Introduction to Domil
Jun. 22nd, 2011 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steorran_woruldeIn my introductory post, I mentioned my main imaginary world, which I'm calling Domil, though that is not necessarily a permanent name. In this post, I'll give a bit of an overview of some of the basic characteristics of Domil.
Domil is in many ways an earth equivalent. It is astronomically equivalent to earth - equivalent sun, same size, same orbital and rotational periods, same axial tilt, same size moon with same orbital and rotational periods. It has many of the same types of life - plant and animal - as earth, but also some different ones. I currently have a map only of a roughly Europe-sized portion of it, so there's plenty more world that I know essentially nothing about. However, the geological and biological history of Domil are probably not earth-like, even if they have earth-equivalent results.
In Domil there are several varieties of hnau. The ones I'm currently certain of are are Humans, Great Eagles, and a group of little people that I need a current working name for; at one time my working name for them was Tree People and I guess I can stick with that for the time being.
Humans are humans. There's nothing that particularly distinguishes them from real-world humans.
Great Eagles are eagles that are considerably larger than the largerst real-world eagles. I worked out a size estimate for them once, but I don't have it handy, and I may very well end up re-evaluating it. (Argentavis, a prehistoric bird variety that represents the largest known flying bird, may be a useful piece of data in determining plausible sizes. Also Haast's Eagle, an extinct species of eagle from New Zealand that's the largest eagle known to have existed - much much smaller than Argentavis.) One mental difference they have from humans is that they don't have hot emotions, only cool/cold emotions. They have a vocal language, but their vocal apparatus is sufficiently different from humans that they cannot reproduce the sounds of human language, and humans cannot reproduce the sounds of their language.
Tree People are humanoid, but are only about 6 or 7 inches tall. Unlike humans, they lay eggs and hatch from eggs. Their lifespans are considerably shorter than humans; they reach maturity at age 5 and live until about 20. They have squirrels as domestic animals; I haven't determined yet whether it's plausible that they ride squirrels, or only use them as pack animals. They keep a kind of spider from which they harvest spider silk and use it to spin and weave a very fine mostly-transparent waterproof cloth which is highly valued by humans.
Domil is in many ways an earth equivalent. It is astronomically equivalent to earth - equivalent sun, same size, same orbital and rotational periods, same axial tilt, same size moon with same orbital and rotational periods. It has many of the same types of life - plant and animal - as earth, but also some different ones. I currently have a map only of a roughly Europe-sized portion of it, so there's plenty more world that I know essentially nothing about. However, the geological and biological history of Domil are probably not earth-like, even if they have earth-equivalent results.
In Domil there are several varieties of hnau. The ones I'm currently certain of are are Humans, Great Eagles, and a group of little people that I need a current working name for; at one time my working name for them was Tree People and I guess I can stick with that for the time being.
Humans are humans. There's nothing that particularly distinguishes them from real-world humans.
Great Eagles are eagles that are considerably larger than the largerst real-world eagles. I worked out a size estimate for them once, but I don't have it handy, and I may very well end up re-evaluating it. (Argentavis, a prehistoric bird variety that represents the largest known flying bird, may be a useful piece of data in determining plausible sizes. Also Haast's Eagle, an extinct species of eagle from New Zealand that's the largest eagle known to have existed - much much smaller than Argentavis.) One mental difference they have from humans is that they don't have hot emotions, only cool/cold emotions. They have a vocal language, but their vocal apparatus is sufficiently different from humans that they cannot reproduce the sounds of human language, and humans cannot reproduce the sounds of their language.
Tree People are humanoid, but are only about 6 or 7 inches tall. Unlike humans, they lay eggs and hatch from eggs. Their lifespans are considerably shorter than humans; they reach maturity at age 5 and live until about 20. They have squirrels as domestic animals; I haven't determined yet whether it's plausible that they ride squirrels, or only use them as pack animals. They keep a kind of spider from which they harvest spider silk and use it to spin and weave a very fine mostly-transparent waterproof cloth which is highly valued by humans.