Template:Quote race

Template documentation

Display a race description quote accompanied by the corresponding icon.

This template is a subtype of {{Quote fancy}}.

Usage

This template has a table of all the race quotes in the game extracted directly from the game files so the only required parameter is the name of the race. On the race pages themselves, you can use {{PAGENAME}} as the parameter to this template. For the image, it uses Race <race>.png which exist for the player-selectable races and falls back to Portrait <race>.png for everything else.

Alternatively, the quote and image can be overridden with the parameters quote and image. The option image = none may be preferred for races without dedicated icons.

Examples

Playable race example.

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{{Quote race|Human}}

Renders as

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The most common face in Faerûn, humans are known for their tenacity, creativity, and endless capacity for growth.

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— In-game racial description

Disable attribution text.

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{{Quote race|Copper Dragonborn|noattribution=1}}

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the pink-gold colouration and corrosive breath of copper dragons.

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Non-playable race example which falls back to using Portrait Meenlock.png for the image.

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{{Quote race|Meenlock}}

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These crustacean-like Fey are spawned by fear and seek to destroy all that is good, innocent, and beautiful.

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— In-game racial description

Non-playable race example with a specified portrait.

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{{Quote race|Humanoid|image=Portrait Custom.png}}

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A collection of bipedal races, ranging from humans, elves, and halflings to goblins, gnolls, and kobolds.

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— In-game racial description

No image.

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{{Quote race|Cambion|image=none}}

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Scarlet-eyed and bitter-tempered, cambion are the bastard children of devils and mortals, a fusion of two Planes in one body.

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— In-game racial description

A custom quote with a custom image.

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{{Quote race
| quote = Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
| image = Background Hermit Icon.png
}}

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— In-game racial description

Exhaustive list

=== Playable races ===

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The most common face in Faerûn, humans are known for their tenacity, creativity, and endless capacity for growth.

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— In-game racial description

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With ethereal countenances and long lifespans, elves are at home with nature's power, flourishing in light and dark alike.

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— In-game racial description

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Heirs of the mystical Feywild, high elves value magic in all its forms, and even those who do not study spellcraft can manipulate the Weave.

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— In-game racial description

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These elves spend their reclusive lives in Faerûn's forests. Decades of training in archery and camouflage are enhanced by an otherworldly swiftness.

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— In-game racial description

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Driven to the Underdark, most drow have adopted a ruthless pragmatism. While the Lolth-sworn delight in the goddess' evil tenets, the Seldarine reject Her attempt to overthrow the leader of the elven pantheon.

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— In-game racial description

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Raised by Lolth's cult in the city of Menzoberranzan, these drow embody the virtues of their corrupt and merciless goddess. Lolth marks Her followers with bright red eyes so those in the Underdark will learn to fear them on sight.

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— In-game racial description

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Seldarine drow can be found seeking allies from all over Faerûn, aiming to settle their conflict with Lolth - and each other - by any means necessary.

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— In-game racial description

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As durable and unyielding as their homes of stone, dwarves are some of the finest warriors, miners, and smiths of Faerûn.

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— In-game racial description

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These dwarves are known for their confidence and keen intuition. The culture of their Deep Kingdom values family, ritual, and fine craftsmanship.

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— In-game racial description

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Great losses in ancient wars against goblins and orcs have led these dwarves to adopt a cynical mindset, but they will endure anything to restore their ancestral homelands.

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— In-game racial description

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Once enslaved by the eldritch mind flayers, duergar adapted to freedom with harsh practicality. Their cold demeanours and gift of stealth are well-known throughout the Underdark.

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— In-game racial description

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Curious, ambitious, and versatile, half-elves are welcome everywhere, but struggle without a community to call their own.

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— In-game racial description

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A touch of the Feywild remains in half-elves with this bloodline, and even those untrained in magic possess a hint of wild power.

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— In-game racial description

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Like their wood elf parent, these half-elves have a quickened stride and an eye for stealth. Yet many break away from isolation in Faerûn's forests to explore the rest of the Realms.

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— In-game racial description

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Most half-drow result from liaisons between Seldarine drow and surfacers. While half-drow inherited a few magical gifts, they aren't usually raised in the Underdark.

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— In-game racial description

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Small, clever, and energetic, gnomes use their long lives to explore Faerûn's brightest corners and darkest depths.

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— In-game racial description

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The most commonly seen gnomes on Faerûn's surface, rock gnomes are named as such for their hardiness and affinity for metal.

