That seems reasonable if it isn't producing like you expect. Definitely agree that it isn't as collaborative worldbuilding as it could be the way we were engaging with it. Still, I gotta say, that even running non-optimally it was producing stuff that I was interested in seeing where it went.
Feel free to hit me up if you need bodies for a live test though. I'm interested in seeing how this works out when it is running properly.
COUSINS OF THE SEA: a culture of Duende, Jotnar, and Rusalka
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*since we didn't discuss fertility elsewhere I'm going with the Rusalka being single inheritance interfertile with both the Jotnar and Duende resulting in larger pale coloured or smaller green coloured Rusalka. The Jotnar and Duende are not interfertile because that would just give us Abratu, and basic humans are boring
Thinking about biomes and major geographical features at 2am last night (as one does) it occurred to me that major rivers seem to be missing. Given how places like the Amazon, the Mississippi, or the Nile can be civilization defining features as well as acting as major transportation paths and barriers to fauna movement it seems like they might make a worthwhile addition to the bits of geography that the game cares about.
To the northwest of the quaking grasslands where lava flows into the ocean a tribe of Fauns began using shards of obsidian to head their spears. Their long history of endurance hunting (chasing prey until it literally collapses of exhaustion) smaller deer now allows them to hunt the aurochs too. Though they have a nomadic lifestyle, they periodically return to the border of the ocean to refresh their supply of obsidian - broken shards of which can be found at any of their campsites. They call themselves the Rezzu (The Running People).
Some fungal symbiots have formed to provide protection against the lung spores. These generally have their fur or scales replaced by hard fungal plates. A couple examples are an armadillo-like mammal with overlapping fungal plates and reptilian creatures with large hardened cap mushrooms as a turtle-like shells.
Very pretty. The elevations definitely help explain why there are some semi-abrupt changes in biome.
I like the idea of herbiovores being related, the ones in the snakeland are probably a breed that tends towards massiveness as a defense against the constrictors. Possibly these aurochs have elaborate horn formations that differ between sub-species that are used primarily as mating display rather than for fighting or defense (Thoughts being inspired by the elaborate variations in frills of the Ceratopsian dinosaurs).
I6 - Fungal Shrubland: Unlike most 'shrubland' this area is warm and humid most of the year from moist winds blowing down off the ocean. The flora is sparse with 1/2 - 1 meter tall bulbous capped mushrooms occasionally breaking up the terrain along with stringy tufts of enoki mushrooms. The bulbous capped mushrooms are hostile to most other lifeforms, secreting a substance into the soil that impedes normal plant's growth and, during the dry season, emitting spores that grow in the lungs of animals slowly clogging the lungs and killing them. Animals have two main forms of adaptations to protect themselves from the spores. The first is separate breathing and digestive tracts with efficient filters over the breathing apparatus. The second is a hybridization with another fungus which has replaced scales and fur with fungal plates, these plates draw nutrients from their host but provide protection (they are quite hard shelled) and resistance to the killing spores.
F8 - Snakes in a Plain: These lush grasslands are a vibrant green during most of the year turning to a bright red when dry season desiccates the dominant grass. The grasses grow well partly owing to the fact that only one large species grazes this area. The lumbering 5 ton hairy humped quadrupeds wander solitarily except for breeding season feeding on the grass. They owe their dominance to the fact that the entire predatory ecosystem of the grasslands is dominated by serpents and they are the only creature to be resistant to the extremely potent venom of a territorial viper. Snakes fill the usual predatory niches from ambush predator to quick chaser, even taking to the skies with a species that springs into the air before unfurling flaps that allow it to glide and dive down on prey. There is even a huge constrictor which attempts to prey on the young quadrupeds crushing them and then carving off chunks with its razor tipped tail to swallow. No mammalian predatory species manages to compete and most of the mammalian herbivores are small rodentlike creatures ranging from miniscule to hare sized.
