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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8690607" data-attributes="member: 6790260">1. Fair enough--though that will of course push you a bit closer to elf territory, by being &quot;alien and magical.&quot; Perhaps their magic is what is brutish? That is, not glamours and illusions and other &quot;pretty&quot; magic, but fireballs and mage armor and other &quot;violent&quot; magic?2. Roger dodger.3. It could, though I was thinking something perhaps a bit more like charr from GW2: industrial and &quot;Brutalist&quot; (to use a term from architecture.) Sort of the way orks work in WH40k, just....less &quot;powered by sheer dumb belief&quot; and more &quot;it's not pretty but it works.&quot;4. Well, a hardcore militarist does not need to be an aggressor. Could have more of a Batman flavor, &quot;crazy prepared&quot; type. Though I was actually thinking of turians from Mass Effect, where the military effectively is the government and there's a strong &quot;disciplined soldier&quot; vibe to their culture (even if some people don't fit that vibe.)5. Sounds like you've got a good start then.While I don't fully disagree with the old wisdom, I also don't quite fully agree with it either. New things do appear...very rarely. The conception of something like the Internet was essentially alien to science fiction writers before &quot;computer&quot; began to refer to machines rather than &quot;person who computes.&quot; And even the earliest inklings of proto-Internet fiction, like Asimov's Multivac, did not dream of things like this very messageboard, or Youtube, or Facebook, or the myriad ways in which a global and universally-accessible computer network would both radically change and directly integrate with human society.Sometimes the new blindsides us, sometimes we actually see it in advance. The vast majority of the time it's old things presented in a new way though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8690607, member: 6790260"] 1. Fair enough--though that will of course push you a bit closer to elf territory, by being "alien and magical." Perhaps their magic is what is brutish? That is, not glamours and illusions and other "pretty" magic, but fireballs and mage armor and other "violent" magic? 2. Roger dodger. 3. It could, though I was thinking something perhaps a bit more like charr from GW2: industrial and "Brutalist" (to use a term from architecture.) Sort of the way orks work in WH40k, just....less "powered by sheer dumb belief" and more "it's not [I]pretty[/I] but it [I]works[/I]." 4. Well, a hardcore militarist does not need to be an aggressor. Could have more of a Batman flavor, "crazy prepared" type. Though I was actually thinking of turians from Mass Effect, where the military effectively [I]is[/I] the government and there's a strong "disciplined soldier" vibe to their culture (even if some people don't fit that vibe.) 5. Sounds like you've got a good start then. While I don't fully disagree with the old wisdom, I also don't quite fully agree with it either. New things do appear...[I]very rarely[/I]. The conception of something like the Internet was essentially alien to science fiction writers before "computer" began to refer to machines rather than "person who computes." And even the earliest inklings of proto-Internet fiction, like Asimov's Multivac, did not dream of things like this very messageboard, or Youtube, or Facebook, or the myriad ways in which a global and universally-accessible computer network would both radically change and directly integrate with human society. Sometimes the new blindsides us, sometimes we actually see it in advance. The vast majority of the time it's old things presented in a new way though. [/QUOTE]

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