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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bupp" data-source="post: 6676562" data-attributes="member: 6784990">Eska is still very much fluid...general ideas I have in my mind and some notes I have typed out that change and mutate as I write them out in a more "final" form.  This is very much a work in progres.  Everything that I've finished has been posted.  You've given me some great feedback.I'll definitely work this in.  Needs to stew in my head a bit as it's something I hadn't considered.  Yes, the goblins, and by extension the hobgoblins are allied with the gray elves.  One of the things I was aiming for was a general mix up of some of the standard tropes, while using many of the same pieces.  When I get to my write ups of the other races, I'll put together some game stats to use them as PC races.My original thought was to use gnolls, with the wood elves creating them.  While digging through stuff for my wood elf write-up, I rediscovered the cooshie, elven dogs.  They seemed a more natural fit and in the "fluid" state got changed.  The gnolls and the "dog men" are already one in the same, but with my own fluff to them.  That will be more fully fleshed out in the future.These flawed elves and the Kinslayer War are the central core to where Eska is now.  They are the "foundation", so I wanted to get it down first.  Humans are in there, they get involved later in the war as mercenaries fighting for both sides.  Orcs got wiped out in the war when the elves first came to Eska, so no orcs!  Hobgoblins and gnolls will fill in the niche of half orcs as a PC race.</blockquote>

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