Loren’dil ideas

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Loren’dil

For a baseline description of this world, check out Banestorm page 22.

That was as it was a thousand years ago.

What might it be like now, assuming a current year equivalent to 2014 AD and development separate (or mostly so) from other timelines?


Here's one possibility, very rough and incomplete:

Loren’dil

Earthlike planet with very extensive forest biome, several species of trees bigger than anything growing on Earth

TL 5 for Halflings
Lower TL is typical for the other races.


Mana: Low for most of the world, small areas of Normal mana (faerie rings and enchanted groves)


Race notes
(minority and isolated cultures exist within each race)


• Halflings
Dominant civilized race
TL 5 with vertical tree farms, underground factories, percussion rifles, iron stoves and sophisticated chimneys/vents, canning/bottling of food, paper mills, balloons, etc.
May hire larger, stronger races as workers.

• Minotaurs
more social than Yrthian cousins
Many live in a reservation after losing wars with a coalition of other races.

• Centaurs
Pastoralist culture, seminomadic
flightless bird herd animals produce eggs, meat, and feathers (used for cloaks, ornaments, etc.)


• Giants
Reclusive deep woods folk, foragers and gardeners, often keep bees and drink mead, some who trade with Halflings use big guns, typical house= huge log cabin


As far as wildlife goes, it ought to resemble stuff on Earth, and yet be different from both Earth and Yrth. No horses, as noted in Banestorm.

I'm thinking of using Dougal Dixon's After Man, with the forest creatures being by far the most common but the other types existing in appropriate regions (Loren'dil has lots and lots of forest, but woodlands don't cover the entire planet-- at least, not in my version)


Any thoughts on this stuff? Alternative suggestions? Material you've developed for you own version of Loren'dil?