It could be argued that race determinants a lot of the ideologies,religions and nations. But seeing that it is Obsidian,races are born randomly around the world and every nation is a melting pot of different races and there is no racism in the world.
Are you talking about the rat dwarf people?
Yes but the consequence of this would be precisely to recognize that diversity exists on the civilized, meaning, colonial or imperial level of political organization. Why is racial diversity constant throughout all of the game's cultures independent of ideology, technological level, etc, meaning it isn't really a matter of ideology at all (if i recall correctly, each culture is arbitrarily populated by a majority of two races with a smattering of the other races). There's no sense that any of these races originated anywhere in particular. It's as if you tried to imagine a 16th century Puritan America with current day America's demographics, ignoring how it is that those demographics are produced to begin with. How are races even maintained and distinct if no one cares about race? The game makes these gestures at reproducing real world prejudices in the form of orlan hatred, but this is hardly relevant. The population of this world should have bred into some super race by now rendering the issue null and void. Unless crossbreeding is impossible--which brings us back to the original problem (isn't it only humans and elves that intermarry? I'm probably entirely wrong on this point).
The Aedyran lore book is very informative--I'm a bit surprised I never bothered to read it (or don't remember reading it--it's been a while). But my questions about the implausibility of the game world's historical development still hold.
