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Wherein I begin to discuss the matter of animals.
One of my favorite ideas that I came up with has to do with completely separate evolutionary tracks on the northern and southern continents. To summarize and over-simplify: the northern will be twos, and the southern will be threes.
The northern continent is where my civilized humanoid biped species is going to develop (the one that speaks that language). They, along with pretty much all of the animals who evolved on that continent, will have either two, four, or eight limbs/digits per limb if relevant, bilateral symmetry, etc. So my elf people (they have pointy ears, it is easy to just call them elves), they have two arms, two legs, four fingers/toes per hand/foot, two eyes, a nose with two nostrils, a mouth, two ears.
There will be quadripeds too, of course, of various kinds, and large insects of various kinds which I have not really thought too hard about yet (and when I say large I do mean large). Lots of antlers, which I shall cover at a later date.
One major impact that this will have on the culture is that their numerical system will octal, not decimal. This could, likely will/would, have a strong impact on their technological advancements in the realms of computing.
And then there is the southern continent, where instead of twos, there are threes. Animals will either have bilateral or tri... trilateral? symmetry. Limbs and digits and sensory organs will come in threes. Three, six, or nine limbs/digits being the most common, along with three eyes, etc. (This means, by the by, that it could evolve dragons! Whee!)
The primary significance of this is that occasionally, some of these trinary creatures will make their way over to the binary continent, fueling the mythologies and legends of the elves. Three will be a significant number, but associated with monsters and the unnatural. Two and four, on the other hand, will have positive significance.
The northern continent is where my civilized humanoid biped species is going to develop (the one that speaks that language). They, along with pretty much all of the animals who evolved on that continent, will have either two, four, or eight limbs/digits per limb if relevant, bilateral symmetry, etc. So my elf people (they have pointy ears, it is easy to just call them elves), they have two arms, two legs, four fingers/toes per hand/foot, two eyes, a nose with two nostrils, a mouth, two ears.
There will be quadripeds too, of course, of various kinds, and large insects of various kinds which I have not really thought too hard about yet (and when I say large I do mean large). Lots of antlers, which I shall cover at a later date.
One major impact that this will have on the culture is that their numerical system will octal, not decimal. This could, likely will/would, have a strong impact on their technological advancements in the realms of computing.
And then there is the southern continent, where instead of twos, there are threes. Animals will either have bilateral or tri... trilateral? symmetry. Limbs and digits and sensory organs will come in threes. Three, six, or nine limbs/digits being the most common, along with three eyes, etc. (This means, by the by, that it could evolve dragons! Whee!)
The primary significance of this is that occasionally, some of these trinary creatures will make their way over to the binary continent, fueling the mythologies and legends of the elves. Three will be a significant number, but associated with monsters and the unnatural. Two and four, on the other hand, will have positive significance.