Aug 13 2008
Putting a desert next to some mountains
One of the things I love most about world building is researching the areas that I’m about to create. Currently, I’m working on one of our thirty-eight biomes, specifically savannas, and I’m having a wonderful time reading about various grasslands, how they form, and what kind of life they usually support. A lot of it came back to me from my college days as a biology major, but I haven’t been in a biology classroom for ten years. I remember now why I loved biology and ecology so much. Savannas, also known as tropical grasslands, are probably featured whenever there’s a movie or a documentary about elephants or lions, so I’m already thinking about what kind of magical, mythical, or downright scary beasts I can put in the zone. In addition, I’m planning out what kind of areas could go in the zone. Maybe we could have a hollowed out tree much like the one Rafiki inhabited in The Lion King.
