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I'm thinking we should start off by everyone throwing in ideas on various cultures or simply cultural aspects you think we should have. You can have it in mind for a specific race or as something simply to toy with. I'll try to keep up with everything and have various cultures and specific aspects here in this beginning thread so people don't have to read every single post to know what's going on.

No, you don't need to decide what you are contributing. I don't mind if you don't have anything specific, I was just thinking there could be people I go to for specific things or have them keep tabs on what's going on in one section or another and talk with me about things so I'm not the only one reading everything and being the ultimate say... I know I am, but maybe I'm taking things one way and I'm not seeing what you or the people posting are seeing, so if I had someone in each section willing to read over things, discuss them with me and our likes and dislikes for things of the world, then I think it would be more of a positive than a negative.

As for a waring culture with religion and worship and such in line with that, I know what you mean. There could be a race with such a culture as well as races split between a fine line of a waring culture and something else...

All might Racial Write up Woman here, (and coughing a lung up on the other side of the internet, and trying to get my ears to stop ringing.) Can't do much right now because being sick, and even recovering from being sick, makes my mind lose any appearance of having continuity, in other words, I'm loopy right now.

My idea for Orcs is a very military based society, honor, discipline, and gutting people who disagree with you. I as figuring a mix of Sparta, Samurai, and Vikings, but more tribal, or clannish. An Orc's rank in life is based off of their ability to kill, and their ability to follow orders. Culturally Orcs would be the military ideal, but would be behind in all other areas. You would also likely have a number of Orcs who fall out of Orc society do to not fitting in to the strict system. I think that Orcs could occasionally come to great power, under a great and charismatic leader, only to fragment again after the leaders fall, and would spend most of their time fragmented. By the way this would be historically most like the Germanic tribes of the roman period.

As for the Elves being like the Navii, no, just no. Elves like cities, sure their cities have a bunch of trees growing in them, but its because of elven aesthetics, elves care more about the cities then the trees. Elves see the environment as important for the future, and they think its pretty, that is the elven view on the environment. I have also meant them to be a mostly secular group, they are an independent lot who don't tend to look to others for help wither it be other people, or gods.

Oh and the race that I plan to write next, are trolls, who I intend to be another nature oriented group, but with a culture very different from elves, in fact I plan them to be rather opposites of a sort. Elves are about skill, trolls are about force, elves like courtesy and refinement, as where trolls are almost rude, and direct.

Trolls vary, a lot. I'm going humanoid, related to Orcs similarly to how humans and elves are related.

So it looks like we are going with the general classifications of races and their cultures, that's fine with me as long as we put a bit of elemental flare into them. I personally like the regular cultures with a bit of personal touches.

As for Trolls being a branch from an Orc, that's more of what I was thinking over them being composed of substances... In the arena of intelligence levels... I don't think there will be a problem... well I don't exactly understand why you are thinking there isn't going to be a change in intelligence levels... You mind explaining what you mean to me?

...Neo, I have to say, each time I read that I start to think I have a clue as to what you are saying, and then by the time I finish it, I'm back to being confounded. I have read what you have written many times, and each time, I think I'm getting farther from understanding.

(O.o) The last part is what I was thinking. They aren't born with complete knowledge, but they are more likely by nature to do things because of the way they're shaped. Er...but I'll get off of that, because I'm likely to delve into things to the point where others may not understand. Yes. The fourth part was what I meant. When I said intelligence levels, though maybe not fully, I meant what comes simple to the minds of one race, but harder to the others. Like...ogres and orcs can have the same intelligence level, but ogres are more likely to know things about agriculture, and orcs may know more things about warfare. So...yeah. Oink.

I've been taught a valuable lesson. Lawls. (-m-) Why do I have the weirdest feeling that anything I suggest from now on is going to have some negative feedback?