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— In-game racial description

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More guarded than their surface cousins, deep gnomes survive in the Underdark with darkvision and skilful stealth.

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— In-game racial description

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Even smaller than their cousins and twice as reclusive, forest gnomes are a rare sight in Faerûn. They master magic and craftsmanship in their distant, idyllic groves.

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— In-game racial description

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Small yet capable, halflings prefer the comforts of home and hearth - but their natural luck and dexterity makes them fine adventurers.

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— In-game racial description

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Stealthy but social, these halflings travel all over Faerûn to make names for themselves.

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— In-game racial description

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Legend has it that dwarven blood gave stronghearts their hardiness. Resistant to poison and wellsprings of endurance, these halflings easily hold their own.

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— In-game racial description

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Descended from devils of the Nine Hells, tieflings face constant suspicion in Faerûn. Thankfully, their arcane abilities make them natural survivors.

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— In-game racial description

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Bound to Nessus, the deepest layer of the Hells, these tieflings inherited the ability to wield fire and darkness from the archdevil Asmodeus' infernal bloodline.

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— In-game racial description

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Descended from the archdevil Mephistopheles, these tieflings are gifted with a particular affinity for arcane magic.

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— In-game racial description

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Tieflings from Zariel's bloodline are empowered with martial strength, and can channel searing flame to punish their enemies.

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— In-game racial description

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With a ruthlessness borne from mind flayer enslavement, githyanki ride the Astral Sea atop red dragons, bringing their silver swords and psionic might to bear against any trace of the illithid menace.

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— In-game racial description

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A proud race that values clan and skills above all else. Once enslaved by dragons, they strive to be self-sufficient, not wanting to be beholden to anyone, not even the gods.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the charcoal colouration and fizzling, acrid breath of black dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the deep sapphire scales and charged, crackling breath of blue dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the burnished ochre hue and flickering, fiery breath of brass dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the shining sepia scales and sparking breath of bronze dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the pink-gold colouration and corrosive breath of copper dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the resplendent shine and roiling, blazing breath of gold dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the brilliant emerald aspect and stinking, putrid breath of green dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the bright scarlet likeness and roiling, burning breath of red dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the glinting shine and scorching cold breath of silver dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Despite no ancestral links to the mighty creatures, these dragonborn share the snowy aspect and frosty breath of white dragons.

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— In-game racial description

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Creatures of intense emotion, half-orcs are more inclined to act than contemplate - whether the rage burning their bodies compels them to fight, or the love filling their hearts inspires acts of incredible kindness.

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— In-game racial description

Non-playable races

Aberrations

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Warped, alien beings that have come to Faerûn from beyond the multiverse.

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— In-game racial description

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Aggressive and greedy aberrations that believe their own forms to be the ideal, and hold all others - be it other beholders or 'lesser beings' - in contempt.

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— In-game racial description

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Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers that feed off the brains of thinking creatures.

Most belong to a hivemind colony devoted to an elder brain, and all work towards achieving the Grand Design - their dream of once more controlling empires that span the multiverse.

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— In-game racial description

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Hungry for new experiences, these creatures use any tactic - as well as their ability to polymorph - to sate their curiosity.

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— In-game racial description

Beasts

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All varieties of animals, both ordinary and magical. Most have limited intelligence and lack a society and language.

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— In-game racial description

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Alioramus are sedulous hunters, their broad jaws capable of crushing a knight's chest through a full inch of iron plate.

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— In-game racial description

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Striped ponderous wanderers of the woods.

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— In-game racial description

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Reliant upon echolocation, bats fill the caves of the world with shrieks like the ghoulish little winged mice they are.

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— In-game racial description

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Juggernauts of the animal world, bears are capable of walking on their hind legs, hibernating during colder seasons, and absolutely ruining your mountain hike.

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— In-game racial description

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Their melodies fill the woods of Toril with a mellow sweetness, and their feathers paint brush strokes on even the dullest sky.

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— In-game racial description

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Bulky and tusked, wild boar are at their most dangerous during mating season, and can use those tusks and the muscle in their bodies to gore and crush.

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— In-game racial description

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The member of nature's ecological club most likely to pinch your ankles.

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— In-game racial description

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A displacer beast's coat is slick with illusory magic that can bend light, letting it project images of itself and turn invisible. Adventurers say you can never know a displacer beast's true location - until its claws sink into your belly, that is.

