Thoughts on Worldbuilding: Conflict between Sapient Species

[@Guruc13]

This is great! I never thought about the ideas of convergent evolution to explain certain fantasy races as sub-species, similar to homosapiens-sapiens and neanderthal/denisovens

[@niklasneef1061]

In my setting Elf come from Homosapients that wanderd into the fey wild and came back out 1000 of years later.

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

I mean that's basically been the default explanation for intelligent species being human like and it's basically "humans are smart therfore smart things must look like humans." or some variation although in reality a lot of the time it's because they don't have the money to rig up an entire system when they could just have a guy in a suit

[@CrazyAika94]

I saw some things I considered but others that I thank you because it will make me go in a deeper thought on my setting. For Interspecies interactions, I made that the first (in my world) to establishing diplomacy and alliance with the beasts were the dwarves. Because of their relative safe position [mountains] but lack of organic resources, they needed the resources where the beasts now inhabited (that area firstly did have human-like inhabitants as a separate kingdom, but because of war and the inciting incident, the beasts started to inhabit there. The dwarves dared to interact with them and offer stuff for gaining their trusts, and then taught them a language (they could see from telescopes that they were smart and organized, this is why they didn’t just wage war). The interesting thing is that the beasts can’t speak, but my dwarves have a sign-language culture because of their lose of hearing due to their work in mines and metallurgy, so the beasts learned sign language from the dwarves and could interact with each other further down the road and being know to have the strangest and most controversial of the alliances in my world.

[@captainstroon1555]

- Us VS them mentality tries to increase humanity's chance to survive as a species - Humanity: "Hell yeah, it's nuclear war time!"

[@gabrielamaral978]

To be honest, humanity might actually survive it. But it'll be dark times. If you kill everyone who does not work with you, the chances of survival of the species gets higher... but still fucking genocide. We do not make anything to keep our species existance, "thank god"

[@vineshgujral686]

Does this assume all these species are mentally/internally the same? I always assumed different fantasy races are legitimately inherently different in thoughts and temperament. Idk why all sapience would look the same.

[@ACrowingCockatrice]

While there is a fundamental similarity in thought and instinct I believe all sapient creatures existing in a world at least somewhat similar to ours would share, no, this video does not assume that all intelligent beings are exactly the same. The ideas I explored are rather broad, and apply to each species in every setting differently. I think it is more constructive not to go into specifics, as every world is fundamentally distinctive, and detailing one fleshed out possibility would offer limited information to people looking for ideas and guidelines. With all that said, I do talk about how different temperaments, like timidity or aggression, would shape the existence or interaction of different peoples, so I don't know why you got the impression I assumed all sapient species are just slightly different flavours of human.

[@AlanNguyen12398fghj]

Perfect! And also a crowing cockatrice, i will request you to do monsters dissected: krampus - European Christmas monster video.

[@phillipbloy4436]

I love snake

[@gabrielamaral978]

Happy to find someone who knows the difference between races and species... but still strange to me you choosen to use them interchangebly. But good video, man. Really good.

[@ACrowingCockatrice]

Thanks! The reason I chose to use them both is because I hate frequently repeating the same word, and this gave me an extra option.

[@ShaggBaggins]

Not gonna lie...ive had my share of fights, near-death experiences, freak accidents, and various other battles, I honestly dont think facing your fears ever really ends...but centipedes freak me tf out!! I cant stand them! Its creepy looking, they move weird, the gross me out, i know itts just a natural thing, but like you are with leeches, centipedes just disgust me. When they crawl, so does my skin, and if its towards me, it makes me wanna jump out of my skin in fear (idk why, its just a bug) and disgust! Centipedes are a HELL NO for me. Its my second biggest fear next to burning alive and I straight up get hystarical if a centipede gets too close.

[@d1g1beastpr1me7]

You've got 69 likes rn so heres me saying I enjoyed the video

[@nc956]

You know the difference between a species and race but do you know the difference between "Vore" and "War" ?

[@gamervox1707]

Competition is not always how nature work. In nature cooperation is also a thing and is more common then competition unless you think your parents were competing in bed? Also parasitism is also a thing.

[@ACrowingCockatrice]

Last I checked my parents were the same species. When dealing with different creatures occupying the same or a very similar niche, then competition is more of a fact than a probability. Yes, cooperation is a thing too, which is why I talked about aspects that promote it in the video. As for which one is more common on a universal scale, I would not make a definitive claim, but I suspect competition is more widespread. Parasites would need some very specific conditions to develop sapience (in case of evolution), and likewise, few sapient creatures would tolerate any parasite of significance, intelligent or not. These are rather fringe possibilities, and I'd rather discuss them in isolation than as part of something as general as this video.

[@gamervox1707]

@@ACrowingCockatrice That part was joke with the parents but humans are made up different hominins co-operation is more likely(life is less like game of thrones and more fifty shades of gray but more vanilla {added joke}) . We as babies or kids are kind of parasites.(joke but kind of true).

[@stevemcgroob4446]

@@ACrowingCockatrice "Last time I checked, my parents were the same species." >Is a cockatrice Are you sure about that?

[@ACrowingCockatrice]

@Gamer Vox Well, considering the fact that the fraction of Homo sapiens DNA that originates from Neanderthals and Denisovans was likely not imparted voluntarily, I'd say it is probably less vanilla if anything. That being said, the DNA most assume to originate from Neanderthals is debated by some to be a natural development that happens to resemble their genetic code, although I myself do not hold this position. My point is that only a bit of genetics is all that remains of these species (or subspecies), and their kind disappeared rather than assimilated itself with modern humans. Unfortunately life is pretty brutal, that's why emphasizing the occasional moments of wholesomeness is important. As fro your other point, parasites being necessary for reproduction is a possiblity (similar to what happens to male anglerfish for instance), but it becomes a bit more difficult to establish with two distinct species. Yes, I did just seriously consider a joke, but I did so because it wasn't a bad idea.

[@ACrowingCockatrice]

​@@stevemcgroob4446 Hang on a second, are you implying that I'm adopted?

[@petergerlagh9858]

Evidence that Neanderthals are a different species is rather lacking. Different race, sure. Neanderthals were homo sapience. I will die on this stupid hill :)