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Yep, sounds good to me
I think, ideally, they'd be sort of a vagrant race, filling random niches in societies predominantly made up of other races, or perhaps being outright travelers. There could be communities of sirens (or satyrs), but literally requiring other races to procreate suggests they'd be somewhat dependent on them culturally as well, and it'd take some significant xenophobia for them to go "oh, you weren't born a siren? you're not allowed to stay here" to their own children.
It's true they might have some crazy mythological backstory like "they were made by a bored Scarlatti" or "they were amazons from island X" or etc. but as far as ongoing racial identity goes, I feel like they'd best be defined by not particularly having one. Same with Satyrs, really!
That's just my opinion, though! My poorly educated, unknowledgable-at-Achaean-lore opinion. From what little I know, though, the sireni NPCs seem to support it, mostly filling niche roles such as servants to the divine or being that one sireni member of a non-siren community. I could very well be wrong, though!
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Personally, I'd like to see different sized races something that can happen, even if it means my armor needs tailored to my size.
I think that having certain races be of different sizes would, if anything, weaken my suspension of disbelief, because it means that, for example, vertani and humans can't wear the same armor, but a six-foot-four giant of a man and a five foot nothing shorty, both of the same race (or same sized races) could still wear the same armor.
So, if you did add sizes, I feel like it should be something on an individual level, perhaps, with race-approved limits perhaps (eg. no dwarves taller than X feet), or else the system has an internal contradiction of sort.
I'm not actually suggesting that, though. I think it'd probably be a pain and a bit overly mechanical. I just think that if you're gonna have mechanical sizes, you should go all out with it.
EDIT: Clothes are a bit more complicated, too. Armor probably needs to be crafted specifically for a particular build and size (with some potential variability, depending on the type of armor, but if you're too far off, it might do more harm then good!), but you could totally wear a robe meant for someone twice your size, and have it trail around, tied to your waist with a sash or something.
Eat like a caveman, train like a beast. Champions are not born, they are made.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
I also would love to see our current races fleshed out more, as alot of unanswered and ambiguity follow them. Taking Xoran into consideration, the storyline of their origins presented to us was -Beautiful- and became one of my favorites immediately. It truly gave the race a life of its own (pun unintended) and removed the old concept of "weird half-lizard fugly men that appeared during death-heart's saga". I would love to see the same done to: Tsol'aa, Grook, Satyr and Siren.
My suggestions:
Sakuwat, the abominable snowmen - yetis - from Ilyrean Isle. They have some kind of minor ice magic going on, which you might include in a racial ability.
Goblins. Grimy green verminous creatures that multiply in caves. Classic fantasy archetype, universally loathed but somehow sympathetic underdog race. Racial rivalry with dwarves. Some racial traits: +100% damage to attacks against rats, and can eat rats, living or dead. +100 health and 1% damage resistance for every other goblin in the room. 25% chance of -25% on gold drops, 5% chance of +125% on gold drops.
Sileg, the genderless mushroom race from the Mirror Caves on Meropis. How interesting would these guys be to play? Their characteristics don't adapt well to a player race tho, with the vague hive mind thing they have going on, genderlessness, and recycling their dead.
Some kind of like enchanted armour race. There are no clear examples I can think of from within Achaea, but wouldn't this be cool? A race of people somehow fused with suits of armour. I don't know.
Minotaurs. There are a few on Sapience, mainly in the Hriddan settlement but also some in Bella's Keep. Proud, belligerent, super-strong bull-headed people. Fun.
Ursu. The bear-people from Quartz Peak. Strong visual, easy association of animal traits.
Murinae. Rat-people from Mount Gheladan. Same as Ursu.
Imps, pixies, kobolds. They'd be fun to play.
Oh and a gorilla race. I don't think we have one. But I have been watching Justice League, and Gorilla Grodd is so great. You could also go for the Lovecraftian association, some kind of lost city in the jungle populated by intelligent white apes, as in Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, though that particular short story apparently had strongly racist interpretations so maybe not.
Archdragon Mizik Corten, Herald of Ruin says, "Man, that was a big axk."
Hellrazor Cain de Soulis, Sartan's Hammer says, "Your [sic] a beast."