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— In-game racial description

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These hopping fellows look terribly unfortunate, which isn't a problem, because they sound absolutely miserable, too.

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— In-game racial description

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Though noble and giant in stature, these eagles are barely smarter than their smaller counterparts

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— In-game racial description

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Of all subspecies of hyena, only the spotted ones emit that strange cackling giggle that raises the hairs on the neck of a savanna hunter.

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— In-game racial description

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Sure, they carry disease, but there's something inherently gossip-laden about the expression of a rat, as if they know all your secrets.

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— In-game racial description

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Ravens are often employed as messengers or decorative scene-setting by a certain kind of wizard (the kind that drinks out of skull goblets and owns dribbly candles).

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— In-game racial description

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Eight-legged, spindly, and generally awful.

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— In-game racial description

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Furtive pack animals roaming the wilderness, wolves are wary of attacking creatures unless driven to ferocity by territorialism or hunger.

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— In-game racial description

Celestials

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Good-aligned creatures native to the Upper Planes. Many of them are servants of deities, employed in the mortal realm.

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— In-game racial description

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Endowed with a divine lineage, aasimar represent the physical and mental experience of other mortal creatures elevated. In the long uncertain night of Faerûnian life, they burn like pale inspiring torches.

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— In-game racial description

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Bobbing like corks in the earnest, busy muddle-puddle of their lives, hollyphants are sweet-natured little pachyderms who often serve as helpers to good-aligned deities.

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— In-game racial description

Constructs

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Creatures that are made instead of born. Some only follow a simple set of instructions, while others are imbued with sentience.

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— In-game racial description

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Suits of magically animated plate armour. Ponderous and persistent, these constructs are often used as guardians.

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— In-game racial description

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Once a blueprint, now an indication of modern technology, this machine can only ever be a facsimile of a real person.

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— In-game racial description

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Phantasms of arcane origin.

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— In-game racial description

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Formed from the wealth surrounding the Toll Collector, this weapon clinks and jangles as it sweeps across the battlefield.

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— In-game racial description

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The powerful enchantments that have stitched together this assortment of body parts have imbued it with both a strong defence and formidable strength.

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— In-game racial description

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Unstoppable juggernauts that exist only to follow their creator's orders, even if that creator has long since passed.

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— In-game racial description

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These levitating eyes transmit all that they see to the one who created them.

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— In-game racial description

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The operations of these huge steel juggernauts are powered by engines of churning hellfire.

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— In-game racial description

Elementals

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Creatures native to the Elemental Planes. They range from simple masses of a specific element to beings infused with elemental energy.

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— In-game racial description

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Master craftsmen and expert miners made from bronze and fire.

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— In-game racial description

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These superheated sacks of molten slag come from a Plane intersecting Elemental realms of Earth and Fire.

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— In-game racial description

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Capricious, vulgar, and rarely endearing - except to their masters. Mephits are curious, impish creatures from the Elemental Planes.

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— In-game racial description

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These sludgy, muculent elementals come from a Plane intersecting Elemental realms of Water and Earth.

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— In-game racial description

Dragons

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Immensely intelligent, ancient, and powerful reptiles that covet wealth.

Chromatic dragons are selfish, evil, and feared, while metallic dragons are noble, good, and respected by the wise.

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— In-game racial description

Fey

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Mystical creatures that dwell in twilight groves and misty forests. They have close ties to nature - and like nature, not all fey are good.

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— In-game racial description

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The flickering, unpredictable magic of the faerie realm courses through the blink dog - allowing it to flit in and out of this plane to avoid harm.

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— In-game racial description

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Soothsayers, invaders of dreams, dark ritualists, saviours, murderers: hags are all of these and more.

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— In-game racial description

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These crustacean-like Fey are spawned by fear and seek to destroy all that is good, innocent, and beautiful.

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— In-game racial description

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Small, homicidal creatures. Born of bloodlust, they have to keep their caps steeped in blood to survive.

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— In-game racial description

Giants

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Though giantkind comes in many varieties, each with its own culture, all of them are huge, loud, heavy, and, most importantly, strong.

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— In-game racial description

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As stupid as they are gluttonous, these hulking giants are known for their quick tempers. They live by raiding, scavenging, and killing for food and pleasure both.

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— In-game racial description

Humanoids

File:Portrait Humanoid.png

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A collection of bipedal races, ranging from humans, elves, and halflings to goblins, gnolls, and kobolds.

