Gentleman Vaultboy wrote
Shardminds: They stay in their tower most of the time, I can only presume they don't really need anything. How is this going to affect the way they view themselves? How is this going to affect the way other people view them? Do the Humans resent the fact that they're naturally talented at what the Humans have to go to school to learn?
Genasi: How do they form pacts? How do they respond to being overworked? Underworked? How much of them appears in this plane to do the work? What keeps one from getting summoned just as they're sitting down to dinner with the family, or on the toilet? Considering their isolation, how do they view themselves as compared to he rest of the world?
Shifters: How do people view them in response to their hidden nature? Do they have to go into town to buy anything? What happens when, lets say the Goliath, want to get at a copper vein under a patch of trees? Consider how terribly mysterious all three of these races are to the others living on Eternus. What are their relationship with the Treants?
Dragonborn: How would being so divided along color lines in addition to being divided along racial lines affect how they view the world? Are there many revolts, say, by the green ones when a red one is chosen as leader? Is there any arrogance over of being the favored child of Gilgamesh, or the first? How, specifically, do they treat Goliaths, as the second child and enemy since the dawn of time?
The Humans: Why are they the most widespread? How would they, who have access to a battery, be seen by the other magic users of the world, the one's who don't? How is their relationship with technology specifically? Are they worried that it could allow the other races to rise in prominence and oust them? Are they worried that it could allow others to accomplish things that, before, would take magic? How would this affect their relationship with the Durhians?
Goliath: What do they mine? Who do they trade it to? What are the mining conditions? Is strength really the most important quality of someone who has to make such decisions? Is there dissent over this?
Shardmind: The Shardmind don't have much concern for events outside their settlement. In the old times, the red crystal mountain was not the focus of many of the wars within the land, instead, the shardmind loaned out some of their magical specialties to the other armies. The Shardmind are viewed as sort of odd by the rest of the races because they are the least physical/active of the races. The Shardmind deal with other races when they need them as a source of knowledge. They have a close connection with the Genasi, both being long lived and the Tower acts as a crossover point for Genasi that don't come over in pacts. The Shardmind are to Bahamut in magic what the Humans are to Anima. The Humans view the Shardmind more as a
resource to develop their own magical powers.
Genasi: People form pacts with them through a specific spell in the shape of an emblem, whether this is draw with magic or actually inscribed on a surface does not matter. In their Plane, the Genasi respond to these pacts as they appear and can generally inspect where/who they will be going to before they agree. The world offers them different conditions to work their crafting powers than their Plane. They view the other races with curiosity, only having any real opinion directed towards the Shardmind. The upper class of Genasi can have a superior air about them, though these generally don't take pacts.
Shifters: They have stricter protection policies for nature than other races, so they wouldn't respond well to tampering within their land, though the other settlements are well aware of this. They are not completely isolated, they have settlements open to other races. These settlements, while still hidden to preserve nature, have paths to them that are wildly known. Only the capital is completely hidden. They live in harmony with the Treants. The Treants are not exactly domesticated, but they move freely through the shifter settlements and they have worked together.
Dragonborn: There is definitely conflict between the types of Dragonborn as they aim for supremacy/leadership as well as a sense of Pride from being modeled after the dragon aspect of Gilgamesh. The conflict/warring aspect of this had died down over time, especially due to the loss of the Conflict Domain. At the moment, Goliath are not viewed as mortal enemies but are seen with the same sense of competition as the other races. There are common types of Dragonborn (Fire, Ice, Acidic) that form the tribes and then unique types of Dragonborn that appear as unique mutations randomly within the tribes. These unique types are generally expected to bring great heroic accomplishments to the tribe they are born to.
Humans: They are widespread because of the adaptive nature they were born with. They can adapt and bring in new magical technique and are widespread so that many techniques can be brought in and absorbed / studied. They view magic as superior over technology. The Humans/Shardmind/Genasi would have the least amount of technological focus but they would not fear its rise as it currently stands. For the battery, they would probably compare and try to integrate other methods as they learn / encounter them.
Goliath: They mine Magicite mostly, the magical substance that was created by Pantheo's formation. Now that I think about it, this would be a main export for the Goliath, especially to the Humans. They also mine any normal earthy material to trade with. Mining would be a dangerous business since the below ground has its own share of mythos and was transformed into the dungeon landscape. Besides just pure strength, a Goliath's connection with the world would be tested to determine who was the greatest (They were blessed with a connection with the earth just as the Dragonborn got the draconic Spirit and Shifter got a connection with nature. They are to shamans as the shifters are to druids.)
Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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