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[Question] [ Yesterday I closed a deal with a man who claims to be from Haiti, I've successfully bought 5 zombies from him. According to his posting on eBay, the specs are as follows: 1. The 5 zombies belong to a quintuplet. 2. Carbon dating suggests they have been dead for a decade. 3. All of them appear to be middl...
[Question] [ If a person had control over each and every single cell in his body, I.e: 1. Cell growth 2. Cell multiplication 3. Shape and form of cells 4. How cells bond/bind with each other 5. Cell Function **Would they be able to transform to another creature, and regress at will if they wanted to? Say this person ...
[Question] [ Is it possible to weaponize common tap water in some sort of gun? Imagine a basic water gun. It doesn't do much damage at all. But what if we could fire the water out in controlled spurts, at high speeds? Imagine a highly complex water gun. This gun internally controls the amount of water in each shot, ...
[Question] [ So, an island-dwelling stone-age tribe has [discovered gunpowder](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/77880/what-explosives-could-a-small-island-nation-feasibly-discover-without-metal?noredirect=1&lq=1) and invaded several neighboring islands using their [explosive arrows](https://worldbuil...
[Question] [ Assuming that in the not too distant future space travel developed enough, that large numbers of ships and people were leaving the earth's surface on a regular basis. Would this ever reach a point were the amount of mass leaving the earth became dangerous? Would the resulting decrease in mass lead to ch...
[Question] [ The basic idea is that a building (house, business, etc...) would be on a type of foundation that would allow it to be lifted into the air (not by a lot, I'm thinking inches at most) to store energy that is created by a renewable source. The building would slowly and very minutely raise as energy is crea...
[Question] [ There are lots of books that explore immortality outside the context of society. Either they live alone or in a heaven/palace of one sort or another, or they drift from place to place to avoid recognition, or something of the sort. What I'm interested in, and may write about, is a godlike being that lik...
[Question] [ **Does size limit intelligence?** I may make a small, but very intelligent species for a journal thing that I am making. So could a microorganism achieve human-like intelligence? Or a small fly? Or does the brain have to be a specific size for things to be considered intelligent? [Answer] **Does size ...
[Question] [ An idea for a story I’m working on involves a far away world that was once inhospitable. Scientists - likely alien ones - terraformed it so it could support life (coincidentally, Earth-like life). They then introduced new species to the world, species that had been genetically engineered to have certain ...
[Question] [ I'm trying to build a world loosely based on ideas about afterlife in Christianity. In my world God is nowhere to be found and supernatural forces are split into three factions: Hell, Heaven & Purgatory. Each faction has a ruler, and army of angels and human spirits. Michael rules heaven with army of ang...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. *So ...
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[Question] [ In Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel *Red Moon* the first few pages describe a method of Earth-to-Moon transportation that I had not encountered before. The idea is to use a magnetically levitated and accelerated train on the surface of the Moon to catch a spaceship from Earth flying by the Moon at thousa...
[Question] [ The Valkyrie are female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. They take the slain to Odin. In some lore, they provide alcoholic beverages to the slain (so there's that). What politics would have them choose who lived and who died in a battle. Presumably, they don't suppor...
[Question] [ Given a Medieval or Middle Ages level of technology - leather bellows, etc how close could craftsmen come to achieving a near total vacuum in an enclosed space. In context, I'm trying to create a Medieval society capable of producing chemicals through vacuum distillation, ceramic foams through vacuum kil...
[Question] [ Everywhere I've looked, the way we traditionally make a civilization or society feel ancient is by applying ages or architectures from our own history, hence my term "bronzification." A similar problem occurs with Aztec or Mayan structures. Are there more subtle ways to make your audience feel like the c...
[Question] [ How plausible are naturally-evolved, biological, fixed-wing flying creatures? Could such a creature plausibly evolve in Earth-like conditions? If so, what method would it be most likely to use for propulsion, and how large could such a creature realistically become? If such creatures are not plausible in...
