The Quick Questions About World Building Thread

Maybe there are a lot more chimeras. I'd guess they're created on purpose; Maybe they take multiple sibling zygotes, see which would have a better what, and mix them to make a better whole. Which genome goes to which organ is controlled, but the less important parts like hair are allowed to mix more or less randomly.

Not sure what that is in response to, but chimeras have odds of rejection. They can end up messed up with auto immune disorders pretty easily. So that is a bad idea if you have access to a genetic engineering lab you can use instead.

Microchimeras, that is. If the person was a chimera already at the embryo stage self-immune tolerance mechanisms would apply. Chimerisms that are suspected to play a role in autoimmune disease usually form much later.

Yeah. I just assumed. The body's mechanism for immune tolerance is not something I studied. Oops.

How would a Chinese, Korean and Japanese player react over a game containing Chinese, Korean and Japanese deities at once?

How long can a society advance technologically without the need for a writing system? As in, can they develop architecture without the need of writing things down?

I had come up with the idea of a society of people that, due to circumstances, was just starting to re-develop their culture. A few centuries, by the time the 'story' would start, they would have been able to create relatively compex buildings out of stone, paved roads, works of art like sculptures, and even temples and monasteries. They develop a numerical system, but don't write things down (they use paintings and drawings as a way to record history, and trade materials and products instead of using money). This would come up in the story in a situation when the protagonist admits that she can't read, to a newly made freind that does, and finds her illiteracy outrageous.

Is this a possible situation? I considered to change it so that all the infrastructure was there, and this society just used it (keeping the "don't have a writing system"), or that they did develop a writing system but due to staying isolated for a very long time, they can't read anything else (and keeping the point in the story more or less the same, with the protagonist saying she can't read what her friend does).

Murazrai: REALLY BADLY. Both Korea and China have REALLY bad histories with Japan from World War 2—being lumped in with the country that committed war-crimes against them probably won't go over well.

And then the DIASPORA Japanese/Chinese/Koreans in America, Canada, and [Insert non-Asian country] wouldn't react well either, because it automatically feels like some random Westerner decided to have Interchangeable Asian Cultures.

I'm wondering about two things:

• is the idea of a fantasy setting being based on a semi-medieval tribal world seem interesting to you?
• how can I avoid making my fynari ( fair folk or fairies)from being your typical connected to nature kind of elf like people?

Are your fairies supposed to be the sort of orange and blue fair folk types?

It depends on what you mean by connected to nature. Here are a few ideas I had, but never used:

1) A certain fairy species comes from the dream world, where they live as shapeshifting hedonist gods, to the real world, where they aren't even close to be as powerful. The reason they started coming is because the "realness" of the real world attracts them, regardless of how much power they have in their homeland. Colors, scents, flavors and event their own emotions are more intense over here, to the point many develop addictions to different things in our world (eating apples, stargazing, reading, etc.). However, by their dream-like nature, inhabiting the real world harms them, and engaging into their addictions worsens this process, resulting in death.

2) Another species of fairies finds us humans as alien as we find them. Out of curiosity, they sneak into human communities in search of pregnant women and infest babies, then start behaving as its soul. While incarnated in a human, a fairy may not have access to all if any of its memories or knowledge from its previous life, but sometimes it can forget what it is and end up developing non-human traits likes unnaturally colored eyes, hair, or maybe even stranger characteristics such as horns or tails. In more civilized places, where the races are more aware of each other's presence, fairies may even be invited to possess the unborn by the mother herself, with faerie-born helping each other and their families.

Regarding specifically not being connected to nature, you could have your faeries be born from the actions of humans, especially from their works. For example, in a modern setting, if you keep your TV for twenty-something years working, maybe it'll expontaneously develop sentience and sprout a faerie body. In a medieval setting you likely could have genie loci out of old castles and the like.

I apologize for interrupting something but I have a worldbuilding question.

• What if massive amounts of future technology from a alternate Earth in the future (2500) was sent to our times via an interdimensional transporter?

