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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gold Roger" data-source="post: 5329202" data-attributes="member: 33904">Well, minor races much later, as it turns out<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />So, here they are:DevaDeva never where angels. But there once was a powerfull elder race, let's call them Ur-deva, that was most notable for it's dedication to the gods. And like all elder races (except for dragons) they pretty much died out. But some found a way to hold on to existence, splitting their souls from their bodies thanks to an "soul chamber" artifact. When humans found the chamber the deva convinced some of them to give them their bodies. Thus todays deva came to be, who are pretty much as PHB describes them and they founded the first empire remembered today, the devaic theocrathy, where every deva lived in luxory as a high priest. The "chamber" allowed them to reincarnate immediately with their full memory and they grew powerfull and decadent. Then one of their own grew dicontend and disillusioned of his race and the gods they worshiped. After decades of exile he returned and destroied the chamber, forever destroying the theocracy. The deva still reincarnate, but only after years, in random places and with massive memory loss. Deva can be found all over the world in various positions. About halve still serve the gods, though most gods of the theocracies time are dead or forgotten, while the other half turned away from the gods, dedicating themself to arcane studies, primal powers, actively fighting the gods or simply their own amusement. They appear as PHB 3 describes.Half-OrcsMany theories exist to why it is so, but humans and orks are related, as the existance of half-orks (often called half-men as well) proves. The most popular story tells how when the first human was created, the god wanted to much and found a tortured raging being. with one stroke that being was split in two, the good parts becoming human, the bad becoming the first ork. If this is true, half-orks are the recombination, a demonstration of what that proto-human was like. Nobody hates half-orks, they are pitied all around. Many half-orks worship gruumsh, who is sometimes said to have been a hal-ork. Others say the splitting of the races happened later and gruumsh was in fact the original proto-human, first ancestor of humanity and orks alike (to many humans this is unthinkable, you could as well tell them they descend from apes). Half-Orks are often associated with slavers and slavery, as for slavers they are stronger and more enduring than men, but easier to control than orks. Sometimes they are actively bred to become working slaves.DragonbornNo one knows if Arkosia was a person, a clan, a family, a realm or a god, but it's a name the dragonborn hol sacred. Known as truth is this, through Arkosia humans stole the might of dragons and became the race that is now known as dragonborn. Some say they bred with dragons, some say they drank enchanted dragonblood, some say they used a terrible ritual, but it did somehow happen. And then the dragons rose in revenge and destroyed Arkosia and almost the young race. But some dragonborn survived and with the Storm Emperor came their great time, from the first day of his conquests dragonborn fought at the front of the emperors army of humans, orks and even monsters. In fact many Dragonborn claim the storm Emeror as one of their own, but then, so do humans, orks, half-orks and dragons. Priveleged, but never numerous, in the empire, they fell down with it. There is a small realm of dragonborn slavers in the far north, operating much as the greek state of sparta in our ancient world, and some dragonborn families managed to hold on to their noble status, but most memberstoday wander the continent as mercenaries, slaves, slavers or bandits. Still, dragonborn stay a proud people, combining the god created heritage of humanity with draconic might. Dragonborn look as the PHB1 describes, with a bit more human heads. Drogonborn-human children are dragonborn, but very rare.EladrinSometimes called "high elves", though only by those that don't know better and better not in front of a eladrin or elf. While similar in appearance, the two races have little else in common. Eladrin have been known in the world for only 250 years. They are planar interlopers, who fled the destruction of their own world through the astral plane and found a new home on this one. Many feared the otherworldly arcanists, but plans to erradicate them where quickly stopped when 20 or 30 of them could erradicate cities and complete armies on their own. Most of these "elder eladrin" kept to themselves, establishing small enclaves, wether openly in a city or hidden by illusions in the wilds. While even today most of the old eladrin still live in seclusion, it is their descendants who are seen more often, curious about that new and exiting world they where born into and where they still have to find a place for themselfs. Eladrin are as tall as humans, but with a lighter build. Their hair and large glowing orb eyes can have any color imaginable, while their skin is usually pale. Eladrin don't seem to have a great sense of family, often making their own way. Wether this is tradition or some form of generation conflict between those clinging to the past and those looking into a nw future is an open question. Natural arcanists with no religious traditions of their own, still not all follow their inborn way and become mages, especially those young eladrin that want to become a part of their new homelands throw themself int the worship of nature or gods, with great enthusiasm. Eladrin are rare and some have never even heard of their existance.TieflingsNo race in the world of "Failed Creation" is so different from the PHB version as the tiefling. In this world, tieflings are artificial beings, humanoids that cooked into being in a great cettel, according to ancient recipes. Often experimental creations, Tieflings appear as varied as is the purpose of their creators. The most common recipe, the Bael-Turathi recipe, creates Tieflings that looks as the PHB1 describes. But there are many variants, such as the pale legion of Atun, an army of genderless albino warrior with crowns of horns. Depending on the will of his creator Tieflings can be male, female, genderless, hermaphrotites or something else entirely (a matter best left unimagined). Still, Tielflings are always humanoid and in line with the PHB stats. As long as he lives and keeps them as retainer tieflings remain loyal and obedient to their master. That however, doesn't mean Tieflings are competent or without annoying qualities. Many masters kicked out a Tiefling that didn't turn out how he imagined, because he/she/it was a terrible singer, sloppy cleaner, looked ugly, always got distracted, was a coward or was to easy on the captive. Some Tieflings adventure on behalf of their masters, many more take up the profession when they are released from service or their master dies. Tieflings come into being fully grown and don't really age. Hower, they decay suddenly, sometimes after a few years, sometimes after centuries, litterary falling appart within weeks. More powerfull tieflings seem to live longer, another reason many Tieflings go adventuring, seeing their one chance to survive.</blockquote>

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