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In a typical D&D world, this isn't a tenet of faith, it's a testable scientific hypothesis. Clerics can Commune with Kord and get the yay or nay from the god himself, or Speak With Dead and find out if the dead person actually does want to be eaten. So it's easy enough to find out whether it's...

A sci-fi gaming staple for physics-friendly multi-sun systems is to have the "planet" be the moon of a gas giant at or near brown dwarf size. A sufficiently massive gas giant can produce enough heat for long enough to allow a large moon to have an ecosphere, even when the gas giant and moons are...

I'm not. Just responding to a list of real-world examples with real-world reasoning. Reduced to pure game reasoning, you're left with "elves get a lot of special subraces... because designers have made up a lot of subraces for them", which is true but not terribly useful.

Well, you actually list critters of the same genus rather than species. To make a matching list of hominid-type species in D&D, you'd probably end up with something like Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Halflings, Gnomes, Goblins, and probably a few others. Humans, Elves, and Orcs are obviously...