[Question] [ In a large body of liquid helium below the lambda point, what would be the best way(s) for submarine like vehicles to achieve acceleration and directional control? I'm willing to accept an answer that invokes a way round the problem, such as intentionally heating helium over the lambda point, as long as ...
[Question] [ My novel deals with a primitive society, geographically similar to ancient Egypt, based on a planet with rings. The society, known as the Motek, have a very strong sense of order -- everything has a place, very structured society, breaking out of your rightful place is sacrilege, etc. The reason for this...
[Question] [ Since Tolkien put people riding on giant eagles in his books (or maybe even before that), the imaginarium of riding the winds on the back of magnificent birds has generated a plethora of images and other media. [Here is one such gallery](https://www.google.com.br/search?dcr=0&biw=1366&bih=610&tbm=isch&sa...
[Question] [ I'm building a fantasy world and I am building the animals that inhabit it. Now I am working on the animals that live in this world, and after building their anatomy, I wonder about their names. I'm not talking about names like 'Chicken' or 'Red Panda' which are often made up names or come from the names...
[Question] [ **Background:** In this modern day we live in, a use and throw away society, production is getting so cheap and complex that in most cases a repair of an item is close to impossible. **Casestudy:** Let's say we got a cooking pot (though it could be anything), and the cooking pot gets more and more exper...
[Question] [ In a future world, where there is almost no fresh water resources left, a radical scientist comes up with an idea to turn all the oceans into fresh water. The general idea is to be able to precipitate the salt, so that it sinks to the ocean bed. Whatever sediment and salt get added through rivers (of whi...
[Question] [ [**Ligers**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger) tend to grow to near 1200 lbs (550 kg). As if that weren't bad enough, that mad tree-hugger xenobiologist, Deirdre Skye, grafted just enough human-derived genetic material to make them a heck of a lot smarter. They live in the [**Wold**](https://worldbuild...
[Question] [ As a series of anatomically correct myths, here we have the Cyclops. One of the most similar creatures to man but with 'one' noticeable difference, one eye. It seems that land animals love their two theme; two eyes, two ears, two sets of limbs, etc. Having two eyes helps with depth perception and a backu...
[Question] [ It is often suggested that if a an imminent crisis was about to occur such as a huge comet strike or Yellowstone erupting, that all the rich people could buy their way into special bunkers to protect them from the fallout etc. Or if it was far in the future, rockets to take them to the next planet. I wou...
[Question] [ I'm sure we can all agree that raptors are pretty cool (most dinosaurs are). But what I think would be really, *really* cool would be a rideable raptor. However, I don't know if this is possible. While I assume that raptors had pretty strong hind legs, I'm doubting whether they have the power to even sta...
[Question] [ In a world big enough for human civilizations as knowledgeable about medicine as ours to develop without contacting each other, how could they initiate that contact without exposing each other to potentially deadly diseases? For example, say a contact team from civilization A reaches the borders of a new...
[Question] [ My world is science-based with an earth-like biology. The dragons fly when they're young and then grow too heavy and can only glide if at all. They breathe fire by expelling gas and igniting it. They are carnivores. See [How could dragons be explained without magic?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.c...
[Question] [ Let's say that at an asteroid mining site, the workers live in a rotating wheel space station that can produce 1g. They use Earth's 24 hour day, and for 8 hours a day, people go to the asteroid to work, which means they experience 8 hours of microgravity. When they're not working, people live in the rota...
[Question] [ Heads up—this is a pretty gross question. The dragons in this world are not reptilian, but rather resemble huge [borzois.](https://www.google.com/search?q=borzoi&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIju3-9LjdxgIVgzc-Ch16OQUD&biw=1280&bih=679) I've not sure how large I want them to be ye...
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[Question] [ If a spacecraft is in low earth orbit ~400 Kilometres above earth. How big does it need to be visible from earth with the human eye without telescopes, with enough of its details to clearly distinguish the craft from stars. // EDIT: The ISS is visible to the human eye as a fast moving object, but its fe...
