Playable Races

Playable Races defines the peoples chosen as Characters, establishing how Firstborn, Kinborn, Bloodlines, Culture and relationships through Standing structurally build your hero. In SORC, choosing your Character sets their physical presence at the table, mapping out how their size, culture, innate biological traits, and deep-seated traditions shape starting identity, through their Legacy†.

†Each Character, if they survive, must retire as an NPC after 40 years of game time. Your Character can be visited by new Characters you create, and you can continue to choose their Growth stats (see Growth) as time goes on. Characters can retire as foul Hermits with bounties on their head or as an honored Legend of your hometown where patrons of certain cities sing and celebrate your existence - but not so much in cities of rival factions.

The entries below systematically guide you from this foundational racial framework directly into the diverse, playable populations of Zailister. From there, your journey expands outward to uncover the exotic, ancient Races recorded from other distant worlds across the vast reaches of Essentia.

How the Races Are Sorted

Firstborn Races are the foundational peoples of Essentia, each with their own base sizes, vitality and other innate statistics. Every Race listed at the top level is a Firstborn. Kinborn are variant populations descended from a Firstborn Race, carrying the same Race size, heritage, and language but with some differing base statistics, language dialects, their unique ancestry and adaptation to different environments or circumstances.

Firstborn

Firstborn is the foundational, pure ancestral Race of a people. Serving as the baseline framework for Character creation, every core playable population listed at the top level originates as a Firstborn.

A Firstborn Race establishes a Character’s definitive biological template, dictating their base physical size (Goliath, Standard, or Small), lifespan, starting attribute floors, and core pools for vitality, mana, and stamina. Additionally, a Firstborn identity passes down a shared native language and permanent, passive biological traits known as Innate Aptitudes and Inaptitudes.

While all Characters must select a Firstborn template, how that Race manifests depends entirely on its structural line:

• Standalone Firstborns (like Humans) have no further sub-divisions; every member shares identical base stats and is shaped strictly by the culture that raised them.
• Branching Firstborns split at Character creation into either Kinborn sub-Races (which mutate base physical stats due to environment) or Bloodlines (which alter magical hues and cultural traits over the same physical template).

Kinborn

Kinborn is a variant sub-Race descended from a primary Firstborn lineage. They represent populations that have physically mutated, adapted, or diverged from their ancestral cousin Race due to extreme environmental conditions, unique histories, or geographic isolation.

While a Kinborn Character retains their parent Race's fundamental base size tier, native language, and overarching heritage, they diverge heavily in their baseline mechanics. Specifically, choosing a Kinborn variant overrides the standard Firstborn template by introducing:

• Differing Base Statistics: Permanent adjustments to a Character's core Attribute Scores (ATTR) to match their physical evolution.
• Unique Passive Traits: New, specialized biological or survival mechanisms tailored to their home terrain (such as an Arctic Dwarf's total immunity to frostbite or a Mountain Troll's cliff-scaling agility).
• Language Dialects: Regional or cultural variations of the baseline Firstborn tongue.

Unlike Bloodlines - which merely shift a Character's magical or psychic color without touching racial rules - Kinborn variants represent a literal physical reshaping of the body's starting template. Classic examples within Zailister include the Ash Dwarf (adapted to volcanic forge stone) and the Sand Troll (adapted to shift seamlessly through desert dunes).

Kinborn Example: The Dwarf is a Standard Size Firstborn. The Ash Dwarf is a Kinborn, descended from Dwarves but adapted to different stone and terrain, carrying different base stats than their Firstborn cousins.

Bloodlines

Bloodlines represent a variant mechanic of a Character's Firstborn Race where the population is split into different distinct "hues" or cultural lineages. Rather than rewriting base racial rules, statistics, or innate traits, a Bloodline acts as a custom background layer chosen at Character creation. Each specific Bloodline introduces its own unique gameplay mechanics, such as tailored bonuses, elemental aptitudes, favored class options, and distinct cultural histories.

