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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 3736846" data-attributes="member: 43283">And to keep this from being a total "I'm pimping Everstone rah rah rah"...At least some of the race things can be dealt with by the simple fact that the Fey have come into the world. Not that long ago (12 years) but since they've been given shelter in Everstone proper (Moss Stone) it takes care of a few things.Some of the races (like goblins) can comfortably be a part of the city, as they happen to be creatures of the Fey realm, but more on the nightmare side of things than the "happy" side of things, where the Sylphs and Nymphs come from.A possibility (I haven't been able to get a solid handle on just what all races are actually assumed to be "common" in Ptolus) is that some of them aren't changed. Like... I dunno, say Kobolds. I love the little critters, and there's a couple of ways they could be integrated. On being that they simply came up from downbelow when people started moving back into Ptolus.The potentially intriguing possibility is that some of the races that came through with the Fey have been dreamed by other races. So if Centaurs are supposed to be an part of Ptolus, a slight shift and instead of Centaurs, have Wemics which have been dreamed by the Khaataan (or however you spell it, I'm at work <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=":)" /> )So there could be races that are living in Ptolus that either don't know who dreamed them... or are reluctant to say because they don't want to be persecuted for it. And not just races, but generic monsters.I want to be careful though and try and avoid the "common" critters. Like orcs. Sure, you could make a case for orcs maybe having been dreamed by the Adone, but that's too easy. And starts carrying things back into the same-old-same-old kind of arena that I'm trying to break out of (or at least move away from).I might fall back and pillage an old and favorite standby for alternate races... Talislanta. Talislanta is great for all sorts of different things, and one of 'em is simply the fact that it's not really a mainstream product.</blockquote>

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