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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 4769944" data-attributes="member: 20715">Personifications of NatureWhen many people thing about personifications of nature, they think of the Feywild.  This common fallacy makes druids shake their head in frustration.  The Fey are reflections of the natural world, but not of it.  In the ages of god-war and dragon-birth, the world created its own guardians based upon elemental order in counterpoint to the Primordial Chaos.Where earth and air meet, the world created goliaths.  Where earth and fire meet, the world created dwarves.  Where earth and water meet, the world created trolls.  Each race has its own predilections and habits.  The one thing they have in common is an implicit desire to thwart the Primordial Chaos whenever it encroaches.  One tale tells of a battle between dwarves and trolls that immediately stopped when demons joined the fray.  Both sides tore the demons to pieces before going back to their own slaughter.Dwarves and goliaths are likely to prioritize demons, and to a lesser extent elementals, over other threats, and to react to such creatures with outright hostility.  This is innate, and only a very well-trained or highly unusual (e.g., an adventurer!) member of these races would be able to ignore these feelings.  Trolls feel the same way, but they are also actively hostile to most other races, so the difference is less noticeable.</blockquote>