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Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
A race/tribe of red eyed sneaky assassins who are known as the 'Shadow People'. Shokan Mortal Kombat: The Shokan are a species of half-human, half-dragon warriors that live in the kingdom of Kuatan in Outworld. Skaven: Warhammer Fantasy: Skaven are a chaotic race of plague-spreading ratfolk, that live in massive hordes in warrens beneath the ...
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
Kalavinka – a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso and long flowing tail; Karura – divine creature with human torso and birdlike head; Kinnara – Half-bird musicians; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings
The AD&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual (1993) introduced Urds, a race similar to kobolds with batlike wings. [ 10 ] Later editions of the game emphasized more draconic aspects, and suggest that kobolds are biologically related to dragons , and view them as an object of worship and servitude. [ 11 ]
An unnamed race from H.P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City - later Cthulhu Mythos tales have named these the Valusians or simply "serpent people". The Race from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series; The Serpent Men from Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom" (also in the Marvel universe) Yig, the serpent god from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Demonic creatures of fire and shadow, Balrogs are fallen Maiar, loyal to the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. They participated in the wars of the First Age of Middle-earth but are mostly destroyed during the War of Wrath which ended the Age. [T 5] [T 6] By the Third Age, the only remaining Balrog was "Durin's Bane," the Balrog of Moria, killed by ...
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