Atlantis mindmapping

I will start mindmapping Atlantis tomorrow. That will be my first thing. Today we are going to be working on the Halloween event.

Man I am very tired. 

I think i'll be fine in a bit. 

I am trying to build up an aethetic for Atlantis and I don't want it to be corny.

Who are the Atlanteans? Why race are they? This seems weird but they can be any race as far as i'm concerned. I do not see them as any race. I am inspired by indoensia where it does not matter how dark or light you are in terms of your ethnicity - you are Indonesians, much more so than Singaporeans who decided to institute that stupid four races policy. In Indonesia everyone speaks Bahasa and they don't have a bumi policy either. So language, the way I understood it was non-political. This is what we speak if we are Indonesians. That is my template for Atlantis. In indonesia you had people who were fair or dark, Melansian, or Indian, Chinese, whatever - and you were Indonesian. That is my template for Atlantis.

It's a bit like The Witcher, where someone's race is irrelevant. I don't know why the whole thing has been blown out of proportion in LOTR. It's mental.

Sangita is 100% Indian looking. Dark skinned. Dravidian almost. The aesthetic will be an amalagam of the cultures - Eastern and Western, Mayan. Colourful. Robes are flowing and floaty. Jewelry is Peranakan/ Indian/ Chinese in style. So the aesthetic is Indian mostly. Which makes sense.

Lots of flowers and lush - a little bit also like Pre Raphaelite inspired but really not as European Middle Ages.

Thee are streams in this though - we have tribes and aestehtics. So these cultures also have a sense of I was going to say root race, but I don't want to have that because of its racist implications. But there is something about individual cultures which also arose around here - they speak one language but they also have their own tribal identities. Or maybe the identities are not so much rooted in racial types but cultures. So you could have an Indian person who is within the culture who is Chinese - I mean why the fuck not? 

There is one aesthetic I keep seeing though - it is the glass and clean lines, a bit like a Balinese resort but mixed with sky scrapers and large temples. What if we said - well, I think Lemuria is more Indonesian. Atlantis is Greek meets Indian. It should really be a bit Irish as well shouldn't it though... Irish meets Indian? What would that even look like? I suppose they both came from the same place, it is only that one went West and the other went East. 

The Indian aestheitc part could be the more urban parts and the Irish parts could be the most rustic bits. The Irish have never really had a complete aesthetic - it was mostly made up in the late 19th century. What was Irish aesthetic in the High Bronze age?