Apologies if this doesn’t fit here, not sure where else to post something like this on lemmy

I think having gravity act like weather might be an interesting concept for a fantasy world, where each country has its own gravity patterns, some tend to be heavier some tend to be lighter, some are all over the place

For a few examples, there could be a desert with gravity so high you can get dragged down into the sand

Could be a country with gravity so low everyone uses personal aircraft that work like bicycles instead of land vehicles

Animals in higher gravity areas would have less dense bones, more muscle, etc and lower gravity would have far larger animals because they can support more weight

In a really high gravity area people might need exoskeletons to prevent long term damage

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    5·
    8 months ago

    Completely scraping off any astronomical/space problems with this and just rolling along with the idea, which I like, I think your world inhabitants could be either:

    • as you said, adapted locally

    Or

    • with a series of physical adaptations that would allow them to move between areas of different gravity. I think this would make things interesting because you said gravity as weather, and so you could play with the idea of gravitational seasons and gravitational storms or draughts.
    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      Space is kind of a bust, I was thinking this is some fantastical universe where either it’s something like discworld or just magically the effects of the gravity variance are localised to inside the atmosphere

      Would be interesting to think about what kind of variants of humans would adapt to their respective areas