#fantasy race

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Half-foots

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[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Cyberpunk tieflings are too hot as a concept for someone not to have made art of them…

[littleplumptin]

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[carrotchipper]

my take on a bunch of dnd/fantasy creatures

[whereserpentswalk]

Humans sometimes wonder what separates them from other races like elves and dwarves and orcs, like what makes them unique. Some people say humans are generalists, some people say we're the most adaptable. But actually there is something that stands out about us that all the other races find super weird. Humans are the only sentient creature to reproduce sexually like animals do, and because of that we're the only species with romantic or sexual attraction, and ideas like sex and gender.

Elves and dwarves create new members of their races slowly and methodically, like works of art. Harpies, angels, demons and dragons are all individually and personally created by their gods. Orcs and goblins are spawned from spawning pits on mass. Merfolk come close with how they lay and fertilize eggs, but even then any individual merfolk can both lay eggs and fertilize, and they don't meet when they do it. Vampires and other undead are spawned from other races. Fae just sort of show up.

So the idea of having sexes, and genders constructed around them, and sexual and romantic relationships is all incredibly weird for other races. Most humans don't notice it because they just naturally assign members of other races genders when they meet them.

Diffrent races have diffrent ideas around these constructs. But most of them find it some level of confusing. A lot of them just ignore it. But it's really disturbing for some, romantic relationships seem like weird bonds that can't be explained, like some sort of unexplainable and volatile connection. Sexual attraction seems like some dark animalistic instinct. Gender is incomprehensible, and also seems wrong and immoral to most races. And sex itself seem like the darkest of any reproductive ritual or magic. Because of all of this humans who don't experience some or any of these things often have an easier time connecting with other races.

This has also lead scholars to belive that humans are the only sentient race to evolve naturally. Something often thought impossible before studies on humans occurred.

[taphonomenon]

Playable D&D races if Wizards of the Coast weren't cowards

[sootchild]

[greenapplespider]

Bonus:

Some leech concept art using the character Nate, from my story, as the model. Lore and world building below.

Leeches are a race of alchemically mutated creatures - they appear mostly human (when not feral), however there are a few key features which set them apart, purely based on visuals. Namely their pointed ears, cat like eyes, and sharp teeth.

However, the more unsavory feature - that is seldom noticed by non leeches until a leech shows aggression or some heighten emotion - is their pheromone glands. Like house cats, leeches will scent things - rubbing their faces and things and others they perceive as belonging to them. During heightened emotional states (anger, fear, happiness, territoriality, mating pull, etc) their glands will open and prolapse.

There are a couple different ways leech glands can look, they are openings of skin which align with the nasal cavities. Similar to certain varieties of deer.

If a leech has two sets of glands there is a high likelihood the creature is becoming feral, however some few just have two sets.

The glands are rather sensitive, so if a leech attacks you and their glands are prolapsed, jamming a finger inside can temporarily stun one.

Bonus.

Horns. When a leech is in a prolonged state of high stress, with high cortisol, they can develop horns. In the same way a human can have an acne breakout due to stress. The horns don’t get much bigger than what is depicted and they will naturally fall out and go away on their own once the stress goes away.