Mothyards
Scribe
So I’m coming across a bit of an issue with a story I’ve been writing, without writing paragraphs of how they come about (though I’m happy to if you ask lol)
I have monsters that end up forming from people. Think werewolves, vampires, etc. many of the monsters I’m either using or made have a very European style to them, however I was also thinking about introducing monsters from other parts of the world such as kappa, a yoki from Japanese myths and legends. And while there’s some amount of regionality, werewolves tend to be born near forest, I don’t want it to be a hard rule. This introducing monsters from other parts of the world that don’t seem like they’d fit in as well seems a bit of an issue.
My question is how would you handle that? I have a bit of precedent that having creatures like a kappa being born more towards regions where the Japanese analogous people are from isn’t entirely out of the question, but it would feel weird to make them only from that region.
Would you just say yes regionalise them? Maybe make them found first in that region thus their name is the one that stuck? Maybe just scrap the idea and say screw it only Europe world (which I’m hesitant to do because I like having people from all over in my worlds)
I have monsters that end up forming from people. Think werewolves, vampires, etc. many of the monsters I’m either using or made have a very European style to them, however I was also thinking about introducing monsters from other parts of the world such as kappa, a yoki from Japanese myths and legends. And while there’s some amount of regionality, werewolves tend to be born near forest, I don’t want it to be a hard rule. This introducing monsters from other parts of the world that don’t seem like they’d fit in as well seems a bit of an issue.
My question is how would you handle that? I have a bit of precedent that having creatures like a kappa being born more towards regions where the Japanese analogous people are from isn’t entirely out of the question, but it would feel weird to make them only from that region.
Would you just say yes regionalise them? Maybe make them found first in that region thus their name is the one that stuck? Maybe just scrap the idea and say screw it only Europe world (which I’m hesitant to do because I like having people from all over in my worlds)
Myth Weaver
Sage
