Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20171115012504/@comment-2054358-20171117210525

A mythical species evolving from a mythical species? Wow. And yes, my elves are different from Shannara elves because in my world, elves and fairies are native to two different star systems. The mythical species that evolved from something in my story are the merpeople who evolved from Atlanteans. And that took "survival of the fittest" very literally because when Atlantis sunk, everyone who survived the destruction was stranded in the ocean, and had to adapt to the water while they had to look for land. Their children had adapted to the water for so many generations that by now, modern day Atlanteans look literally half-fish and can't survive on dry land. And they have populated everywhere in Earth's oceans and major bodies of water like the Great Lakes, which includes Lake Michigan, the lake on the edge of Illinois, which is the state most of my stories take place.