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One of the more popular and lower production cost shows that most people enjoy despite only a few watching (and taking and sharing clips of) revolves around mundane things in supernatural or fantasy settings, each season has a different greenscreen background in the introduction sequence, depicting the setting. The appeal comes from each episode having a self-enclosed adventure with small funny skits dotting the playtime

If your world has them, what are your setting’s most popular tv, radio and web shows?

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Ok, so imagine pockets, but instead of them being on the inside with a hole on the outside, they are on the outside, with the holes being on the outside as well, like the extra pockets on cargo pants

Are any past fashion trends viewed with embarrassment by the people of your world? If so, tell me about them! 

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Well, since there are far too many to list off (and even more I want to add) I'll just do three of them

Firstly, it would be considered canabalism to eat a serae, but those that have had it prepare it like we would prepare pork chops, though they are a little tough due to an overall lack of fats in their body

Next are the bauksa, which fill an agricultural niche like cows by producing two products (one of which is meats, who have two distinct types of meat that you can get: a softer, more flavorful cut, or a more steak-like cut, found on the legs, back and neck of the dinosaur-like creatures

The first cut is often cut like bacon, into long, thin strips or cubes and tossed into a soup as the premiere ingredient, or turned into jerky to better preserve it

The second cut is either served as the entire thigh, as a family meal or something for a large celebration or party, though smaller portions are cut into slabs with lighter cuts on each side, to make more seasoning stick to it as it gets cooked, these seasonings being like pepper and something a tad spicy, like our jalapeños, then putting that mix onto a dry sheet and into the oven to cook, with a break halfway through to flip it over. When being served, it's almost always on leaves and topped with a mix of a few mushrooms and onions with potatoes, or whatever you can improvise

For worlds with fictional species: How would you cook or serve a dish containing this species? 

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It was actually one of the first interactions between two species: the Serae and the [place holder name] reavers

It was referred to as the "first interspecies war" and had technology like that if the Renaissance period folks warring with greeks that were just then starting to develop boats and naval combat

Later on, this would be the "year zero" of modern calendars, with the day of first contact being their version of January 1st

It was a rough start to the two getting along well for the most part, until the reavers realized they got the short end of the stick in the treaty of peace

When was your world’s earliest recorded war? Who fought, where and why?

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In the common tounge (or universal language) of the world, there are two words for love, one being platonic (pronounced like yacht) and said often between many people, occasionally used to address strangers to appear more friendly

The other is a closer, more passionate form of the former. (said like yacht, but you pronounce the 'ch') it's commonly said between lovers and parents and children, but rarely strays far from that use

How much weight does the phrase ‘I love you’ carry in your setting? Is it something said often or casually? 

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There are several monoliths and even a few cities from a geologically recent perspective, made from a sort of forerunner civilization that was weakened and brought nearly to extinction by a disease of their own making, before the last few survivors (about 9% of the previous population) had been left alive with after effects like partial paralysis taking away control from their lower portions and almost always their legs, a fraction of the blood they once had remaining usable with makes them weak and fatigued by default. A lucky few of the survivors were healthy and untouched by the plague, but were few and far in between, often giving up on trying to go back to how things were...

With that sad history lesson out of the way, what was left behind and taken care of with automated repair and other upkeeps lasted long enough for the current civilizations to find these derelict cities and use and reverse-engineer the technology found within

What is your world's oldest known evidence for civilisation?

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The serae, the second sentient race to develop, still being in small tribes huddled around fires while the first sentient race (aka vetus domini) observed their own demise...

Ironically, they took up the vetus' name for them, with individuals being called "sera" or "seravid" and multiples referred to as "serae"

They live in the northern reaches of gravid, on the continent of birsk, where stretches of night followed by days of no sun are common, alongside industrial monoliths left behind by the vetus to easily cool their machinery.

Three known races of the serae exist: costal, wooded and flatland, called so because of where they live, and their subtle adaptations that let them live there with more ease

Costal serae are one of the most common, nearly tied with the wooded in total population. Adapted for living on modest islands that can be traversed with any small boat or raft, with some even being close enough to wade to, the majority of their food came from fish, shellfish, small game and plants that supported their diets, as a result they are the tallest of the races, when paired with the costal serae weighing around the same, you can see why their nicknames of "stretch" and "water reed" are common and sometimes used in satire. Looking at other parts of their anatomy, we can see they have longer, more prehensile toes with more notable webbing between them, spreading out as they swim to give more propulsion and shifting together on land to have smaller, quieter footfalls to stalk prey. The final noticeable change is how their canines are more pointed backwards than the normal set, thought to merely help in rending flesh from bites, or holding fish in a convenient place while the prey struggles.

The wooded serae are the most common race, making them a sort of benchmark for the races' differences, and as such i will talk about them in the later section of this post

the last of the tree main races is the flatland serae, or flatlanders. They are the shortest and stockiest of the three, showing that they typically hunt large grazers or carnivores, using superior intellect and teamwork to take them down, they lived much more so as nomads, travelling almost constantly to keep up with the migrating herds they both hunted and protected, with those that got left behind often getting picked up by another tribe and welcomed in after proving their worth in various rites, including but not limited to: firewalking, bloodletting, and tests of craftsmanship, which at the time were demanding but easy for those that were being tested, and as such they occasionally died and were left unburied...

