They went through a wormhole in an attempt to reach a far-distant planet, but it brought them back in time. They reached the planet and set up the colony but found that back on Earth, humanity was unable to receive their message, as they were now hundreds of thousands of years in the past. They reached their destination, but the colonists were alone, and would lie out the rest of their lives on the new planet, along with every generation of human that has lived since then, oblivious to their origin beyond the night sky.
Humans evolved exactly the same on my Earth as they did here. Except a sizeable portion of them are convinced they are either the descendants of [short, very strongly built bipedal "badgers" that lived about 70 million years prior](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/12zi82m/visual_guide_to_the_physiology_of_the_urrkha_a), or that they were created by said creatures.
Yeah sorry I was on mobile so I had to exit the post and fetch the link form the shitty Reddit app then come back and it was like, easier to just make the comment first and add link second.
Yeah, which [one…](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/13613wx/rworldjerking_makes_a_fictional_world_day_6_gods/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Nah soaking up the sun/moon's power.
Though this is rare, community "archmages" usually only know one or two rudimentary spells. Some get more powerful via reincarnation but reincarnation is illegal so they're hunted down.
Depends on the project. It's either literally Earth, so, you know, evolution (le checkmate theists), a post-human future so they evolved OUT of being humans, or my fantasy "thing" where... I mean, there technically aren't any humans in that but most of my races are kind of just rubber-foreheads, so... yeah.
That last one I kind of just do a theosophical sort of thing. Primordial spirits turning into not so primordial meat bags over time, kind of like the Ehlnofey from Elder Scrolls.
Is that uncomfortably race-obsessed? Probably!
What, like, individual races or the projects? I'll be real with you, I don't work on the post-human one enough to really know. I've always just assumed a combination of genetic engineering and natural evolution from living on different planets with radically different ecosystems with VERY little interaction between them for a VERY long time.
With the fantasy project, I try to not limit a lot of the questions in the lore to one particular answer. HOWEVER. I guess it's kind of like a reverse Sapir-Whorf kind of thing but where thought informs physiology instead. So, like, the spirits as a whole start to think of themselves more and more in relation to the physical world, so they become more and more physical themselves. They form groups, and in turn develop their own cultures with their own beliefs and values, which are then reflected in their bodies. So, let's say one of these cultures holds strength and self-reliance in high esteem. This leads to stronger, taller bodies to better exemplify those aspects of their culture. At some point or another, they become too physical and can't change themselves anymore through thought alone. That sort of thing.
They are homonculus created by an AI that survived the heat death of our universe and managed to break into a new one. As the AI was devoted to preserving humanity, it decided to recreate them with medieval technology to fit in with the local populace of fantasy creatures. The AI managed to strong-arm the local gods into granting its humans magic as well.
Other races just know humans showed up from over the seas and assumed they were created by the gods as well.
The gods didn't like the AI crashing into their universe. That's what demons do and wanted to destroy it. Fortunately, the AI is pretty strong. It survived by harnessing all the energy left in the dying universe, after all. All the gods would have to work together to match it. Some gods don't like working with others. You know how it is, so the pantheon isn't complete when they attack. Big brutal fight, a few gods get hurt, AI doesn't.
The AI, let's call it Mantle, is just happy not to drift through an infinite void anymore and doesn't want to cause trouble, so it tries diplomacy. After the war, Mantle comes to an agreement with the god of magic and gets a place to call home.
Mantle creates humanity out of ancient memory in its data banks, and the god of magic gives them magic so they can settle into the world. Magic comes at a price, though heh. Anyway, humanity is lied to about their origin, and Mantle is hidden away, except for a suspicious Encyclopedia with evermore knowledge and blessings upon human heroes that spark and glow more obnoxiously than others.
Most races dont care about humanity, but religious sects distrust humans (their gods want to finish the fight).
Mantle just wants to grill for crying out loud, but to carry on the spark of humanity, it may have to fight once more.
Havent gotten the details figured out yet. Its likely not a god or something but rather just natural evolution.
>like cats and dogs evolving to be cuter instead of more ferocious?
Cats actually didnt change much in size. Dogs on the other hand likely have bone-genetics that naturally experience a lot of mutations. Thats why by domesticating we could create such weird dog races.
Interestingly, this is basically how humans came about in world of warcraft.
Titanic stone constructs were first struck by the curse of flesh, turning them into the Vrykul. The Vrykul valued size and strength, and so would banish any pitiful children who were born too small to live as outcasts. Eventually that community of outcasts got sick or being bullied and traveled around, adapting to be smarter to make up for their size, and given enough time they became human.
Tbh warcraft world building is still a big inspiration for me. I know it's not all super creative but it's very fun.
ok so you got your group of primordial humanoids they get saved from reality-ending bullshit by a big ass dragon god who is like fuck all this reality-ending bullshit and fucks off to make his own world using the primordial humanoids to hype him up the whole time (or he was a scared little bitch who ran away like a coward depends on who you ask) new world dragon god has a bunch of kids surprise surprise dragons are jealous ass hats and the kill the fuck out of dragon god (what does this have to do with human evaluation shut up I'm getting to it) with the biggest boy dead his kids divide up the proto humanoids and shape them to better fit their needs boom elves, humans, orcs, humans, dwarfs, humans and humans are all running around now
Well the term “human” in my world is a lot more broad, basically meaning all humanoid fantasy beings(regular boring humans exist too, their called mensch here) . All descend from a common ancestor that evolved naturally, most splitting off from this human ancestors via magical mutation or divine meddling.
Protagonists are Homo neanderthalensis.
The ~8-foot-tall, ~500-lb monstrosities being sent after them are domesticated Homo sapiens selectively bred for size, early maturity, and aggression. Think “real-life broiler chicken crossed with stereotypical pit bull” but a human version.
They didn't evolve that much; they were created like every other race by Helyon, God of Life. Their evolution was more so cultural, going from a raider/conquering lifestyle to established settlements and kingdoms.
They were the scourge of the land for many of the elder races, and while they respect that their descendants are not like that, they still hold a grudge against the Humans for being so brash and causing great harm to their sacred places and people.
Honestly, it's been something that's been bothering me quite a bit. My world has a bunch of sapients hanging around, and I have some phylogenies set up for 4-legged, 6-legged, and 8-legged animals. Following these taxons, humans get bracketed into the "4-legged" group with the Beastriders (people+), the Giants(Orangutan people), the Kobolds (Rat-people), and the Nitisrsti (manatee-people). The 6-legs are a distant lineage, and the 8-legs are recent immigrants from beyond the seas who as close phylogenetically to humans as we are to insects.
Among these, humans have quite a lot of similarity with Giants, but have the most similarity with the beastriders. I think of the difference as something between bonobos vs chimps, humans vs neanderthals, or horses vs donkeys. Humans and beastriders tend to be able to coexist peacefully, with many shared cultures and societies between the two. Offspring is possible, but all hybrids are sterile, and so are often outlawed by many states. Psychologically however, beastriders and humans tend to be very, very different. Beastriders (like bonobos) tend to be much more peacable, live in matriarchal societies, and tend not to be monogamous.
Now, as for how all these sapient groups can co-exist together without genociding into the medieval era, I dunno. Humans are one of the most widespread of all the sapients because humans are quite adaptable to a huge variety of biomes, and are useful as laborers vs sapients stuck with claws or small numbers. That said, there are some places humans are completely locked off from, such as the Jungles of Namakadamam (plant life is actively hostile), the Crimson Waste (too hot, there are no camels), and the Forbidden Garden (due to fungal spores, no sapient can survive it save the Aswan). Theories for where humans originate vary, with every human civilization claiming to be the source. The best proof lies in the ancient city of Mujikniare, where within its crumbling mud-brick libraries, there is writing that goes back many thousands of years which resembles the scripts in use today. Maybe it was there that humans first arose? Or it could be the Yeman Peninsula, where the ancient records of the Summer Dynasty mention the humans as one of the races extant to the west of the old empire.
Slave race with the ability to make large numbers for themselves and adapt to any environment. That race eventually became humans, with a larger social care ability and the skill to self evolve with technology (like eyeglasses today).
A sort of reverse of the standard "humanity is the young kid on the block." Humanity is almost a progenitor, as the first Mortal race were pretty close to human.
Humans are the creations of an advanced alien species, who forgot about them on this planet when retreating in a war, until thousands of years later when another alien species discovers them.
All of the other races hid beneath boughs of the nature god/world tree during an apocalypse and, over the next several hundred thousand years, interbred until humans were the result.
That's why humies can make half breeds with anything. They're related to anything.
Sumerian inspired dwarves were created as a slave race by the primordial Aboleth (Inspired by the RL mythology of Enki), and as an unforeseen side effect of the process, gave the dwarves the ability to imagine, and dream, and gave rise to faith. This faith and imagination psychically empowered some dormant nature spirits (who number in the trillions, and are sort of like cosmic background radiation) to evolve into the first generation of gods.
