In my story Smughitter the setting's history involves Empire of Pel Daxas conquering the Rikstorin Peninsula, and it's very loosely similar to the way that Rome conquered into regions of Western Europe. Eventually Pel Daxis lost power and the region splintered into five different countries.
This means that in my setting there's two noticeable human ethnicities, the people who are from Pel Daxis, and the people who were already on the Rikstorin Peninsula. And of course, most people have some ancestry from both groups.
It's also possible that the empire of Pel Daxis had large groups of people from a third or fourth ethnicity from other parts of its empire outside the relevant map. And of course trade can bring people from all over the world.
The implication is that the Rikstorins were white and the Pel Daxians are shades of brown. It's just history though, with a tertiary social backdrop. It's supposed to be a way to make things diverse. Does that work or do I have issues (significant or precautionary)?
Anyways, I was looking for ways to make humans more magical, and I thought I might do it through bloodlines. The idea I'm toying with - and might end up scrapping, not sure yet - is to have a handful of family lineages possess small physical or magical properties. Some of the bloodlines would go back through Pel Daxis, and some different ones would go back through the Rikstorin people. Each bloodline would only affect a few people from that ethnicity, and everyone else would be normal.
Does that create issues? What kind of bloodlines would be okay vs. too much?
For an example, there's a scene in ASOIAF where Davos is visiting an island in the North and speaks to someone who has webbing on their fingers because of a bloodline running through that region. I'm hoping to create scenes with similar details, maybe more magical.
This means that in my setting there's two noticeable human ethnicities, the people who are from Pel Daxis, and the people who were already on the Rikstorin Peninsula. And of course, most people have some ancestry from both groups.
It's also possible that the empire of Pel Daxis had large groups of people from a third or fourth ethnicity from other parts of its empire outside the relevant map. And of course trade can bring people from all over the world.
The implication is that the Rikstorins were white and the Pel Daxians are shades of brown. It's just history though, with a tertiary social backdrop. It's supposed to be a way to make things diverse. Does that work or do I have issues (significant or precautionary)?
Anyways, I was looking for ways to make humans more magical, and I thought I might do it through bloodlines. The idea I'm toying with - and might end up scrapping, not sure yet - is to have a handful of family lineages possess small physical or magical properties. Some of the bloodlines would go back through Pel Daxis, and some different ones would go back through the Rikstorin people. Each bloodline would only affect a few people from that ethnicity, and everyone else would be normal.
Does that create issues? What kind of bloodlines would be okay vs. too much?
For an example, there's a scene in ASOIAF where Davos is visiting an island in the North and speaks to someone who has webbing on their fingers because of a bloodline running through that region. I'm hoping to create scenes with similar details, maybe more magical.
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