Welcome to the Traveler's Guide. The Guide is intended as a setting bible and general guide to my worldbuilding projects.
As a note to other authors and artists, you may change and/or use the setting information here in your own stories; all content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (Canada) license.
Setting Pages
In addition, there are pages for Humanity (about humans in my settings), Intelligence (thoughts on the nature of intelligence and, more specifically, how I've treated it herein), and the Most Curious Tables (demographic information for species and nations).
This setting guide is a work in progress; feel free to email me (Gren; gren@grenslair.com) if you want to comment on anything.
I will use the rest of this page to explain the style I've used through the rest of the pages in this section of the Annex.
Style Guide
The psychological traits listed for species are tendencies and biological baises, but they are not absolutes; 90% or more of that species possesses the trait.
Where no mention or illustration of differences from humans is made, it should be presumed that the species is akin to human in that respect. For example, most species give (live) birth to a single child.
Information is written in a definitive way (drius are 6'3”). This is an average; individuals often vary from this and sometimes by large amounts.
Cultural comparisons are made against my own background, which I admit is not always useful to others.
Notes of Things That Need to be Fixed
There comparisons that are made without it being specified what they are being made to; this should be explicitly stated (they will almost always be in comparison to humans)
Psychological traits are sometimes mixed in with physical traits of a species and should be separated.
Much of the content in this book is in need of a going over before it is ready even to be edited. In addition, a few areas (notably in the nations section) require another level of heading.
General notes to self: names for at least the larger islands would be nice.
