Races

“Unlearned folk will have misconceptions about the different peoples in this world. A man’s only experience with a halfling might have been when she picked his pocket at the annual market. Now the man has the preconception that all halflings are greedy criminals. Small biases can spread.” "Unlearned folk will have misconceptions about the different people in this world. A man's only experience with a halfling might have been when she picked his pocket at the annual market. Now the man has the preconception that all halflings are greedy criminals. Smalls biases can spread." Marik Bastan, Chair of Anthropology department at the University of Phidar

Orcs
“Yurmigol, He who Holds the Staff and Leads the Way, who brought us out of bondage! Yurimgol, the Prophet, praise his name! We were taken from our homeland, Kansif, and the tribes were torn apart. But the Sucklings grew lazy and fat off our labor, and we did find freedom!”

Mogork the Auger

Elves
“A collection of them wanted to walk among the humans and dwarves, and live and get drunk and grow old and die and procreate, so they pleaded to the Queen of Fae. She accepted the request, but on the condition that their immortality and eternal youth would be stripped. And thus now we have Those who Stayed, and Those who Left.”

Erendriel un Alvander

"Elves who get in contact with 'umans get the Blight and their lifespan is cut short. Simple as that."

Jorad Cordwain

Dwarves
“We did not come from the summits and ridges, but from the Gods!”

Jorad Cordwain

“Obviously, most ‘Dwarves’ today can trace their bloodlines to myriads of Dwarven-Human conceptions. They are almost as Human as they are Dwarf.

But we are going farther back. The legends say that dwarves unsatisfied with Dunleive’s reign left Khal Belgar, and were the first Dwarves in 700 years to leave. They went south and spread, and became Kin Dwarves. They thought they wouldn’t see any of their kind, but came face to face with Kurseich, or Quilled Dwarves. How strange. I must visit Rengaard one day.”

Thralgras Sonof-Landon, Of Men and Dwarves

“ An orc keeps their word because they are honor-bound by it. A dwarf keeps their word because they cannot conceive of a way to live without being honest and dedicated to what you've chosen to do in life. Call it "honor" if you want but the real reason is that a dwarf who considers breaking an oath must also confront his ability to break any promise, which would mean he is not a good dwarf.”

-Unkown