Honestly I cannot say I am surprised, but is pretty neat! Did Sapkowski state that somewhere or can it be read? Cause I’d love to see that!
why do multiple different species evolve into crabs? Or trees?
One thing that stopped me getting more into the Witcher is the fact that the real world is ‘canon’ in it. It’s not a feature I like in any fantasy setting that isn’t centred solely on earth.
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My explanation, such as it is, is that the Highborne who passed through Tirisfal picked up a bit of residual Curse of Flesh from the Old God stuff in the area. Elves do be picking up ambient magic like a sponge…
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I want to say Lady of the Lake? It’s mentioned that humans originate from another world, and then Ciri ends up visiting Our Actual Earth at different points in history during her plane hopping sequence, so it’s strongly implied that the humans are Earthlings who got trapped in the Continent.
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From somebody whose main species evolved from birds into something humanesc but there is actually deeper lore as to why they look that way now.
But they still in the end evolved to be human-looking.
I just take it like crabs and trees.
That just raises more questions!
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I also don’t like that earth is in the Pathfinder setting and I do NOT want to acknowledge Irrisen.
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Aah fair. I for some reason thought that she just visited our world coincidentally but that there was nothing more to it than that. But you are probably right.
That’s my headcanon explanation too, yes. The transformation of night elves into high elves I can only explain in a Doylist way (i.e. Blizzard copied D&D races for WC2 without thinking about it too much, and then decided they wanted to do something more original).
I don’t think there are any that are improved by its inclusion when it’s not the focus. At best it’s a “huh, neat” thing for me, at worst (Forgotten Realms) it’s a detriment to my enjoyment.
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in my main LARP setting, humans have more in common with rocks than they do apes and I think that’s beautiful
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One element of Tolkien lore I categorically refuse to accept is that Arda is supposed to eventually become our world.
No.
My headcanon Arda is wholly separate from Earth, full stop.
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I did like the premise of The Shannara Chronicles where earth nuked itself and humans split into the fantasy races (so some evolved into elves etc.)
Too quick mind you, they managed it in 1k years but it is what it is.
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Yeah, I tend to just ignore that too. It doesn’t compute in my brain and I’m not gonna try to force it to.
Radiation is basically magic when it needs to be.
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I was thinking that as i walked away from my keyboard.
Read Shannara as a lad, wasn’t a lot of it due to radiation? God i forgot that setting existed.
Yes probably
(In answer to Elenthas above)
I could not get through the first book personally.
Started playing the Outer Wilds recently on recommendation from a friend
4 hours in and it’s really unique