Unlike Kinborn sub-Races which physically alter base statistics, Bloodlines focus on magical, psychic, or lineage-driven coloring over a single shared physical template. Only two playable Firstborn populations carry these variations:

• Drāco Blood: Dragon-blooded humans split across six elemental lineages (Red, Blue, Black, White, Green, and Gold). A player's choice of hue directly dictates their dragon-magic affinity and severe elemental vulnerabilities.
• Imperials: Frail, highly charismatic, and psychically active humans whose six ancient lineages (Crimson, Onyx, Citrine, Violet, Azure, and Verdant) determine their distinct historical societies, armament traditions, and political philosophies.

Because there is no "default" or plain version of these two Races, players must choose a specific Bloodline during Character creation.

Bloodlines Examples: The Imperials are a Firstborn Race. Crimson, Onyx, Citrine, Violet, Azure, and Verdant Imperials share the same base statistics, Traits, and Innate Abilities. Their Bloodlines are cultural lineages: each carries different customs, histories, Armament traditions, and relationships to class and Higher Power culture, but no Bloodline changes the Imperial racial rules.

Culture

Culture and Background. A Character's Culture is first determined by the Background chosen at creation, which grants access to that culture’s specific store and overrides regional scarcity. For example, a secret Nordian recipe for "Nord Feast" is rarely found on Omnè, and Omnè Technologically Advanced Weapons (TAW) are scarce on Zailister. Yet, your starting Background lets you begin with these items at creation, unless the GM rules otherwise. Since Culture is a lifestyle sought out at Creation, items don't lose or gain their values based on Culture, regardless of where the Character is.

You can neglect your culture at any time by actively ignoring its traditions. From there, you may also seek out a new culture and style entirely. To adopt a new culture, your Character must physically find it in the world and establish Standing with them. Shifting your way of life carries a heavy social cost: successfully building Standing with a new group triggers SORC’s rules on Standing Praise and Blowback. Gaining traction with your new allies will earn you Praise, but it will simultaneously cause Blowback with their historical rivals. If your original culture from creation is an enemy of the group you have chosen to join, the resulting Blowback will likely drain and ultimately erase all your original Standing.

Cultural Example

The Omnè are further advanced in technology than any other human culture, not because they are more inherently intelligent than other humans, but because they are the most ancient of all human cultures and their development further away from the main sun Adoria, hadn't allowed them to rely on magic.

If lore holds true, with the exception of Trolls, the Fae predate every other Race in Essentia, the oldest people in the world's history, present in the earliest myths of every culture that came after them. Their true homeworld is Tenue, a planet riding a similar orbital path to Zailister, just a bit closer to Adoria, shielded from that closeness by the same dense magical overgrowth that keeps its surface temperate. Fae are also native to Zailister itself, through the Veilwood, a hidden plane within Zailister's own forests that opens directly onto Tenue, grown from that same overgrowth. Veilwood is the heart of all magical and enchanted forest on Zailister, every enchanted grove and Fae-touched wood on the planet tRaces back to it, however distant, and Veilwood itself holds a direct magical path straight to Tenue. Fae are not yet available as a playable Race in these rules. More on Tenue, and every other world, can be found in its own planetary volume.

The Primal of Ignis are people whose lineage reaches back nearly as far as the Fae's, though theirs is the oldest continuously practiced way of life rather than the oldest Race outright, see Playable Races from Afar. Despite their close physical resemblance to humans, Primal are their own distinct Race and are inherently stronger.

Ignis is home to two playable Races; the Emberscale and the Primal (see Playable Races from Afar below).

Choosing a Race

Whether a Player wants to embody a mighty Ogre pounding his way through any type of environment, a gRaceful Elf stalking potential danger to protect the Veilwood, a resilient Ash Dwarf crafting deep within Mt. Greyface, or a clever Ratkin navigating dangerous burrows of Dead tooth's treacherous desert land, SORC provides a rich tapestry of Races to explore. Race diversity is just the first array of different ways of playing SORC that makes every journey unique in developing your Character.

