Re: Brithenig et al. Universe (was: Brithenig/Aelyan North America)

>    Sounds cool to me! I'd love to have a universe where all of our conlangs
>can have a place. For example, Tokana could fit in fine as part of the
>Homelands, located somewhere equivalent to *here's* washington. It would also
>help explain various conlang borrowings, wouldn't it!! ;)
Sorry, guys, but I prefer to play in my own sandbox.  The Tokana timeline,
as I imagine it, is just too different from *here* to accomodate anything
as familiar as Brithenig culture, or even Aelyar culture.  What I have in
mind is a world which is biologically, geologically, etc. identical to our own
(or nearly so, anyway), but which witnessed very different kinds of
population movements, etc., and so developed a cultural history completely
distinct from ours.  Not only do the Tokana not resemble the indigenous
inhabitants of *our* Washington state (except in certain areas of cultural
convergence due to shared environment), but it's not clear that they're even
genetically related to the people who occupied Washington state *here*.

Matt.