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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5091720" data-attributes="member: 54846">Here's some really great suggestions I've seen here on ENWorld. I don't remember their authors, otherwise I'd cite.Gnolls. Gnolls are not a race of humanoid hyenas. They are actually what happens when a hyena eats a sentient being's soul. As soon as that happens, they start spreading, trying to grow their numbers, while worshiping and calling to demons to bring them over. Hyena are actually created by demons, as a sleeper agent to bring them over. (This is how I use Gnolls in my games after I read this). Trolls. Two here. Trolls created either by hags through a ritual - combining lightning and the bitter unrelenting of the cold, the constant hunger of darkness, and the unmoving power of stone. This is why they are hurt by fire and acid - not part of the ritual. The other suggestion was Trolls being knightly vassals of Dragons. Given that they are vulnerable only two two elements, it makes sense dragons would have created them, possessing the only two elements that would destroy them. Orcs. Two ideas I've seen done well: Orcs as horse-riding mongol raiders. Or Orcs that aren't necessarily evil or destructive - just very chaotic; hard to keep still, hard to follow rules, not reliable. Very very rowdy and aggressive in nature. And very fertile. (This is why you end up with many half-orcs; women of various races are attracted to the orc for a rowdy time). Hags. The makers of monsters. They seduce men, often powerful men, and the resulting child is usually a horror. And that horror is used to beset upon the father and his holdlings. Dragons. Dragons are part spirit - literally a combination of the physical mortal realm and the spirit realm. When they eat, they eat the spiritual energy of something - so they could eat pearls or sheet music. (I added to this notion the idea that the Dragon were used in the Dawn war, a sort of collaboration between the Gods and Spirits to seal the agreement of battling the Primordials). Harpies. Once a city of amazonian elves who believed they were more beautiful than the gods. They were struck down by their hubris, changed into a mockery of beauty. Harpies still pursue the affection of men - by kidnapping them and laying their eggs within a man's stomach.</blockquote>

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