--- ERIC SORTUN  wrote: > Hey
Paul,
> 
> I am going to look over everything this weekend.  I
> have to think about the
> Rock Nomes and the Lok Nomes.
> 
> Gills might be a little too much...I could see them
> becomg fantastic sailors
> and having a great affinty for water...being able to
> hold thier breath for a
> long time...and having water magic that would
> enhance this ability...gills
> are a stretch.  How and why did the Rock Nomes come
> back from the
> Dagorthoria?
> 
Gills weren't critical to the concept, which was
amphibious nomes. They left Dagthoria aboard a single
galleon, in search of a life in the promised land.
When they got there, they discovered it was one of the
islands.

> How would Blue Dragons and northern humanoids
> interbreed?  Why would they
> want to?  Why would these offspring look like nomes
> and be nomes?
> 
Blue dragons have just enough magic in them for them
to be able to turn into a Shaw Nome once every 500
years, most don't bother, but those that do tend to
rape a female from the local village, the result is a
creature with Nomish and other blood, the Lok Nomes
are descended from those who married other mixed blood
nomes over at least five generations.

> Also, I am having some trouble with the relatedness
> of the sub species.
> What do they have in common?  With such different
> origins I a wondering how
> they can be one society.
> 
I see your point, they aren't technically a single
species, but the societies have developed a symbiotic
relationship, so that in practise they are one
Society.

> I do like the Brick Nomes and Shaw Nomes.  I just
> need some more detail and
> logic behind these "sub-races" being one society.

As I said before, they started off as five dispart
societies, but have become totally interdependant over
the years of the "Great March", as they call the
emigration from the ancestral lands of the Shaw to
Nomia, where the Lok had been gathering Nomes of all
creeds and had even hoped to include Dwarfs.

> Semper Fidelis
> 
> Eric M. Duncan Sortun
> University of Alaska Anchorage
> Natural Science/Biological Science
> asems@uaa.alaska.edu
> 
> "Be Aware And Tread Lightly"
> http://www.duncansortun.com
> 

Semper Fidelis
Paul Corrish
Player of Nomia

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