[Question] [ In my world I have a town seaside where merfolk and humans work side by side. I'm very keen to see actual interaction, not just humans on the land and fish in the sea. I want the merfolk to feel at home and not be stuck like "a fish out of water" (sorry, couldn't resist). These merfolk can breath with bo...
[Question] [ What's the biggest medieval city, in terms of population, that we can feasibly make? That is, take all factors that affect population, and tilt them all in favour of a large population, without exceeding the technological constraints of the middle ages. Somewhat similar to [this question](https://worldbu...
[Question] [ I've read that the atmosphere about 60 km from the surface of Venus is very similar to the atmosphere on earth (the oxygen/nitrogen/CO2 levels and pressures are about the same). If there was a way, to say, create a floating city at that elevation, what would it be like? I understand that the surface of ...
[Question] [ Suppose a planetary system works in such a way that there is a rotating planet in the direct centre of a binary star (the star system's centre of gravity, also known as barycenter), such that the two stars appear to be orbiting around the stationary planet. If the stars are small, and the planet is an ac...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. Thre...
[Question] [ If an average human in build and intelligence were to gain immortality for whatever reason what is the limit to what they could learn and remember? This human is for all intents and purposes a normal human, except they stop aging after reaching the age of 30. Would it matter what year this person was b...
[Question] [ Centaurs are horse-human hybrids. Because they have human elements, we can assume that they have intelligence, culture, and a desire for a comfortable life. A stable that would be good enough for a mere horse just isn't going to cut it. So what would a comfortable residence for a centaur look like? Some ...
[Question] [ Every time a rocket is launched into space, **debris accumulates**. Every time an old satellite runs out of juice, it goes derelict and turns into more junk. Over the years, paint-chips, broken off solar panels, the myriad pieces that result from collisions and from the occasional anti-satellite weapon t...
[Question] [ From my own perspective I don't necessarily see any immediate differences, but I'm newish to the field. What differences have you come across in regard to building for these two different scenarios (an rpg world and a story world), and should a builder consider what the world will be used for before begi...
[Question] [ If magic were to manifest in the modern (present) age, how would first world governments attempt to classify and regulate its usage? To be more specific (and an example), if the USA created a Department of Magical Affairs, what would the primary and secondary concerns of such an agency be? Further clarif...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. Holo...
[Question] [ In a world without enough land for a massive (and growing) population but plenty of water surface, experimental cities have started to spring up along the edges of various continents. The first is a city that is built into a cliff and is supported by oceanic platforms. As their technology and engineering...
[Question] [ Related to: [How would rudder protection against water elementals affect ship's performance](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/206/95) In a world with ordinary magic, military ships should be prepared for enemy fireball-hurling wizards. Is there some special quality required of good sails that mi...
[Question] [ There are three "worlds" in this setting: Heaven, Hell and Midgard, Midgard being Earth and the entire Milkyway galaxy. When a demon or an angel enters Midgard, they can't just walk there, as they need a body to be able to interact with it. If the body is destroyed, the demon is sent back to Hell **with ...
[Question] [ In my world there are adventurers who are squeamish about getting blood on them. Trolls are commonly hunted by adventurers. What trophy can my squeamish adventurers collect from these trolls, and not get blood on them, to prove their kills and collect their rewards from towns?   I just realized that trol...
[Question] [ [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPlIC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPlIC.jpg) This famous tapestry shows all the "modernized" traits of a unicorn--basically just a pale-colored horse with a single horn on its head. Of course, single-horned animals do and did exist: [![enter ...
[Question] [ The year is 2109 C.E my friends and I were caught in a space disaster when the spacecraft we're in broke apart during a daring escape from a patrolling spacecraft. We stole an antique cellphone (from 1999, in good working condition) from a space museum but our escape was interrupted and fortunately we ma...
[Question] [ I have a world with nations with culture/magic tied to each element. The Fire Nation was in the middle of invading the Earth nation when a disease starts to spread rapidly through their nation weakening it's people and indirectly putting a halt to their invasion. The disease doesn't seem to affect the ot...
