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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 7793811" data-attributes="member: 27385">There seems to be a lot here.  I do not think that there is an overall answer to cross-breeding and origin stories for each published world and edition of the game, as shown on the last few pages.  Your game and my game are different, or the setting that stands apart is one of these differences, ie Dragonlance.  All of this has me thinking on how the gods affect all of this.  How powerful are the gods in my/your game helps to determine if the racial origin stories are actually true.  I would think that gods that actually communicate with people can tell you the right story, but they may have an angle that are working like the other gods telling their race's their origin story.  Is there something above the gods that made things work a different way completely?  This is unique to your world as well.  I guess part of me never really thought about this much.  The older I get, the more I tend to focus on parts of the game the players will interact with.  We have other discussions on things like holidays, tracking torches, and language where some people focus a lot and other skim over to get to something else since the players at that table do not/ will not care.  I may not incorporate much here, but I like the thread and see where it can help your game.</blockquote>