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If I can just be brutally honest? Folks saying 'oh dark sun never had orcs' are kind of. Missing that it does have them Tarek are just...

There is no evidence that homo sapiens killed off the neanderthals.

That is correct AFAIK. Only evidence of mating.

Not with that attitude you can't!

I don't think the depiction of Muls is a problem. Is it an unjust and horrific situation in-universe? Absolutely, no debating that...

Throwing a hot take out there… I find that eliminating the half-races / half-breeds / half-species / whatever you want to call it, from...

I don't think every setting needs to hold every option. A curated list can be very empowering to the imagination.

Assuming you are reply to me: in what context? In setting, definitely not. The real world inspiration for "Mul" has little impact on...

I think the restrictions were important… the world had no orcs, gnomes and many other race/species for a very specific reason. Look it...

It means that it was not racially-determined (as the American South did it). Rather, all races could be slaves (as the Romans did it).

Yeah, I think the origin of the name owes a lot more to the animal, to signal "hybrid of two different animals that's sexually sterile"...

I think the natural parallel here is that they are a sterile offspring of two different species, typically bred in captivity. "Mulatto"...

Yeah, and I think the original material was pretty open about the whole deal being a violence that the Sorcerer-Kings did to them, by...

Presumably he's referring to the fact that, for most of history, slavery hasn't been seen as an inherent ethnic trait, but rather...

I probably did come off as dismissive there, so I hope I can explain myself more clearly here. I've read the rules, I'm not here to rant...