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du-sailarar-nerilia · 2 months ago

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Probably a hot take but Paolini kinda effed up with that world map

Aside from people from Surda and Hadarac, most people of Alagaësia are basically Knockoff Europeans and many are described as pale-skinned. And as we know, pale skin is something that evolved under pressure of cold European climate. And Alagaësia very much does have that cold, sort of European climate around the Palancar Valley and along The Spine.

But the problem is that humans aren't native to Alagaësia! So where do they come from!

What the hell!

-Mist

#summa summarum none of the humans in the inheritance cycle should be white #it make no cents luv #grabbing paolini by the throat and shaking him like a ragdoll #this is a weird thing to rant about i know but i need my worldbuilding to make sense and this does not!!#everything else works sort of perfectly i even have a map with latitude and longitude lines to compare the climate of alagaesia to irl area #(alagaesia corresponds almost 1:1 to east asia. it's a near perfect mirror image. Teirm could be comparable to Vladivostok #Vroengard is p much if Kamchatka was an island. the Spine is just the Sikhote-Alin mountain range. Hadarac is the Gobi desert #the Beors are Himalayas and Surda is Central/East China)#but this?? no sense at all!#honestly with how often elves are described as notably fair in the books i would just go with all humans being dark-skinned #but that's against canon descriptions of a whole bunch of characters #also bad connotations with pale-skinned elves being infinitely more advanced than humans and. yknow. bad bad theory #paolini what have you done #speculations #rants

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