The selection of playable Races in SORC offer a vast and diverse array of options for adventurers, ranging from towering Goliaths to tiny, yet cunning, Small folk. Each Race has its own Traits that they are either strong in, weak in or balanced to, its own cultural backgrounds, often shared with others, and physical Characteristics, allowing Players to craft Characters that fit their preferred playstyle.

Also see Species for further details on Races categorically. Species are the broad, universal classifications used to group living beings across Essentia—such as Humanoid or Reptilian. A Race is a specific lineage or population across the universe that provides distinct genetic or cultural traits. When selected during character creation, a Race supplies that character's mechanical rules; notably, a single Race may fit under more than one Species classification. You can study these biological groupings and their structural examples by reading exhaustive details in the Book of Behemoths, Beasts & Bugs. Or, for a quick summarized reference of these definitions, you can consult the Glossary at the back of this book.

Culture

Culture in SORC is not one thing, it is a set of them. A Character's Race sets their body; their Culture sets what that body was raised into, and it is drawn from several sources at once. None of them change a Character's Traits or Stats, two Humans have identical numbers whether one was raised Omnè and the other Nordian, what differs is what each was taught, what each has access to, and what each is expected to refuse.

Geographic Habitation

SORC records locations in this descending order in terms of size: Universe, Planet, Continent, Island, Territory, Region, and Area. Depending on the scope of the entry, it may list a broad origin like the Character’s Native Planet, or it may narrow focus down to a specific Region and localized Area (such as a city, village, camp, or underground ruins).

Age

A Character may begin up to 5 years younger or 5 years older than any given Race’s Base Age. The 5 year younger point never falls below the age of that Race's adulthood. For instance, a Human Character is 18 at adulthood, the base age for a human is 23, allowing the Player to choose an age 5 years under or older than 23; 18 - 28. Each Character retires 40 years after the chosen starting age.

Also see Growth for further details on what happens as a Character Ages.

Culture Types

• Race - the people a Character is born to, and the homeworld or region behind them (Omnè and Nordian Humans, Bridge and Mountain Trolls, the Primal of Ignis, the Fae of Tenue). See each Race's own entry below.
• Background - the upbringing chosen at creation, which can override birth entirely. Any Culture in Essentia may be taken by any Race through Background, Race sets no limit on it. A Dwarf raised among the Omnè counts as Omnè for cultural purposes, an Orcus raised Nordian counts as Nordian, and a Human raised among the Fae counts as Fae (see Backgrounds, above).
• Class - a Path or Branch is itself a culture, with its own training, rites, tools, and taboos. This is the culture that decides which weapons a Character's Abilities are performed with, and which their tradition refuses outright (see below).
• Higher Power - the patron a Character devotes to at LVL 4, which carries its own observances, its own foes, and its own list of traditions it will not share a Character with (see Higher Power, below).
• Regional - where the campaign is set, which governs what is common to find, buy, or craft versus what is rare (see Cultural Armaments & Rarity, Appendix).

Culture in Play

Here we'll use Humans to describe this section because they hold no category to identify their lineage other than Firstborn. Humans carry no Bloodlines and no Kinborns, every Human holds the same base stats, and what separates one from another is the culture they were raised by determined by their Background.

A few notable human Cultures to mention are; Nordian, Eldrim, Tanu'la, and Xo'kajal. There are Humans from planets outside of Zailister as well, but they do not recognize the term “Human”. The Omné and Tredeki to name two sharing the same name as their respective native planets.

Appearance

In SORC different Races have different skin tones - face, ears, eyes, teeth shapes, sizes - shapes and colors, base innate stats and sizes, and so forth. While creating their Character, Players can choose an array of all of these details as they record them into their Character Sheet. These details can be penciled in on paper sheets or typed in using our PDF Character Sheet editor. Players can also draw their Character's appearance in an empty Portrait Box with an optional low opacity outline of the Character’s Race’s base size and gender, or they can commit the option of printing the outline.