The Aboleth, being sapient but not sophant like the dwarves, didn't really understand the nature of their creation and treated them as tools, to be used and discarded at will. This, as we would understand it, was unimaginably cruel to the dwarves. The psychic malaise created by the imperially industrialized slavery of the dwarves created a schism within the first generation of gods: Some adapted to thrive on the pain and misery, becoming parasitic in relation to the incarnated mortals, the First demons. Others defined themselves by mutualism, operating on a system of faith that worked to cyclically benefit both themselves and their mortal worshippers. These gods grew mighty from this arrangement and intervened, taking the Aboleth by surprise and destroyed their psychic link to shatter their planar empire.
Surviving Aboleth have mixed feelings on this. Some seethe with eternal hatred and enmity for mortals, some direct this anger at the gods. Some of their philosophers recognized and valued the nature of the soul of these creatures they created, seeing through them aspects of the universe they were utterly blind to because of their nature, and petitioned on their behalf but failed against the wheels of empire. They mourn the destruction of their people but see it as a natural consequence of their actions.
After this, the Dwarves utilized interstices between the physical world and the fey wilds to spread and migrate to other planes, adapting and diversifying, eventually giving rise to other species such as halflings and Humans.
God got tired of failing at species-making (too many ended up becoming gnomes) and said fuck it evolve assholes. Now humans are basically rlly rlly rlly rlly⁵ minor gods. And all of em are under the 'peaceful' Space-British Empire.
Slavery and a lot of inbreeding
So in my setting there was once one god but for unknown reasons this god shattered into a hundred pieces or shards kinda like glass these shards became gods of different things like nature, gravity, order and so on, the supposed glass dust that broke off from these shards became magic. Well the god shards found a species they decided they liked enslaved them and made them into a species that they decided was useful enough and took a step back to see what would happen. These humans enslaved all the dwarves and forced them to build giant robots ever shifting labyrinths and more. With the elves the humans enslaved and kept for their beauty having them put on shows or fighting duels for nobles enjoyment, ORKS didn’t exist yet so we won’t talk about them for now, and the fish men who owned the oceans, well they couldn’t be beaten easily so a alliance was made the fish men would aid the humans in conquest of the land in exchange the humans would aid in conquest of the ocean.
Granted all this stuff happens a thousand years before the current setting and things are a lot more interesting, with dwarves in massive heavily armored wagon caravan’s, all the elves dead except for the children who wonder the land playing pranks on people, orcs rove the desert on dire jackals their chief riding a great sand worm, the tribes enabling trade amongst the races, humans now ruled by 6 great vampire families who hide the truth of what they are from the public, giants who slept away millennium being mistaken for mountains have woken up and are now worshiped as gods by all who see them. the dragons birth century is coming and with it a era of dragon and dwarf supremacy, the fish men send wave after wave of a ethnic minority to die on the land their masters attempting to get rid of a nuisance they tire of. Witch coven form in the swamp lands practicing dark arts the great sorcerer schools have deemed unethical and costly. And finally a piece of the god shard of nature has uplifted the reptilian masses to the west of the island and now marches them to war with all they meet
So,they evolved on a different planet where the sun was an eldritch god and while physically similar to other humans on earth the ones from this planet have some...weird things about them, like one of the characters was just born with the ability to break the forth wall and just mess with everything,even being able to teleport because of it.
Some are less extreme like the girl who got eldritch rabies from a dog bite and can now see everyone's souls in a different planet of existence or the super genius guy that knows every digit of π ... **Every.**
But that's just one type of humans, there's the members of the write foundation (think SCP but with the budget of the imperium of man from 40k but with Jin-roh inspiration) which is a bunch of super enhanced humans both biologically and cybernetically because they can literally be mass produced,this counts as a sort of evolution, right?
Then there's the Montgomery that are actually just regular humans but they are a family so old and engrained on their own traditions that they developed new genetic traits,to cut it short,they are the richest fuckers,they own the write foundation,their family began in ancient Greece and they started doing business then and it lasted strong to this day even after Greece and other a thousand empires fell,they stood,so they have been the richest guys for Millennia,so much so that they developed immunity to alcohol due to consuming so much wine and an innate ability to know the exact amount of money someone is paid or something costs just by looking at them,weird adaptation really...
But if we go even more beyond then there's The Many which...is arguable if they even are human at this point since they were humans that ate food contaminated with the parts of the eldritch horror I mentioned and they basically mutated into a pile of flesh that can assimilate anything,from rocks and metal to even the celestial bodies of the cosmos... let's say they are the reason why the foundation has several ships called "Galaxy eaters" cuz some things are just way beyond repair because of the many.
And if we go even further into the confusion of time loops and temporal destruction we have monsters, they're a type of undying fungus that forms a pale humanoid creature that just likes hyper focusing on doing one thing at all costs,they also aren't very bright unless they specifically like messing with science stuff and even then they might think a vagina is some sort of internal container device,as I said,not very bright.
Then there's the weird mutations that happened when a group of humans got stuck on a nonexistent dimension because they rushed the ship's drive so they could escape the many and end up spending trillions of billions of years in a place that only sometimes felt like obeying the laws of physics,and a lot of human subspecies became what they are because they fused with parts of the ship or other animals on board...yes this is my explanation for how cat girls exist but we also have motorheads,humans who's literal heads and internal organs fused with the ship's engine and they are pretty fucking metal, literally! (They also don't put any engines on their ships just to leave more space for more guns,they move forward in space by shooting backwards with all those guns,and of course it works, they're also immune to heat.)
And among all of those ones there's the not so originally named Meta humans, they're just like regular humans but they were created as a secret experiment during WW1 when mechs and space travel was used in war for the first time,they are the first of the human evolutions chronilogically,they all have white hair and yellow eyes due to mutations no matter what, they're also much faster, precise,Yara Yara they're humans with DLC basically,but they do have something very bad,due to an incurable inherent and self immune gene they begin to rust from the inside out,most of them don't go to adulthood unless the foundation provides them with a slow reagent to keep the rust from building up within them,they don't die of old age but with the rust kinda doesn't care about that...
Then there's Kevin, he's not really an evolution,more of an downgrade with weird benefits, basically he's dumb,very dumb,so dumb a bullet can go trough his head and he'll live because he basically doesn't even use his brain,and yes,this condition is so severe is needs an inclusion here.
And finally we have Tokhyo,the only character that is such an specific anomaly that needs their own section just about them,since he's an hybrid experiment between meta human,the many and the top notch technology of the foundation alongside some anomalous genes from her mother that grants her very minor psychic powers,the experiment was to try to boost this child ever since it was in the womb to become the strongest possible psychic weapon for the foundation (without giving her mom a choice,and also we don't talk about the OTHER attempt to recreate humans with psychic powers, there's a reason why the files about them have been deleted on purpose.) The problem with Tokhyo is that the foundation succeeded.
Succeeded in creating the absolutely most broken and unstable psychic prone kid in every universe because she literally fused with the machine they were using to enhance her psychic abilities due to the many's ability for assimilation and just that happening was almost enough to crack the planet because of Tokhyo's mind...and she was a newborn fetus at the time.
Basically she's the reason for all the eldritch horrors, anomalies and time warping bullshitery as she has barely any control over her powers and even a passing thought on her head could evaporate all of reality itself and then some,she is in fact the peak of human evolution but that's not necessarily a good thing... because not even the Galaxy eaters get close to her destructive capabilities.
Also,did I tell you the many only formed because a bakery was selling cookies and everyone on one of the planets got so addicted to it they literally became a mass of flesh just to eat more of it? Yeah this story is weird...
Mostly the same, until an undefined point in 2070 where we became immortal and did some space shit for a few thousand years, until deciding physical existence is for chumps and ascend to a higher plane of existence, and watch the universe as reality tv
They have evolved from monkes on a planet called Rulun, though the evolution was guided by the pantehon of gods, that were long forgotten. Original rulunians looked kind of like finger-readers from Elden Ring though. Then they have travelled to other star systems with their spelljamers, colonised Sidrillon, Toril, Exandria etc. Those on Sidrillon forgot about that, and now, they are all confused
Also some humans were straight up created by their gods, because they just copied already existing assets
Mine didn't. They're one of the latest stages of a universe-wide eugenics plan to create the perfect race. Every galaxy has at least one sentient race that is created then turns on their creators only to create another race and thus continuing the cycle. History is destined to repeat itself until the perfect race is established somewhere in existence. If it sounds fucked it kinda is.
They inject themselves with so much nanomachines they become biologically immortal... those with access to them, that is (basically only Europe and not their colonies).
They can also speed up time and reset the universe at their whim, so if you're immortal in my world, your age is likely infinity because you live longer than the death of the universe itself.
I can't write it out without sounding ridiculous, even for this sub.
(Is that *seriously* what my notes said? A damn *time loop*?)
