Kamapuas: Humanity’s Porcine Successors

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Kamapuas: Humanity’s Porcine Successors
Topic Started: Mar 15 2017, 03:58 PM (412 Views)
Yiqi15	Mar 15 2017, 03:58 PM Post #1
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,443 Group: Members Member #1,998 Joined: Oct 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Ontarian Gender: Male	*I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.* - Winston Churchill Welcome to earth 50 million years AD during the Calefacticene (from the latin word for warming calefaciens), and much has changed the last humans left earth. The vast majority of the world is either forest or savannah, due to the temperatures being much higher (minimum is 2° celsius). The geography has also changed; Latin America is now isolated in the middle of the pacific, the appalachians and himalayas have all but eroded away, and Antarctica can now sustain life bigger than a midge (though a meter high is what the largest fauna on it currently grow to at most). Fauna on this world has also changed a lot. Cetaceans have gone extinct to be replaced by sharks descended from wobbegongs; herds of giant raccoons can be found throughout North America and Eurasia, and prosimians have entered a new golden age to name a few major changes. In particular however, one species marks something extraordinary. Their names are the Kamapuas (Choerosapiens sapiens), and they’re the first species of animal since us humans to evolve high intelligence. Named after a superhuman figure in hawaiian mythology, these sophonts are descendants of the humble wild boar, which thanks to humans who domesticated them, were introduced around the world. Originally belonging to a family of arboreal pig derivatives from North America, they have since radiated across the world. These beasts are simultaneously like us and yet are vastly different in form, history, and psychology alike. Currently, the most advanced culture in their species is at a medieval level found in what was once eastern Asia. Table of Contents Spoiler: click to toggle To be added
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Beetleboy	Mar 16 2017, 02:28 AM Post #2
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Dakka!	Mar 16 2017, 06:37 AM Post #3
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Yiqi15	Mar 16 2017, 06:56 AM Post #4
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,443 Group: Members Member #1,998 Joined: Oct 10, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Ontarian Gender: Male	I decided to remake the previous project, as I couldn't get any ideas for the first version.
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