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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8448770" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Sorry for misunderstanding, my point is that both abilities and stats make a race different.And my perspective is that the abilities and stats above, especially if strong and distinctive, have first a strong impact on the culture, and then on the psychological standpoint.As an individual, you might still be complexed for being less big than a full ogre. However, ogres in general I think have little but disdain for "puny" smaller races.There is a good example of that in the (incredible) Malazan Book of the Fallen, with Karsa Orlong. At start, he says only that he will raid and massacre children, which of course make you hate him. It turns out that his race, the Teblors, are half-again as tall as humans and most races (not elder races, but these are very strange, very powerful and very rare), and in their tongue, they call them "children" in their tongue. It does not make the Teblors nicer (they are quite savage and have a practice of raiding with really nasty side effects), but Karsa is a very interesting character who finally applies his notions of honor to members of other races, and evolves in a very interesting way (after suffering a lot). This is just an example but it shows what a race might think for being taller and stronger (by a lot), and how an individual from that race might evolve.And if you have not read the Malazan Book of the Fallen, do so now (you will suffer quite a bit at start like Karsa Orlong, but it is more than worth it). <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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