it is a question of how do you remove the human without making them too monstrous to fill their role, elves are to be a fantasy, dwarves are endurance, orcs are brutality and so on.
I can see that problem orcs need to be something other than humans with different dental work
how is a dragonborn a half-elf, a Dragonborn is not even half dragon, goliaths are a small type of giant so not half anything just short by giant standards
my problem is the versatility of elf more than anything, it being a positive other tends to get many things in the same area, plus lots of old nerd writers read lord of the rings and it tends to influence things
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceElves
bottom left image.
so that is what they are called.
was that green guy something non-human or just really strange?
thematically wisdom would not work as no one with common sense makes deals with things that mostly should never be interacted with at all, let alone making it your boss.
con sorcerers make too much sense
they eat, breathe and have meat so no, they are cybernetic constructs they have few comparisons in fiction.
given dromites do not sell that would not work well.