2003.06.09
2003.06.09
i’ve been working a bit on the world building project. i’ve created a new race, tentatively called the lekthis. they are an arborial people, long and thin and very reclusive. i was inspired by a picture i saw online somewhere. i’d post it but i don’t know who to give the credit to, so i won’t. it’s fun to work on their manners and culture and peculiarities… and it reminds me that i should also stop looking at the world i’m developing in the large scope all the time and get to focusing on one particular time period so i can develop some stories i can actually work on.
i also came to the realization that my elves, though they may evolve in what i call the valley (a very large "dent" in some mountains), there is no way they would develop a sophisticated culture there because the area is too small for them to diversify ideas, technology and culture. it would probably remain in a state similar to many of the pacific island cultures; fairly primitive. (disclaimer: this is not to say they are simple -some have very complex social cultures- but they would never develop global thermonuclear war games, or even conceive the possibility).
so at some point in their prehistory there has to be an exodus. as the nearest and greatest expanse of land for them is to the north and east, i need to start focusing on developing that area more for the earlier advanced cultures (the equivilent of babylonia, assyria, et al). it’s not something i had *wanted* to do, but it is something that i will *have* to do. nechci, ale budu musit (to use very base czech… i’m so rusty!).
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