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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 745796" data-attributes="member: 3271">7th Sea and going Top-down now...Seventh Sea is a good setting and game, but I think I might just keep taking inspiration from history for my NPC's: I already have Will and Ariel Durant's histories and I'd just have to buy the 7th Sea books.  I'm cheap that way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Backing up and taking a look at races very quickly...Humans exist (obviously)Elves exist: well, two of their subraces, do.  The Gray elves are the ones that live on the island in the west.  Wild elves are sprinkled all throughout the central continent.Both sorts of elves have been charged with the protection of nature from foolish humanity, but they differ on how to accomplish such a thing.Gray elves kidnap or recruit humans into "re-education camps", then resettle them into a better place where they can live in peace with each other and the world around them.  (I am actually thinking about playing this straight, with no or minimal modern irony...)Wild elves live in the nature and attack humans who come near it or them.The favored class for Gray elves is sorceror, for wild elves druid.Dwarves used to live in the eastern mountains, then the goblins pushed them out of their homes.  Now they are trying to resettle in the western mountain foothills, building great megalithic pyramids in the plains, sailing giant ships, contracting out to the Dragon Emirates, or settling in Dwarf enclaves in human cities.They're always hiring mercenaries to fight goblins: they took so many casualties getting pushed out of their mountain homes, they really don't have any dwarves to lose in combat.But for all that, their preferred class is still fighter.The orcs were the original northern culture in this area before the humans took over and drove them all out: but in their fighting and pillaging their blood and rage mixed into the humans of the area.  Half orcs are throwbacks to some forced encounter centuries ago.Half-elves exist, but would be very rare in the Hannover area.No gnomes, no halflings.</blockquote>

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