HUMAN

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Height: Varies

Weight: Varies

Hair: Brown, Dark Brown, Blonde, Red, Grey, White and Black

Eyes: Hazel, Green, Blue, Gray, Amber, Brown and Dark Brown

Skin Color: Light to Dark

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Possessing exceptional drive and a great capacity to endure, expand and adapt to any situation set before them. Although while they are currently the dominant race in Eupheim, Humans are best characterized by their tumultuousness and diversity. Despite this their cultures run the gamut from savage but honorable families to decadent, devil-worshiping noble families in the most cosmopolitan cities. The curiosity and ambition of Humans often triumph over their predilection for a sedentary lifestyle, and many leave their homes to explore the innumerable forgotten corners of the world. Human society is a strange amalgam of nostalgia and futurism, being enamored of past glories and wistfully remembered golden ages, yet at the same time quick to discard tradition and history and strike off into new ventures.

 

Relics of the past are kept as prized antiques and museum pieces, as Humans love to collect things not only ancient relics but also living creatures to display for their amusement or to serve by their side. Other races suggest this behavior is due to a deep rooted urge to dominate and assert power in the Human psyche, an urge to take, till, or tame the wild things and places of Eupheim. Those with a more charitable view believe Humans are simply collectors of experiences, and the things they take and keep, whether living, dead, or never alive, are just tokens to remind themselves of the places they have gone, the things they have seen, and the deeds they have accomplished. Their present and future value is just a bonus; their real value is as an ongoing reminder of the inevitable progress of humanity. Humans in many places are fascinated by older traditions and cultures, though at times they grow frustrated or even contemptuous of ancient and outmoded traditions.

 

Their attitudes toward other races are thus a curious mix of exoticism and even fetishism, though usually with a very superficial level of understanding and appreciation of those cultures, alongside a deeply rooted arrogance which means most Humans have a hard time regarding themselves as anything other than the default standard of society. Human scholars engaged in the study of other races who might be assumed to be the most cosmopolitan and well versed in their nature and culture have often proved no better than the less-learned members of their race when it comes to genuine closing of the social distance. Humans are gregarious, often friendly, and willing to mix and interact with others, but their sheer obliviousness to their off handed marginalization of others is what so chagrins other races when dealing with them.

 

Of course, well-meaning, blundering ignorance and numerical superiority are not the only things that make other races suspicious of humans. Entirely too many examples can be found throughout history wherein human xenophobia and intolerance has led to social isolationism, civil oppression, bloody purges, inquisitions, mob violence, and open war. Humans are not the only race to hate what is different among them, but they seem to have a susceptibility to fear-mongering and suspicion, whether about race, language, religion, class, gender, or another difference.

 

More moderate Human citizens often sit idly by while their more extreme compatriots dominate the political and cultural conversation, yet there are also many who stand in opposition to extremists and embody a spirit of unity across the bounds of difference, transcending barriers and forming alliances and relationships both large and small across every color, creed, country, or species.