[Question] [ In this world I'm making, I'm trying to avoid firearms (to keep things like melee weapons more balanced), but also be more industrial. I'm justifying it by the simple idea of 'we never discovered gunpowder'. However, with that void, what's there to fill? Sure, bows and crossbows and such a great and all,...
[Question] [ ## Mission Overview A long-simmering conflict is about to break into open war in more-or-less modern-day Earth. You are part of the staff of an air force general, who is in charge of planning a wave of strikes against major enemy targets in the opening stages of the war. Small teams of officers have been...
[Question] [ I’m trying to build a world with steampunk-level technology, but would like it if compasses didn’t work/exist (or, failing that, if they were prohibitively expensive or difficult to get hold of). The technology level of the world excludes the possibility of it being too advanced a device, so I’m wonderin...
[Question] [ Most Earth cultures — as far as I know — tend to use square or rectangular surfaces to write upon, and similarly our texts are also organized into square and rectangular shapes. However, a culture that writes in circles (as in all the letters fall along the circumference of an invisible circle) would lik...
[Question] [ In my alternate Earth, which follows our timeline almost consistently, I want one of the differences being that the de facto standard for cars is that they have rear steering wheels instead of the front steering wheels we have. With rear steering wheels I mean the two back wheels which give direction to ...
[Question] [ I have invented a large machine that allows me to create monsters out of blood. These monsters are called golems and are very powerful. My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest. To accomplish this, I must acquire live humans to sacrifice to this machine. The p...
[Question] [ So usually the use of tanks is to shoot at other tanks or fortifications. So would a tank be useful against zombies? Would they just use it to crush the Zs? [Answer] **It's the mounting platform for your flail.** If you pull the tank battalion's [mine flail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail) (...
[Question] [ This is a WIP map of a continent in my world: [![Continent map](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WhIrj.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WhIrj.jpg) The small portion of land you can see in the topmost area is another continent, to the north of which the sea is almost always **frozen** and thus almost impossible t...
[Question] [ How could the dictator of a poor to middle-income country without any mineral wealth nor strategic position, stay out of the headlines of the big western media? The assumption is that the dictator doesn't want to change i.e. it still wants to continue oppressing people, don't allow free press, ban opposi...
[Question] [ I am designing a world for high-magic, epic campaign for D&D 5e. I really am feeling this map, and am trying to figure out how the different countries would interact. Right now I have nothing planned for different governments or societies, I am just trying to figure out if this can work. That island in t...
[Question] [ I have a world set in the far future, no specific time for vagueness sake, that is completely war-torn by 2 warring factions. This planet is both sides' last stand, so it's all-out, no-limits warfare. Is there something that could potentially be use on the battlefield that would be noticeable, kill every...
[Question] [ In the prosperous capital of the country where my story is set, undesired babies are discreetly abandoned in the darkest hours of the night on the front door of the guild of Truthers. There, as everyone in the city knows, they will be taken care of and raised as guild members, provided that they do not ...
[Question] [ There is a space ship, flying from planet to planet for multiple years. It is a science vessel, so, once they reach a planet, they do research. But what do they do if they are in transit between planets? If the ship is at a planet, the researchers shall spend all their time researching. So "normal opera...
[Question] [ If 5 million people disappeared at the same time globally, assuming an even spread of random disappearances (not focused in any one location) how long would it be before people noticed there had been a mass disappearance if ever? Assume the person disappeared with the clothes on their back and whatever t...
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[Question] [ Why don't adventurers (and monsters) suffocate in lower levels of dungeons? **Gases in mines and dungeons can be unbreathable** I asked a question about this on Physics to check my reasoning. [Why does Carbon Dioxide not sink in air if other dense gases do?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61...
[Question] [ You gotta admit. That roguish guy you just met at space bar looks *cooler* with cig in his mouth. Not only he always shoots first, but also he manages to do so while puffing awesomely looking clouds of smoke. The problem is obvious. This is not galaxy far far away, nor long time ago. It is our solar syst...
[Question] [ I am designing the geography of a lake in which two rivers flow. Should it have a river flowing from it to the sea or vice versa? [Answer] Normally, a lake will have a fresh water river flowing into it from higher ground, and a river flowing out of it to the sea. ``` Fresh water source ...
