
Anatomically Correct Werewolves - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
$\begingroup$ you really might want to read the INCRYPTID series by Seanan Mcguire which is about a family of biologist living a world with magic and fantasy animals, their take on werewolves is it is a spillover disease (like rabies), from a naturally biomorphic species, it hits all mammal with low transmission rate and only those with enough body mass survive the first change, and the ...
Is a genetically enhanced wolf-based creature realistic?
2020年9月30日 · Crossbreeding with a wolf is also completely plausible, as dogs and wolves are interfertile, meaning their offspring are themselves fertile. So long as your genetic engineering isn't so drastic as to create an entirely new species, it's totally plausible that one of these dogs could mate with a wolf and have lineage of multiple generations in ...
Werewolf Size Calculation - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2020年10月24日 · But a large wolf — one weighing in at 180 lbs or so — likely has a leg-length roughly equivalent to a human's, measured ground to hip. Typically in humans, the leg to torso ratio is 1:1, meaning the ground-to hip measure is roughly equal to …
Would it be realistic for a species to be able to domesticate a ...
2020年5月20日 · Very few mammals have symbiotic relationships with other animals. One of the few exceptions is the raven and the wolf. Ravens are sometimes known as "wolf-birds" because they form social attachments with wolves. Where there are wolves, there are often ravens that follow wolves to grab leftovers from the hunt, and to tease the wolves.
society - What would be some realistic social reactions to a ...
2014年12月20日 · I'm working on a story where the main character gains the abilities of a shapeshifter. In this case, defined as a human who can become any non-human animal, indistinguishable from the real thing, and
Signs of a realistic Ragnarök - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2015年6月4日 · Since volcanos have already been discussed, the sign of Fenrir Wolf eating the Sun could be due to the Solar System entering an interstellar molecular or dust cloud. The Sun would be dimer (although perhaps not enough to detect with the naked eye), lowering the temperature of the Earth and causing the Fimbulwinter.
A realistic road network - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2014年10月29日 · This is the "most efficient network"? For most of the travels yes, but is very sub optimal to do all possible travels. Travel is a risk, even today and this is a factor against giving a chance to Big Bad Wolf in lonely roads. So: Think in the people. Why they live in each point? Why some points became important (big)?
How could a wolf-man be explained without magic?
2017年12月26日 · Time is the real key to making this realistic. 20 years for skeletal changes and 8 years for oral reconstruction is not feasible for a werewolf. Fortunately the body measures time in a process called metabolism. Metabolism is the activity of cells and if your virus can speed up this process you can affect changes more rapidly.
Is this superhero realistic? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
2025年1月24日 · The combination of realistic super-humans (that is, not typical comic-book heroes) being pretty easy to deal with if you know they exist (AM rifles exist, after all) and the fact that there is no free lunch in biology make them pointless and implausible in a realistic setting.
How realistic is an island city sustained without agriculture?
2025年1月22日 · In my understanding of history islands that offered only fish would not be of much use until the steamship. Once steamships became common then military outposts and trading towns would pop up on islands along trading routes as places to take on coal, and even then for the island to sustain any kind of town it would need to be of a certain size, climate, …