Players can also use our digital Character Customizer to adjust their appearance via slider options, for hair, eye, skin, face paints and scars, tattoos, etc. Characters body types are determined by the Races default physique, from; thin, standard, lean, muscular, obese and massive. The physique score does not need to be punched in, displaying the default body type of the character's race and gender. Character may also display their Readied Armaments, with the last they have worn as default, or they can also choose their street clothes. As the background, Players choose a "Safe Haven" confirmed as safe by their teleporting device, the Animated Compass. Furthermore, Companions may also be displayed.

Examples

Trolls begin as a lean body type, and sport various hues of green, pink, purple, blue, red, yellow, ivory, onyx and so more, with flamboyant eye and hair colors as well.

Humans use the Fitzpatrick Scale for players to identify as available skin tones for their Character (s). These tones are demonstrated below, and when using the Character Customizer, Players use a slider to choose their Humans’ skin tone.

Fitzpatrick Scale

Skin Type | Visual Description | Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan)

Type I — Visual Description: Ivory / Very Pale White skin; often paired with red or blonde hair and blue/green eyes. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Always burns, never tans. Extremely sensitive to UV light.

Type II — Visual Description: Fair or Light White skin; typically paired with light hair and blue/hazel eyes. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Burns easily, tans minimally. Very sensitive to sun exposure.

Type III — Visual Description: Medium White to Olive skin; dark hair and any eye color. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Sometimes burns mildly, gradually tans to a light brown.

Type IV — Visual Description: Olive or Light Brown skin; dark brown or black hair and dark eyes. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Rarely burns, tans easily and deeply.

Type V — Visual Description: Dark Brown skin; dark hair and dark eyes. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Very rarely burns, tans darkly and quickly.

Type VI — Visual Description: Deeply Pigmented Dark Brown to Black skin; black hair and dark eyes. — Sun Reactivity (Burn vs. Tan): Never burns, deeply pigmented and always tans darkly.

Races also have other default physical features that distinguish them between one another. Base Size, Physique and various features and Characteristics to name a few.

Race Class Choices

Every Race carries a list of Favored Classes, granting +5, and Averse Classes, taking -5 (see Favored and Averse Class Bonuses, below, and each Class's own entry, Basic Rules pg. 3). These are cultural, not biological: they reflect which traditions a people have long practiced and which sit at odds with how they live, not any limit on what a Character may become. A Race averse to a Class may still take it and excel, they simply start further back than someone raised to it.

A Main Class Tier (Levels 1-3) carries no Culture advantages or disadvantages of its own. A Main Class's three Paths have no cultural common ground to share. For instance; the Main Class Avenger gives no advantages or disadvantages to a Character based on its Race; however, beginning at level 4, the three Paths of any given Main Class do.

Culture begins at LVL 4, when a Path is chosen, and that Path's Culture governs from there: its weapons, its armor, its forbidden Armaments, its Higher Power. It carries through the Branch unchanged. A Branch is aligned to its own Path, not a fresh tradition, so it inherits that Path's Culture whole rather than starting one of its own. What a Branch may do is state exceptions, specific Armaments its own practice permits or refuses where the Path does not, and those can loosen the Path's Culture as readily as tighten it. Anything a Branch does not name as an exception stays exactly as its Path sets it (see each Class's Tier, Paths and Branches, Basic Rules pg. 3).

Every Tier, Path, and Branch lists the weapons its Abilities are used with, and one must be readied to perform any Ability from that tree; weapons the tradition refuses are listed as Weapons Forbidden under that tree's Culture (see Required Weapons, Appendix). An Avenger is fully capable of swinging a TAW mace, their faith simply does not channel through manufactured technology, so no Avenger Ability comes of it. Basic ATTKs are never restricted this way, any Character may wield any weapon they can carry and attack with it normally (see Basic ATTKs and Ability ATTKs, Basic Rules pg. 5).