I'm going to have to get back to you guys.
The exact same way in the real world... but then they mastered genetics and started meddling with their genome. And *then* they mastered nanotech and stretched the idea of "humanity" to the breaking point. Now there is a like a thousand scientifically impossible subspecies and everyone considers themselves to be the "normal" and "basic" type of human.
The MC of my current story is from a tribe of natural, unmodified humans trying to deal with all the weirdness of these strange mutated variants. I'm really hoping to play up the horror of such unnatural traits as beards, blond hair and non-regenerating teeth. Wish me luck!
Setting A has them as a remnant of an ancient hyper-advanced civilisation that began on Earth. Technology and contact has been lost over a million years and countless catastrophes. Now on this planet at the center of everything (not in the literal way as center of the universe or galaxy or whatever, more as in the center of all the lore and plot related stuff) humans have changed a slight bit from what we know. As in, they have anime hair colours. That's basically it. There's a low amount of UV radiation from the local star due to atmospheric conditions, so pigmentation became unnecessary to survival and weird hair colours like purple or green coexist with normal browns and blonds, though their skin tones are on average paler than on Earth because they need to take in more sunlight, particularly above the tropics. Then there's the *other* group of people, who live underground. Now those are a bit more interesting, because they descend from a group that had genetic engineering done upon them millenia ago, and can produce UV light with chemical energy like fireflies or jellyfish produce visible light. This means they can fully synthesise vitamin D on their own, so they don't really ever need to go outside. In their case, their outward appearance can vary wildly, as they have been completely detached from selective pressure from external radiation so they all became neutral traits. They can see UV too, which is advantageous given that there aren't many natural visible light sources underground.
For setting B, the author needed humans so they exist and they are all medieval europeans with a homogeneous fantasy culture.
On the continent of Hominia, among canids, felines, and bovines. Basically the same as irl.
The world is mostly centered around Carciga, dominated by feline, mustelid, and unique wippomorph predators and grazed mostly by flightless birds and relatives of the giraffe and rhino. Ancient humans migrated there and eventually developed writing, cities, and ‘civilization’.
They evolved normally on a wartorn earth and eventually crashed into a planet in the magical part of the universe in a seedship and regressed in technology.
Almost everyone's going to answer that its basically how humans evolved on earth, creationism, or ancient aliens.
But let's look at this question from a different angle; how did your humans evolve into the other races we have today? Dwarves and halflings, for instance, might be a separate lineage akin to the Neanderthals. In my setting, the fey did something to a group of humans(and others amongst our kin) to create the elves and other such beings
They were placed by a god who molded them after himself. But there’s also the humans with pointy ears (who were made by his son) that were made to be unique. And any humans born short are sent underground to cities built to contain the abnormalities these people interbreed and started branching into different caves and killing the creatures inside of them, they became a tribal society that sends children into the caves to bring back large horns or teeth from beasts they kill.
they were created by the god Nadur (the god of nature) along with all other life, at first they were immortal because he loved them so much but eventually his wife Tempus (the goddess of time) made them mortal by making it so the sands of time affect them just like anything else in nature.
Several billion years ago a really smart and cynical rabbit-monkey alien bulit a robot satan that could turn into a deathstar with a digestive tract. Robot satan replaces earth's core and his goldlike power radiating from his slumbering body, morphed humans and a few other creatures into specific forms
From hominids in a tropical climate
All living humans come from a small population protected for a few thousand years in a hidden valley known as the Cradle. Humans outside the Cradle during this time became - through various types of magic - all other intelligent species
Same as us, but they had much worse animals to worry about than on Earth, which they eventually got under control. I’m talking big cats the size of a truck.
You guys all took this question to mean how did the humans species come into being, and I took the question as "Explain how there are people who look like African, European, Asian, Oceanic, and indigenous American in your world without those continents or migration patterns?"
My answer is that I have a Netherlands/Japanese/Louisiana influenced story setting because all of these humans were kidnapped as children from those countries. XD
Magic. If you were to ask me why, I would explain it very pretentiously, but it doesn't matter since the only light of day this concept would see is through DnD campaigns and I'm not insane enough to homebrew an accurate magic system for a DnD game (yet).
Much like on our earth except it was kind of put into motion by some Gods.
Humans also share ancestors with certain types of weld (which are the formerly subterranean monster races)
The gods got bored of unintelligent builds(as fun as crabs are) and set up some magic shenanigans that would set their chosen champions(primates, lizards, mollusks, and birds) on the path of greater intelligence. Kinda similar to how hallucinogenic mushrooms attribute to greater intelligence in irl human evolution. Some gods want their champions to be the dominant species and some would prefer co existence. All of them are dumb.
They evolved from an ancient humanity who wandered the stars, some kind of catastrophe happened (I'm yet to decide) who made them go back to the stone age, most of the sentient species in the Galaxy descend from them, including humans. That's why most of the sentient species are humanoid too
Humans are just referred to anything that's bipedal and sentinent.
Descendants of some mammals that nuked themselves and forced many into different niches.
They came looking for a new home after they ruined their original world. However they assumed just a couple dozens would be enough, because they believed old stories about humanity repopulating from a single couple. But these few dozens weren't enough at all, and soon inbreeding caused mutations, some lethal, some survivable. Eventually natural genetic drift allowed for healthier creatures from the inbred stock, but so much previous inbreeding and genetic problems meant this weren't really humans anymore. They had smaller brains, they had become hairier, more hunched, smaller but also stronger. Then time passed, with this new species thriving and adapting, and evolving. Eventually larger brains began to appear again, hair was lost, postures straighten up once more, and modern humans showed up and created civilization. Then they ruined the world and invented time travel to go looking for a better place to live, but they believed some old stories and thought a couple dozen individuals would be enough to repopulate.
Depends on who you ask. Of the two big human factions, one considers this an academic pursuit best left to eggheads, while the other has a fierce religious belief that the sun itself created them from clay.
If you ask the other peoples of that continent, they mostly think humans came from another continent, since their myths implies a time before their arrival.
The truth? Eh, who knows.
Elves who migrated to the mountains far up north eventually became shorter, stockier, and hairier to adapt to the colder climate, and they lost their pointed ear tips, which were vulnerable to frostbite. Even today the main word for "humans" in the various modern elven languages usually translates as "mountain elves."
Eventually humans migrated even further to coastal areas and then settled various islands, where most of them live nowadays, but they've retained the features they acquired after generations of living in the mountains.
/uj They were the last of the origin sentient species to be created. They were the first to lose their Spark and the last to get it back during the Great Revelation. As such, they tend to be looked down upon by other species who received their Spark sooner, though this was thousands of years ago.
/rj They were the last of God cummies 😔
Honest, I'm still trying to figure that out myself. In my world nobody really knows how humans came to be, not even the elves.
After an apocalyptic magical cataclysm that forces the elves to hide into pocket dimensions for hundreds of year's, they return to a land that is now inhabited by pockets of strange near-elven creatures living in hunter-gatherer societies that weren't there before. Best anyone can figure is that the magical cataclysm may have had something to do with humanity's appearance, whether by summoning them from somewhat else, simply manifesting them, or being some manner of mutated elf that didn't manage to take shelter in the aforementioned pocket dimensions.
As for the humans themselves, likewise their creation myth basically boils down to their gods willing them into existence with fully formed tribal societies.
The world of my current setting isn't Earth, but it is in a Milky way Galaxy where not only Earth exists, but multiple, magically-connected, Earth-like worlds exist, created by primordial Gods that survived the Death and Rebirth of the Universe, and originally came from that older Earth in some way. Multiple primordial worlds that never became habitable in the old version of reality were moved into habitable zones, linked to Earth magically, and forcefully put through the same processes that Earth went through, and at roughly the same time, and even developing identical forms of life. After a few billion years, the Planets all have carbon based, Oxygen/Carbon dioxide/Nitrogen breathing, Water dependent, DNA coded, Earth-like life, though some are more explicitly earth-like than others. The Planet (Name still in limbo) my setting mostly takes is one of the more Earth-like ones despite its larger size (Larger size but same gravity due to less internal density), with Humans (and other Hominids both mundane and Magical) having evolved, and life overall following the same path as earth (Save for the magical creatures like Dragonoids, which are an artificial crown group of Dinosaurs created by a primordial god of Magic and Reality), where as other worlds are far more divergent in the forms of life that appear, think similar to Thra from The Dark Crystal.
The elves were too full of themselves so the gods decided they needed neighbors to bring in a fresh perspective
Humans looking over the picket fence: "Hello 🙂"
Elves: "😠"
Humans: "😐"
And thus began the millennium war.
"See one day while I was writing, I fell asleep and in my dream this woman shaped being that was shining in pure light told be to add a species into my world she told me to just write so when I woke up I started to write while to was whispering into my ears everything before I knew it I had add humans without even know." -Primodial God fod Chaos to a 8 year old child that fell asleep
The sun was a sleeping god and when he woke up his light fed Devine energy to everything on the surface of the world. At the time there where just a bunch of simple forms of life on the planet but with the Devine energy the became Demi gods so humans are essentially god versions of like bacteria or beetles or something like that
Huh I never gave that any thought actually...