Starting with the feet, or paws in this case, they have thick, commonly darker-colored pawpads, with four toes making contact with the ground alongside the pawpad, tipping the toes are blunt but thick and heavy claws that dig into the soft ground for more traction. Dense fur grows all around the paw, and in the spaces between the toes and main pad, softening the sounds of footsteps and helping keep some insulation before shoes were common. Two thirds of the way up their legs, we see dewclaws, much smaller than the rest of the toes and almost always pointing inwards with underdeveloped tendons, claws and pads. Typically not in the way, these may be removed surgically to make the leg more appealing in skin-tight clothes, or, less commonly to more comfortably wear some sort of leg guard while hiking or running. Almost the entire 'foot' is thin with dense fur as there is almost no muscle in this part, instead having tendons that pull everything into place at will, those being connected to the main leg, and held in the 'shin and calf' area...

Picking up at the shins and calf, we can see that it is the shortest part of the leg, just ⅔ the length of the foot and thigh individually, however, it contains all the muscle that controls the foot, including the slight pivot of the ankles and paw, and each of the toes. Just above that is the thigh, wreathed in muscles that work in conjunction with the calf, hip and even some in the lower back, all working together to allow them to both sprint faster than their prey and have stamina to run for longer than anything else, getting tired from a light jog or trot as if it were a slow walk for us.

Continuing up, we see wide hips and a tail that reaches not far past their ankles. the hips prevent their thighs rubbing each other raw while moving, as well as making their live birth easier for the mothers. The tails are thick and taper down along the length, covered in dense fluff on the top and sides, the sides getting thinner and shorter at the base. The sides dip in some, allowing them to release heat easier than if they were stockier. This area is so devoid of fats that often times muscle can be seen under the skin, contorting and twisting and tensing up. Moving to the top of the torso, we see somewhat broad shoulders with plenty of muscle, wrapping all around the body, with an exceptionally large tuft of fur at the top of the chest and over the collarbones, dipping under the sternum, this tuft of fur has a different pattern of hairs under it, able to act as a cushion comparable to a cotton pillow, with a higher concentration of veins under it, veins that can be opened to warm the tuft. The original use for this was to keep young warm in winter as well as condensing warmth into a small area when sleeping, though in more modern times, it's used more often than not in physical affection between lovers or parents to children.

The hands have four fingers and a thumb, each tipped with a thick but bluntly pointed claw, used like a cat's back claws: to grip onto things better. The hands, having once been paws, have pads at the tips of the fingers and the larger parts of the palms. The wrists can tilt up to 90 degrees to and from the palms, while the other dimension can only go to about 45 degrees, the wrists can pivot with the help of the two bones in the forearm which can partially twine around each other to turn 90 degrees from the inward palm that is "default". The upper arm is the same length as the forearm, with some extra to let the shoulder to socket in properly, there is one large, but dense bone here and several muscle groups that help move it, the shoulder and the forearm. The shoulder area has no muscle in it but is abundant in tendons to allow for more fine motor control in that area.

The head is one of the most unusual parts of their visible anatomy, as the shape is a modified version of what their evolutionary ancestor's skull was shaped like. Easily dividable into three large sections: the mouth, snout and the aptly named "braincase".

The latter of which is in the shape of a rough sphere, with backwards pointing horns attached just over a set of ears, these horns tend to be symmeterical and end up with the points pointing inwards, at a line of symetery that runs down the length of the skull, indicatable by a seam where the plates that form the skull formed together. Ears are roughly triangular and rest with the tops gently resting under the horns, these have a limited range of movment, able to fold to point down or more outwards. the spine joins with this part of the skull, with the top two bones of the neck being shaped slightly different to better support the skull by being wider with the topmost almost fused with the skull completely. The eye's orbit and the jaw's mandable connect the braincase to the snout and mouth, which is shaped like a triangle, if seen from above. The side profile is a little harder to explain, it starts out relatively short, then has a smooth, round part with an opening for the nostrils that leads to an incline that smoothly meets up with the middle of the braincase. The lower jaw, or mandible is relatively simple, a v-shape with teeth that point up and connecting bone at each end of it, unusaully, there is a little "knot" made out of bone, used to keep the joint from snapping when biting and never really becoming vestigial, instead, allowing for more muscle to be packed and tied in, increasing bite force by a nice bit.

finally is the teeth, most have three distinguishable types of teeth: the first are triangular teeth that lock together in a zig-zag pattern at the front, then is a wider, flatter set that is a mix of the first and last teeth in their mouths, and the last set, which are wide and flat, like molars and are used to crush and tear some foods for better digestion, these last sets are only present in the serae as they are the most varied in their diet, with them occasionally eating plants for nutrients that are rare in meat alone

The entire body, to help insulate itself is covered in soft, but dense fur, especially thick and soft in some areas, like the aforementioned cheat tuft, other such tufts are on the cheeks and the top and back of the head, behind the ears too, this is commonly styled like hair, to an extent

The most unusual part of their biology is something clearly visible, if you see one that was injured or something similar, that being their almost black blood, caused by an additional organelles in their blood cells and veins that converts some fats into thermal energy to keep the organism warm