Races
Playable Races
There are currently 9 playable races. The races are Troll, Feran, Faerie, Svaald, Human, High Elf, Wood Elf, Wild Elf, and Elari.
Racial Modifiers
Each race has a series of racial modifiers which indicates cultural or physical characteristics that have granted benefits or disadvantages. These modifiers will include at least one Favored Template.
Favored Template
Each race has at least one Favored Template you may choose for free at character creation. This is a Template commonly associated with a given race. For example, Trolls are often Adepts but rarely ever Mages. You may choose a non-Favored Template by purchasing the Favored Template Training for 2 Benefit Points.
Favored Statistic
Some races have a Favored Stat(istic). This denotes how that race is typically just a bit more potent in that area. A bit more dexterous, a bit stronger, a bit smarter. When players spend points at character creation to purchase that Favored Stat, the cost for Rank 4 is reduced by 1. When players spend GXP after character creation to raise that Favored Stat, the cost for Rank 4 is reduced by 10gxp. See the chart in the Primary Stat section for how the points spend changes.
Troll
Trolls are a hulking rocklike race of warriors. They average 9’ tall and several hundred pounds in weight. They have a thick leather hide which secretes a fluid that hardens into a calcified stony armor across their body. They have hard translucent milky white membranes protecting their eyes, no external ears, and pronounced brow ridges. They are supernaturally strong and tough, but have limited ability with magic.
Feran
Feran are an agile feline race. They have cat-like faces and fur across their entire bodies. They are bipedal, with reversed knees, tails, and paws with opposable thumbs and retractable claws. Female Feran are larger and more muscular than the males.
Svaald
Svaald are an ice dwelling blue skinned race with large white manes of hair. They are shorter than your average human, but have long arms for their height. The blue skin ranges in tone from deep ocean blue to a lighter sky blue, and their eyes resemble smoothly polished gems. They have very broad shoulders and hips with rippling muscles.
Human
Human vary drastically in skin and hair colors, across different regions and cultures. They have the same variety as humans in the real world.
High Elf
High Elves have pale skin and light hair colors ranging from blonde to nearly burnished metallic silver/gold. They have very long upswept ears, and narrow slender bodies. They are the most magically gifted of the elven peoples.
Wood Elf
Wood Elves have tanned or olive skin and medium/dark hair colors. They have shorter upswept ears than the noble High Elves, and broader shoulders and hips. They are the most lithe and agile of the elven peoples.
Wild Elf
Wild Elves have dark skin ranging from dark brown to nearly black. Their hair is dark and they tend to be much more heavily muscled than other elves. They have short upswept ears like their cousins the Wood Elves. They are the most hardy and militant of the elven peoples.
Elari
An ageless androgenous demonic race with bone-white skin covered with arcane tattoos, retractable bone blades, and fiercely glowing red eyes. Elari are taller than human height, averaging over 6' tall, but thinner, with white hair, often dyed black or bright colors. Teeth are pointed, and small bony protrusions on face and arms are common.
Faerie
Small winged humanoids approximately 1’-2’ tall with glittering gem-like eyes and slender bodies. A variety of flesh tones with nearly metallic sheen, and brightly colored hair. They are ageless, but energetic and flighty causing many to view them as childlike. However, they possess powerful magic and are one of the oldest races in the world.
Lichborne
Lichborne are a half-elven race who voluntarily transform themselves into immortal undead upon reaching maturity. Newly transformed Lichborne appear as pale, cold, humanoids, while the older they get the more their corporeal form breaks down, eventually turning skeletal.
Half Breeds
Although rare, some of the races in Lorithandar can generate mixed-breed offspring. These offspring have a mix of their parents benefits depending on how they were raised.
Other Races
Draeken
Tall bipedal draconic race of solitary hunters with magic cancelling powers.