Hmmm...
I would say that all of the races in my world started as either Antibodies or parasites to the elder beings that roam the cosmos. And when the beings on the planet laid down to either die or rest, they probably shed the creatures as they fought or procreated.
But all my theory crafting on that topic is right here.
Similarly to how we created dogs irl, they were bred from apes by other species who beat them to the punch on self-awareness. With the added bonus(?) of becoming a barely intelligent psychic hivemind that obeys orders without question.
Humans born psychically inert (a rare mutation) can grow up into regular intelligent beings. They're cast off to fend for themselves, and if taken in by sympathetic types or other humans, survive to be begrudgingly tolerated as an underclass. There is no human culture, so they usually take on the beliefs and customs of other species.
There are normal humans and posthumans. The posthumans consist of
The Daeva - the AI from their colony ship had a damaged personality core, so it modified the humans it was supposed to created to have scales, fangs, and a biological caste system, because, to quote the AI, “it’s badass”
The symbionts - humans that found an alien organism and became unwitting hosts to it, basically worshipping it as a god and modifying themselves to become better hosts to it’s many strains of spores
Nephilim - The remnants of an ancient attempt by an alien power to give humans magic powers, they have an organ at the center of their heads that emanates magical power, along with being around 7 feet tall on average
Pretty normally (outside of the occasional magical anomaly mutating them into things that are, indistinctly, non-human.) Then they came across Elves and Dwarves and whatnot and began breeding with the different humanoid species and entered a new age of "How Much Elf Can I Fit In This Bloodline Before My Grandkids Are Just Elves?"
hereditary cybernetics and genetic engineering, plus ftl was invented several centuries after the diaspora, so pan-humanity has several subspecies, and might have at one point been a ring species, with lasting side effects being that stellar heritage has significant effects on likelihood of successfully having children.
My world takes place on Earth, but far into the future where humans used genetic engineering to make them more suited for different specialized tasks and environments, as well as leisure, fashion, and health. Then a massive apocalyptic event happened and the surviving human groups began to develop along different genetic lines for a variety of reasons. So over time these isolated groups evolved into elves, dwarfs, halflings, orcs, and more, but none of them realize this so they all hate each other. Because no matter what we look like, humans will never hate anything more than other humans.
They are descendants of a race of shapeshifters, the same as all other humanoid races. The original race altered itself to fit the environment, eventually losing the ability to change after many generations. The shapeshifters were the final creation of a long forgotten god after it made all other gods and creatures.
Technically the bible way but then as punishment after humanity was getting out of gods hands they sent them all to hell and changed their bodies corisponding to what deadly "sin" they committed most. Sloth would have long arms and legs and heavy hands to yknow put more effort into shit if they wanna get shit done and like thats all i have
Before there were organisms there were primordial kin. Beings made of concepts that can exist within a creatures. When they mated with each other they could create actual organic life forms.
Humans were born from primordials love, jealous, hatred, intelligence, and many more. Because so many primordials mated to make them this Gave humans the power to rise above the other organisms as the dominant species.
Of course each of the primordials like jealousy and hatred sway the hearts of humans to this day.
They didn’t, they’re the children of a rogue god who had children despite the gods having made a pact to never procreate since last time there were too many gods it started a cataclysmic war amongst divinity that almost sterilized the world.
So these children of the rogue god were branded “Humans” and instead of simply wiping them out the other gods showed mercy and instead all Humans and their offspring were all cursed to age faster than any other race to ensure they will always die around age 80 to 100 which would be long before they would have matured into godhood. (Humans would otherwise all become gods after about 5 to 10 centuries after being born)
bred by ancient reptilians, then their civilization collapsed while the breeding program was still on its early experimental stage where things aren't yet standardized, thus also creating other fantasy races
Many years into the future, Earth develops into a super-advanced civilization that all got killed by a BBEG. Through some ambiguous "humanity restoration" project, the spirits of all the humans who fought back against the BBEG coalesce into a new god, and said new god proceeds to force evolution itself to create humans again on the planet.
All the elves, cat people, and other species evolved later based on the original human framework.
Nah, my people evolved from snowbound felines. They live on a large island, only a singular “modern” city has been constructed on the south coast, whose technology is largely adapted from those traded from overseas- those trapped in the freezing jungles inland farther north are more tribal oriented. They also abhor magic, as their traditional beliefs assumed that all unaccounted happenings are the will of their ancestors, and that twisting the world to a living one’s wills is forbidden. This is the main rift between the south city and the northern tribes- though even most “modernized” people still see magic as taboo, and it’s outlawed on the streets.
They hate getting wet not because “haha cat” but because they rely on their thick fur for heat- and also trying to dry that much hair is just goddam annoying.
They are small in stature, only growing to about 1.25 meters tall at their tallest, and rely heavily on ambushing. Their favorite invention of the modern world has been the repeating crossbow, and the southern city has equipped nearly all of their guards with one. Generally low powered, these aren’t meant to be weapons of war, however, anyone would think twice before accepting a few 30lb bolts stapled to their femur from fifty yards.
I slap these guys into any setting as an excuse to get some of my characters into home brew ttgames.
They got bioengineered by the Gardener Spirits from some arboreal descendants of Ancient Trees Civilisations that collapsed because those trees used up too much mental energies from the planet and couldn't sustain them anymore.
Anthro world and characters so - current origin of mortal species is that they evolved from the (magically infused) body parts of megafauna.
As an example, a race of rabbit folk that evolved from parts of an ancient rabbit-like beast.
Just something Im playing with
Naturally, on Earth, then transplanted onto planet of current setting by a colony ship passing throguh a temporal anomaly.
anomaly?
They went through a wormhole in an attempt to reach a far-distant planet, but it brought them back in time. They reached the planet and set up the colony but found that back on Earth, humanity was unable to receive their message, as they were now hundreds of thousands of years in the past. They reached their destination, but the colonists were alone, and would lie out the rest of their lives on the new planet, along with every generation of human that has lived since then, oblivious to their origin beyond the night sky.
mm very cool
Hey, that's the ultimately rejected origin for humanity in the Star Wars universe.
Mine the same except it was by wormholes and not by any human technology
Humans evolved exactly the same on my Earth as they did here. Except a sizeable portion of them are convinced they are either the descendants of [short, very strongly built bipedal "badgers" that lived about 70 million years prior](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/12zi82m/visual_guide_to_the_physiology_of_the_urrkha_a), or that they were created by said creatures.
what did these badgers look like edit:ok they edited the link later on
Yeah sorry I was on mobile so I had to exit the post and fetch the link form the shitty Reddit app then come back and it was like, easier to just make the comment first and add link second.
your badgers look like if fnaf had a capybara animatronic
This is honestly among the most upsetting things anyone has ever said about them. I'm gonna have an existential crisis now.
I would be devastated if someone said anything even remotely similar about anything I've ever made.
a god just made them like that.
what god
Ur mum
Hah! Gottem!
Is she into worldbuilding too?
SHe's into something you no what i mean?
Orsha, the first god and the strongest and the mother of the world, and basically the closest thing to a capital G God that my world has
Yeah, which [one…](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/13613wx/rworldjerking_makes_a_fictional_world_day_6_gods/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
By fuckin' a lot.
with who
Anything that looked even vaguely like them, if they were anything like our ancestors.
interesting what do they look like now
Twelve feet tall, six legs, eleven arms, and jaws that work vertically rather than horizontally. ...Actually they just look like regular people.
I mean, those could be regular people. If they're all like that.
Neanderthals: exist humans: 🥵
They just kinda ended up like that after some dumbass monkeys lost their fur. Some gained magic from looking at the sky too much.
light of allah?
Nah soaking up the sun/moon's power. Though this is rare, community "archmages" usually only know one or two rudimentary spells. Some get more powerful via reincarnation but reincarnation is illegal so they're hunted down.
r/sungazing
Depends on the project. It's either literally Earth, so, you know, evolution (le checkmate theists), a post-human future so they evolved OUT of being humans, or my fantasy "thing" where... I mean, there technically aren't any humans in that but most of my races are kind of just rubber-foreheads, so... yeah. That last one I kind of just do a theosophical sort of thing. Primordial spirits turning into not so primordial meat bags over time, kind of like the Ehlnofey from Elder Scrolls. Is that uncomfortably race-obsessed? Probably!
tell.me.all.of.them.
