Thread:TheHachi/@comment-26416415-20160409024011

So I was thinking about joining the fantasy fiction universe using some fantasy race ideas I'd come up with for fun a while ago. Specifically, I had this idea for a race of highly advanced reptilian/avian pseudo-Sumerians called the "Sadu" that in ancient times lived in the "Sunset Desert", who through the hubris of attempting to access another dimension drove themselves to near-extinction, causing successor states to crop up in their wake. That would have been the first chapter in their history.

So, imagine my surprise when, in browsing the fantasy universe's civilizations and geography in order to find a logical place and time to slot the Sadu into, I discovered a race of highly advanced avian pseudo-Egyptians called the "Sohet" that in ancient times lived in the "Great Sand Sea", who through the hubris of attempting to access another dimension drove themselves to extinction, causing successor states to crop up in their wake.

So, uh, the Sadu and their legacy are kind of key in setting up my theoretical civilizations in the fantasy 'verse, but I'm worried that they're pretty much the exact same as the Sohet. So since you're the original creator of the Sohet, I'm wondering if you have any ideas on how to solve this problem. Could the Sohet and Sadu have been contemporary rivals? Could they be the same civilization, distorted by time into two separate mythical peoples? What do you suggest?

By the way, those "successor states" to the Sadu I mentioned were always planned to be outside of the desert region, specifically to the east of it, so you don't have to worry about them conflicting with the present-day civilizations you've placed in former Sohet territory. 