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I don't know what colors to use to paint their skin. These are the watercolors I have. The big tin is White Nights 24, the two half pans are Rubens, the small tin contains Winsor & Newton, and the ones in the plastic box are Chinese painting pigments.

Children's games: playing as monsters guarding the residents, or two opposing factions at midnight.

The sinologist Owen Lattimore once proposed the concept of the 15-inch isohyet. Fifteen inches is 400 millimeters. This marks the dividing line between semi-arid and semi-humid regions. Above this precipitation line, the land can support large-scale dryland farming — for instance, cereal crops (Poaceae). When precipitation falls below 400 millimeters, the population the land can sustain drops dramatically. Although crops such as highland barley and regular barley can still be grown, the land is much more suitable for pasture grasses, making it more likely for nomadic civilizations to evolve.

Therefore, I feel that civilizations situated along this climatic boundary are better suited to represent an ideal social form. That’s why I chose two that I’m relatively familiar with and consider fairly representative.

Of course, as you can see, I don’t have that much time, so I’ll get it done slowly.