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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 4878344" data-attributes="member: 44949">Looking at your list of other races, I wonder if you realize how radically different the world would be?  Going with the general mainstream ideas of those races, you're going to have a very peculiar world, and one where humans are fourth class citizens at best.Vampires:  Probably one of your most civilized races.  They're going to keep humans as cattle.  Sure, the humans might be allowed to live in villages and farm the land, but that's only because it's easier to let them care for themselves.  Taxes will be paid in people, not grain.Werewolves:  They're going to hunt humans.  Werewolves are creatures of the wild in most stories.  Humans like to tear down the wild and build villages and farms.  (Though this does get a lot harder when you have things living in the forest that can and will tear your arms off to keep you from swinging that axe.)Fae:  Depends on what kind of fae.  For some, you're going to get a similar reaction to the werewolves.  (Though those two groups may fight over forest land.)  For some fae, the humans will be seen as something to torture or otherwise mess with.  You need to decide what kind of fae.  If you have mixed fae kingdoms, it's doubtful they'd have many humans, except possibly children who never grow old.Undead:  Don't have enough information.  If they are their own race, not an infection or a curse, I'm not sure how they'd interact with humans since they aren't created from them.Dragonfolk:  What do you mean?  If you mean humanoid dragon types, they'd probably be a lot more powerful than humans.  Historically, more powerful groups enslave less powerful groups.  Since the dragonfolk would be cold blooded and not even remotely the same species as humans, they may see it as little different than humans using horse or cattle.Amphibian: If they can spend significant time out of the water, they'd be in contest with the other races for the valuable coastal property.  Land on water is settled first.  If, on the other hand, the amphibian race is primarily below the water, then they might have good relations with other races since the two occupy different territories and it's almost impossible to invade each other.  Any race that followed the historical human custom of dumping nasty stuff into rivers and the ocean would probably come up against the amphibians, which would either lead to a greater geographical separation or to much cleaner harbors.Keep in mind that without a lot of magic or extensive land settlements, technology for the amphibians will be low.  For instance, mining iron might be possible on the sea floor, but smelting it into steel would be impossible without magic or some kind of volcanic activity.</blockquote>

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