A Path's Culture speaks to four things, and a weapon or piece of armor has to clear all four to carry that Path's Abilities:

• Weapon Type and Style - what the tradition fights with, and which Types it refuses outright (see Required Weapons, Appendix).
• Material - what the thing is made of. Some traditions care more about this than about shape: an order that will touch nothing but wood refuses a steel mace and a bone club alike, however well either matches its Style.
• Variant - which Variants the tradition works with, and which it refuses outright (see Armament Variants, Basic Rules pg. 4).
• Armor - what may be worn while its Abilities are used. This is separate from the Armor Grade threshold and works differently, see below.

Armor

A Path's Armor Grade threshold is about weight and mobility. Wearing heavier than the threshold never blocks an Ability - instead, it costs a scaling Armament Penalty, which a high enough Trait score can reduce (see Armament Penalty, Appendix). A Path's Armor Forbidden list is about Culture instead, and no Trait can bypass it: armor a tradition refuses blocks its Abilities outright, the same way a forbidden weapon does, however light the piece happens to be. An order forbidden to metal is barred from a light mail shirt as surely as a heavy plate. Note that an armor's literal weight still impacts your physical movement regardless of its cultural status; refer to the rules on Burden and Encumbrance (pg. …) to calculate your Character's total load.

Readied Armaments

An Ability is performed with what is actually in hand and on the body. Both the weapon and the armor must be readied, and both must satisfy the Culture of whichever Path the Ability is drawn from, before that Ability can be performed at all. Characters therefore assemble Sets, a weapon and an armor loadout chosen together to keep one Path's Abilities available. A Character readies up to three weapons and one armor piece per game day (see Weapons Carried, Basic Rules pg. 4), so a Character drawing on more than one Path should build a Set that clears every Culture they intend to use that day. Where two Paths' Cultures cannot be satisfied at once, one tradition refusing metal while another requires it, that Character carries only one of them into the day and swaps at the next opportunity to change their Armament Set. Basic ATTKs are never part of this, they work with anything (see Basic ATTKs and Ability ATTKs, Basic Rules pg. 5).

Background

Background feeds Culture too. The Background chosen at creation is itself a cultural source and can override Race entirely. Any Race may hold any Culture. There is no pairing a Race is barred from: a Dwarf raised among the Omnè counts as Omnè for every cultural purpose, and the same holds for every other race and Culture in Essentia (refer to Backgrounds). Where a Background and a Path's Culture disagree, both apply, a Character raised to one tradition and trained into another carries the restrictions of each, gaining the full benefits and carrying the full restrictions of each.

Cultural Armaments

Your chosen Culture guarantees access to its native gear at creation, bypassing any regional scarcity. No matter where you are in Essentia, you may purchase Armaments, Equipment, and Items directly from your Culture’s specific store during Character creation. For example, a Pinkling of Omnè Culture can start with Omnè Techad, even if the campaign begins on Zailister - where such items are otherwise incredibly rare.

Every playable Race has Armaments tied to its own people, a Weapon Type, armor style, or technique unique to them. TAW (Technologically Advanced Weapons) and Chthonic are the two best known, but Troll-make weaponry and Ignis's Primal Armaments are equally cultural, and every Race carries its own whether written up yet or not. Each is rare outside that culture's reach and common only when the campaign sits within or near that culture's territory, or the Character belongs to it by Race or Background (see Cultural Armaments & Rarity, Appendix).

Why Omnè and Tredeki run oldest. The first cognitive, civilization-capable life in Essentia arose on Omnè Malum and Tredeki, before any other world, Zailister included (see the Age of Creation). That head start, not any innate edge, is why Omnè and Tredeki carry the oldest continuous manufacturing traditions on record, TAA and Techmat both tRace back to it, and why every younger culture that copies them is doing exactly that, copying.

