I was reading this article.
It's about a moratorium being placed on the development of partly human animals or chimera. Â It occurred to me that perhaps something like this, the deliberate altering of genes might be what gave rise to the different races of Hydaelyn. Â
The game makes it fairly clear that all of the player character races are genetically compatible, meaning they are essentially the same species. Â It's hard to imagine how all of Hydaelyn's people came to be so different through a natural process and still remain genetically compatible.
Surely the technology existed at one point. Â Some Hydaelyns were in space, on the moon and beyond in the past. Â I've just been presuming that the various races came about because of magic or some other supernatural intervention. Â It hadn't occurred to me that it might be something done deliberately long ago for reasons that have been lost to time.
The development of Chimeras would have to be a painstaking process and one strictly controlled. Â But what it were not? Â Wouldn't it be easier to create monsters? Carnivorous plants, semi-intelligent dust balls, violent gopher people, kangaroo people, giant crabs, and so forth.
It's not a knowable thing, so that's why it's unnecessary speculation. Â That aside, what does your character think - if anything - about the origins of the races? And in addition, what does your character think of the semi-intelligent or semi-sentient creatures of Eorzea?
It's about a moratorium being placed on the development of partly human animals or chimera. Â It occurred to me that perhaps something like this, the deliberate altering of genes might be what gave rise to the different races of Hydaelyn. Â
The game makes it fairly clear that all of the player character races are genetically compatible, meaning they are essentially the same species. Â It's hard to imagine how all of Hydaelyn's people came to be so different through a natural process and still remain genetically compatible.
Surely the technology existed at one point. Â Some Hydaelyns were in space, on the moon and beyond in the past. Â I've just been presuming that the various races came about because of magic or some other supernatural intervention. Â It hadn't occurred to me that it might be something done deliberately long ago for reasons that have been lost to time.
The development of Chimeras would have to be a painstaking process and one strictly controlled. Â But what it were not? Â Wouldn't it be easier to create monsters? Carnivorous plants, semi-intelligent dust balls, violent gopher people, kangaroo people, giant crabs, and so forth.
It's not a knowable thing, so that's why it's unnecessary speculation. Â That aside, what does your character think - if anything - about the origins of the races? And in addition, what does your character think of the semi-intelligent or semi-sentient creatures of Eorzea?
Carne armum ergo sum.
