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[Nuloen]

there is so mutch places that arent explored in thedas(used to be explored but over time people forgot about it and books burned) and that what is behind mountain and forest borders is absolutely unexplored (the sa of ashes, the donarks,hunterhorn mountains and uncharted territories)

http://static1.wikia...0/ThedasMap.jpg

i want ursa(living hight in moutains(like hunterhorn mountains) or south of thedas) party of ursa warriors that escaped from theyre tribe becouse they wanted to execute them becouse they refused to fight against other clan(tribe)

and also race that lives in the sea of ashes

[Silfren]

Personally I want to know about the Fex.  After all that talk about them appearing in DA2 when it was announced, and then...nothing. 

[franciscoamell]

Merpeople!

[DonaldFwump]

A race of aquatic creatures that can only live in land through possession by demons. Underwater they look humanoid, with long fins and horns. On land they look like strange hybrids between normal abominations and fish.

So Murlocs  .  At least that bolded part.

[KR96]

Just want to share...these are some of my people traditional attire/clothing...so if there is any of "Asians" race in Thedas, i would love to see something like these rather than the common Japanese or Chinese...

 

 

 

I also want some of my people's traditional garments to be in the game. 

Spoiler

 

[KR96]

Yup. Provides a tactical advantage. If your arrows don't do the trick, you can always try the shoes, they're killers in disguise. 

 

On a more serious note, these were garments worn by farmers in times long, long past. Although there are some who believe people in The Netherlands still dress up like this, I can assure you we do not. 

[KR96]

Interesting I think it's fascinating to see how the culture of people around the world can differ immensely but still contain some resemblance to one another. 

[Elissiaro]

Fae, from the fade... That are basically fade spirits and demons that got together and decided to recreate human society in the black city cause they got sick of trying and failing to get to the human world. And hey, the sleeping people sometimes call it the black City, and humans live in cities right? So clearly that place must be just like a real human city!

Of course, since each of them know about as much about the world as the average threeyearold, it's not all that similar to human (or any other) society.

 

Then with the tears in the veil, they finally got their chance to see the human world properly.

 

And hey, they've practiced the whole human thing for a long, long time. I'm sure they're awesome at it now! No-one will suspect a thing. (Except everyone.)

[Baelyn]

Bring on the hate but....could we get vampires? Pluuuhhheeease.

(I know its not really a RACE per se, but hey we got Lycanthropes!)

[Iron Fist]

There needs to be a race of anthropomorphic canines who fight crime. 

[Iron Star]

Bring on the hate but....could we get vampires? Pluuuhhheeease.

(I know its not really a RACE per se, but hey we got Lycanthropes!)

Gaider has already said that the closest being in the DA universe to a vampire would be a hunger abomination.

[Nuloen]

Bring on the hate but....could we get vampires? Pluuuhhheeease.

(I know its not really a RACE per se, but hey we got Lycanthropes!)

it could be mages that cursed them selves with bloodmagic so they could live forever but every 3 years they have to use blood of nonvampire to reactivate that curse

so they have to drain blood from 3 humans(or other races with same blood)

and there are vampires that were able to absorb taint to theyre body and dont let it to control them(and with every killed archdemon theyre power increase, so they can accept more vampires into theyre group and still have same power) and they pray to gods older than Old Gods (Ancient Gods that were the first demons that escaped from Fade and made a deal with The Stone to hide them before eyes of Maker, becouse they were first spirits that faced maker in battle and those who helped them, became demons and those who stayed neutral became that what chantry is calling spirits)

OMG, my fan fiction rage, again

[LinksOcarina]

Nothing is really original anymore. Even the Qunari, as unique as they are as a fantasy race, are basically big trolls with a dominant way of life. 

 

Honestly, the best bet would be to do something that hasn't been done in a while. Lizard people, cat people, asari, they have been done already. Maybe try a bat-like race or something unique. Or just steal liberally from DnD and add Gnolls or something. Me personally, let's go through mythology and put something in that's unusual, like Centaurs or Qiling's.

[KR96]

Does the series honestly need new races at all?

 

I mean, refreshment is nice, but as long as the game is taking place in Thedas there really is no reason for any new race to pop up IMO. 

[Silfren]

Bring on the hate but....could we get vampires? Pluuuhhheeease.

(I know its not really a RACE per se, but hey we got Lycanthropes!)

This has been brought up before, and the thing is that they are already in the lore, in that corpses possessed by Hunger Demons are sometimes called vampires, as I recall.  Bioware has no plans to change the existing lore to introduce traditional vampires based on real world legends. 

[Silfren]

I think there is a confusion between races, species and factions here

 

Ferelden, Orlais and Anderfel human are of different races. Elves, dwarves and Qunari are of different species.

 

Werewolves, Templar and Mages are factions

 

Well, no.  That's not really even remotely accurate.  Then again going into the particulars may be getting a little bit too pedantic...

[CybAnt1]

I think there is a confusion between races, species and factions here

 

Ferelden, Orlais and Anderfel human are of different races. Elves, dwarves and Qunari are of different species.

