Fantasy "races" are always metaphors (often crude ones) drawn, inevitably, from present/past ideas about human "races" and ethnic populations.
You can also call riding beasts in your world "drythkors" but in cultural context they'll always relate back to horses, my dudes.
You can also call riding beasts in your world "drythkors" but in cultural context they'll always relate back to horses, my dudes.
BUT DRYTHKORS HAVE SCALES AND EAT ONLY HUMAN FLESH!!
Ok ok geez drythkors are like.... so totally different from horses. You have successfully escapismed. What did you escape from? HORSES, I GUESS
Ok ok geez drythkors are like.... so totally different from horses. You have successfully escapismed. What did you escape from? HORSES, I GUESS
these stupid tweets brought to you by a whole slew of fans discovering that Tolkein's classic fantasy populations (as adapted for D&D) were, in fact, influenced by sketchy-ass ideas about the yellow & brown hordes to the east and south of europe
