Step 4: Determine your Hero’s race (Page 106)
Odds are if you completed step one, you have already have this figured out, in Arcanis Race is intricately tied to the character concept, Its wonderful!.
However there is still some variation, if you want to be a Knightly type you have some choices (Dark-kin, Human, Vals) or if you want to be an Elorii priest of Belisarda, you have some choices also
Dark-kin, its worth nothing these guys have a significant social stigma that is insurmountable in many cases. Because they get a bonus to vigor or resolve, the tend to take a bit more punishment of certain types, and they get a +1 to a defense of choice, and that's pretty shiny. The also get exclusive access to Infernal heritage talents, and they are interesting, they are fairly lackluster to me currently (that being said i loved the Legacy of damnation book , and i still couldn't bring myself to make a dark-kin then either)
Dwarves! Over all i think the dwarves have lost a bit from 3.5, i really missed their ability to "die" but not die with their soul shards. one thing that all Dwarves do is craft, and that is central to the dwarven races, since the campaign does not support crafting and the story is currently focused on the story of the first city (thats not very dwarf centric afaik) you might have a hard time finding story to latch on to. However if your the super patient type, I would be willing to bet there are going to be enough tidbits of the "omg variety" out there to make it worth while.
Encali Dwarves, make particularly good Sorcerer Priests
Elorii -the only PC race that can cast Elder magic mysteries abound for these races, I have a feeling we will be learning loads of information about their history in the current campaign arc. all of the elorri races are interesting particularly with their bloodline talents. due to the actions of elorii players in the past there is a social stigma between players of elorii and other players, it fairly well matches the stigma that exists in game for the elorii.
Gnomes "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." ...someone should write the gnome port town of Eisley. what i said for the darkkin about being generally tougher because of resolve and vigor, ditto. instead of a bonus to defenses they get an extra wound, that's nothing to scoff at. they have less of a social stigma that dark-kin in some circles at least. if your looking to play something thats ugly / reviled /hated, this is your race!
Human hands down the strongest race mechanics wise out there, the only reason they dont beat out the vals is psionics and the vals are shinier(silly blood line talents)
Kio Fantastic martial characters, they are mandated to take one of the best weapons out there as an heirloom, an ideal race for a quickness based fighter, and pretty good for a might based one also.
Ss'ressen kinda confusing, they probably would have benefited from a separate write up for males and females, see the dudes are better genetically at being fighter types and not being caster types. and the gals are better at being caster types and priestesses (and quickness based fighters) if i wanted to create a huge dumb fighter ssressen male is the route i would take.
Val There are 13 flavors, and if your going to be a psionic caster you need to pay close attention to their spells, and depending on what kind of character your making your going to be paying close attention to your family, either as a counterpoint to your other abilities, or as a backbone for your abilities.
Val bloodline talents are really good, I recommend you try to take as many as you can, if they don't fit your character, why are you playing that kind of val? (unless its for the internal character plot, or for the family plot.. but you have to ask yourself what your getting out of this)
Val tensens have a great sub plot going on, and so do the valInares, even though that one is much weirder
_________________ --Josh Elliott Oswald val'Inares V, The Seeker of the Val'Inares Harvester Lord of the Eastern Fields of Iowa
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