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Heirs of the All-Father
Human
The most numerous race and the most adaptable — unremarkable in any single trait, unrivaled across all of them.
No weakness, no ceiling — the widest access to callings and disciplines of any race.
Races
Twelve bloodlines. One choice at birth.
Your race is set at character creation and never changes. It shapes your attributes, which callings you can take up, and — more than anything — the innate gift you carry into every fight. Below are the important bits: what each people is, and the one thing worth knowing before you pick.
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The First-Born
Elf
The eldest people, keen of eye and quick of hand, at home among ancient forests and older grudges.
Gifted dexterity and intellect, with a sword-arm trained from birth.
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Half-Elf
Aelfborn
Born where elf and human bloodlines cross, the Aelfborn belong wholly to neither. Restless wanderers who take up nearly any road.
Balanced in body and mind — a blank slate that bends to any build.
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The Winged
Aracoix
A proud avian people who raise their cities on high crags and cliff-faces. Fierce, territorial, and swift.
Flight — the Aracoix take to the air where other races are pinned to the ground.
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Horse-Kin
Centaur
Half man, half warhorse, the Centaur thunder across the open field with the spear already in hand.
Sure-footed and heavy — hard to knock from their hooves, and born to bear the charge.
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Mountain-Born
Dwarf
Stout folk of the deep halls, hewn from the roots of the mountains. Slow to fall and slower to forgive.
Innate toughness and a smith’s axe-hand — endurance is bred into the bone.
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Giant-Blood
Half-Giant
Towering children of giants and men, they stand a head above any battlefield and hit like a falling wall.
Overwhelming strength and stamina — the largest frame a mortal can carry.
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Desert Elves
Irekei
Sun-dark exiles of the deep desert — ascetic, deadly, and schooled to make a weapon of the empty hand.
Desert-hardened and lethal unarmed — dangerous with nothing in their fists.
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The Beast-Men
Minotaur
Bred by the elves as beasts of war and long since freed, the Minotaur are living siege engines with a temper to match.
Cannot be stunned — and carry raw strength no other race can match, with the cold barely touching them.
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The Fallen-Winged
Nephilim
Demon-touched and beautiful, the Nephilim wear their unholy heritage openly — wings, arcane blood, and all.
Flight paired with potent arcane blood — they rain ruin from above.
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Shadow-Touched
Shade
Half-real things that walk the seam between the living world and the dark beyond it, drawn to secrets and stealth.
See the unseen — no invisibility hides from a Shade’s eyes.
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The Undying
Vampire
Those who traded a mortal death for an endless, hungering night — powerful, cursed, and always feeding.
Wields Bloodcraft — their powers run on stolen blood, not stamina.
Which callings a race can master varies by bloodline — a Minotaur will never be a Healer, and no Human is barred from anything. Pick the body you want to live in, then choose the calling it was made for.