CCC Land Grab

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Lyhoko Leaci wrote:I2 > I1 > G2, with Batti for my claim.

Climate map, assuming small strips of land/water missing from the polar areas:
The one criticism I have is that on the island I'd created there's supposed to be a mountain range extending along the eastern half of the island into the north-western part.
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I think Lyhoko only marked those regions that looked high enough to have an "alpine" climate, superceding the normal expectations of the latitude. My continental fragment is meant to be pretty rugged (similar to Indonesia or the west coast of North America), but the mountains are low enough to be covered in woods, grass, scrub, and so forth. I would assume its the same with your island.

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I like the climate map (can't make any criticisms of it, I'm afraid). Glad to see I guest well for the Amphibimorphs.
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Many thanks to Lyhoko and Catdoom for the climate maps.

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I'm gonna take the island at V4r, although I'm skeptical that such a small island would be all desert. Maybe golem ruling class and human underclass (although I doubt I'll actually make anything out of it... I just want to grab land before it all disappears).

If someone could make a map which shows the claimed spaces, that'd be pretty cool btw.

While I'm at it, I wanna make E9 a dragon space.

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Are we combining species within a culture? In which case I might have an idea.
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This map should have the (primary) land grabs so far... please make sure I recorded yours correctly.
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I'll take P10 with the golems, if De Graut doesn't mind. Presumably created by the nightpeople. Alternatively I'll take O11. Golems should withstand cold relatively easily, so the northern ice, unlike our Antarctica, could still maintain a civilization.

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A suggestion: if you make the planet unusually dry, cold or hot, that would explain very easily why golems are the dominant species: they may simply be able to live in many more places than the other species can.

[Personally, I'd have put the continents in more polar positions, so that there could be great polar expanses of pure golem civilisation, then temperate golem-other interaction zones, with the non-golem societies exiled to the few bits of warmer land nearer the equator]

Of course, we come back again to the piecemeal nature of the project. It would really make sense if everyone discussed where the different species originated and why they are dominant (or not) before plunking down random civilisations all over the place.
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Humans at J -2 please.

Yeah, I don't want to kill myself with golems. Suppose one can expand from selected square?


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Well, apparently my dragons prefer coastal and cold regions. Both squares with them in are in taiga and near water. so, they could supposedly have once been marine predators, given their rubbery skin (I actually had this sort of thing in mind). I'd imagine they could once have been more widespread, but displaced in recent millennia by golems, say.

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Why golems are dominant seems quite easy to explain to me: ex post facto it could be said that they have this huge advantage of not needing to eat, not needing shelter, or water, and being more or less impervious to disease and death during childbirth, and having huge lifespans: therefore, it would just take for golems to have made very many golems back in the day for there to be a large number of golems.

I agree that it all feels very kitchensinky right now. Maybe this is the nature of the beast here? I agree that in all art composition is as important, if not more, than just throwing elements into the canvas: but the fun part of the conworld here could be reconciling the results of this chaotic kitchen sink methodology? kind of like when someone just draws a squiggle on the paper and then, out of the random squiggle, the challenge is to produce a meaningful drawing.

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I think Torco has a good idea here.
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Can you save the map files as .png? .gif ruins the colors and is only really good for animated images. (also note that my .png climate map is about 1/5 the size of the .gifs)

It's hard to tell which squares are which species (and Rob's turned a color that isn't even marked in the key...)
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Rob didn't indicate what species he wanted, which is why his square is a weird color.

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Mine looks like a weird colour, and not the golem colour, but that might just be the transparent colour interacting with the colour on the layer below.
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Humans at K7r please?
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Does it seem ironic that shadow creatures (Khsinesir) are living in a desert?
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Ahzoh wrote:Does it seem ironic that shadow creatures (Khsinesir) are living in a desert?
lots of sun - clouds + rocks or something = shadows

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clawgrip wrote:
Ahzoh wrote:Does it seem ironic that shadow creatures (Khsinesir) are living in a desert?
lots of sun - clouds + rocks or something = shadows
I suppose they will be like those winged creatures from Pitch Black, they'll be hiding in caves, but wait till night and you're fucked.

Suppose it's too late to add some details to my species?
I was going to have:
They can teleport between shadows, for example, if there was a shadow behind a rock, and another rock with a shadow behind it, they could telpeort between them, in fact that's how they travel during the day, otherwise the sun would literally set them alight. They are fatally photosensitive.
Though they have a magical ability which grants them incredible heat resistance, enough to be able to hold and shape molten metals with their hands.
The Ḵsīnesīr like heat and will live in hot regions, and volcanoes even...
Mind you they often keep to themselves.
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I think that, given the distribution of species we've got so far, the hardest thing to explain will probably be how a civilization of nightpeople wound up on that arctic island. The species originated in a desert region, which so far looks like it was probably in the south of the big continent, and it's a long way from point A to point B. They are mysterious and sneaky, though, so the most satisfying answer might very well be "nobody knows..."

For what it's worth, my current thinking is that my species (the Cynocephali) originated on the southern part of Lyhoko's continent during a colder period, during which it may have extended further southwest into the shallow sea surrounding my continental fragment. I'm basically imagining their most immediate ancestors as analogous to earth's cave hyenas, roaming an ancient region of tundra steppe. They may have had trouble adapting as the steppe transitioned into forest during the current climatic era, which made it easier for other, more adaptable sentient species to displace them.

Looking at the map, maybe the "dragons" arrived first, taking over the valuable coastal territories and driving most of the Cynocephali into the interior. Subsequently, golems arrived and probably started mining the mountainous interior for valuable minerals, coming into conflict with the remaining Cynocephali, who were ultimately all-but eradicated. The remaining survivors have adapted to life on those (relatively) southerly islands that the dragons weren't as interested in.

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The amphibimorphs arose exactly where they are. There are in fact many related species spread across the globe.
The amphibimorphs are the only ones to adopt their young the way they do, though most ther traits are shared. The krauk, the most closely related species, breed in rivers, the young go out to sea, they come back and, instead of being adopted, they hang around until they develop legs. They then leave the rivers and search out a krauk family to be "adopted" by. Though by this time they are adults and don't need raising.

My own theory concerning amphibimorph sentience, and possibly their adoption practices, is that an ancient, extinct civilisation, god, extraterrestrial or conworlder came along, chose a species and tampered with it, creating the first amphibimorphs.
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It would probably be easiest to say the Batti developed right around the place that I picked for my civilization/group/whatever. Nice and warm, and should be plenty of food available, and it's easy to get to without having to worry about flying into a tree.
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For the golems, there is a black tower in the tile I chose, covered in symbols. This is where the golems come from. They have forgotten how to read the symbols or enter the tower, but they know it is very important.
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Matrix wrote:For the golems, there is a black tower in the tile I chose, covered in symbols. This is where the golems come from. They have forgotten how to read the symbols or enter the tower, but they know it is very important.
It could be like the Kaaba, and golems of various kinds go on a hajj to visit it :D

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