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— In-game racial description

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Hairy humanoids that crave carnage and treasure in equal measure.

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— In-game racial description

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Feral, hyena-like humanoids that slaughter indiscriminately in an attempt to quell the insatiable hunger of their demonic creator, Yeenoghu.

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— In-game racial description

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Feral, hyena-like humanoids that slaughter indiscriminately in an attempt to quell the insatiable hunger of their demonic creator, Yeenoghu.

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— In-game racial description

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Weak, selfish humanoids. Though they often serve stronger races, they crave power and abuse what authority they obtain.

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— In-game racial description

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Large, brutal humanoids that live for martial prowess, war, and glory.

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— In-game racial description

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Clever but craven reptilians that overcome their physical ineptitude by banding together.

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— In-game racial description

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Mad, fish-like denizens of the Underdark. They revere imaginary gods with an insane religious fervour.

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— In-game racial description

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Twisted, cruel hermits affected by the Shadowfell. Imbued with magic, they move through the shadows to snatch their victims.

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— In-game racial description

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These elves were transformed by the Shadowfell, until nothing remained but a mournful, joyless existence between life and death.

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— In-game racial description

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Savage predators that spread their curse through biting other humanoids.

Most werewolves succumb to their bloodlust, but some learn to control their urges, often under the guidance of Selûne, goddess of the moon.

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— In-game racial description

Monstrosities

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Frightening creatures that are not ordinary, not truly natural, and almost never benign.

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— In-game racial description

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The bulette's deep burrowing and powerful leap makes it an apex predator in nearly every terrain it finds itself in.

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— In-game racial description

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Resembling dark leathery cloaks, these aberrations lurk in caves, waiting to slay lone or injured prey stumbling through the darkness.

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— In-game racial description

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Capable of morphing their physiology to impersonate other humanoids, doppelgangers have served as cunning spies, political envoys, and assassins.

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— In-game racial description

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Favoured drow that fail the tests of the Webmother Lolth have their forms warped and made wicked - grafted with spiders to serve as symbols of her power.

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— In-game racial description

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Though they only have two arms and two legs, these foul predators have more in common with the spiders they herd than with humanoids.

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— In-game racial description

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The vicious product of spells gone wrong, these cat-like creatures delight in tormenting magic-users, relishing in the unstable effect magic has on them.

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— In-game racial description

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Sadistic creatures with the legs and wings of a vulture and the body of an elf. Their sweet song enchants their prey, luring them to their deaths.

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— In-game racial description

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Vulture-like, with a chitinous exoskeleton, the Hook Horror is a bipedal subterranean creature with razor-sharp hooks instead of hands.

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— In-game racial description

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Giant spiders that can phase in and out of the Ethereal Plane, making it seem like they can teleport.

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— In-game racial description

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Slinking through door cracks, preening with one eye on the nearest milk saucer, flitting with a snap of their wings around the chimney of a wizard's tower, tressym are like all small felines in that they ride the line between cuteness and total nuisance.

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— In-game racial description

Oozes

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These gelatinous creatures usually dwell in caves and dungeons, feeding on refuse, carrion, and ill-fated adventurers.

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— In-game racial description

Plants

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Vegetative or fungal creatures. Most can walk and move - and some are carnivorous.

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— In-game racial description

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These awakened plants, gifted with intelligence and mobility, plague lands contaminated with darkness.

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— In-game racial description

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Intelligent, ambulatory fungi residing in the Underdark. They use spores to both communicate and attack, though they'd rather avoid the latter.

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— In-game racial description

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These rotting heaps of animated vegetation absorb all organic matter they come in contact with, and are bloated with the remains of plants, animals, and sewage systems.

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— In-game racial description

Fiends

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Evil, wicked creatures from the Lower Planes that labour under the leadership of lawful archdevils or chaotic demon princes.

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— In-game racial description

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The Temple of Bhaal's maid-of-all-work. Obsequious and eternal, Sceleritas lives to die, and dies to serve.

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— In-game racial description

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Scarlet-eyed and bitter-tempered, cambion are the bastard children of devils and mortals, a fusion of two Planes in one body.

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— In-game racial description

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Both lawful and evil to the bone, devils live to scheme and exploit the rules they follow, be it to climb the hierarchy of the Nine Hells or to lay claim to the souls of the mortals they make contracts with.

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— In-game racial description

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Grafted with infernal iron and burning with hellfire, these porcine brutes are filled with a distinct brand of malice.

