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Worldbuilding Project : Day Six - Races
Once again the quoted text comes from 30 Days of World-Building by Stephanie Bryant.
Day Six - Races
Well I probably limit this to my map rather than the whole of the planet. Though it's a fair bet to say comparable to people native similar climates on Earth. Which means the people living in the north-western temperate area on the map will have a basically European look. Germanic and Slavic types in the north shading into more Mediterranean looks as you get further south. There's no sharp dividing line the groups just fade into each other at the edges. (Yes, that's vastly over-simplified but I only have ten minutes).
In the desert region I'm also working on the coastal people have skin the lighter end of dark, dark eyes and straight dark hair. The desert nomads are darker skinned than the coast dwellers while the mountain dwellers are darker still. If you think of the full range of Berber skin tones you'll get the basic idea.
South of the mountains (see map) there will be black people and I will define them at some point in the future but I can only cope with defining two groups this month.
As to how they interact when they meet. The North-western states historically have a complex web of relationships of trade and war (sometimes at the same time) with each other. Recently a re-emergant threat from the north has meant more trade and less war (this threat is a fantasy element so will be defined in the speculative section of the 30 days).
In the desert setting the mountain and coast dwellers don't get on for religious reasons. They used to trade inspite of this until an insident that nearly caused a war. Now they only trade with each other through the desert nomads.
The north-west and the desert dwellers do have contact via a long trade route similar to the silk road on earth (except it travels north-south rather than east-west). As travel times improve and journeys become less arduous peaceful contact will increase and the possibility of non-peaceful interaction increases - though the North-West has its own problems which will curtain it starting something and the Coastal and Mountain desert people are more likely to turn on each other than the North-Westernersunless they start something.
How they interact with other races I'll define as I create said races.
That should do for now.
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Now as promised I've done some more work on the map. I think it's starting to look a lot better. Tomorrow I'll put the contours of the mountains in and figure out the best colour for the sea since I'm not happt with the current shade. Eventually I hope to colour each of the biomes on the map a slightly different shade so I can see where I am. And here it is.
Day Six - Races
Spend 10 minutes figuring out what people who evolved in each major area of your world would look like. Then spend another 5 minutes asking "what if this group encountered that group?" Would they fight? Trade? Both? Inter-marry and blend their genetic types? Would they remain largely separate, with pure strains of both racial groups co-existing (not necessarily peacefully)? How would that encounter be brought about in the first place?
Well I probably limit this to my map rather than the whole of the planet. Though it's a fair bet to say comparable to people native similar climates on Earth. Which means the people living in the north-western temperate area on the map will have a basically European look. Germanic and Slavic types in the north shading into more Mediterranean looks as you get further south. There's no sharp dividing line the groups just fade into each other at the edges. (Yes, that's vastly over-simplified but I only have ten minutes).
In the desert region I'm also working on the coastal people have skin the lighter end of dark, dark eyes and straight dark hair. The desert nomads are darker skinned than the coast dwellers while the mountain dwellers are darker still. If you think of the full range of Berber skin tones you'll get the basic idea.
South of the mountains (see map) there will be black people and I will define them at some point in the future but I can only cope with defining two groups this month.
As to how they interact when they meet. The North-western states historically have a complex web of relationships of trade and war (sometimes at the same time) with each other. Recently a re-emergant threat from the north has meant more trade and less war (this threat is a fantasy element so will be defined in the speculative section of the 30 days).
In the desert setting the mountain and coast dwellers don't get on for religious reasons. They used to trade inspite of this until an insident that nearly caused a war. Now they only trade with each other through the desert nomads.
The north-west and the desert dwellers do have contact via a long trade route similar to the silk road on earth (except it travels north-south rather than east-west). As travel times improve and journeys become less arduous peaceful contact will increase and the possibility of non-peaceful interaction increases - though the North-West has its own problems which will curtain it starting something and the Coastal and Mountain desert people are more likely to turn on each other than the North-Westernersunless they start something.
How they interact with other races I'll define as I create said races.
That should do for now.
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Now as promised I've done some more work on the map. I think it's starting to look a lot better. Tomorrow I'll put the contours of the mountains in and figure out the best colour for the sea since I'm not happt with the current shade. Eventually I hope to colour each of the biomes on the map a slightly different shade so I can see where I am. And here it is.