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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 6934233" data-attributes="member: 6855057">So, I've been thinking about the shin'hare expy race, and I was wondering if folks would mind giving me feedback on this stuff?The current name I'm thinking of using for them is Draeg, a slightly modified version of Drag, which in AD&D was elfin for Hatred or Malice. I'm open to better suggestions, though.Like the shin'hare, the Draega are a very heavily regimented society, though not overtly Japanese. This is the current hierarchy I've envisioned for them:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sacrifice: The lowest of the low, a Sacrifice is a Draeg either literally bred to be slaughtered or guilty of some "crime" against the rest of their people. Sacrifices are generally killed immediately to fuel blood magic rituals, but, in the case of adults demoted to the rank, are also used for the most hideous of combat roles. These are the Draega sent charging across the equivalent of a minefield, or thrown unarmed into the den of a monster so that it will be so torpid from gorging on their flesh that the rest of the warren can capture it unharmed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fodder: The default rank of the Draega, Fodder make up the vast serf-militias that are the backbone of Draeg warrens. Their lives are nasty, brutal and usually fairly short, because any one Fodder is as replaceable as any one arrow in a quiver.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blooded: Those Fodder who survive long enough may, potentially, win the rank of Blooded. These are capable enough soldiers that they are actually given recognition as individuals, rather than just an interchangeable faceless mob. They still form the bottom of the "true" Draeg totem pole, but they are not sent to the slaughter as casually as the Fodder are.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blade: Elite soldiers, the Blades are those warriors whose skills and abilities have warranted merit, propelling them to a place beyond even the Blooded. What this amount to in "crunch" is that they are Draega with adventurer class levels.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Highblade: Elite of the elite, the Highblades are the most skilled and well-trained of the Blades.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Exalted: The highest rank any normal Draeg can hope to climb, the Exalted are the general rulers of their population, second in power only to the Eternals. These are the warlords and archmages, the master monks and the chief assassins.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lifebringer: Technically part of the Exalted rank, but in practice slightly above it, the Lifebringers are an all-female order of Draeg mages who use perverse fertility magics to produce unnaturally large and quickly-spawned litters of Fodder and Sacrifice. They are the primary "breeder caste" of the Draega.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eternal: The true rulers of the Draega, these are the reincarnations of the aelfar lich-wraiths who created the Draega in the first place, endlessly taking new bodies at birth when their old ones wear out.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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