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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 3899423" data-attributes="member: 40379">For several years, I've been tinkering around the idea of replacing Human cultures, ethnicities, and races with D&D races.  Elves seem to be a good fit for both East and Southeast Asian as well as First Nations.  Elves probably don't make good slave labourers and so slavers would have to import a race that was quite strong yet disorganised… such as Orcs.  I don't know enough about Latin American history to understand why the mestizos now comprise the majority of the population but if Elves are First Nation then logically Halfelves would be the mestizos.  Mulattos would be Halforcs.If we extend the Asian model to Elves then the Asiatic Elven arts would thrive while the First Nation Elven arts would eventually wither.Given the probable economic and military power of Dwarves combined with their insular clannish tribal culture, Dwarves may well see themselves as the chosen ones.  Perhaps one day a pacifist Dwarf trained to be a priest [Cloistered Cleric] starts preaching peace, equality between races, religions, castes, and so forth.  This Dwarf gains a following and is one day crucified by the Hobgoblin occupying forces (at the alleged request of the Dwarven patriarchy).  And then a cult springs up after his alleged death and resurrection which in turn invites Humans, Hobgoblins, Orcs, and all other races to join.  Eventually a Hobgoblin emperor converts to this religion and an entire church hierarchy is financed.  Ironically the Dwarves refuse to recognize the pacifist Dwarf as anything other than a heretic.  Whereas a good portion of several other races worship him and his virgin mother….Or perhaps enslaved by the Hobgoblin empire precisely because they're the best farmers and probably the best domestic slaves.And maybe Goblins (and Kobolds) are enslaved menial labourers working in the mines and quarries as well as felling trees.Or maybe Gnomes are commonly enslaved and sold to Dwarven artisans as assistants?  Or maybe the Hobgoblins use them to maintain and run the Dwarven-made war machines?As you can see form the above that I'm suggested Hobgoblins with the natural military nature would fit the Roman model quite well.Fast forward to the “Middle Ages” and you might have Human priests performing a mass in classical Hobgoblin that honours a Dwarven man and his virgin mother attended to by Human saints.  And in the mass, they pray for deliverance from Genghis Kentaur and his horde of Centaurs.To whit:Dwarven miners, metallurgists, & bankersHuman merchants, sailors, & explorersOrc barbarians and slavesElven civilisations, barbarians, & slavesHobgoblin military empireCentaur steppe barbariansHalfling serf/slave farmersGoblin serf/slave labourersGnome serf/slave workshop assistants</blockquote>

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