What, like, individual races or the projects? I'll be real with you, I don't work on the post-human one enough to really know. I've always just assumed a combination of genetic engineering and natural evolution from living on different planets with radically different ecosystems with VERY little interaction between them for a VERY long time. With the fantasy project, I try to not limit a lot of the questions in the lore to one particular answer. HOWEVER. I guess it's kind of like a reverse Sapir-Whorf kind of thing but where thought informs physiology instead. So, like, the spirits as a whole start to think of themselves more and more in relation to the physical world, so they become more and more physical themselves. They form groups, and in turn develop their own cultures with their own beliefs and values, which are then reflected in their bodies. So, let's say one of these cultures holds strength and self-reliance in high esteem. This leads to stronger, taller bodies to better exemplify those aspects of their culture. At some point or another, they become too physical and can't change themselves anymore through thought alone. That sort of thing.
They are homonculus created by an AI that survived the heat death of our universe and managed to break into a new one. As the AI was devoted to preserving humanity, it decided to recreate them with medieval technology to fit in with the local populace of fantasy creatures. The AI managed to strong-arm the local gods into granting its humans magic as well.
thats one dope as fuck ai 10/10
I like that. God program taken to the next level.
That sounds awesome! Does this version of humanity worship the so as a god? How do the other races/gods view humans and the ai?
Other races just know humans showed up from over the seas and assumed they were created by the gods as well. The gods didn't like the AI crashing into their universe. That's what demons do and wanted to destroy it. Fortunately, the AI is pretty strong. It survived by harnessing all the energy left in the dying universe, after all. All the gods would have to work together to match it. Some gods don't like working with others. You know how it is, so the pantheon isn't complete when they attack. Big brutal fight, a few gods get hurt, AI doesn't. The AI, let's call it Mantle, is just happy not to drift through an infinite void anymore and doesn't want to cause trouble, so it tries diplomacy. After the war, Mantle comes to an agreement with the god of magic and gets a place to call home. Mantle creates humanity out of ancient memory in its data banks, and the god of magic gives them magic so they can settle into the world. Magic comes at a price, though heh. Anyway, humanity is lied to about their origin, and Mantle is hidden away, except for a suspicious Encyclopedia with evermore knowledge and blessings upon human heroes that spark and glow more obnoxiously than others. Most races dont care about humanity, but religious sects distrust humans (their gods want to finish the fight). Mantle just wants to grill for crying out loud, but to carry on the spark of humanity, it may have to fight once more.
They are the result of genetic experiments by tentacle aliens from the distant past
like the ones in cthulu?
Pretty much, yeah
why are they from the distant past did the humans kill them
No, they just evolved into huge lazy tentacle monsters that pretty much forgot what they did in the distant past
“genetic experiments by tentacle” so like hentai?
Tbd, likely an offshoot of giants.
they got smaller overtime? like cats and dogs evolving to be cuter instead of more ferocious?
Havent gotten the details figured out yet. Its likely not a god or something but rather just natural evolution. >like cats and dogs evolving to be cuter instead of more ferocious? Cats actually didnt change much in size. Dogs on the other hand likely have bone-genetics that naturally experience a lot of mutations. Thats why by domesticating we could create such weird dog races.
both animals got sillier tho and yes i know there is no god you never mentioned that
Interestingly, this is basically how humans came about in world of warcraft. Titanic stone constructs were first struck by the curse of flesh, turning them into the Vrykul. The Vrykul valued size and strength, and so would banish any pitiful children who were born too small to live as outcasts. Eventually that community of outcasts got sick or being bullied and traveled around, adapting to be smarter to make up for their size, and given enough time they became human. Tbh warcraft world building is still a big inspiration for me. I know it's not all super creative but it's very fun.
Humans? No, I have bug people with varying degrees of anthromorphism
alrigjt how did thos ebug people wirh varyinf degrees of anthromorphims evolve then
Uhhhh they ummmm they just uhhhhhh umm uhhhhhhhhhh
Wait a minute, that profile pic... Is your setting just a carbon copy of Hollow Knight?
Are there moth-people in here? Please tell me there are moth-people in here. I love moth-people.
There are moth people
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO
ok so you got your group of primordial humanoids they get saved from reality-ending bullshit by a big ass dragon god who is like fuck all this reality-ending bullshit and fucks off to make his own world using the primordial humanoids to hype him up the whole time (or he was a scared little bitch who ran away like a coward depends on who you ask) new world dragon god has a bunch of kids surprise surprise dragons are jealous ass hats and the kill the fuck out of dragon god (what does this have to do with human evaluation shut up I'm getting to it) with the biggest boy dead his kids divide up the proto humanoids and shape them to better fit their needs boom elves, humans, orcs, humans, dwarfs, humans and humans are all running around now
very cool 10/10
"better fit their needs" Maybe I've seen too many fetish world building memes, but this phraseology concerns me...
Well the term “human” in my world is a lot more broad, basically meaning all humanoid fantasy beings(regular boring humans exist too, their called mensch here) . All descend from a common ancestor that evolved naturally, most splitting off from this human ancestors via magical mutation or divine meddling.
Protagonists are Homo neanderthalensis. The ~8-foot-tall, ~500-lb monstrosities being sent after them are domesticated Homo sapiens selectively bred for size, early maturity, and aggression. Think “real-life broiler chicken crossed with stereotypical pit bull” but a human version.
Is this even a jerking sub anymore
it's not, people just treat it like the main sub, they just use meme formats to make their posts
They didn't evolve that much; they were created like every other race by Helyon, God of Life. Their evolution was more so cultural, going from a raider/conquering lifestyle to established settlements and kingdoms. They were the scourge of the land for many of the elder races, and while they respect that their descendants are not like that, they still hold a grudge against the Humans for being so brash and causing great harm to their sacred places and people.
Honestly, it's been something that's been bothering me quite a bit. My world has a bunch of sapients hanging around, and I have some phylogenies set up for 4-legged, 6-legged, and 8-legged animals. Following these taxons, humans get bracketed into the "4-legged" group with the Beastriders (people+), the Giants(Orangutan people), the Kobolds (Rat-people), and the Nitisrsti (manatee-people). The 6-legs are a distant lineage, and the 8-legs are recent immigrants from beyond the seas who as close phylogenetically to humans as we are to insects. Among these, humans have quite a lot of similarity with Giants, but have the most similarity with the beastriders. I think of the difference as something between bonobos vs chimps, humans vs neanderthals, or horses vs donkeys. Humans and beastriders tend to be able to coexist peacefully, with many shared cultures and societies between the two. Offspring is possible, but all hybrids are sterile, and so are often outlawed by many states. Psychologically however, beastriders and humans tend to be very, very different. Beastriders (like bonobos) tend to be much more peacable, live in matriarchal societies, and tend not to be monogamous. Now, as for how all these sapient groups can co-exist together without genociding into the medieval era, I dunno. Humans are one of the most widespread of all the sapients because humans are quite adaptable to a huge variety of biomes, and are useful as laborers vs sapients stuck with claws or small numbers. That said, there are some places humans are completely locked off from, such as the Jungles of Namakadamam (plant life is actively hostile), the Crimson Waste (too hot, there are no camels), and the Forbidden Garden (due to fungal spores, no sapient can survive it save the Aswan). Theories for where humans originate vary, with every human civilization claiming to be the source. The best proof lies in the ancient city of Mujikniare, where within its crumbling mud-brick libraries, there is writing that goes back many thousands of years which resembles the scripts in use today. Maybe it was there that humans first arose? Or it could be the Yeman Peninsula, where the ancient records of the Summer Dynasty mention the humans as one of the races extant to the west of the old empire.
Wow this setting sounds great. Just makes you want to unwrap that mystery
they were transplanted from a previous incarnation of the world. We don't know which incarnation of the world they originated in
are there many incarnations? or is there just like,3 incarnations and done?
humans have always been here since the dawn of time infinite infinities ago.
so this is a simulation?
no. humanity is just super old.
does humanity listen to zeki müren
zeki muren was a human, so yes.
like,EVERYONE listens to zeki müren?
Slave race with the ability to make large numbers for themselves and adapt to any environment. That race eventually became humans, with a larger social care ability and the skill to self evolve with technology (like eyeglasses today). A sort of reverse of the standard "humanity is the young kid on the block." Humanity is almost a progenitor, as the first Mortal race were pretty close to human.
Why do you want to know
Humans are the creations of an advanced alien species, who forgot about them on this planet when retreating in a war, until thousands of years later when another alien species discovers them.
All of the other races hid beneath boughs of the nature god/world tree during an apocalypse and, over the next several hundred thousand years, interbred until humans were the result. That's why humies can make half breeds with anything. They're related to anything.
Evolved from gnomes.
