🥀Ash Requiem🥀

- wearing a suit and tie

- TV/screen head

- long nose

- sharp teeth

- bright primary colors

- funky text gimmick

- redemption arc

- breaks the 4th wall

- can grow claws

- freakishly tall

- can change sizes

- extroverted

- needs consistent and frequent validation

- wearing a suit and tie

- TV/screen head

- long nose

- sharp teeth

- bright primary colors

- funky text gimmick

- redemption arc

- breaks the 4th wall

- can grow claws

- freakishly tall

- can change sizes

- extroverted

- needs consistent and frequent validation

Hey everyone, Abby here with another post! Today we’re talking a bit about world-building, and specifically your world’s intelligent species. Let’s hop right in!

Let’s start with some definitions.

I’ve made a post in the past about creating new species in your world, and here’s what I want to start with. Within the context of this post, I’m defining race as any variation of an intelligent species for ease of language. That in mind, you will want to have your species developed.

Some Basic Questions to Start

There are some aspects that you just have to answer questions for in order to develop. Here are some basics for you to start with:

What is the origin species?

What defines a different race? Skin color, abilities, some physical marker? Something non-physical?

What is most known about this race as a fact?

What is most known about this race as a stereotype?

Are there any common variations within this race?

For Dungeons and Dragons players, think about the Dragonborn race. Different scale colors don’t mean a different race, but they do mark different abilities.

There may be common variations in appearance, like different eye colors or heights, that don’t have any other meaning. Just regular physical variation!

Are there any skills or other characteristics specific to this race?

What distinguishes this race from other races that may exist in your world?

How much interaction is there between different races?

Are there any areas of the world that each race tends to gravitate to?

Are there different expected life spans for each race? If they are different, why?

For example! In the RPG I’m working on, Journey to Valeria, there are two races in the Steerean species: shallow and Reclusive. They share a similar origin species, but different characteristics have created other aspects enough for them to be considered different races. As a result, I’ve developed them as two separate races with their own characteristics.

Go ahead and compare this to some aspects of DnD as well! The game does an awesome job of distinguishing between races and making each one unique, and I find that looking at things in context helps me a lot.

Write out what you think is important.

You, as the creator of this world, are also its master. What things outside of just answering questions do you think is important to know right off the bat? For one of my races, I wrote about camouflage in the environment and some elements of magic because I think those are things important to the development.

These could be topics like:

History

Associated cultures or religions

Temperaments, if applicable

Strengths and weaknesses specific to this race

And anything else that you think is important. As I’m developing the races on Steere, I’m thinking a lot about how different races interact with the world, how they use technology, their general lifestyles, etc.

Usually when you create a fantasy race, your goal is to make this race as well-rounded as possible. Creating an intelligent species, much less several different variations of one, can be very difficult! This is something that will take time and a lot of thought, but it’s vital to the process.

I talked about Journey to Valeria a bit more than I anticipated I would, but what can I say? I’ve been on a kick lately, and I like talking about the things that matter to me. If you’d like, you can follow the project’s blog @journeytovaleria​ to see more updates and development!

If my work helps you or your writing, please consider supporting me by joining my Patreon!

Asking who is older between spamton and tenna is like asking what came first the chicken or the egg? Tenna is a VCR CRT I know this because of these two lines from him.

Because of this he is most likely from the mid to late 80s. Supposedly he’s spent his whole life at the dremurr household and was most likely there before Kris was a kid too. 

no other equipment implies it’s built in AND the antennas look like they are attached on and not built in

But I believe spamton is from 1978 because it lines up with both the release of billy Joel big shot and the first sent spam email.

Okay so this means that Tenna would be younger than Spamton. But it’s heavily implied Tenna mentored Spamton. 

Plus Tenna doesn’t know how to use technology yet Spamton does. 

So Tenna Must be older than Spamton…right?

WRONG.

Spamton is a spam email and is most likely able to move from computer to computer because of this. He’s apart of the internet while Tenna is just cable tv. Spamton knows about new tech because of this mobility while Tenna just stays still in the living room. These two are close enough In age that it enabled them to learn things from each other. Spamton learned showmanship from Tenna and Tenna learned what’s hip with the kids within the 90s. It’s also implied heavily that Tenna wanted Spamton to introduce him to whoever was on the phone in order to become big too and after Spamton did that Tenna was probably gonna make him a co-host. Spamton already had commercials airing so him becoming co host was probably what he meant by “I was gonna put him on tv”

But this begs a new question. When was the laptop. Brought into the house? It would had to have been brought in during the late to mid 90s and brought in by someone who is close to the dreamurrs. At first I thought it was December but I’m pretty sure they are closer to Kris’s age. I have no ideas on who owns the laptop.

edit:

I almost forgot Tenna also is insecure about the fact that he copied spamton and does not like being compared to him

Except...

This ONE random news ticker.

"YOU DON'T NEED [TV] TO WATCH LIVE CHANNELS!!! GET ALL THE [$#&*] THERE IS AND FROM ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN!!!!"

Which is just... all of Tenna's anxieties and fears in one concentrated douse. This is the worst thing he could've ever read, or worse, know that like a million people have read. It would devastate him.