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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3951545" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>And we have this happening. Dragons seem to be a natural candidate for first sentient in the world and the adaptive radiation of the various dragon species would support this. We can assume that the proto-dragon did not have a breath weapon* (beyond an acidic spit perhaps) and that certain other factors including their size, territoriality and greed worked to mitigate the impact of proto-dragons on other evolving races. (*the breath weapon evolves later due to exposure to magic)</p><p></p><p>Now taking into account <em>'the adaptive value of intelligence, tool, and magic use"</em> the threat posed by the evolving Proto-Dragons could in fact have encouraged other species to evolve sentience and magic use as protective mechanisms ie the smark monkeys escaped to breed another day and thus give rise to Homininds </p><p></p><p>It may also be that certain proto-dragons underwent dwarfism and emerged as the first Lizardfolk and at the extreme end Kobolds</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Convergent force is of course magic which needs to be accounted for somehow but for now</p><p></p><p>If we take H. heidelbergensis as the Proto-humanoid we can assume that he was ancestral to both neanderthal (Dwarf), H. Sapiens (Human) and H. Sidhe (Elfs = Homo Sapiens who were exposed to magic). Hey it might be a twist if H. heidelbergensis were Orcs thus making Orcs the ancestral progenitors of Humans, Dwarfs and Elfs! Halflings I'd leave as H. Flores (ie Dwarf H. Erectus). A population of these wandered into a high magic extradimensional space and so became Fey, a robust form of Fey later returned to the Prime and became the first Gnomes. </p><p>IMC goblins are Amphibians however I can see the logic of having Goblins as Australopiticus with Hobs and Bugbears being more robust forms. Ogres and giants of course evolve from Gigantipethicus and any convergence (and interbreeding) is due to magic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 3951545, member: 1125"] And we have this happening. Dragons seem to be a natural candidate for first sentient in the world and the adaptive radiation of the various dragon species would support this. We can assume that the proto-dragon did not have a breath weapon* (beyond an acidic spit perhaps) and that certain other factors including their size, territoriality and greed worked to mitigate the impact of proto-dragons on other evolving races. (*the breath weapon evolves later due to exposure to magic) Now taking into account [I]'the adaptive value of intelligence, tool, and magic use"[/I] the threat posed by the evolving Proto-Dragons could in fact have encouraged other species to evolve sentience and magic use as protective mechanisms ie the smark monkeys escaped to breed another day and thus give rise to Homininds It may also be that certain proto-dragons underwent dwarfism and emerged as the first Lizardfolk and at the extreme end Kobolds The Convergent force is of course magic which needs to be accounted for somehow but for now If we take H. heidelbergensis as the Proto-humanoid we can assume that he was ancestral to both neanderthal (Dwarf), H. Sapiens (Human) and H. Sidhe (Elfs = Homo Sapiens who were exposed to magic). Hey it might be a twist if H. heidelbergensis were Orcs thus making Orcs the ancestral progenitors of Humans, Dwarfs and Elfs! Halflings I'd leave as H. Flores (ie Dwarf H. Erectus). A population of these wandered into a high magic extradimensional space and so became Fey, a robust form of Fey later returned to the Prime and became the first Gnomes. IMC goblins are Amphibians however I can see the logic of having Goblins as Australopiticus with Hobs and Bugbears being more robust forms. Ogres and giants of course evolve from Gigantipethicus and any convergence (and interbreeding) is due to magic [/QUOTE]
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