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I've got loads of worldbuilding notes on tumblr. Though I am expanding them as I go.
Notes: "Sea People" and "Mountain People" are obviously not the names of the two groups - it's just what I call them in my notes until the language is developed enough.
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Free-form thoughts on this world I’m building.
So there’s mountains and a coastal desert - presumably west of the mountains since that’s how such things usually work (but see below) and a coastal salt marsh/mangrove around the mouths of the rivers which flow down from the mountains (this world has a greater variety of halophytic plants than Earth (due to the higher tidal effects meaning more land is intertidal to some degree) so the habitat is more diverse).
While the Sea People do make use of the rivers for fresh water and some irrigation they cling to the coast because they have a major religious taboo against farming too far inland even though the river fringes could be farmed. Indeed they mostly farm halophytic crops and have learned to farm fish and shellfish in their mangrove orchards as well. Given their lack of mineral resources and the fact that salt is murder on most metal they probably still use stone implements for agriculture.
I’m prevaricating between having the sea people live in an actual coastal desert or it being an inland continental desert with the sea being an inland sea like the Aral Sea and the taboo actually acting as protection by stopping the Sea People drawing too much water and drying it up. Tidal effects tend to be *much* lower in inland and mediterranean seas but with two moons, a large enough sea and gods hanging around (this is a fantasy setting) I might be able to manage something.
Okay, I’m out of thoughts for now. Any thoughts?
Notes: "Sea People" and "Mountain People" are obviously not the names of the two groups - it's just what I call them in my notes until the language is developed enough.
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Free-form thoughts on this world I’m building.
So there’s mountains and a coastal desert - presumably west of the mountains since that’s how such things usually work (but see below) and a coastal salt marsh/mangrove around the mouths of the rivers which flow down from the mountains (this world has a greater variety of halophytic plants than Earth (due to the higher tidal effects meaning more land is intertidal to some degree) so the habitat is more diverse).
While the Sea People do make use of the rivers for fresh water and some irrigation they cling to the coast because they have a major religious taboo against farming too far inland even though the river fringes could be farmed. Indeed they mostly farm halophytic crops and have learned to farm fish and shellfish in their mangrove orchards as well. Given their lack of mineral resources and the fact that salt is murder on most metal they probably still use stone implements for agriculture.
I’m prevaricating between having the sea people live in an actual coastal desert or it being an inland continental desert with the sea being an inland sea like the Aral Sea and the taboo actually acting as protection by stopping the Sea People drawing too much water and drying it up. Tidal effects tend to be *much* lower in inland and mediterranean seas but with two moons, a large enough sea and gods hanging around (this is a fantasy setting) I might be able to manage something.
Okay, I’m out of thoughts for now. Any thoughts?