More to come... Culture is an expanding system. Religion, language, trade, kinship structures, and cultural Prestige are all planned to hang from this section in a later release, along with the full per-Race culture write-ups.

Aptitude and Inaptitude

Aptitude and Inaptitude are Race and Kinborn Gifts or Burdens innately inherited by characters of that race. A Drow's darkvision is an Aptitude, as is a Gnome's ability to speak with burrowing Flora (like some fungi) and Fauna (like small animals). Each race carries innate passive Aptitudes and Inaptitudes, non-combat traits baked into their biology, heritage, and upbringing. These are always active and require no action to use. They cannot be removed, suppressed, or replaced by class choices, though some may be developed further through Talent Trees. Inaptitudes work the same way in reverse: they are permanent frictions that no amount of training fully eliminates, though their penalties can sometimes be offset by other bonuses. Aptitudes and Inaptitudes are separate from Trait scores and ATTR bonuses, they represent what a race simply is, not what a character has learned to do.

Neither side stays frozen at character creation. Every year of age lived, a character's Aptitude advances on its own, following a fixed progression set per race, either deepening an Aptitude they already carry or manifesting an entirely new one at that stage, capped so no single Aptitude scales without limit. This advancement is tied directly to Growth progression. It isn't a choice the Player makes and it isn't random, every character of that race advances through the same set sequence, it just happens as a natural part of aging. Inaptitude eases the same way but far more slowly: once every ten years of age lived, its penalty softens by a small, fixed amount, also following that race's set progression. It never fully disappears, a lifetime of living around it only takes the edge off.

Example, Drow:

• Dark Vision (Improved) - an early stage of natural growth deepens the Drow's existing Aptitude: sight in total darkness sharpens to pick out fine detail and faint color, and a sudden flare of bright light no longer briefly blinds and disorients them.
• Earth Mastery - a later stage of growth manifests an entirely new Aptitude instead: tunnels through loose earth or soil at 5 feet per turn; cannot burrow through solid stone or worked structures, and cannot attack while burrowing.
• Earth Mastery (Improved) - later still, Earth Mastery itself deepens further: burrow speed increases to 10 feet per turn, and while burrowing the Drow can sense footsteps and movement through the earth around them within 15 feet. This is as far as Earth Mastery grows.

Each starter race lists Favored affinities for Class Trees, Professions, Talent Trees, and Companions. Favored Professions grant bonus Experience (XP) toward Expertise Tiers (Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan, Master, Grandmaster). Favored Talent Trees grant +1 to Talent rolls in those trees. Favored Companion types bond in half the normal time at 25% reduced upkeep. Note: Innate Abilities can be developed further through Talent Trees; if a Talent supersedes an innate inability, the Talent takes precedence.

Favored Class Tree Bonuses

A race lists Favored Class Trees, and across its entire Favored list, only one Path may carry a deeper bonus, and only one Branch nested under that same Path may carry the deepest bonus. Every other Main Class Tree, Path, or Branch listed gets the flat bonus only.

A Favored Main Class Tree grants +5 to all Ability rolls made in that Class Tree. The single chosen Favored Path instead grants +7, total, replacing the flat +5 for that Path, and the single chosen Favored Branch instead grants +9, total, replacing the flat +5 for that Branch.

This bonus does not apply to Aptitude or Miracles.

Each race's Innate Trait bonuses and penalties are listed below.

Innate Trait Alignment with Attributes

Each Trait has an associated Attribute. A positive innate Trait value sets a minimum for that Attribute: its score must be at least the highest positive Trait value associated with it, not the sum of those values. Attribute scores and their starting floors cannot be lower than 0. Trait values may be negative, but a negative value remains a Trait modifier and never makes its Attribute score or floor negative. For example, Agility +3 and Strength −3 both affect Physique: the starting Physique score must be at least +3, while Strength retains its −3 Trait modifier. When all Traits associated with an Attribute are negative, they do not lower that Attribute's score or floor below 0.

