Races

Info in reskins is in addition to information from the sourcebooks. In a case where there is conflicting information, the one here replaces sourcebook lore.

The Faerun races, and races from other planes, do exist in the River Rising Forgotten Realms world as usual, but are not found in Kara-Tur and mainly hail from Faerun.

**Racism** is a notable issue in majority-human cities. Incorporating it into your character is optional, and your character will generally not face racism from other player characters as we have rules in place to prevent unpleasant or uncomfortable roleplay.

## Races of River Rising

The following is a list of local races in River Rising's Kara-Tur.

If an original playable race has a reskin, it means the original Faerunian variant of the race cannot be locally found here.

#### **Local Races With Lore**

They look the same as their Faerun counterparts but are treated differently, have different cultures and values, or slightly different origins and biology.

* Human
* Dwarf
* Loxodon
* Kobold
* Baigujing - Changeling
* Kender

#### **Local Races as They Are**

These races are found in both Faerun and Kara-Tur.

* Tortle

#### **Races Reskinned**

These are races unique to Kara-Tur. They are completely different beings from the races used as their stat block.

Adlaoan - The radiant fighter race of Adlao, blessed by the sun.Ajna - A seer race with a third all-seeing eye.Asura-born - An apparently demonic race with blood relation to the Asura themselves, the jealous rivals of the Devas.Aswang - The undead race of women reborn from a passionate death.Bai'zi - An intelligent and wise clan of a horned beings, descended from the horned and winged hybrid, Bai'ze.Bulani - The luminous moon people who tamper with thoughts and dreams.Bunian - An ancient, invisible yet reportedly beautiful people from the mountains.Chalkydri - Monstrous chimeras, with wild and crazy appearances.Chiang Lung - Amorphous pseudo-draconic entities with a fascinating physiology.Deva-born - People descended from powerful, godlike beings, with an unearthly beauty about them.Dokkaebi - An unusual race of sentient beings created from strong emotional attachment to people or things.Dragon Prince - A race created by Dragon Kings as 'children' who possess an instinct to grow up to succeed the kings.Dragon Princess - Kin to Dragon Princes made by the Dragon Kings of the Celestial Sea.Egui - Hungry ghosts.Foo Dog - Colourful, diverse lion-like temple guardians and a favourite of the Devanagari.Fox Witch - Humans who bind their souls with foxes, gaining their magic and service as a familiar.Hanyo - Any half-breed of the local races of Xiaojiang.Jiangshi - Most popularly known as the Chinese hopping vampire.Jin Chan - A race of coin-coloured frogs said to bring good luck and fortune.Jingwei - People who drowned at sea, reborn as this birdlike race.Jinn - A people known with supernatural powers of empathy, blending in with humans.Kamaitachi - Weasel people with a love for sailing the wind.Kinnara - A race of noble, dignified bird people seen as angels, known for their dance and arts.Kodama - Plant spirits that inhabit a humanoid body.Koi - Koi people. Like the locathah, but prettier.Korpokkur - The small tinkerers that hide from society.Langren - Twin races of animalistic hostility.Lanternbug - Sentient paper lanterns with a constructed casing.Luckling - A race of happy-go-lucky anthropomorphic bats.Marutagana - The mighty descendants of minor storm deities.Moon Hare - A race of varied rabbit and hare people.Mouse-deer - The clever, dignified race of deer people, subspecies of the centaurs.Naga - The vibrant, mysterious race of half-snake people.Oni - Colourful demonic beings with brutish looks but a kind demeanor.Pandakin - Forest people with intimidating notoriety.Qilin - Unicorn people banished from the heavens.Saru - "Can I be Sun Wukong?" Yes, cultivator, yes you can.Shankaran - Fluffy Yeti people that roam the vast mountains.Sirena - Genderfluid descendants of a primordial rain dragon known for their haunting songs.Sixiang - The descendants of the Primordial Guardians of the four Divine Directions: Crane, Tiger, Tortoise, and Phoenix.Toyol - Young-looking trickster spirits made from black magic.Terracotta - Clay, gold, jade or porcelain dolls crafted to entertain, work for, or fight for the emperor.Yaojing - Fox spirits, snake spirits, spider spirits, etc.
#### **Unavailable Races**

If you are playing one of these races, your character can only come from Faerun.

* Gnome

## Race Name Capitalisation

###### *For the grammar nerds*

Following WotC sources and Wikipedia convention, the names of fantasy races are not capitalised, unlike real-life human races. This section explains why.

In general, names of species are not capitalised, while names of races and ethnicities are (e.g. human vs Asian).

In the Forgotten Realms, the 'races' have very different DNA. In real life, creatures like chimps with even slightly different DNA are treated as a different species. Thus, when writing about them, we don't capitalise the word 'chimpanzees'. This implies that these are actually completely different species.

Socially, however, they are treated as races. In the Forgotten Realms, because beings with a shared culture, social structure, and heritage have very different DNA, they are *called* 'races'.

Calling them a race is meant to have people treat them as sentient beings in RP rather than like animals and plants. Calling them a race tells us how they are treated in the Forgotten Realms world. Only in academic writing, and accounts of the races, because they are very genetically different, we will treat the names of the 'races' as species names and use lowercase to denote a common noun. E.g. a human, a dwarf, a yaojing, a saru.