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<blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 8372577" data-attributes="member: 57494">In my setting, of the core 7 races/lineages that make up what the world views as the &quot;Civilized Peoples&quot;, only 4 of them are mammalian. I've been building up the &quot;species&quot; in a sci-fi approach, knowing what they evolved from. Sometimes, the drastically different biologies have made big changes to the personalities, outlooks, and societies of these peoples.For instance, one of my liniages are amphibians. They can tolerate salt and fresh water, their eggs need to be laid in a large pool of circulating water, and their larval stage is fully aquatic; those set a lot of baselines for their society. But, an even bigger change for them is they are born &quot;male&quot; and become &quot;female&quot; only if thee dominant female in the group passes (this is regulated by pheromones and limited by age). This has lead to them, more or less, having a genderless society, having a very different view of relationships, friendships, and romance, and entirely different concepts of family. They're also quite cold tolerant and have great regenerative abilities (over long durations, not combat regeneration) and no external genitalia, so clothing has developed differently (you wouldn't want cloth dragging you down in the water and constantly having to dry it off all the time going in and out).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Xeviat, post: 8372577, member: 57494"] In my setting, of the core 7 races/lineages that make up what the world views as the "Civilized Peoples", only 4 of them are mammalian. I've been building up the "species" in a sci-fi approach, knowing what they evolved from. Sometimes, the drastically different biologies have made big changes to the personalities, outlooks, and societies of these peoples. For instance, one of my liniages are amphibians. They can tolerate salt and fresh water, their eggs need to be laid in a large pool of circulating water, and their larval stage is fully aquatic; those set a lot of baselines for their society. But, an even bigger change for them is they are born "male" and become "female" only if thee dominant female in the group passes (this is regulated by pheromones and limited by age). This has lead to them, more or less, having a genderless society, having a very different view of relationships, friendships, and romance, and entirely different concepts of family. They're also quite cold tolerant and have great regenerative abilities (over long durations, not combat regeneration) and no external genitalia, so clothing has developed differently (you wouldn't want cloth dragging you down in the water and constantly having to dry it off all the time going in and out). [/QUOTE]

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