Native Abilities and Favorites

Each race has its own Native Abilities, determined by the lands and environments where its people developed. These include the race's Aptitudes and Inaptitudes, along with its Innate Traits and Innate Abilities. Native Abilities describe what a race naturally brings to a Character before training, Class, or equipment.

Races also have Favorites, such as Favored Classes, Professions, Talent Trees, and Companions. Favorites identify the traditions a race most naturally supports and help guide the alignments and armaments associated with those traditions. The chosen Path's Culture determines the exact alignment and armament restrictions; a Favorite provides an affinity and bonus, not a prohibition against choosing something else.

Favorite Variants

Each Favorite may name one or more Variants, showing the specific form of that affinity. A Favored Class may identify a Main Class, Path, or Branch; a Favored Profession may identify a discipline or specialty; a Favored Talent Tree may identify a branch or talent line; a Favored Companion may identify a type, size, or role; and a Favored Armament may identify a weapon family, material, or armament Variant.

A Kinborn or Bloodline inherits its parent race's Favorites and Favorite Variants unless its own entry changes them. When a Variant entry adds, replaces, or narrows a Favorite, that entry takes precedence for the Character. Favorite Variants carry the same alignment and armament affinity as the Favorite they refine, unless the entry states an exception.

Favorite Main Classes Tree Abilities

Favorite Main Classes Tree Abilities identify the specific Main Class Tree, Path, or Branch a race favors. They use the established Favored Class Tree bonus: +5 for a Favored Main Class Tree, +7 for the one selected Favored Path, and +9 for the one selected Favored Branch nested under that Path. The Character must still meet the Path's alignment requirement and the Path's Culture still governs its exact armament restrictions.

Playable races are grouped below by size, the Zailister sizes first and the races from other planets after them. A race sets the body a character starts with: its Innate Trait adjustments, its starting ATTR floor, its Aptitude and Inaptitude, its lifespan, and the Classes and Companions it favors. Size decides reach and fit at the table, what a Goliath can put a hand on and where a Small race can go.

How the Races Are Sorted

Races are listed by Size first, Goliath, Standard, then Small. Within a Size they are listed by Firstborn, and a Firstborn may carry Bloodlines, Kinborn, or neither.

• Firstborn, the race itself. Every race has one.
• Bloodlines are their Firstborn in a different hue, each carrying bonuses that set it apart from the others. A Firstborn with Bloodlines has no default, and one is chosen at creation.
• Kinborn are sub races of their Firstborn, carrying different base stats. Not every Firstborn has them.

Example, Bloodlines. The Imperials are a Firstborn. Crimson, Onyx, Violet, Azure and Verdant are its Bloodlines, the same Imperial in a different hue, each with bonuses of its own. There is no plain Imperial to play, so a character is one of them. Drāco Blood runs the same way, six hues over the one Firstborn.

Example, Kinborn. The Dwarf is a Standard Size Firstborn. The Ash Dwarf is its Kinborn, carrying different base stats.

Example, neither. The Glimmerstone is a Small Size Firstborn in its own right. It has no relation to the Standard Size Dwarf, and it carries no Bloodlines and no Kinborn.

Goliath Size Races

Goliaths are towering beings, typically standing between 7 to 9 feet tall, known for their impressive strength, endurance, and commanding presence.

Base Life: 60  |  Base Mana: 24  |  Base Stamina: 40  |  Base Endurance: 35  |  Base Speed: 40 ft.  |  Base Carry: 200 lbs  |  Size Bonus: +1 Strength, +1 Toughness  |  Size Penalty: -1 Agility, -1 Defense

Goliaths have the highest Stamina, Strength and Speed of any size tier, built for sustained physical dominance. Their Mana pool is lower than Standard and Small, while their mass favors physical strength and vigor over magical capacity.