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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7435128" data-attributes="member: 6716779">No I play genders as fairly binary in my games, yeah olde medieval world etc. Magic and things like shapeshifters can do it normal flesh and blood races nopes. Last I looked Elves are not shapeshifters. I often base my cultures on RL ones as well or real life norms. Most of my world lacks a modern (read tolerant) mindset. Being gay can get you the death penalty, so can being the wrong religion, or the wrong political viewpoint, insulting the king, having sex with the wrong person can also get you killed as my world has the equivalent of the inquisition. All these things that can get you killed and tortured happened IRL.  My Elves are not very nice generally (individually they tend to be mouch like most races), but they are imperialistic I kind of based them on the east india company, they are imperialist slavers, and much like the Raj they are heavily outnumbeed by their subjects.  However they are socially liberal if a bit racist towards non elves. They don't care if you're gay and a few of them are pansexual (lots of half elves and they are involved with the creation of the Yuan-Ti via breeding). The elves are opposed by the Knights of Vanya who are not very liberal at all. They vary from (at best) LN types who are honourable through to the inquisition who enforce the Vanyas faith. They are modelled on the Inquisition and the Teutonic Knights.  So yeah Warcraft II and Warhammer + real life  is more of an influence. There pockets of somewhat liberal places but mostly its based on ye olde medieval Europe and the middle east/Egypt. Slavery exists, torture s legal along with the death penalty, there is an inquisition, and in Tyatis is basically imperial Rome and paternalistic, the Elves are more maternal but their Empress was killed by a Paladin on the field of battle so they are weakened.  PCs tend to gravitate towards the free city states for some mysterious reason If you want to make the world a better place fight for it and go found a domain. Basically death, taxes and slavery.</blockquote>

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