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It turns out, truly universal languages do exist after all.

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AKs. Soviet bloc country. Interesting.

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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.

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I'll cheer on our not-Russians then.

Thanks for the additional info, I must have missed it somewhere.

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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?

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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.

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Thank you for the answer!

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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.

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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.

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Sorta like tigers, then. Gotcha.

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Um... well... sure, I guess?

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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.






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