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The Prime Races
🕑 Added 2019-07-31 15:25:21 +0000 UTCBecause I am sure people are going to ask, and I want to give more information in general and be more active here, this is a breakdown of the four prime races and their inspirations plus corrupted offshoots.
Human
Humans are classic and resilient. They were known to build the largest cities and spread the most around the lands of Baskan. They are inspired by humans from most other fantasy settings. When corrupted, Humans become "Orcs", a highly strong and even more resilient creature with a lust for blood and power and exceptional cunning.
Elves
Elves are wild and unpredictable. They came from the deep jungles and lived among tribes, though an entire subset has now grown up among more civilized cities and townships. They have odd powers unseen by most other races due to their natural affinity to plant life. They are inspired heavily by my OC Anu'aka with a few subsets closer to Night Elves, High Elves, and Drow. When corrupted, Elves become "Delven", a mix of Draenei, Tieflings, and Succubi, who gain increased persuasion and charm.
Thikin
The Thikin are a short race of industrialists that rely on magic and steam to build wild machines, mostly for destruction. They live in a harsh landscape with little farm land, in a volcano within the Fringe, and thus rely on other kingdoms to support them through heavy trade. They are a mixture of Gnomes and Dwarves in design, thin and cute, but taller and slightly more robust, with fancy hair and mustaches. When corrupted, Thikin become "Direkin", a small creature covered in stone like plates and lizard like features, tough to hurt yet incredibly agile, with heavy inspirations from Imp Midna and Goblins.
Skale
The Skale are a very large and brutal race of lizardmen that mostly live in the frozen northlands. They mostly live in hunting villages, only converging at the old ruin of Springscale for meets and mingling, or to gather supplies to try and warm their cold blood. Inspired by many other lizardmen throughout fantasy, with a bit of a viking bent. When corrupted, they become Drakundr, a dragon like creature that generates heat and is nearly impossible to control, living only to pillage or slay.
That is it for the primes. Would love opinions.
Comments
Rexx
I left out some key things, but basically the vast majority of the corruption happened thousands of years ago. There is even a sub-group called the "Ashen" that are only partial corrupted, and have lived as "orcs/delven/direkin/drakundr" their whole lives, as they were born that way. As such there are people that see themselves as just orc with their own culture and never considered themselves human, but in history, their ancestors came from humans (much like orcs in LOTR came from elves). It's important for my story that this is part of the series of events.
Nefarious
Like Direkin and this variation of elves a lot. Thikin sound fun.
Lazer
Looks cool, interested in seeing how the lizards turn out :) But I would have preferred that the orcs were their own race. Maybe take inspiration from DnD orc by making them monsters that fight human barbarian tribes resulting in half-orc race born from women captured by the orcs after raids, battles and conflicts. Then make corrupted humans into something ogre like.
KLCoones
Oh, and if my OC's get kicked out of Azeroth, can they come live in your land? I think they would like it there!
KLCoones
Do you have any concept art or line drawings of them and their corrupted offshoots? I'm sure everyone would love to put a face to the names. Looking forward to seeing them in action in the future!
Rexx
They won't have hooves. I went back and forth on it and decided hooves and tendrils were what I would sacrifice so no one tries coming after me on similarity . There is still a chance highly corrupted might gain them but that isn't developed yet.
Lawnmower333
Will the Delven have Draenei legs? I'd love it if they did!
