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I've mentioned the idea of a previous missionary team landing in North America prior to the arrival of humans before. Here's another spin on this idea: Yinrih arrive in the New World during the ice age, but for whatever reason humans never migrate across the Baring land bridge, leaving monkey foxes as the only sophonts in the western hemisphere until the arrival of Europeans during the age of exploration. The missionaries decide to set up a colony. More womb ships arrive, childermoots are formed, litters are yeaned. Yinrih are aware there are other sophonts across the sea, as they've launched observation satellites and seen cavemen doing their thing in Afro-Eurasia. They decide that the gap in technology between the two species is currently too great to introduce themselves, so they let humanity progress until they are found naturally.



They monitor humanity's progress in secret, picking up languages as they arise and documenting the flowering of human cultures. Inspired by an 11th century Icelandic saga describing a far-off land populated by cynocephali who possess wonders beyond human imagination, a Spanish explorer charts an expedition across the Atlantic, eventually landing in present-day Florida. The sailors are surprised when the stories are true.



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