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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spiteful Dwarf" data-source="post: 3980293" data-attributes="member: 2061">Well, we know that there's a shadovar riding a dragon on the cover of the new book.  I'm going to use my deductive reasoning to suggest that they might be keen on making them more integral to the new realms.  This is a totally cool idea, IMO too...  The return of the shades was the most impressive change (both for the Meta-realmslore and for their dynamic as shadowy, evil interlopers) from 3ed FR.My hope is that shadovar get out of their primary role as realms-versions of the nazis from indiana jones and become a playable race.Heck, the drow rebelling against her/his entire kind has become a sort of cliche.  Why not have the same for the other evil races?My only concern is that they've already got a few of these archetypes already.  New tieflings, drow, and even dragonborn seem to all stem from this same "long-lost empire that has fallen to decay"-type racial history.  It's gonna be hard to make all of those races diverse enough; at least outside of the tail varieties...  (Ooh!  Scaly or wrinkly!)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>