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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4149109" data-attributes="member: 6533">Well, hmmm, bearing in mind that I think the setting is much better done then the Exalted are here is how I would do it.DnD + Creation Cosmology (much of this is going to be pretty similar to Hong's Idea):Elemental Chaos=Beyond the Poles of CreationShadowfell=UnderworldFeywild=Rakshastan - but I'm going to make it a skin over the whole of creation, to keep the echo effect of the original creation of the world story from DnD.Astral Planes = Elsewhere/Yu ShanDivine Domains =Yu Shan+Divine Sanctuaries+Autocthon+The Loom of FateFar Realms = Malfeas+The Labyrinth.Abyss = That aspect of the Elemental Chaos that sits below Creation.Underdark = As it turns out Creation already has one.DnD Races in CreationRight, I'm going to say that humanity got as boned as everyone else by the war against the primordials so creation has always been less homogeneous than it was in the original game.Dragonborn - Descendants of the servitors of the Dragon Kings.  Now they are famed warrior pilgrims looking for the remaining Dragon Kings as well as absolution for falling from the proper worship of the Unconquered Sun.  They are common in the South.Dwarves - Freed slaves of the Giants (who I'm going to say were a breed of Rhakshasa that were allied with the Primordials).  They were made as poor approximations of the True Dwarves who live beneath the Holy Mountain.  In the South and North they make up most of the urban population.Eladrin - These were Rhakshasa who allied with the gods in the war against the primordials.  They thus possess a special relationship with Creation.  They are uncommon everywhere but the coastal cities and the imperial mount.Elves - These are Rhakshasa who snuk into creation or were trapped here.  As such they have only a tenuous relationship to the Feywyld.  They are very common in the North and East.Halflings - Their origin is uncertain.  They could be a creation of the first age or they could be simply a distinct creation of the primordials.  They are extremely common in the West and  Scavenger Lands.  When found elsewhere it is likely in relationship to the Guild.Half-Elves - In no way related to Elves.  They're simply people who've lived so long close to one of the poles that they've taken on otherworldly characteristics.  They are occur with regularity at the edges of the world, and at this point they make up most of the population of the Realm.  They are colored according to the pole their family comes from.  Humans - The 'original' vassals of the Dragon-Kings and gods.  Their fortunes have risen and fallen with horrible frequency.  Now they live primarily on the boundaries of the inner sea.  Most are nomads or semi-civilized at best, but in the Scavenger Lands they have they are as civilized and urbane as any other people on earth and the most successful scavenger lords.  Tieflings - One result of humanity's terrible reversals of fortune.  Most are now a client caste of the realm's hegemony.  There are free communities in the scavenger lands who remember the Shogunate and are strong allies of Lookshy.</blockquote>

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