Race

## Overview

The Daoraam is home to a wide variety of sapient beings. Most of these beings belong to a "race", which constitutes a common anatomy and biology, and in some cases a common psychology. Members of the same race are shaped very similarly, look very similar, and have very similar needs and abilities. Whereas on Earth, race is a social and cultural construct, on The Daoraam race is a definite, material reality.

The inhabitants of the Daoraam place great weight on the idea of race. Racial identity is a huge social and cultural force, especially where it intersects with historical narratives about other races, and how they've interacted with one's own race in the past.

The origins of the different races varies widely, with many claimed origins being mutually ex Races who all claim a common history are referred to as "lineages".

## Interbreeding

All races on the Daoraam are theoretically capable of breeding with each other, so long as their anatomy allows them to copulate. But as races exist as distinct categories of being, the way that interbreeding works is very different to how populations of humans mingle.

If a couple of the same race have a child, their child will be the same race as them. They will have the same anatomy, and the same biology. If a couple of different races have a child, their child will belong to only one of their parents' races. While hybrids do occur, they are very rare. And the children of hybrids are rarely hybrids themselves, being born instead as one of their hybrid parent's constituent races. When hybrids birth other hybrids, this usually signals the beginning of a whole new race or sub-race.

If either parent had an ancestor of a different race, that race may lay dormant in their lineage for many generations, only to express itself in a random descendant later on. This means it is possible for a couple of the same race to have a child that is a different race to both parents. And extremely rarely, a child may be born that is not of any race, past or present. Such children may possess any number of unusual anatomical features, and constitute a wholly new race, seperate from their parents and ancestors.

Some races possess Primacy, meaning any child they sire will always be born into their race. This child will never be the race of their other parent, the race of any odd-raced ancestors, or a wholly new race. The only exception to this is when both parents belong to races that possess Primacy. In that case, the child may belong to either parent's race, and no others. No-one is quite sure what causes Primacy, or why some races seem to have possessed it in the past but no longer do so.

## Peoples Of The Daoraam

### Peoples of the Circle Sea

#### Heroic Peoples

* Aaroni
* Ametes
* Conani
* Ebeletes
* Jenni
* Jossi
* Kronenes
* Marconi
* Miletes
* Nifnenes
* Pononi
* Rothani
* Rubani
* Sanaani
* Urmani
* Willowenes
* Yannenes
* Zeddenes

#### Servitors

* Arborists
* Carpenters
* Fieldhands
* Guards
* Librarians
* Runners
* Servants

#### Attatuum

* Attai
* Attaletes
* Hurk

#### Oolaxis

* East Oolaxis Forest People
* Ools
* Redcaps

#### Others

* Bara
* Barbosa

#### Unique Individuals

* (todo: come up with some unique individuals)

### Others

#### Gaggogat

* Skyggat
* Oggat
* Griggat

#### Dancers

* Coalkin
* Metalkin