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Is Racial Homogenization in Fantasy a Problem?

First, what is racial homogeneity?  This is when a neighborhood, city, town, or country has only one race or group.  In the real world, this would be an area that has only Jews or Italians or Jamaicans.  No other groups … Continue reading

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Should My Fantasy Races Hate Each Other?

(I was going to write a post about the traditional Elves vs Dwarves in fantasy.  Instead, I realized I had a lengthy section of Do I Need to Use a Dragon? (Fantasy Writing Tips) that covered the topic of racism in fantasy.  … Continue reading

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Nonhumans in Windemere

For all my talk about nonhuman characters, I really am lacking in putting them in a main character role.  The slideshow has everyone that is a nonhuman hero.  I could count Timoran Wrath since barbarians are an odd off-shoot of … Continue reading

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House of Pointy Ears

Welcome to . . . have we met before?  You look familiar.  Must have one of those faces or I’ve been sniffing too much pixie dust.  Anyway, Welcome to House of Pointy Ears.  We like to call ourselves H.O.P.E. even … Continue reading

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What Do You Think About Non-Human Characters?

One of the biggest parts of fantasy and science fiction are the non-human races.  For some reason, fantasy gets hit pretty badly because people who read a lot of the genre get tired of the ‘cliche’ races.  Elves, dwarves, halflings, … Continue reading

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