As an additional element of tragedy, there could be legends about the "lost breeds"... these were other species of 1st generation Beasts... ones that couldn't hack the new world and all died.
Perhaps one breed died of a strange plague that caused their young to be born dead, withered and small.
Another simply spread too wide and were wiped out by monsters.
These would be breeds that I'm not interested in putting into the setting... there could still exist some isolated colonies of them somewhere, but the First Folk maintain that they all died out a long time ago. There's even a holy graveyard where the last few were buried.
Likely candidates: Boars. Apes (those darn human-targetting nano-plagues got them). Coyotes (these would be the most likely to pop up again somewhere else, but if I say that they were 1st gen then I'd eliminate the possibility of doing them as 2nd or 3rd). Horses (eh, Sarah wouldn't like that).
Posted by Kiz at July 5, 2004 01:15 PMCommentsPost a comment