Depends on what sort of technology it is, how user-friendly it is; how many paradigm-shifting technological advances it makes use of.

Oh and if it's self-supporting (like how smartphones would be derived of most of their functions if knocked back a hundred years, as that time period lacks the needed infrastructure, such as Internet, cellular towers, easy electricity production.).

Time is one type of dimension, so I'd not say interdimensional transporter. Otherwise, it'd depend on where it arrives and what it actually is.

The technology is quite advanced and user-friendly such as these pleasant examples:

• Drinkable and injectable human augmentations.
• Strange passports which allow you to escape crimes.
• Highly advanced weaponry.
• Robots that are designed for military and consumer use.
• Teleportation machines.
• Copter hats.
• Databases the size of a smartphone.
• X-Ray spectacles.
• Powered military armor.
• Machines that create artificial humans.
• And other things from the year 2500.

@Septimus Heap: Well, I'm pretty sure one of the required secondary superpowers for time travel is the ability to travel through space, because the Earth rotates and orbits around the Sun, which in turn... orbits the black hole at the center of our galaxy, right?

@Huthman: It also depends on how it arrives in our time. The effects would likely be different if all falls off a hole in the middle of the ocean, or a desert, or a single country, or spread around the world.

Well I have to answer that top you, it is spread all over the world.

Hmm. Like I said: it depends heavily on how many paradigm-shifting technological developments are between the modern and future tech.

Imagine how useful a supercomputer would be to people who don't even know how to electricity works, let alone programming and the engineering behind computers.

I'm mostly talking about long-term societial effects of course- the easier it is for us to replicate the technology, the faster it will become integrated into broader society. If the technology is too advanced then it might take quite some time for engineers and scientists to puzzle out how it actually functions.

In a short term basis is imagine that governments would immediately attempt to obtain as many parts as possible; funding into science would explode.

The public would probably react to some of them divisively to the human augmentations/artificial humans aspect, but it's really difficult to predict how society would react to a large number of very different pieces of technology showing up.

The future tech was sent to the year 2015. I think the effects would be worse because people would start to abuse it and cause mass chaos and death.

@582: Even if the game features deities all over the world and those are just a small fraction?

The headscratcher here is that some developers actually get away with it. Elemental Story, a Japanese mobile game, has a Taiwanese version with Japanese deities in the game intact (the very first draw is in fact Amaterasu). Tower of Saviors is similar on that regard, albeit being a Hong Kong mobile game instead and some of the deities are grouped with deities of other origins.

yo, is the idea of tribal fantasy setting seem interesting to you?

I don't feel anything particular about it.

edited 20th Sep '16 9:05:49 AM by murazrai

Can questions regarding fanfic projects be asked here as well as independent projects? Wanting to be sure.

Not allowed here. Sorry Troper above

Oh yes, here is my question: What would happen if a city under a firmament suddenly collapsed and invaded by forces of Nihilism led by the Parasite and a army of evil Theriomorphs, Parasite-spawn criminals, anarchists, robots and mutants?

Is there any way to make a believable justification for a government-funded Amazon Brigade?

In my story Protectors, a Deconstructor Fleet for the setting of superheroes, I have this plan for a spec-ops unit consisting entirely of young women. Dubbed the "Artemis Unit". As all of them were homeless or were orphans, they were "inducted" into the program because no one would miss them if they disappeared. Obviously, there's a lot of baggage that comes with this.

However, I'm trying to come up with a reason why the government would only use women for the program. I can't see men in a unit called named after the Greek goddess Artemis. Is there any sort of reason that a government would only select females, who are inducted as teenagers, to become Super Soldiers?

Granted, I don't need it to be realistic because this setting isn't aiming to be entirely true-to-life for obvious reasons, but a believable reason would be nice.

If the tasks of this unit include covert operations behind enemy lines, and if the presence of women in the military is not very common in this setting, a female special unit has the advantage to be unsuspected. On the contrary, if the female presence in the army is very common you do not have this advantage (the enemy will search for both male and female covert soldiers), but the existence of a female unit would not need a special explanation I think.