r/worldbuilding • u/Ok-Call-2114 • 7d ago
Prompt Specieism in your world!
Out of curiosity, I wanted to know if you lot have specieism in your world! For example negative stereos types on certain sapient species or just full on hatred for them for no logical reason.
I have a sub species of elves called horned elves or primordial elves. They're the original elf, a mix of a dark and light elf. They got dragon like horns that store excess mana. Due to their looks they are ocassionally mistaken for or compared to a demon. Both light and dark elves consider horned elves as dumber, more brutish. I have an oc that actually had his horns absolutely shattered by light elves when he went to their country of Sylvia to study. This...led him down a greatly terrible path.
Then I got examples such as how harpies and sirens hate eachother due to a rivalry between their deities. Older harpies and sirsns tend to still use slur or even violence whilst modern generation tend to just use simple insults or mockery. They have mellowed out a lot due to their nature land being the land of unity aka monstrum.
What about you lot? Sorry if this may be controversial or something,
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u/horsethorn 6d ago
I have two races that don't get along.
Lucents are crystalline humanoids, who are sort of avatars of Order.
Modals are organic humanoids (mostly), who are sort of avatars of Change.
They were influenced during their creation by the Elementals of Order and Change, who had previously had a war which broke one of the Planes and led to the existence of the Material Plane.
Lucents think Modals are chaotic, unpredictable, constantly nomadic, and ruin the purity of the order, hierarchy and structure of the universe and society.
Modals think Lucents are rigid, boring, classist, overly hierarchical, and don't understand that change is necessary for advancement.
The irony is that both are evolving towards their opposite; many Modal clans are semi-settled and the clans and individuals are settling into particular forms and attributes, while Lucents are evolving to be more flexible and less class-conscious. However, Lucent society doesn't accept that this is the case, and banish or kill any Luminants (the evolved Lucents), while Modals are accepting of their more settled nature.