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AKs. Soviet bloc country. Interesting.
DB has said that this takes place within 2000 km of Volgograd, Russia (a range that is about 1/3 Russia, 1/6 Kazakhstan and the rest various Balkan and Middle Eastern countries). He deliberately refuses to narrow it down more than that, to avoid getting tangled up in human geopolitics.
I'll cheer on our not-Russians then.
Thanks for the additional info, I must have missed it somewhere.
Linguistic power grows from the barrel of a gun.
Note: I'm curious, are the Raharr ambush hunters (like cats or foxes) or endurance hunters (like wolves or humans)?
Edit: Or maybe 'rushdown' hunters like lions or cheetahs?
They're endurance hunters, like humans. The only ones in the Alliance in fact, which plays a role in the similarities in the psychology of both species, among other things.
Thank you for the answer!
On that subject, what is Raharrs' natural relationship with water? I've been thinking ever since I first saw them that their tails are obviously evolved for swimming.
Best to think about their evolutionary ancestry as catlike tree-dwelling monkey-beavers. Their home planet generally has a bit higher ocean to land ratio (74 to 26 IIRC), and the continents feature more rivers, lakes, and mangrove-like environments. Raharrs are mostly terrestrial, but they did had a need to swim often.
Sorta like tigers, then. Gotcha.
Um... well... sure, I guess?
I just mean the water thing. Tigers are land animals, but do a lot of swimming across rivers while on patrol, and have the webbed paws to show for it.