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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3696504" data-attributes="member: 2205"><img src="http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f158/jdyal/smilies/rant.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />  Latin names for animals are always italicized, the generic name is always capitalized, the species name is not.  Uh... sorry.  Pedantry aside, your assumption is incorrect; fantasy worlds---unless specifically defined as such---are not other planets millions of miles from earth.  They are imaginary alternate earths.  If you're going to go down that road, you have to also explain why you have humans Homo sapiens sapiens.  And if you have humans, you have to explain how you have all the related animal family that lead up to humans.  You're better off not imagining the question; that's coming at fantasy from a science fiction perspective, which doesn't really work.  Fantasy---originally (and by this I mean from a Tolkien or a Robert E. Howard perspective) was either in a forgotten, mythological time of our own earth, or is basically an alternate earth.  NOT another planet.That being said, I see where you're coming from, and in my own setting, I've done much of that.  Humans are not actually native to my campaign setting, and the only familiar animals are those that came with humans thousands of years ago.  Many of which have gone feral and spread, but that's beside the point.  The "native" fauna is all very alien.  Kinda Barsoom-like, actually.</blockquote>

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