[Question] [ I'm building a town that only has access to medieval technology. Nevertheless, the town has its own sewage system that ends in a large cesspit. All inhabitants' wastewater goes into this cesspit. Of course this means that the need to periodically empty this cesspit arises. How can this be done? My proble...
[Question] [ In my world there is only one religion that has existed as far back as written history. There are many subcategories of this religion (Like Christianity has Catholicism and other subcategories) but no completely other religion. How might I explain this? [Answer] This is easy. ## The God of the single ...
[Question] [ The religion of Blablaism recognises a small number of deities. Let's say three. While, strictly speaking, it regards these deities as aspects of a single supreme god (a la [Soft Polytheism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism#Soft_polytheism_versus_hard_polytheism)), it's not uncommon for people t...
[Question] [ One of the factions of my setting has several different races cooperating to form a cohesive society. Being relatively modern, it has a variety of amenities we would consider a part of civilisation, like hospitals, banks, and police(For the sake of the question, technology could be considered 1930s era) ...
[Question] [ The big Empire in my setting has some inspiration from the pre-Islamic Persian Empires, and thus they really like Fire. They were the first to develop fire-magic and all of their priests are educated in the art. These mages use their magic primarily for religious rituals, but occasionally also hygienic p...
[Question] [ Dragons in my setting are significantly smaller and less physically powerful than most depictions. The large males reach about 100 kilograms and just over two meters tall. This means that they absolutely cannot carry a full grown man in the air for any appreciable distance. But despite their more subdue...
[Question] [ I'm looking to investigate one aspect of the "real world" implications of teleportation as a super power, much like I did with [this question.](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/142436/personal-teleportation-as-a-weapon) In this case, I'm trying to figure out the best method(s) for a Tele...
[Question] [ In my sci-fi setting, people live in a gigantic metallic tower. For the sake of simplicity, let's say that each **floor**, or **level**, is a circle of around 200 km radius. Levels can be either empty, full of houses and dismissed machinery, or something in between. Rings any bells? It's ~~a blatant cop...
[Question] [ In my [**previous question**](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/125953/can-the-sun-lose-enough-mass-that-saturns-current-velocity-becomes-escape-veloc), I asked how much mass the Sun would have to lose in order for Saturn's orbital velocity to be its escape velocity. The answer proved to ...
[Question] [ In a world where magic energy and life-force are compatible if not equivalent forces, woodcutting can be a problem in regions with high magic potential. If a woodcutter fells a tree and leaves it, it will grow new roots in about a day. But only if there is some life left in the tree. Trees are still tree...
[Question] [ While I do know that there is no possible explanation for how we might wake someone up from such a long sleep, I was wondering what food would be edible after one million or so years where the humans on board went into cryosleep. I have researched long lasting foods that will last indefinitely, and so f...
[Question] [ A world I am working on has reached a sort of material production singularity. Recent innovations in space mining, artificial intelligence, teleportation, and 3D-printing have allowed for devices known simply as **Makers** to produce any sort of material or structure by constructing it from the atomic le...
[Question] [ My heroine, a wandering loner living a nomadic lifestyle traveling across 1998's western US in an RV, is a supernatural being, known as an immortal, with a great many useful powers. However, none of these powers are particularly effective for combat. While she can easily use her abilities to retreat from...
[Question] [ After creating my version of fantasy slimes (please see [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/191763/feasibility-of-flailing-ooze) and [this](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/196539/what-items-would-benefit-from-the-rubberizing-enchantment) for more on them, they're ca...
[Question] [ My world is very earthlike and I am looking to create a bird that primarily eats bone marrow. I wanted my bird to crack the bones of the carcasses to eat the marrow inside. What would the ideal beak shape for breaking bones and removing marrow be? I was thinking something like a parrot would be best, but...
[Question] [ In my story, the upper class have augmented reality chips in their brains. What would be the point of physically going to work? Why would a corporation have incredible cyberpunk-style mega-skyscrapers if their corporate workers could push papers and hold meetings virtually? Edit: The responses have been ...
