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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 4175739" data-attributes="member: 8713"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=223306" target="_blank">Over on this thread</a>, I started a discussion about subverting or reflavoring the medieval European default (or rather, pseudo-British and pseudo-Scandinavian) for fantasy settings.  It started going in a few directions, so to brings things into focus, I'm going to start different threads for the various ideas bouncing back and forth there.  This is the one for races and monsters.Here is where you take an idea we're already familiar with and give it a twist - a different texture and flavor, if you will.  Of course, we're all inspired by different things, so going from your base source and describing how you change it would be helpful.For instance, I love the aesthetic elements of Tolkien's Elves (as presented in this First Age writings like The Silmarillion, The History of Middle-earth, and Unfinished Tales), especially the languages.  I like elves tall, magical, ridiculously good-looking, and immortal unless killed (by accident, murder, or some sort of supernatural aging or magical sickness).  But in nature I like them closer to Exalted's Dragon-blooded.  Yes, they are noble, but that doesn't always mean "regal and wise" (although it can).  It's more like, "above anything uncouth or common" (especially uncouth or common people - which usually means the entire human race).There's lots of different cultures I can imagine for them, which is cool because it would help me avoid the monocultural tendency of many fantasy settings.But if the elves have any natural enemies, it wouldn't be orcs, but vampires.  I think they'd find their mere existence an insult.</blockquote>

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