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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?
@bj species? kind?
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@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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@Felthry
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.