I deleted Western Europe from my worldbuilding
I don't hate Western Europe, but hasn't that been in fantasy enough often with poor justification and forgetting...
I'll say it one million times if you need:
To get England and Germany, and France, and Spain and kinda Italy, you need a Gulf Stream. How many more times do I need to say it? That far North it would be SIBERIA.
And then worldbuilders yell at me how dare you! You're destroying my world building. Then invent a Gulf Stream, that's it, yes, you Tolkien. Especially you. You need a gulf stream to get Middle Earth to work and be like Germany/England
But also, it's so much done that the rest of the world gets neglected for that, so I thought, "We should reverse it."
I'm justified in doing it because
THERE IS NO GULF STREAM-like structure in my world building.
The continent is large enough North to South, to have monsoons, so I can have monsoons and then that justifies the need for Desi-like culture.
(The requirement for monsoons is large enough continent that reaches into the zones, on Earth this would be Hadley and Ferrel Zones to create Continentality and extreme enough weather. I hope my geography prof is proud of me.)
This would justify Desi-like culture on the continent, and then the Northern reaches of the continent to be more like Eastern Europe and perhaps like Sámi. And as I illustrated in my world building post about Europe without the rest of the world, I really, really like the idea of wooly Rhino and Hippos roaming around and getting hunted. So I'll set Europe back to prehistoric times because that's FUN.
I do have Med cultures elsewhere in the world building but kinda where it makes sense. somewhere near the tropics, where there is likely a current, and between "Africa"-ish, and West Asian0-ish cultural influence, because unlike White supremacist idealization, Roman and so on cultures help that way.
Overall, Western Europe with an Agriculture subsistence system has been so overdone I would really like to see more Rromani-types, etc.
I have some Southeast Asian-ish, Indigenous peoples of North America-ish and (central and South) West Asian-ish and of course Peoples of the Pacific kind of represented. (Prof Egan would say something like I taught you all of that and you didn't apply it?)
The most technologically advanced in the world building as a nod to real world events are of course West Asian and Indigenous people. (All hail the Sweet Potato) Massive historical crush on Al Andalusia. I'm not doing that whole noble warrior crap. In my mind, if you can change the gene structure of a potato, you deserve it.
Best navigators, are of course the Polynesians-esque peoples.
Why? Because I may as well use my anthro degree to give great credit to things that people forget to include in fantasy and try to attribute to white people instead. Why not reverse that? Stepwells. water screws. The domestication of plants that seem near to impossible.
Western Europe would be nothing without wheat! Domesticated where? West Asia. So why not actually do world building around celebrating the whole of humanity.
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