[quote=cthulu]
@DJ No hurry with the Collab we can wait. I haven't posted here for a while, the heat and I disagree quite a lot and it makes me...ill-tempered so I wanted to be able to type this without being in a foul mood. I personally do not see anything wrong with the race options we have, when something new is thought up brilliant, but this just seems to me to be a way of going 'I want to play an untouchable, unbeatable awesome perfect character'. Which I can honestly say bores me to absolute tears. I think I got halfway into the description of each and went 'oh they're just human barbarians but too hard and strong for people to beat apparently. Yawn.' And stopped reading. Whats wrong with the Niin, Humans, Nightwalkers, Deigan, T...(forgotten the big massive don't mess with us characters we already have Ta...something?) or the rest of a plethora of races we have? Whats happened to all the small little vulnerable fragile characters that are actually FUN to roleplay with? Characters like Jaelenc who yes, is strong but nearly DIED at least once since I joined. Or Olan who pretty much did die if it weren't for Thaler's stupid wish. Characters as over powered as this and to some extent Aemoten make me feel like there's absolutely no point in me posting at all. They know everything, they can beat any enemy, they can survive any fight, so whats the point in me even being IN this roleplay when my character can't help at all and when she tries to, she magically becomes a fuck up and has to sit back and let the OP characters fix everything while tutting her, in my opinion, humanity.
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To put some of your concerns to rest (and to touch on what Shien has already said), I've decided to port a new species into the roleplay because the character I have in mind is one of the few [b]new[/b] characters I've created in a number of years. This character, his name being Claw, is someone who I want to develop further, and to watch him grow as a person as he undertakes adventures in this persistent world that you all have created.

I don't know what the species Shien has rattled off exactly are nor do I know what it is that exactly makes them superior (in a physical and/or combat-based case) to my creation. What I do know is that A) I don't really care, B) I've long since deemed it unimportant to my roleplay experience and C) It's very likely that more of Claw's kind will not feature in the roleplay given Malkor-Kurz's non-critical importance in the story line and its geographical location, eliminating any chance of these listed species ever interacting with one another unless a drastic change occurs. 

[Additionally, a species is only as effective as its environment, its physical attributes and the tactics that it employs allow it to be. To be truthful, there is no such thing as an all-powerful creature that rules supreme in every situation that it is thrown into. Even dragons, mythical beasts that lovers of fantasy enjoy writing off as 'invincible' weapons of mass destruction, are absolutely drowning in weaknesses and shortcomings that a mere congregation of determined (and well-coordinated) farmers can exploit to score a victory against .]