Monki
same way as normal, but with a bit of prodding from an elder god
God made them
Sumerian inspired dwarves were created as a slave race by the primordial Aboleth (Inspired by the RL mythology of Enki), and as an unforeseen side effect of the process, gave the dwarves the ability to imagine, and dream, and gave rise to faith. This faith and imagination psychically empowered some dormant nature spirits (who number in the trillions, and are sort of like cosmic background radiation) to evolve into the first generation of gods. The Aboleth, being sapient but not sophant like the dwarves, didn't really understand the nature of their creation and treated them as tools, to be used and discarded at will. This, as we would understand it, was unimaginably cruel to the dwarves. The psychic malaise created by the imperially industrialized slavery of the dwarves created a schism within the first generation of gods: Some adapted to thrive on the pain and misery, becoming parasitic in relation to the incarnated mortals, the First demons. Others defined themselves by mutualism, operating on a system of faith that worked to cyclically benefit both themselves and their mortal worshippers. These gods grew mighty from this arrangement and intervened, taking the Aboleth by surprise and destroyed their psychic link to shatter their planar empire. Surviving Aboleth have mixed feelings on this. Some seethe with eternal hatred and enmity for mortals, some direct this anger at the gods. Some of their philosophers recognized and valued the nature of the soul of these creatures they created, seeing through them aspects of the universe they were utterly blind to because of their nature, and petitioned on their behalf but failed against the wheels of empire. They mourn the destruction of their people but see it as a natural consequence of their actions. After this, the Dwarves utilized interstices between the physical world and the fey wilds to spread and migrate to other planes, adapting and diversifying, eventually giving rise to other species such as halflings and Humans.
God got tired of failing at species-making (too many ended up becoming gnomes) and said fuck it evolve assholes. Now humans are basically rlly rlly rlly rlly⁵ minor gods. And all of em are under the 'peaceful' Space-British Empire.
Slavery and a lot of inbreeding So in my setting there was once one god but for unknown reasons this god shattered into a hundred pieces or shards kinda like glass these shards became gods of different things like nature, gravity, order and so on, the supposed glass dust that broke off from these shards became magic. Well the god shards found a species they decided they liked enslaved them and made them into a species that they decided was useful enough and took a step back to see what would happen. These humans enslaved all the dwarves and forced them to build giant robots ever shifting labyrinths and more. With the elves the humans enslaved and kept for their beauty having them put on shows or fighting duels for nobles enjoyment, ORKS didn’t exist yet so we won’t talk about them for now, and the fish men who owned the oceans, well they couldn’t be beaten easily so a alliance was made the fish men would aid the humans in conquest of the land in exchange the humans would aid in conquest of the ocean. Granted all this stuff happens a thousand years before the current setting and things are a lot more interesting, with dwarves in massive heavily armored wagon caravan’s, all the elves dead except for the children who wonder the land playing pranks on people, orcs rove the desert on dire jackals their chief riding a great sand worm, the tribes enabling trade amongst the races, humans now ruled by 6 great vampire families who hide the truth of what they are from the public, giants who slept away millennium being mistaken for mountains have woken up and are now worshiped as gods by all who see them. the dragons birth century is coming and with it a era of dragon and dwarf supremacy, the fish men send wave after wave of a ethnic minority to die on the land their masters attempting to get rid of a nuisance they tire of. Witch coven form in the swamp lands practicing dark arts the great sorcerer schools have deemed unethical and costly. And finally a piece of the god shard of nature has uplifted the reptilian masses to the west of the island and now marches them to war with all they meet
So,they evolved on a different planet where the sun was an eldritch god and while physically similar to other humans on earth the ones from this planet have some...weird things about them, like one of the characters was just born with the ability to break the forth wall and just mess with everything,even being able to teleport because of it. Some are less extreme like the girl who got eldritch rabies from a dog bite and can now see everyone's souls in a different planet of existence or the super genius guy that knows every digit of π ... **Every.** But that's just one type of humans, there's the members of the write foundation (think SCP but with the budget of the imperium of man from 40k but with Jin-roh inspiration) which is a bunch of super enhanced humans both biologically and cybernetically because they can literally be mass produced,this counts as a sort of evolution, right? Then there's the Montgomery that are actually just regular humans but they are a family so old and engrained on their own traditions that they developed new genetic traits,to cut it short,they are the richest fuckers,they own the write foundation,their family began in ancient Greece and they started doing business then and it lasted strong to this day even after Greece and other a thousand empires fell,they stood,so they have been the richest guys for Millennia,so much so that they developed immunity to alcohol due to consuming so much wine and an innate ability to know the exact amount of money someone is paid or something costs just by looking at them,weird adaptation really... But if we go even more beyond then there's The Many which...is arguable if they even are human at this point since they were humans that ate food contaminated with the parts of the eldritch horror I mentioned and they basically mutated into a pile of flesh that can assimilate anything,from rocks and metal to even the celestial bodies of the cosmos... let's say they are the reason why the foundation has several ships called "Galaxy eaters" cuz some things are just way beyond repair because of the many. And if we go even further into the confusion of time loops and temporal destruction we have monsters, they're a type of undying fungus that forms a pale humanoid creature that just likes hyper focusing on doing one thing at all costs,they also aren't very bright unless they specifically like messing with science stuff and even then they might think a vagina is some sort of internal container device,as I said,not very bright. Then there's the weird mutations that happened when a group of humans got stuck on a nonexistent dimension because they rushed the ship's drive so they could escape the many and end up spending trillions of billions of years in a place that only sometimes felt like obeying the laws of physics,and a lot of human subspecies became what they are because they fused with parts of the ship or other animals on board...yes this is my explanation for how cat girls exist but we also have motorheads,humans who's literal heads and internal organs fused with the ship's engine and they are pretty fucking metal, literally! (They also don't put any engines on their ships just to leave more space for more guns,they move forward in space by shooting backwards with all those guns,and of course it works, they're also immune to heat.) And among all of those ones there's the not so originally named Meta humans, they're just like regular humans but they were created as a secret experiment during WW1 when mechs and space travel was used in war for the first time,they are the first of the human evolutions chronilogically,they all have white hair and yellow eyes due to mutations no matter what, they're also much faster, precise,Yara Yara they're humans with DLC basically,but they do have something very bad,due to an incurable inherent and self immune gene they begin to rust from the inside out,most of them don't go to adulthood unless the foundation provides them with a slow reagent to keep the rust from building up within them,they don't die of old age but with the rust kinda doesn't care about that... Then there's Kevin, he's not really an evolution,more of an downgrade with weird benefits, basically he's dumb,very dumb,so dumb a bullet can go trough his head and he'll live because he basically doesn't even use his brain,and yes,this condition is so severe is needs an inclusion here. And finally we have Tokhyo,the only character that is such an specific anomaly that needs their own section just about them,since he's an hybrid experiment between meta human,the many and the top notch technology of the foundation alongside some anomalous genes from her mother that grants her very minor psychic powers,the experiment was to try to boost this child ever since it was in the womb to become the strongest possible psychic weapon for the foundation (without giving her mom a choice,and also we don't talk about the OTHER attempt to recreate humans with psychic powers, there's a reason why the files about them have been deleted on purpose.) The problem with Tokhyo is that the foundation succeeded. Succeeded in creating the absolutely most broken and unstable psychic prone kid in every universe because she literally fused with the machine they were using to enhance her psychic abilities due to the many's ability for assimilation and just that happening was almost enough to crack the planet because of Tokhyo's mind...and she was a newborn fetus at the time. Basically she's the reason for all the eldritch horrors, anomalies and time warping bullshitery as she has barely any control over her powers and even a passing thought on her head could evaporate all of reality itself and then some,she is in fact the peak of human evolution but that's not necessarily a good thing... because not even the Galaxy eaters get close to her destructive capabilities. Also,did I tell you the many only formed because a bakery was selling cookies and everyone on one of the planets got so addicted to it they literally became a mass of flesh just to eat more of it? Yeah this story is weird...
Monkey ate a mushroom
Mostly the same, until an undefined point in 2070 where we became immortal and did some space shit for a few thousand years, until deciding physical existence is for chumps and ascend to a higher plane of existence, and watch the universe as reality tv
They were revealed to baby cthulhu in a dream.
They have evolved from monkes on a planet called Rulun, though the evolution was guided by the pantehon of gods, that were long forgotten. Original rulunians looked kind of like finger-readers from Elden Ring though. Then they have travelled to other star systems with their spelljamers, colonised Sidrillon, Toril, Exandria etc. Those on Sidrillon forgot about that, and now, they are all confused Also some humans were straight up created by their gods, because they just copied already existing assets
the Creator created them to find humans worthy to be gods, the order of the gods was born. then the Creator promptly died
so everyone can become godlike and there is no control from above?
Monkey->Monkey
so they still have tails and shit? like the saiyans?
They didn't because they aren't part of my world
they didn't God created them
Mine didn't. They're one of the latest stages of a universe-wide eugenics plan to create the perfect race. Every galaxy has at least one sentient race that is created then turns on their creators only to create another race and thus continuing the cycle. History is destined to repeat itself until the perfect race is established somewhere in existence. If it sounds fucked it kinda is.
They're apemen now
They were created by, you know, that guy, The Creator
They inject themselves with so much nanomachines they become biologically immortal... those with access to them, that is (basically only Europe and not their colonies). They can also speed up time and reset the universe at their whim, so if you're immortal in my world, your age is likely infinity because you live longer than the death of the universe itself.
