Let's Build a World: Day 6 - Races

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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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It's Day 6 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over Day 6: Races from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Time to get out those notebooks (yesterday's map too) and start today's exercise:

Spend 10 minutes figuring out what people who evolved in each major area of your world would look like. Then spend another 5 minutes asking "what if this group encountered that group?" Would they fight? Trade? Both? Inter-marry and blend their genetic types? Would they remain largely separate, with pure strains of both racial groups co-existing (not necessarily peacefully)? How would that encounter be brought about in the first place?

You might find the following websites helpful for completing this exercise:


List of Topics in Evolutionary Biology - wikipedia

Biological rules:

Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographic rule that correlates latitude with body mass in animals.

Gloger's Rule is a zoological rule which states that within a species of endotherms, more heavily pigmented forms tend to be found in more humid environments.

Allen's rule states that endotherms from colder climates usually have shorter limbs (or appendages) than the equivalent animals from warmer climates.

Cope's rule states that population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time.

Foster's rule (also known as the island rule) is a principle in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment.


Have you populated your plot with a variety of characters, Nano Writer? Come back tomorrow to put a historical spin on things!