Sorry, races was probably the wrong word in that case, there are 7 different species of intellegent life however one species have built themselves up to be the supreme race. But I can see this could still cause probablems.

This is written in a topic in the forum of my site but its only available to members so I'll post it here too (don't bother reading it all if you dont want, at the bottom I continue talking :P):

The Tanian are the superior race of the world and are native to the Tani Region which is a large central landmass which is advantageous to their reign over the other lesser races. The Tanian are based on large upright cats, they are very intellegent and fast and honour good politicians. It was their political advantage more than their warriors that gained them superiority over the other nations.

The inhabitants of Januperco''Lazanus are called Janus and are the closest rivals of the Tanian, they own the skies and sweep the land from above in there flying cities. The Janus have wings and use their ability of flight in their battle tactics as they are not stong and either use flight to escape to the skies or to outmanouver their opponents. They are intellegent, tall and light and try to avoid fighting, preffering to resolve the situation with words and politics.

The Jarlak, from the Unified Borders of Jarlanthia are large reptilian beasts. They have very expansive organised armies and pride themselves in being the best fighters on the planet using their strength and superior combat tactics to crush any foe. They are not very intellegent away from the battlefield however, having little to no political power.

Niee, the people of The Meeai za Grainoor (translates to The Kingdom of Grainoor), are amphibius beings enabling them to breath underwater. They are very intellegent, tall and slender and produce the best politicians and scientists. They are very weak in combat and stay underwater to protect themselves from most dangers.

The Ereshkish are a highly relgious culture from the Ereshkigal Dynasty, most of them are witches and their race is strongly influenced by the the magical arts both light and dark. they are intellegent in the runes and are very mysterious. It is highly likely that a person would travel through the middle of Ereshkigal without ever seeing an Ereshkish

Indri are a woodland race originating from the Forest of Indra. They are elf like and are intellegent, fast and silent. They are tall and can fight well at close range but they preffer to use ranged combat techniques and kill from afar. They are very light and don't enjoy fighting. They have great respect for their elders, some of which live through 2 millenias and they have high respects for life and try to protect their woodlands and the animals at all costs.

and finally

The Huksplan are very large, lumbering beasts living in small to medium sized clans on the ice fields of the South. They have amazing strength and are very heavy making hard foes but they are slow and stupid so they are easily out smarted or out manouvered. They are very secludid from the rest of the planet and some people have stared to think they are just myths and fairly tales made up to scare little children.

So those were my first ideas, the different species all look very different depending on the environments they live in, but I could use some of the ideas you gave to give a reason for why the Tanians think they are superior, at the moment I have their superiority based on them being good politically and reasonable fighters as well as being central in the know land however at this stage I'm very open to change. I could give the reason for their superiority is because of some magical event? sorry for being unclear to begin with about species and races.

Also I don't know entirely whether I should have the know world as the whole world or whether I should Just have a small are of the planet :/ having the whole world would more easily explain the large diversity in intellegent species rather than a small area...?
And one other thing, I wasn't planning on having any humans as a species on the planet however it could be quite intrested if your character was human or another, separate species as it could allow the player to relate better to the character. It would also explain why you might change sides from the emperor?

love to here more of your ideas, thanks you've already made me think a lot more indepth about it and given me some ideas

Scribe

thanks for the quick reply,

I would have to release the game under the GPL license completely freely? I will probably never finish the game and if I did it probably would be free because it would be too bad for anyone to pay for :P but I'm just confirming :)

I have absolutely no experience so don't trust anything I say fully but I know that one major difference between writing for games and books/films is that games can and do have interactive story lines where the story can change depending on The players in-game choices so you might want to practise doing that kinda thing?! :D

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they split the jobs into catagories including writers and script writers

Scribe

Thanks :)

Well the shoulders 1 turned out well but I realised when I put it in a square tab it obviously became squished which wasn't good, so I made a square version which worked better for my specific game but I though others might make use of version 1. In other cases like the offhand 1 and 2, version 2 will be used first but it will change to version one (shield or weapon) when the player learns to dual wield if i include that ability. and helmet4 is just because I wasn't pleased with the other 3 attempts :P

enjoy

Scribe