thousands of years closed up in a single city much of it has been sadly lost.
How long have there been people on this world?
Sword: There have been humans on the planet for something like 1000-to 1500 years.
Terren: The Yuekaa have been there for millions of years.
Did they evolve, or did they migrate from somewhere/when else?
Sword: The Humans, migrated from earth, the Clonii…de-evolved from them. The many Yuekaa races evoved there, the Kitsune and Crons were made by the Clonii from artificial DNA and the DNA of the native Yuekaa
How many people are there in this country?
Mala: The official numbers are in the tens of thousands.
How does this compare with world population?
Midnight: For all we know we are the world Population.
What is considered a small town/large town/city in terms of number of people?
Sword: Fox Hole calls it self a town but there’s only a thousand or so kitsune there. The larger towns have a few thousand members, there’s no settlement as big as Wolf Haven that I’ve found.
Where does magic power come from: the gods, the "mana" of the world (as in Larry Niven's "Warlock" stories), the personal willpower or life force of the magician, somewhere else?
Tasha: Oh boy, loaded subject, There’s an religion that explains it all, but I’m atheist and I’ve bad mouthed every god I’ve heard of, and I’ve still got my magic. So I believe a Mage’s magic comes form within, or something in the blood anyway since it’s hereditary.
Is magic an exhaustible resource?
Terren: Yes. Mage stones are made from blood, and there’s only so much mage blood in the word. And a true mage’s power is from their strength of will, and everyone has their breaking point.
If a magician must feed his spells with his own willpower, life-force, or sanity, what long-term effects will this have on the health and/or stability of the magician?
Terren: Short version. Normal mages use their will, if they push themselves too far they faint sleep it off and get it back together.
A channeller however, have much more power, and if they access that power they burn themselves out, literally. Physically? Mentally? It depends on their power and how they use it.
Do different races/species have different sources for their magic, or does everybody use the same one?
Terren: Different Blood lines tend to have different magical affinities, but any evidence of magic favoring one race or another is purely anecdotal.
Sword: Although, humans don’t have magic, and I haven’t seen a single pure blood Kitsune with magic either.