I keep wanting to make a campaign setting where elves are a fascistic/monarchist ruling class and humans are commoners.
Dwarves and Gnomes are a demonized foreign enemy that the Elves villainize to redirect Human anger away from the Elf ruling class.
Halflings are descended from Humans that the Elves selectively bread to be cute little household servants.
Tieflings, Aasimar, Shifters, Changelings, and other part-human species are the result of Elves experimenting on humans to make more effective soldiers (or assasins in the Changeling's case).
I have a world sort of like that. The elves are an aggressively nationalistic, religious fascist empire who are presently conquering, pillaging, and exploiting their way through the lands of the humans, the dwarves are isolated fantasy-Buddhist monks living way up in the mountains and playing board games with dragons, the orcs are seafaring traders (and smugglers of people and goods, salvaging whoever and whatever they can from the elf-affected human lands- perhaps not entirely out of pure altruism), and the halflings live in underground tunnel systems in harmony with the centaurs- all miners, artists, and artisans.
It's fun.
Now if only I had an adventure actually written, or people to play with.
I was imagining something like Apartheid South Africa. It would be illegal to have half-elf children.
Probably loss of titles, property, and humiliation for the elf parent and execution for the human parent. Half-elves would live among the common humans but receive disproportionate scrutiny from the police.
My first thought like the antebellum South: half elves are considered no different from humans, except maybe they’re more suitable for work in the Big House. I think i like yours better though.
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u/Dyzzen_Grimspawn Jul 21 '23
Wait you guys actually hate elves? I thought it was just meming for laughs.