Recent content by D. Gray Warrior

Well, they can use ink, but since they lack opposable thumbs, they are not able to make tools, so using blood for ink is just more practical for them.

Well, they are capable of writing, but they use their claws. Instead of ink though, they use the blood of prey they have killed. They have their own writing system, but it might be more like Chinese with different characters representing words and ideas rather than letters. They do have their...

Both of you raise good points and have given me things to contemplate. I picture the Gryphons as living mostly solitary lives. Usually, Gryphons will only be found living together when it comes to reproduction and raising offspring. Since they lack human limbs, they wouldn't have civilization in...

The story I'm working on is political and military fantasy, and in their world, there are Gryphons. The Gryphons are as intelligent as humans, but cannot replicate human speech, so they communicate primarily through body language. The Gryphons are rode by soldiers, and comprise of a special...

How does geography affect architecture? The main region for my world is warm and subtrppical, so what would architecture look like? I'd imagine they would use a lot of wood for housing, but I was wondering if mudbrick is plausible?

Someone mentioned that it would be difficult for a desert planet to develop a breathable atmosphere like we have, unless it was initially an earth-like planet. I was thinking of having geysers that erupt and they contributed to the development of the atmosphere. The fact that there are arable...

I am considering it being an earth-like world in the distant past, and was the center of an ancient extraterrestrial civilization. Later it was desertized (that's a word now), and the natives were already nearly extinct by the time humans arrive and colonize it.

I've considered something like that, with the planet being a penal colony, but later the descendants of the criminals got together formed civilization. I think minerals and ores are what originally attracted people to Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. I admit Tatooine is the inspiration for...

I presented an idea for a conworld set on a desert world, and someone brought up that no one would live there, it would be terraformed if that is the case, and a desert planet could not sustain civilization. My world is a futuristic setting with humans settling the planet. What about the...

I'm trying to create ethnolinguistic groups for my conworld. The particular region I'm currently working on will either be temperate or subtropical. What physical traits are ideal for those climates?

I want to base the world on SE Asia because they don't get nearly as much attention compared to China and Japan. Like you said, I do have a problem with some of the Asian symbolism in a fantasy world. Just because the fantasy world is Asianesque doesn't mean they would have yin- yangs and Toriis.

Naturally, the elites are going to be the top dogs of your society. However, who the elites are depends on what that society values. If they value knowledge, then scholars will rule, or warriors if they value the strength and tactical knowledge. If your society is religious, then the...

That's another thing, they have martial arts in their world, but that's almost stereotypical IRL.

I rarely give definite numbers, I prefer approximate numbers. Since population is always increasing and declining, I think it's best not to have a definite number. I have one fictional culture set in our world that has a predominantly English majority because they're pirates. Another world...

I want to build a world loosely based on East and Southeast Asia, but I have run into a problem. I don't want to copy and past countries like China and Japan into the setting and just give them different names. I actually want to design the cultures and have plenty of room for creative...