Greetings.

I was wondering if anyone had the names of the Meta-variant Homo Sapien species. IIRC, Elves were 'nobilis', trolls were 'ingentis', orks were 'robustus', and dwarfs were ' pumilionis'. What are dryads, gnowmes, night ones, etc. ?

Thanks,

R

I don't ever remember it being listed, actually. Just the latin assumably for the normal metatypes.

Maybe in the Companion, but no idea really.

Don

I don't see any in the companion. Just the common layman names. I guess you can let your imagination run wild and apply any that you deem fitting.

They're not really seperate races, just a subclassification of the same race. A Night One is still classified as Homo Sapiens Nobilis. For the few that are different classifications, check out Paranormal Animals of North America/Europe.

The Abstruse One

I would imagine a Night One might be Homo Sapiens Nocturnus Nobilis, or some such.

Homo Sapien Vegetatis Nobilis - Dryads

Homo Sapien Oculis Ingentis - Cyclops

Homo Sapies Ruprestus - Reporter

Represtus is Large Mouth Bass

Oooooh. Well that works for me, too.

I imagine the variant's part of the taxonomy would come at the end, not the middle. So a Night One might be Homo Sapiens Noblis Nocturnus if anything, not Nocturnus Nobilis. Taxonomy goes from the broadest group to the narrowest group.

Thanks Misfit, that does make more sense.

SR 2.01 had those listet in the Corebook

the listing for humans was "Homo Sapiens Sapiens" afair

Wouldn't it make more sense to add the sub-species name after the species name?

I.e.-- Homo Sapien Nobilis Vegetatis - Dryads

Ka. Oops. World: 1, Joe: 0.

Providing a canon ruling on the metavarient sub-species names would be a really neat thing for the Powers that Be to post as content on the official SR website (hint hint--nudge-nudge) (Unless it's the cornerstone of some forthcoming text, of course)

Homo Sapiens Sapiens is what is generally used today to describe modern humans. Just plain Homo Sapiens would be the last stages of cave men.

The Abstruse One