A setting I've been working on forever started this way, but as I got older I realized it accidentally made a lot of cultures non-human only which felt really gross once I thought about it. I'm now coming up with ways the setting can have people of every real world race represented in every culture and corner of the world, and leaving the fantasy races to be their own things.
I think mostly just making a fantasy world resemble earth is just a very easy shortcut in making a believable world.
When they just make it Earth but replace social demographics with aliens/fantasy races.
What's the point of making an entirely new world if you're just going to make it the same as Earth.
Another is when they make an alien animals and it's just an Earth animal but hairless. Like the Predators dogs are just hairless dogs.
and here are the aliens that are the danish, and here are the aliens that are the chinese and
A setting I've been working on forever started this way, but as I got older I realized it accidentally made a lot of cultures non-human only which felt really gross once I thought about it. I'm now coming up with ways the setting can have people of every real world race represented in every culture and corner of the world, and leaving the fantasy races to be their own things.
I think mostly just making a fantasy world resemble earth is just a very easy shortcut in making a believable world.