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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9363876" data-attributes="member: 177">You elide from our real world history to D&D world history, without recognition that they are likely not terribly similar.In many cosmologies, the game world, all its creatures, and its sophonts are created by deific powers, rather than developed as the result of natural processes.  Those races need not have been created in a state of complete ignorance - maybe they started out with several upgrades on the OS, so to speak.  In your D&D world, there may never have been a time where there were humans who didn't know how to make fire.And those races may have been repeatedly or continually influenced and supported by those powers that created them, or others that took a shine to them.  So, survival of any sophont species may not be directly related to the qualities of the species.</blockquote>