Races of East Grave

Prior to the Manadrought War the world of Meij could be best described as a steampunk fantasy world. Many races found on Golarion did not exist, instead coming about as a result of abuse of Manalith technologies, most specifically the reckless and sloppy practices that followed the discovery

## Common Races

The following races are the most common in the city of East Grave, listed in order of commonality.

#### Human

Since East Grave attracts immigrants from all over the world, the Human population is split amongst dozens of culture groups. Sisean and Khemonate Humans are the most common, keeping the city of East Grave running for nearly four centuries now.

In addition to the baseline Pathfinder human, two custom Humans representing Sisean survivors of the manabombing and citizens of the Khemonate Empire.

#### Elves

While they can be found all over the world, the **Elves** of East Grave are mostly the descendants of the lesser nobility and artisans of the Sisean Dynasty who migrated to the city after it was founded as a Khemonate colony. Elves are mostly members of the middle and upper class in East Grave, as their incredibly long lifespans give them a level of social mobility not afforded to the other races.

#### Goblinoids

The collective name for **Goblins**, **Hobgoblins**, and **Bugbears**. All three phenotypes are technically the same species, manifesting in very different appearances and natural skillsets from birth. Incredibly xenophilic, their company is appreciated by most others at all times.

## Offshoots

The following races have the lowest population totals, created either when another race mixes with a sentient magical creature or coming into existence in the last century as a result of sloppy biomodding passing traits down through the generations.

### Halflings

Quickly expanding their population in East Grave, the near-Goblinoid Halflings are the result of an Elf or Human with one of the Goblinoids. Unlike their taller cousins of mixed heritage the Half-Elves, Halflings are viewed generally positively by humans and with even greater disgust by Elven parentage. It's currently unknown why half-goblinoids only manifest as the shorter variants.

### Beastfolk

Beastfolk exist on a wide spectrum of appearance, from the most basic of human or elven features with token animal ears to complete facial reconstruction and implantation of extremely experimental biotechnology. The discovery that sloppy modifications can perpetuate along a bloodline spurred a wave of lawsuits that drove many companies into bankruptcy, most of them originating from Generation Zero of the modern Beastfolk population who weren't prepared to force the children to live with the consequences of their radical shifts in appearance.

Beastfolk are commonly grouped by the Kingdom their animal counterpart belongs too. Those currently available are as follows:

* Mammals: Catfolk, Gnolls, Ratfolk, Vanara
* Reptile: Nagaji, Viperfolk, Wyvaran
* Bird: Strix
* Amphibian: Grippli
* Fish: Sharkfolk
* Insect: There are currently no insect Beastfolk.

### Plane Child

The common term for a member of any race with non-Humanoid ancestry, a Plane Child is considered a rare sight the world over simply due to how difficult planar travel is. The most common Plane Children races are actually misnomers. While the hag parents of Changelings are often mistaken for fey by the superstitious and unlearned they are born in the material realm and share very few traits with true fey. Similarly the undead parent of the **Dhampir** shares no extra-planar origin.

True Plane Children are much easier to distinguish. From the infernal features that mark the Tieflings for a lifetime of fear and isolation, to the opposingly radiant features of the Aasimar, and the appropriately elemental temperaments belonging to the Oread, Ifrit, Sylph, Undine, and Suli, its hard for a Plane Child to go anywhere unnoticed. The Fetchlings serve as an interesting middle ground between those mislabeled and true Plane Children, because though they are of mixed ancestry, their human ancestors lie centuries in the past, with very little connecting them to modern human culture and very little in common appearance wise.

## Rare Races

### Cyborg

Cyborgs were created during the Manadrought War, instead of wasting valuable high level spells on magically healing or regenerating the soldiers who were too injured to fight, the generals of the Khemonate Empire began posthumous draft lotteries, outfitting those on deaths door with full body cybernetic shell drove them to the edge of redlining, driving many beyond all sanity into Nova on the battlefield. Those lucky enough to be dead by the time the surgeons were simply raised as undead.

### Gnomes

These distant relatives of the fey make up a very small fraction of the population of East Grave, as they were not found natively on the continent where Sisea was located, and were uncommon in the Khemonate Empire. Gnomes remain as eccentric as they were prior to the Industrial Revolution and the Manadrought War, but now their interests are often found in the strange magic of the Wasteland, or in pushing the boundaries of technology.

## Note on Submissions

Submitting a Custom Race to be added to the setting can be done with the server currency **Scratch**. While we don't guarantee any individual submission will be excepted, as long as its below 21 Race Points and fits into the setting backstory wise as either an Offshoot or Rare Race its likely.

However, if there is an official race you see here that hasn't been included that doesn't require a submission purchase. We'd like to get every officially available race below 21 RP worked into the framework somehow, and if there's one you want to see that we've skipped over please feel free to write up a suggestion and query the admins so we can look into making it fit.

The only exception is we will not be implementing the Wyrwood, Android, or any Construct race made by player submission. Cyborgs were purpose built to serve as the closest thing to a Construct race, and if true Artificial Intelligence is ever invented in this setting, one that has a humanoid form will still use the Cyborg's stats.