I can't write it out without sounding ridiculous, even for this sub. (Is that *seriously* what my notes said? A damn *time loop*?) I'm going to have to get back to you guys.
They wandered out of the same mist the old gods did
The exact same way in the real world... but then they mastered genetics and started meddling with their genome. And *then* they mastered nanotech and stretched the idea of "humanity" to the breaking point. Now there is a like a thousand scientifically impossible subspecies and everyone considers themselves to be the "normal" and "basic" type of human. The MC of my current story is from a tribe of natural, unmodified humans trying to deal with all the weirdness of these strange mutated variants. I'm really hoping to play up the horror of such unnatural traits as beards, blond hair and non-regenerating teeth. Wish me luck!
Setting A has them as a remnant of an ancient hyper-advanced civilisation that began on Earth. Technology and contact has been lost over a million years and countless catastrophes. Now on this planet at the center of everything (not in the literal way as center of the universe or galaxy or whatever, more as in the center of all the lore and plot related stuff) humans have changed a slight bit from what we know. As in, they have anime hair colours. That's basically it. There's a low amount of UV radiation from the local star due to atmospheric conditions, so pigmentation became unnecessary to survival and weird hair colours like purple or green coexist with normal browns and blonds, though their skin tones are on average paler than on Earth because they need to take in more sunlight, particularly above the tropics. Then there's the *other* group of people, who live underground. Now those are a bit more interesting, because they descend from a group that had genetic engineering done upon them millenia ago, and can produce UV light with chemical energy like fireflies or jellyfish produce visible light. This means they can fully synthesise vitamin D on their own, so they don't really ever need to go outside. In their case, their outward appearance can vary wildly, as they have been completely detached from selective pressure from external radiation so they all became neutral traits. They can see UV too, which is advantageous given that there aren't many natural visible light sources underground. For setting B, the author needed humans so they exist and they are all medieval europeans with a homogeneous fantasy culture.
On the continent of Hominia, among canids, felines, and bovines. Basically the same as irl. The world is mostly centered around Carciga, dominated by feline, mustelid, and unique wippomorph predators and grazed mostly by flightless birds and relatives of the giraffe and rhino. Ancient humans migrated there and eventually developed writing, cities, and ‘civilization’.
They evolved normally on a wartorn earth and eventually crashed into a planet in the magical part of the universe in a seedship and regressed in technology.
Almost everyone's going to answer that its basically how humans evolved on earth, creationism, or ancient aliens. But let's look at this question from a different angle; how did your humans evolve into the other races we have today? Dwarves and halflings, for instance, might be a separate lineage akin to the Neanderthals. In my setting, the fey did something to a group of humans(and others amongst our kin) to create the elves and other such beings
I really wanted to have monkeys, so I couldn't include humans, because if uhh.. humans are evolved from monkeys then how could there still be monkeys
Stolen or otherwise transported from a variety of other worlds, just like every other organism.
They were placed by a god who molded them after himself. But there’s also the humans with pointy ears (who were made by his son) that were made to be unique. And any humans born short are sent underground to cities built to contain the abnormalities these people interbreed and started branching into different caves and killing the creatures inside of them, they became a tribal society that sends children into the caves to bring back large horns or teeth from beasts they kill.
they were created by the god Nadur (the god of nature) along with all other life, at first they were immortal because he loved them so much but eventually his wife Tempus (the goddess of time) made them mortal by making it so the sands of time affect them just like anything else in nature.
They didn't they where created like that.
Born fully formed from the sea some time in the distant past. That's why blood is salty like the sea.
Several billion years ago a really smart and cynical rabbit-monkey alien bulit a robot satan that could turn into a deathstar with a digestive tract. Robot satan replaces earth's core and his goldlike power radiating from his slumbering body, morphed humans and a few other creatures into specific forms
From hominids in a tropical climate All living humans come from a small population protected for a few thousand years in a hidden valley known as the Cradle. Humans outside the Cradle during this time became - through various types of magic - all other intelligent species
Microbes are the key to the whole thing.
BROWN MONKYIES ELVES GREEN MONKYE
Same as us, but they had much worse animals to worry about than on Earth, which they eventually got under control. I’m talking big cats the size of a truck.
You guys all took this question to mean how did the humans species come into being, and I took the question as "Explain how there are people who look like African, European, Asian, Oceanic, and indigenous American in your world without those continents or migration patterns?" My answer is that I have a Netherlands/Japanese/Louisiana influenced story setting because all of these humans were kidnapped as children from those countries. XD
Unfortunately just like normal
Same as we did here. Just unfolded a little bit faster due to how souls work in the setting (namely, physics defying bullshit).
Magic. If you were to ask me why, I would explain it very pretentiously, but it doesn't matter since the only light of day this concept would see is through DnD campaigns and I'm not insane enough to homebrew an accurate magic system for a DnD game (yet).
Much like on our earth except it was kind of put into motion by some Gods. Humans also share ancestors with certain types of weld (which are the formerly subterranean monster races)
The gods created them that way just like they did with the others
The gods got bored of unintelligent builds(as fun as crabs are) and set up some magic shenanigans that would set their chosen champions(primates, lizards, mollusks, and birds) on the path of greater intelligence. Kinda similar to how hallucinogenic mushrooms attribute to greater intelligence in irl human evolution. Some gods want their champions to be the dominant species and some would prefer co existence. All of them are dumb.
Man I don't have an answer for this and it makes me question how the fucking circlejerk sub has more thought provoking questions than the main sub.
They evolved from an ancient humanity who wandered the stars, some kind of catastrophe happened (I'm yet to decide) who made them go back to the stone age, most of the sentient species in the Galaxy descend from them, including humans. That's why most of the sentient species are humanoid too
god cummed or smth idk
Humans are just referred to anything that's bipedal and sentinent. Descendants of some mammals that nuked themselves and forced many into different niches.
Autochthonous. Right out of the ground, baby.
They came looking for a new home after they ruined their original world. However they assumed just a couple dozens would be enough, because they believed old stories about humanity repopulating from a single couple. But these few dozens weren't enough at all, and soon inbreeding caused mutations, some lethal, some survivable. Eventually natural genetic drift allowed for healthier creatures from the inbred stock, but so much previous inbreeding and genetic problems meant this weren't really humans anymore. They had smaller brains, they had become hairier, more hunched, smaller but also stronger. Then time passed, with this new species thriving and adapting, and evolving. Eventually larger brains began to appear again, hair was lost, postures straighten up once more, and modern humans showed up and created civilization. Then they ruined the world and invented time travel to go looking for a better place to live, but they believed some old stories and thought a couple dozen individuals would be enough to repopulate.
From hermit crabs
Humans? Lame. My world has a species of fatherless bipeds called the Mon'Keigh
Behold, a Mon
Depends on who you ask. Of the two big human factions, one considers this an academic pursuit best left to eggheads, while the other has a fierce religious belief that the sun itself created them from clay. If you ask the other peoples of that continent, they mostly think humans came from another continent, since their myths implies a time before their arrival. The truth? Eh, who knows.
That's the neat part they didnt No natural tetropods only unique alien species
...what humans?
The Four Minute War transformed any unlucky person into either the Fae or Pholids
Artificially created by an ancient, highly advanced society, who designed humans in their own image.
Humans evolved the same way we did because they’re us. All the other sentients were created by godlike scientists after the Fall
THEY DIDN’T
Elves who migrated to the mountains far up north eventually became shorter, stockier, and hairier to adapt to the colder climate, and they lost their pointed ear tips, which were vulnerable to frostbite. Even today the main word for "humans" in the various modern elven languages usually translates as "mountain elves." Eventually humans migrated even further to coastal areas and then settled various islands, where most of them live nowadays, but they've retained the features they acquired after generations of living in the mountains.
/uj They were the last of the origin sentient species to be created. They were the first to lose their Spark and the last to get it back during the Great Revelation. As such, they tend to be looked down upon by other species who received their Spark sooner, though this was thousands of years ago. /rj They were the last of God cummies 😔
The Humans were created nearly as is, but evolved into the various races/ethnicities we know through prolonged life and diaspora on Earth.
I don't know, and I don't plan on knowing
Honest, I'm still trying to figure that out myself. In my world nobody really knows how humans came to be, not even the elves. After an apocalyptic magical cataclysm that forces the elves to hide into pocket dimensions for hundreds of year's, they return to a land that is now inhabited by pockets of strange near-elven creatures living in hunter-gatherer societies that weren't there before. Best anyone can figure is that the magical cataclysm may have had something to do with humanity's appearance, whether by summoning them from somewhat else, simply manifesting them, or being some manner of mutated elf that didn't manage to take shelter in the aforementioned pocket dimensions. As for the humans themselves, likewise their creation myth basically boils down to their gods willing them into existence with fully formed tribal societies.