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— In-game racial description

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Cackling peddlers of infernal mischief, imps bind themselves to the service of more powerful devils who furnish them with commands.

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— In-game racial description

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Sensual and depraved, these dark-winged fiends from the Nine Hells derive pleasure from enticing and devouring lonely souls.

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— In-game racial description

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In life, these faceless legionnaires of the Nine Hells were soldiers who served evil without reservation.

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— In-game racial description

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In life, these faceless legionnaires of the Nine Hells were soldiers who served evil without reservation. In death, they serve Raphael.

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— In-game racial description

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Native to the Lower Planes, succubi beckon those they seduce with soft fingers, concealing their claws beneath.

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— In-game racial description

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Crafted from a soul indebted to Raphael, these boars blaze with a smell like hair burning on blackening scalps.

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— In-game racial description

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Crafted from a soul indebted to Raphael, these cambions have pupils that dilate with devotion whenever he is near.

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— In-game racial description

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Crafted from a soul indebted to Raphael, these imps chitter uproariously while wheeling about on spindly wings.

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— In-game racial description

Undead

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Remnants of the once-living that are trapped between life and death.

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— In-game racial description

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Severed from their owners and skittering along on digits still stiff with rigor mortis, these hands can squeeze the breath from a throat in an instant.

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— In-game racial description

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Remnants of the once-living that are trapped between life and death.

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— In-game racial description

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When a fallen paladin dies without atonement, it can be brought back from the grave as something entirely different - entirely evil.

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— In-game racial description

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With their jagged wings and razor-sharp teeth, these undead gorge on humanoid flesh in the depth of night.

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— In-game racial description

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Orcus, god of undeath, creates ghasts by infusing ghouls with a particularly baleful dosage of his abyssal energy. Whereas a ghoul is little more than a savage beast, a ghast is cunning and can inspire a pack of ghouls to obey its commands.

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— In-game racial description

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The soul of a once-living creature, bound to the material plane by its desire to resolve some unfinished task from its life.

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— In-game racial description

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Driven by their insatiable hunger for humanoid flesh, ghouls usually roam the night in packs.

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— In-game racial description

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These skulls spawned from Gerringothe Thorm's twisted psyche. Manifestations of her worst flaws, they keep the coins of her protective armour intact.

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— In-game racial description

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Shambling, their bodies clothed with rotted scraps of funereal wrappings, mummies bring their malice with them out of their tombs.

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— In-game racial description

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Huddled in their sarcophagi like sickly penitents, mummy lords creep out to protect their tombs, their crumbling rags host to fierce ancient fists and skin crawling with curses.

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— In-game racial description

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Resembling dark exaggerations of humanoid shadows, these undead feed on the vitality of the living creatures they were once part of.

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— In-game racial description

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Often moving as a pack, these hounds of the Shadowfell slink from shadow to shadow, always on the hunt.

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— In-game racial description

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The remains of the dead, animated by dark magic - be they summoned by spellcasters, or risen on their own.

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— In-game racial description

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Bones studded with rotting scales and draped with dead tissue, these dragons have been animated by fell necromancy.

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— In-game racial description

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Amiable aristocrats and cold-hearted hunters, vampires are the embodiments of evening made flesh.

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— In-game racial description

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Subservient to the one who created them, vampire spawn are deadly hunters both ravenous and proud.

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— In-game racial description

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A wraith is malice incarnate, concentrated into an incorporeal form that seeks to quench all life. Even small fires can be extinguished by the sucking oblivion of the wraith's horrifying existence.

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— In-game racial description

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Mindless remains of the dead, imbued with necromantic magic, zombies do their creator's bidding without fear or hesitation.

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— In-game racial description

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Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Race	1	The name of a race. When used on a race page, you can use {{PAGENAME}} for this parameter. Aside from the player-selectable races, there are description quotes for every race defined in the game.	String	required
Quote override	quote	Use this parameter to specify a custom quote instead of a predefined one.	String	optional
Image override	image	Use this parameter to specify a custom icon instead of a predefined one. There are only race icons corresponding the player-selectable races so you will need to specify an icon for other races. Typically this will be a portrait image. Example Portrait Owlbear.png	File	suggested
Disable attribution	noattribution	Disable the "In-game racial description" attribution text.	Boolean	optional
Image position override	image-position	Override the image position from its default position on the right. Suggested values right left Default right	String	optional

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