 

Werewolves, Templar and Mages are factions

 

Did someone mention pedantry? 

 

Fereldans, Orlesians, etc. would be different ethnic/national groups. 

 

It's not clear that elves, dwarves, and humans are different species. They can reproduce with each other. We don't know about qunari - yet. 

[Saints]

There is some "bullshitis" in this thread right now.

[CybAnt1]

BTW, just because this world has humans that look like our world, does not mean they evolved the same way humans in our world do. 

 

I still maintain it seems likely there may have been an ancestral race/species from which elves, dwarves, and humans might all descend. 

 

Whether or not qunari can reproduce with humans - or dwarves or elves for that matter - remains unknown. The writers have hinted they are somehow connected to Dragons (by ancestry?), don't know if that plot-thread will be continued or unwoven. 

 

BTW, I guess it is a bit off that the new filter system will stop "****** sapiens sapiens" but not "bullshititis". So I take it the word "bullshit" does not trigger the filter? But "******"does?

 

Odd. I know the term is often used as a slur, but it makes it hard to use the proper species name for human beings, and other hominids.

[Silfren]

Human are h.o.m.o sapien, Elf could be h.o.m.o sapien elveniansis, Qunari could be h.o.m.o erectus bullshitis and Dwarves are h.o.m.o sapien shortianus

 

They are all h.o.m.o because of being bipedal...so they may reproduce with eachother as h.o.m.o

 

Edit : Why the word h.o.m.o being cencored? How to write scientific names?

 

It's being censored because it's a slur in American English.  (Or used to be; I haven't heard it used as such in quite a while).

 

That said, race is an artificial construct, not a biological one.  Humans are technically all of the same race.  Orlesians and Fereldans and Anders are not all different races, they are different nationalities.  Elves, Dwarves, and Kossith would qualify as different races, I think, as in racially distinct from humans.  I'm not sure, though, due to the ability to interbreed.  (CAN humans interbreed with Kossith?) 

[Silfren]

BTW, just because this world has humans that look like our world, does not mean they evolved the same way humans in our world do. 

 

I still maintain it seems likely there may have been an ancestral race/species from which elves, dwarves, and humans might all descend. 

 

Whether or not qunari can reproduce with humans - or dwarves or elves for that matter - remains unknown. The writers have hinted they are somehow connected to Dragons (by ancestry?), don't know if that plot-thread will be continued or unwoven. 

 

BTW, I guess it is a bit off that the new filter system will stop "****** sapiens sapiens" but not "bullshititis". So I take it the word "bullshit" does not trigger the filter? But "******"does?

 

Odd. I know the term is often used as a slur, but it makes it hard to use the proper species name for human beings, and other hominids.

 

I'm thinking that is a simple oversight that will probably be fixed fairly quickly.  I doubt they would've left b.s. out of the auto-censor on purpose. 

[CybAnt1]

That is just odd filtering.

 

So the filter will trigger for words like homogenous, homogamy, and of course, homosexuality? 

 

See, I can get why these filters trigger for the words on their own, but not when they are strings of text within another word. 

 

EDIT: Ahhh. I see they've fixed that problem.

 

Nazi Party.

 

Ashkenazi Jews.

 

OK, so the word "Nazi" is no longer being filtered. Either in part or in whole.

 

Incoming Godwin's Law violations.

[Silfren]

From what i understand, all human are from the same species, h.o.m.o sapien, only of different races.

 

Races is not the same with nationalities, peoples of different race can be of the same nationality. Like my country, a multiracial country. being in the same nationality do not make the same race.

 

Human Ferelden and Orlais are different race and nationality. Human Orlaisian who live in Ferelden is Ferelden by nationality but not of race

 

That race is not the same as nationality is exactly why your first post didn't make any sense and why people brought it up as wrong.  You made it sound as if Fereldans and Orlesians are different races, not different nationalities.  As you yourself point out, people can share nationalities while being of different ethnicities.  

 

Again, race is an artificial concept, not a biological one.  Biologically speaking there is no such thing as different races.  We use it mostly for the sake of convention now, and as a sociological distinction.

 

That said, in keeping with the accepted usage of race, neither Orlesian nor Ferelden refer to race, but to nationality.  An Orlesian living in Ferelden remains an Orlesian by nationality, at least if we assume that the someone in question identifies as Orlesian in the first place because they are from Orlais.  Orlesians and Fereldans can't be said to be different races; rather, it's that both nationalities can each be made up of persons from different races.  

 

I believe Rivaini is a label more akin to a racial marker, which is why Vivienne can be said to be an Orlesian Rivaini, or an Orlesian national of Rivaini ethnic descent.

[Steelcan]

No new species or anything please, unless you plan on introducing something like the Sload

[Steelcan]

French and British aren't races, there's say the Anglo-Saxon race in England, the Celtic population Ireland, Wales,Scotland, Scandinavian from the norse conquests, and that's without taking into account recent immigration.