"Among the Imperishable Ones" is now complete!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thanks to a donation from fuzzyred, you can now read the rest of "Among the Imperishable Ones."  Aidan meets an old friend and exchanges the treasures in his cache.  

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Re: Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Like Homo floresiensis or the pygmy mammoth.

Re: Well ...

[see_also_friend]

And lemurs, kangaroos, monotremes, etc.

Or, heck, look at language family distribution in both the British Isles and Japan. The most 'different' languages cluster at the furthest point from where the mainlanders immigrate from, and these isolated languages tend to be very different from or outright extinct on the mainland. I would expect that pattern holds true for a lot of island nations around the world. (Admittedly, I do know more about the British Isles than Japan...)

Anyway, back to Peculiar-verse:

Even in our world, a lot of the people who were the 'first' to settle a given area will have folklore about earlier settlers (think like the Fey in Europe). These earlier inhabitants are often somehow different in appearance, behavior and technology - and are often quite difficult for our narrators to describe, and in many cases /find/. These Fey-settled may be friendly, neutral, or dangerous, but they are always portrayed as other, even when intermarriage and children are involved. (Remember the film THe Secret of Roan Inish? The seal-children were always quiet, shy and sea-affiliated even after hundreds of years.)

So in Peculiar-verse, a remnant human species would make a lot of sense in those cases. Most of the good places would be inhabited by whoever the current dominant species is, with the precursors limited to places that are inhospitable (desert), uninhabitable by the dominants (mountaintops, also see water re: marsupials), or just plain hard to find/get to (islands, remote swamps).