'thul's story project...

['thul]

Not decided. They won't be any uglier than regular people, though. And they'll be alive.
It doesn't make sense for all to be perfect-looking, but how it'll be is something that will only reveal itself when the writing starts... Some details can be decided ahead of time, others cannot. some details are decided ahead of time and then change with the writing.

What did you think of the basic layout for the nomads, fool-ish?

Oh, and would you find it odd to have clothes woven of metallic threads?

The part written after the deep dwellers and the nomads was the settled. Where the nomads have a loose society with only a vague level of rulership, the settled have the opposite, an overly rigid system of technocracy. aside from the rigidness, such rule is far more sensible. rather than politicians thinking they know stuff then deciding stuff based on their mistaken ideas (or ideals), a technocracy is a system where those with the actual knowledge (engineers, scientists, etc.) are the ones to make decisions.