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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 2035913" data-attributes="member: 22260">In RL, you can have people whose ancestors all came from the same place--and this could be a really long time ago--or who joined a common religion or even philosophy or idealogy (in other words, the sorts of things we don't discuss much on EnWorld) and who might live on different sides of the planet but who also trust each other more then their current neighbors. Or not.I think the question is, what sustains the common culture of the elves, gnomes, dwarves, etc? inborn (genetic) traits, common religion, sustained contact with each other, that there was some common kingdom a long time ago (and with there long lives it could have been a really long time ago), or probably some combination. Or maybe none of the above, and they don't have much in common--but this requires a big reworking of the races.</blockquote>