In my world, “races” are all one species: regional/ecological human clades whose traits got mythologized and exaggerated — e.g., "elves," "dwarves," "halflings," "orcs," "fishfolk..." And the fantasy stereotypes are mostly folklore and outsider bias (even though some physical differences do...
Just trying to work out how to do a somewhat grounded interpretation of Vampires. My world of Telos is very much a world of epic and historical fantasy, but it is also filled with concepts and principles from real-world fields of science. So I wanted that to come across in my vampires. The world...