D&D General How To Reconcile the Settings

[Zardnaar]

Well whatever culture you displace is kinda offensive I suppose.

Maybe in the Ukraine area.

It's because the cultures in the Ukraine went extinct years ago.

Old Ukraine also went further west and was fairly depopulated at one point

 

[Arnwolf666]

Oh For Pete sake. We all know that Orcs are the d&d equivalent of Klingons. And Klingons are great warrior invaders with an evil empire.

 

[Tonguez]

Oh For Pete sake. We all know that Orcs are the d&d equivalent of Klingons. And Klingons are great warrior invaders with an evil empire.

But, but Worf!!

 

[Nellisir]

Side note: homo sapien is generally a mixture between cro magnun, denisovan, neanderthal, and an exceedingly small amountbof a couple other hominids with the lions share made up of cro magnun. Then of the reming small amount a HUGE portion of that tiny leftover is denisovan and neanderthal with an even smaller amount being made up by very tiny quantities of other hominids sprinkled in. We are actually quite an unusual hybrid species. Quite weirdly, sub saharan africans lack neanderthal DNA. Really quite odd. Just happens to be a thing. Basically we are all cro magnun with a little sprinkling of other stuff in there though.

Cro magnon is an archaic name for us, homo sapien sapien. Not a different species. Neanderthals & Denisovans are our cousin, or sibling, species. Sub-Saharan africans lack Neanderthal AND Denisovan DNA admixture because both of those species were located outside of Africa; only populations that migrated out of Africa met them.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I havent looked into it yet (have been meaning to) and so i dont know if its true, but I've heard that just a few hundred years ago it was actually uncommon in europe to not be fully multilingual.

I expect it depends if you include England or not...

 

[generic]

I expect it depends if you include England or not...

I actually read an interesting research paper a while ago that hypothesized that the decrease in multilingualism in European countries happened as a result of English becoming a pseudo-Lingua Franca of the West.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Cro magnon is an archaic name for us, homo sapien sapien. Not a different species. Neanderthals & Denisovans are our cousin, or sibling, species. Sub-Saharan africans lack Neanderthal AND Denisovan DNA admixture because both of those species were located outside of Africa; only populations that migrated out of Africa met them.

Cro magnun are considered anatomically modern, but it would be a mistake to not consider them different. They had clear differences.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I actually read an interesting research paper a while ago that hypothesized that the decrease in multilingualism in European countries happened as a result of English becoming a pseudo-Lingua Franca of the West.

I find this likely

 

[Nellisir]

Cro magnun are considered anatomically modern, but it would be a mistake to not consider them different. They had clear differences.

You'll have to take it up with the scientists. It's an archaic term with no formal taxonomic status. When it is used, it specifically references European early modern humans (EEMH), and isn't applicable outside of Europe.

 

[Tonguez]

You'll have to take it up with the scientists. It's an archaic term with no formal taxonomic status. When it is used, it specifically references European early modern humans (EEMH), and isn't applicable outside of Europe.

EEMH are considered to be Robust physique form whereas modern humans tend to be Gracile, they are entirely human but have some traits that differ due to behavioural adaptions (Or rather CroMagnons hadnt adapted yet) including the larger skulls (stronger jaw for chewiing meat, larger brain cavity but smaller cerebellum) and denser bones and hip joints for long distance foraging. Recent Humans became more Gracile probaby due to development of agriculture and sedentary living.

generally though there are around 127 extant human lineages and there may have been more that are now extinct.