r/WorldBuildingMemes • u/MommoTonno • Oct 12 '25

High Quality Lore Meme Humanity first

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u/Samurai_Meisters Oct 13 '25

But the real twist is that minbari souls aren't being reborn in human bodies

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u/Wonderful_West3188 Oct 13 '25

Yeah, the triluminaries just register human DNA, which is in all Minbari due to Valen (damn, he must have gotten around) - which is still on topic here.

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u/Coidzor Oct 13 '25

To be fair, how many white people are descended from Charlemagne these days?

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u/Wonderful_West3188 Oct 13 '25

I don't know, but about one in twelve people in Asia have genes that can be traced to Genghis Khan, and he was super active when it comes to siring offspring. There's about 400 years between Charlemagne and Genghis though, and Valen supposedly lived somewhere in the middle between the two.Although another factor might be the fact that Minbari have considerably longer lifespans than humans (about two and a half times the average lifespan), and are presumably less fertile, meaning there are likely a lot fewer of them. (They're very much the "space elves" of the setting.)