25k (finally) & demographics

[thanate]

In the beginning, there was a great pangaea-like continent (only rather less divided by estuary/seas than our pangaea was) largely covered by the ancient wildwood. Unfortunately, there was a war that may have started with one of the gods getting all cross about that apple tree thing, and Bad Things Happened (like they do in wars) which resulted in the central portion of the continent being destroyed. Now there are two continents, neither of which is aware that the other one still exists, and possibly a smaller one off someplace else that never had humans on it at all (but only because I have a fondness for interesting bird populations and pigmy mammoths. This does not relate to our story.)

One of the things this means, however, is that the ecology is very divided between each part of the world; there are humans on both sides, of course, and a fair selection of domestic animals got shared, but the northern continent has horses while the southern has elephants and possibly camels. There is no silk in the North, and tea is an imperial monopoly, due to there being extremely few places left that it will grow. I'm not sure if anyone got coffee (and I'm undecided on the chocolate/vanilla question-- thus far if one were mapping onto the real world, we have terrain resembling parts of europe/western asia, & jungle resembling SE Asia, and some sort of desert that might have been magically induced)

Don't ask me why I'm postulating a near-exact mapping of real species... I'm still trying to decide if the world was created by a god or gods.

This month has been brought to you by the following global modern conveniences:
*tea
*microwave (surely made in some bit of the world where they're chopping their jungles down) for the heating thereof
*natural gas heat, coal&things powered electricity (bah)
*the internet
*automobile (canada) fueled by gasoline (presumed Arabia or related)
*Aquarium wing stocked with plants & birds (mainly Australia, with local exhibit outdoors)
*the US postal service, and navy base at Dam Neck, VA
*me (N America, genetics presumed to originate in E Africa, via a rather long stopover in northern europe & british isles), grauwulf (ditto, plus small percentage via Asia & N Am landbridge)
*a domestic cat of uncertain parentage (genetics orig. western Asia, I think?? I've got a vague recollection that egypt wasn't actually the first place to have them, but I may be delusional)
*an apparent reluctance to capitalize proper nouns that don't begin with the letter A (narcissism? laziness?)
*ridiculous amounts of DC area traffic
*ice cream shoppe vanilla milkshake pop tarts (I think these came out of someone's improbability drive, rather like the lightly fried eggs)

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