[Question] [ * There's a person who has enough working knowledge of our current real-world methods of cryptography (e.g. knows how a few modern algorithms work and could implement one or two from scratch). * That person becomes a member of an alien civilization where people are generally intelligent and educated (in ...
[Question] [ I have built a Tchou-Tchou 'hyperloop' wagon that reaches 310 km/h on a 500 meter test rail. One of my investor customers wants to try the Tchou-Tchou, but I am a bit concerned about his safety. To impress him, the train is configured to reach 310 km/h with constant acceleration after 250 meters, then sl...
[Question] [ My story has magic, and some of that magic involves manipulating pocket dimensions, hammerspace, whatever you'd like to call it. Whether it be a portal to a closet you can access with a thought, or the ability to make objects disappear and make them re-appear later, or a sleeping bag that when crawled in...
[Question] [ I'm thinking of building a very long term heating system for a housing complex. I want it not to rely on sunlight, wind or other fuels. And I just need the heat. The surroundings are pretty cold, so it would be problematic if it went out for any reason. So I'm thinking: 1. No moving parts 2. Long lasting...
[Question] [ My story involves sword of very high quality; they use lasers to cut, but have a metal reinforcement. The monsters the characters encounter and fight have lava as their 'life liquid'. If someone were to cut such a monster, the lava would seep out. This leads me to wonder: **is there a metal with a high e...
[Question] [ Heroes that went to war in medieval time were usually captured by the enemy when they became famous for their prowess, examples are William Wallace or Joan of Arc. That is, unless they were slain by an arrow or any other type of projectile that normally flies over the battlefield. In a fantasy world, wh...
[Question] [ Assume that in a world with current levels of technology much like our own, a developed country with at least tens of millions of people and more than a city-state sized territory, decided that all active duty military personnel needed to be women. Feel free to pick one (e.g. Canada or France) if you fee...
[Question] [ I have reached the stage in my latest science fiction epic (in form if not quality!) whereby I need to start solidifying the date system and setting the history of the universe concretely. The date system should be convenient both for characters to discuss and the reader to understand quickly enough. **T...
[Question] [ **My Idea** I’ve decided that my Dwarves are the foremost experts on matters mathematical and geometrical. Further, they believe that numbers are the key to unlocking the “secrets of the gods.” One idea I have is that they believe the [Platonic solids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid) are di...
[Question] [ In my scifi setting I want a broad range of slugthrowers (bullets, smart ammo, grenades,...), exotic weapons (flame/chemthrowers, high tech blades, nano-bots,...), and directed energy weapons (heat rays, blazers, plasma rays, particle beams, plasma weapons). Since the setting is supposed to be hard-scifi...
[Question] [ I'm going through my novel in the editing stages, and I'm realizing how flat the culture of my food is. How can I develop a good food culture that is believable without drawing too much on human aspects of food culture? The main part I'm struggling with is describing the food. (FYI, my creatures are elf-...
[Question] [ In my world, there are anthromorphic animal people, similar to the ones in *Skyrim*. There are many types, so I will just call them all this. Due to them having fur, most specifically the cat people and dog people, I was wondering how I can have them wear clothing like humans, and if the clothing can hel...
[Question] [ I'm trying to construct a society which has had a narrow miss with a natural disaster that has isolated them, scared them considerably, changed the culture, made many of them preppers, but didn't kill many/any of them. But I'm struggling to build a setting which has the right level of destruction, isolat...
[Question] [ **Premise** I'm creating a pre-history world to attempt to demonstrate an alternative sequence of events. I would like natural forces to somehow make natural selection view intelligence/technology as inferior. At current, it all seems too predictable; the most technologically advanced tribe always wins. ...
[Question] [ Necromancy is a time-honored profession that goes back thousands of years. A necromancer is prized because of the gifts they can bestow to wealthy individuals, specifically the noble class. When someone of noble rank dies, their soul can be transferred to an artificially created body specially constructe...