Re: Homanii - Dysonspace Original Race

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sat 05 Mar, Novamaster wrote:
> One question: Why did they lose their hair?

That is in the write-up for Dysonspace - mis-leading answer - too
much sun tanning! [grin]


> Dreamer wrote:
>
> >This is a basic write-up of one of the races that I intend to use
> >in the background for Dysonspace, that I am writing up. What I
> >wanted to check was, how similar is this to other, existing SJ
> >races, as far as anyone knows?
> >
> >You will probably guess that I am going to see if I can make them
> >credibly Progenitors, who are the reason for all the humanoid
> >races around in SJ.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >Homanii - Dysonspace Original Race
> >
> >These were hairy, pelted, humanoids, and were the construction
> >experts among the three main original races who created
> >Dysonspace. Rather than being human (homo sapiens) they resembled
> >orangutans ('forest person'; pongo pygmaeus). As a race they were
> >interested in all sorts of construction, and how things were
> >made, including living things. They lived in cities made from
> >bio-engineered trees, which produced a wide range of fruit, all
> >year round, edible bark, or were places where the insects that
> >they ate flourished.
> >
> >There were many homanii sub races, adapted to living in different
> >environments, including on and under the ground, rather than
> >mostly in trees. All of these sub races were hairy and pelted.
> >They ranged in size from goblins to giants. The homanii also
> >blended other races with their own, in particular the sauranii,
> >producing the elves, the illithanii producing the mind flayers,
> >and the barakanii producing the gnomes and dwarves.
> >
> >It is thought that the loss of (most of) their hair produced a
> >form of racial hysteria in the homanii and their sub races, and
> >some died out, some became vicious, and some became solitary. One
> >of the most successful at bouncing back from this racial shock
> >was the humans, though these regressed to a state of savagery
> >which lasted many millenia. Many of the races have a racial
> >memory or a legend of a time, a golden era, when all lived
> >together in harmony.

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