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What is a "fantasy race", anyway? A lot of settings with animal-folk make them match species, but that's not how Delyria works.
I used to have a list of dozens of them, all based on mythical creatures I liked, and it grew into the dozens before I realized that I could group them back together into something more coherent while keeping all that diversity inside each one. But I never liked the term "race". It's imprecise and calls back the wrong parts of human history. What to use instead?
Those are in the right general area. "Species" is too technical, though (the Zemrin encompass a whole range of apparent "species", and the scientific meaning of the word doesn't match either), and "kind" is too vague. I'll keep looking, but my thought for now is that I might not even need a word for it. There are nationalities and upbringings and cultures, and there are physiologies and inborn traits, and those are two totally separate things.
@bj How is kind too vague, exactly? It feels like just what you want here, but perhaps I'm only thinking of it in its archaic-and-maybe-poetic meaning of "group of things, especially living things, with similar traits"--basically "species" but less scientific and with fuzzy boundaries
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@bj (which are kind of just the Romance and Germanic words for the same thing)
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