It seems to me that because Felarya 'connects' so so many worlds and universes, that there would be some variation in the humans that are in Felarya. Variations caused by such things as a harsher sun, making skin almost black and (much) thicker. Height variations caused by a slightly higher or lower gravity. Different colour skin, ie: Blue, green this can be caused by a number of things, (plant symbionts for example). Bark-like skin again possibly due to plant symbionts or naturally. Much longer arms and/or legs. Exceptionally good (or bad) night vision. Sight in other spectrums like ultraviolet, infrared etc, caused by a sun that emits in a slightly, or vastly different spectrum, this would be coupled with things like skin colour and thickness variations (because light is a spectrum, there is a great potential for variation here). I almost forgot to mention tails, extra limbs (mutation. there have been people born with them).
As yet, I haven't come up with any 'races,' but i thought it would be interesting to see what people thought of this. I believe Felarya deserves more than just what can be found on this Earth.

that' interesting, and here's where fantasy meets the human imaginaton. being able to come up with ideas to warp our own species in felarya seems interesting. spider-webbing all these different connected species and planets could get hectic though.

I would feel more comfortable doing it on a PC. since im using the smallest laptop ever >_>

spider webbing all the places the differently evolved humans come from would take a while. At what level would a human still be a human with all the mutations they might have?

Sounds like you're using anime / Sci-Fi physics humanity development instead of regular. For example, a plant-like human? That's putting them in a different Kingdom completely than regular humans, so you couldn't call them "humans" any more. They'd just be human-like.

For some of the other things, they make more sense. Heck, I've got amongst my own characters some people who were "Void"-born (several generations in low- / no-G environments). They might work a little better, but in their cases they wouldn't be humans who evolved on that planet but were introduced later (as otherwise, again, they would not be human. Furthermore, they'd have evolved differently due to environmental factor).

Cultural changes would be good, though. And preferably not a cliche thing, such as "Aztec Planet" or "Nordic Planet".

well a lot of ideas stem from manga and anime. (this I know I said in a different thread, but to reject the fact that we get drawing styles and ideas from anime and manga is to deny the felarya manga itself...*place rant stop sign here*)

And people wonder why Felarya's called "High Fantasy"

Anyways, just beware doing something cliche is all I ask. Try to refrain from making Kryptonian Humans, "We are the people Aztec from the planet Aztecistan", "We are a dimensional hunters working to protect the stability of the Multiverse", etc.

My opinion on single culture species...

observer88 wrote:

A one-culture world sounds like fail to me. I don't think they'd have an entire planet to themselves.

A species' homeworld would almost never be a "single culture" world. To be a "single culture" world requires that communication and travel to any part of the world be very cheap any easy, and this would not be the case in the thousands of years before the invention of modern technology. Even our modern travel speeds are probably not fast enough to create a single culture world, especially not when there are thousand year old entrenched cultures.

A single culture world is probably possible for a colony of a space fairing species; it would require that all the inhabitants either come from the same culture, or be descendants of the same culture, but so long as travel is fast (like planet wide maglev trains) and communication is easy (an internet), I think it would be unlikely for a "culture fracture" to occur.

Now that I think about it, there is a way to have a "single culture" homeworld: one culture exterminates all the others. Basically, you could have a single culture homeworld if that culture was like the NAZIs.

Felarya vs. the Planet of the Nazis? Sounds like the best B-Movie ever.

Hey, the Nazis were into the occult. Wonder how WWII would have turned out if they used portals to Felarya as weapons...