Platypeople are anthropomorphic platypuses. They are 3 or 4 feet tall and walk upright on their little webbed feet. They have fur, duck bills, venomous spurs on their hind feet, and flat beaver-like tails.\u00a0 Most Platypeople keep to themselves. Their amphibious cities, which start on land but continue into the water, seem like quaint villages to other cultures. They celebrate Platypalooza on a certain full moon. Rumor has it they are provincial and uneducated.<\/p>\n
Collectors love stuff. All kinds of weird stuff.\u00a0 Each Collector has a different kind of stuff that appeals to them. Collectors inherit their collections from older Collectors. Many of the old Collectors were dinosaurs. Rumor has it that dinosaurs are evil, and must be slain to take their collections.<\/p>\n
Constructs are artificial lifeforms. Although they have souls, their bodies are not flesh and blood. They are clouds of glowing energy, with a few solid components to interact with the world, like faces and hands.\u00a0 They were built by a mysterious group, whose motivations can only be guessed.<\/p>\n
Dragons are great and powerful reptiles with terrifying breath weapons, or at least they were. Although they once ruled the world and were feared for their vengefulness, they were wiped out by treachery several generations ago.\u00a0 Rumor has it that they are very greedy.<\/p>\n
Dwarves come from the stone and the mountains. They are small and dense. A typical dwarf might be 3’7″ and 350lbs. Rocks don’t have genders, so Dwarvish doesn’t have gender markers. Dwarves can marry more than one person, for love, or to secure alliances between clans.<\/p>\n
Elves are tall, long-lived magical creatures.<\/p>\n
Fairies are the size and shape of a Barbie doll: impossibly slender and 11 inches tall. They fly on insect-like wings. Their skin can be any pastel color, and they name themselves after plants and flowers.\u00a0 They are nude except for accessories, like jewelry or a hat, but a constant glamour makes their bodies indistinct, featureless, PG-rated.<\/p>\n
Goblins are somewhat shy and stay in their technologically advanced underground cities. Most never venture to the surface.\u00a0 They send a few scouts to explore topside for new materials or power sources to help advance Goblin civilization.\u00a0 Rumor has it that Goblins are redirecting underground streams.<\/p>\n
Not much is known about their culture, but they are small humanoids, about three feet tall.There’s one Halfling in every town, and they make their homes in trees. They recently won the Giant War by surrendering to the Giants, letting them occupy the Halfling lands, then pranking them mercilessly until they fled. Not all Halflings on the continent are refugees. Halflings have lived here for a long time.<\/p>\n
They are blind prophets who have sight beyond sight.\u00a0 They can see through the eyes of others, and have a vague sixth sense so they don’t run into things.\u00a0 They are nomads, and avoid each other, since multiple prophets close together cause magical interference, distorting the prophesies.\u00a0 When prophets dream, they are possessed by some magical force and recite or write prophesies. These prophesies come from several different sources.\u00a0 Rumor has it that the prophets are just high all the time, and their visions are drug-induced hallucinations.<\/p>\n
They exist and are about what you’d expect. We haven’t learned much about them yet.\u00a0 Rumor has it that humans are brainwashing the Goblin scouts that are sent to the surface, so they will go back and infiltrate the Goblin underground cities.<\/p>\n
Humans from the Forgotten Lands are special, and have the power to make people forget the last few minutes. They chose to be forgotten by the world, but now they are done hiding.\u00a0 An Order of Librarians commit themselves to study & preservation of knowledge. Rumor has it that those from the Forgotten Lands are all sorcerers capable of mind control, and that the land was forgotten because it went away, carried on the back of a great dinosaur.<\/p>\n
Lanterns appear to be humanoids, each accompanied by a small floating light, but really they are extradimensional travellers, and the Little Light is closer to the \u201creal\u201d Lantern than the humanoid form it projects.\u00a0 Maintaining the humanoid form is tiring, but makes interacting with others in this world much easier.\u00a0 There are not many Lanterns in this world.\u00a0\u00a0 Rumor has it that Lanterns can possess other creatures, kind of like they \u2018possess\u2019 their humanoid projections.<\/p>\n
Mermaid is the generic term that encompasses both mermaids and mermen. They have humanoid torsos and arms, and fish tails instead of legs. They breathe both water and air. Coastal cities often have submerged sections to accommodate mermaids as well as land-dwellers.<\/p>\n
Ogrism is a rare mutation in Humans. Sometimes a young Human will reach puberty, hit a growth spurt, and not stop growing for a decade. Growing takes so much time and energy that Ogres don’t reach full size and adulthood until their mid-twenties.\u00a0 Ogres are roughly triple the dimensions of a standard human, or about the size and weight of a minivan.\u00a0 Their bones, teeth, and nails are made of stone and metal, necessary to support their weight and their powerful muscles.\u00a0\u00a0 All children born to Ogres are Ogres, so called “native Ogres” to distinguish from “first-generation Ogres” with Human parents. Often first-generation Ogres will leave their Human communities to find a place they fit in, literally. Ogres are incredibly strong and can life, throw, or smash almost anything. They are terrifying in battle, and also all the time, since they make break things without noticing just by moving around.<\/p>\n
The Rain (singular and plural) are slime people who arrived on this world as fragments of an ice comet.\u00a0 Rain tends to live with other Rain and not in the cosmopolitian, multi-species cities that are common across the world.\u00a0 They all answer to the Ice King.\u00a0 Rumor has it that the Rain want to create a great Ice City.<\/p>\n
Remnants are incorporeal ghosts, unable to touch or be touched by anything.\u00a0 Long ago, they served the dragons, but they were all killed in the same war that killed the dragons. Rumor has it that dragon sympathizers remain because they were cursed by witches!<\/p>\n
Spiders, when capitalized, refers to a species of intelligent, almost humanoid creatures with two legs and many arms. Don’t confuse them for the giant spiders that Halflings tame as mounts, or the tiny predators from the real world.\u00a0 Spiders live in fear of each other because they are power-hungry and often resort to cannibalism to consolidate power. Strange electrical current shimmers across their exoskeletons, like that glass sphere toy that sends harmless bolts of lightning to your fingers when you touch it.\u00a0 Spiders can sense each other and communicate via a special electrical frequency.<\/p>\n
Every traveler who journeys to this new continent has heard stories of amazing people, locations, and artifacts that can be found there. Are these stories true? Perhaps.<\/p>\n
Beasts (Platypeople) Platypeople are anthropomorphic platypuses. They are 3 or 4 feet tall and walk upright on their little webbed feet. They have fur, duck bills, venomous spurs on their hind feet, and flat beaver-like tails.\u00a0 Most Platypeople keep to themselves. Their amphibious cities, which start on land but continue into the water, seem like … <\/p>\n