Continued from Part 19  New to this project: Start with Part 1
Part 20: Whence the People?  Terrestrial history shows us that
nearly every culture has its own unique set of Creation
stories.  As fascinating as those are, this time we want to
discuss how the people actually came to being on your planet.
There is room for many possibilities if you are pursuing a
scientific origin, and a great many more if your world is one of
fantasy.  For example, in a fantasy world there is no reason
your people should not spring from the pollen of a great flower
or the tail of a comet as it passes your planet.  If you are
going the scientific route, you will want to consider:    •
Natural evolution   • Placement by an older alien race   •
Marooned voyagers   • Colonization  No matter how your people
actually got to your world,  they are likely to have a very
different view of what happened.  Even in the case of
colonization from distant–and advanced–world, a colony cut off
from the “mother world” for a long enough period,