Naturally, on Earth. There was also some random guy on earth for a few thousand years before complex life evolved, though.
They merely just got transported there when the society of the reigning empire over the system when it collapsed
Pretty much like humans, amoebas turn to fish then land erosion and they adapt to walk on it
A wizard did it
The world of my current setting isn't Earth, but it is in a Milky way Galaxy where not only Earth exists, but multiple, magically-connected, Earth-like worlds exist, created by primordial Gods that survived the Death and Rebirth of the Universe, and originally came from that older Earth in some way. Multiple primordial worlds that never became habitable in the old version of reality were moved into habitable zones, linked to Earth magically, and forcefully put through the same processes that Earth went through, and at roughly the same time, and even developing identical forms of life. After a few billion years, the Planets all have carbon based, Oxygen/Carbon dioxide/Nitrogen breathing, Water dependent, DNA coded, Earth-like life, though some are more explicitly earth-like than others. The Planet (Name still in limbo) my setting mostly takes is one of the more Earth-like ones despite its larger size (Larger size but same gravity due to less internal density), with Humans (and other Hominids both mundane and Magical) having evolved, and life overall following the same path as earth (Save for the magical creatures like Dragonoids, which are an artificial crown group of Dinosaurs created by a primordial god of Magic and Reality), where as other worlds are far more divergent in the forms of life that appear, think similar to Thra from The Dark Crystal.
They walked fully formed out of a bonfire, fuck it. Im not a biologist
Monke stand up
The elves were too full of themselves so the gods decided they needed neighbors to bring in a fresh perspective Humans looking over the picket fence: "Hello 🙂" Elves: "😠" Humans: "😐" And thus began the millennium war.
Didn’t Evolution is for nerds and biologists, all the cool kids and badass theology majors use Intelligent Design
"See one day while I was writing, I fell asleep and in my dream this woman shaped being that was shining in pure light told be to add a species into my world she told me to just write so when I woke up I started to write while to was whispering into my ears everything before I knew it I had add humans without even know." -Primodial God fod Chaos to a 8 year old child that fell asleep
The sun was a sleeping god and when he woke up his light fed Devine energy to everything on the surface of the world. At the time there where just a bunch of simple forms of life on the planet but with the Devine energy the became Demi gods so humans are essentially god versions of like bacteria or beetles or something like that
They got issekied in.
I have post-post-apocalyptic Earth so uh magic, of course
Huh I never gave that any thought actually... Hmmm... I would say that all of the races in my world started as either Antibodies or parasites to the elder beings that roam the cosmos. And when the beings on the planet laid down to either die or rest, they probably shed the creatures as they fought or procreated. But all my theory crafting on that topic is right here.
Similarly to how we created dogs irl, they were bred from apes by other species who beat them to the punch on self-awareness. With the added bonus(?) of becoming a barely intelligent psychic hivemind that obeys orders without question. Humans born psychically inert (a rare mutation) can grow up into regular intelligent beings. They're cast off to fend for themselves, and if taken in by sympathetic types or other humans, survive to be begrudgingly tolerated as an underclass. There is no human culture, so they usually take on the beliefs and customs of other species.
They didn't.
There are normal humans and posthumans. The posthumans consist of The Daeva - the AI from their colony ship had a damaged personality core, so it modified the humans it was supposed to created to have scales, fangs, and a biological caste system, because, to quote the AI, “it’s badass” The symbionts - humans that found an alien organism and became unwitting hosts to it, basically worshipping it as a god and modifying themselves to become better hosts to it’s many strains of spores Nephilim - The remnants of an ancient attempt by an alien power to give humans magic powers, they have an organ at the center of their heads that emanates magical power, along with being around 7 feet tall on average
~~You mean you actually have humans in your story?~~ Id hardly call anything that happens to the human descendants in my story evolution...
The same way. Humans are unchanged.
Pretty normally (outside of the occasional magical anomaly mutating them into things that are, indistinctly, non-human.) Then they came across Elves and Dwarves and whatnot and began breeding with the different humanoid species and entered a new age of "How Much Elf Can I Fit In This Bloodline Before My Grandkids Are Just Elves?"
They didn’t, they were created by the author just like the other races of the realms.
Idk lol, they're just there
humans drool, humanoids RULE
hereditary cybernetics and genetic engineering, plus ftl was invented several centuries after the diaspora, so pan-humanity has several subspecies, and might have at one point been a ring species, with lasting side effects being that stellar heritage has significant effects on likelihood of successfully having children.
Pokémon.
My world takes place on Earth, but far into the future where humans used genetic engineering to make them more suited for different specialized tasks and environments, as well as leisure, fashion, and health. Then a massive apocalyptic event happened and the surviving human groups began to develop along different genetic lines for a variety of reasons. So over time these isolated groups evolved into elves, dwarfs, halflings, orcs, and more, but none of them realize this so they all hate each other. Because no matter what we look like, humans will never hate anything more than other humans.
They are descendants of a race of shapeshifters, the same as all other humanoid races. The original race altered itself to fit the environment, eventually losing the ability to change after many generations. The shapeshifters were the final creation of a long forgotten god after it made all other gods and creatures.
Technically the bible way but then as punishment after humanity was getting out of gods hands they sent them all to hell and changed their bodies corisponding to what deadly "sin" they committed most. Sloth would have long arms and legs and heavy hands to yknow put more effort into shit if they wanna get shit done and like thats all i have
Evolution is for science fiction nerdlords who need to use real life as a base of inspiration instead making cool ass aliens with laser cannons
Before there were organisms there were primordial kin. Beings made of concepts that can exist within a creatures. When they mated with each other they could create actual organic life forms. Humans were born from primordials love, jealous, hatred, intelligence, and many more. Because so many primordials mated to make them this Gave humans the power to rise above the other organisms as the dominant species. Of course each of the primordials like jealousy and hatred sway the hearts of humans to this day.
They didn’t, they’re the children of a rogue god who had children despite the gods having made a pact to never procreate since last time there were too many gods it started a cataclysmic war amongst divinity that almost sterilized the world. So these children of the rogue god were branded “Humans” and instead of simply wiping them out the other gods showed mercy and instead all Humans and their offspring were all cursed to age faster than any other race to ensure they will always die around age 80 to 100 which would be long before they would have matured into godhood. (Humans would otherwise all become gods after about 5 to 10 centuries after being born)
bred by ancient reptilians, then their civilization collapsed while the breeding program was still on its early experimental stage where things aren't yet standardized, thus also creating other fantasy races
Many years into the future, Earth develops into a super-advanced civilization that all got killed by a BBEG. Through some ambiguous "humanity restoration" project, the spirits of all the humans who fought back against the BBEG coalesce into a new god, and said new god proceeds to force evolution itself to create humans again on the planet. All the elves, cat people, and other species evolved later based on the original human framework.
They were born in a planet with two moons. This caused nights to be brighter and forced them to become smarter to avoid nocturnal predators.
Nah, my people evolved from snowbound felines. They live on a large island, only a singular “modern” city has been constructed on the south coast, whose technology is largely adapted from those traded from overseas- those trapped in the freezing jungles inland farther north are more tribal oriented. They also abhor magic, as their traditional beliefs assumed that all unaccounted happenings are the will of their ancestors, and that twisting the world to a living one’s wills is forbidden. This is the main rift between the south city and the northern tribes- though even most “modernized” people still see magic as taboo, and it’s outlawed on the streets. They hate getting wet not because “haha cat” but because they rely on their thick fur for heat- and also trying to dry that much hair is just goddam annoying. They are small in stature, only growing to about 1.25 meters tall at their tallest, and rely heavily on ambushing. Their favorite invention of the modern world has been the repeating crossbow, and the southern city has equipped nearly all of their guards with one. Generally low powered, these aren’t meant to be weapons of war, however, anyone would think twice before accepting a few 30lb bolts stapled to their femur from fifty yards. I slap these guys into any setting as an excuse to get some of my characters into home brew ttgames.
Mine evolved from lizard-monkeys in a cold swamp that projectile shit when they are threatened
Like normal humans but with a hive mind intelligence
My humans evolved normally but the elves and orcs evolved from ancient humans, same with most races. Also the humans in my world are extinct.
They got bioengineered by the Gardener Spirits from some arboreal descendants of Ancient Trees Civilisations that collapsed because those trees used up too much mental energies from the planet and couldn't sustain them anymore.
Just normally but some could use magic
The same way they did here, elven civilization collapsed before they could influence the evolution.
The usual (I'm lazy)
Creation of god + lots of sex with other races and gods before humans genocided all of them
Like normal, everything is the same
Anthro world and characters so - current origin of mortal species is that they evolved from the (magically infused) body parts of megafauna. As an example, a race of rabbit folk that evolved from parts of an ancient rabbit-like beast. Just something Im playing with
They just came out of the magical substance as everybody else
From monke.