Category:Spoken

Introduction
Raimdelle's Codex places the kinship Spoken among all the other kinships of Bloodborn, Bloodless, and Transcendent. This decision was surely meant as no insult--for, indeed, are not the Spoken peoples living things like all others? Thus is science, gathering fact without regard to implication.

But knowledge is not confined only to hard, calculable numbers, physical structure, or reproducible chains of cause and effect. Some things--such as history, art, intention, culture--cannot be dissected and charted and stored in small boxes, for by their nature, they are not concrete things. Such is the nature of Truth; Truth can be found through all ways of knowing and experiencing.

To that purpose, as we have begun to distill knowledge of our fair world, we have realized that merely treating Man as a living thing among other living things may well diminish him in our minds. Too often, after all, history has proven that if we do not hold the distinction between man and brute beast firmly before our eyes, we will begin to treat one another as beasts--and sin great sins in our pride and hatred.

Thus, this volume, wherein we describe the ways and nature of the many races of Man who share this world. Perhaps, with knowledge, we will begin to see not only how we are different one from another, but how we are alike; and grow in respect and regard until hatred becomes a rejected vice, and no longer a fact of life.

--Ceredan Brooks, editor

Table of Contents

 * What Makes the Spoken?
 * The Wandering Races of Men
 * Au Ra
 * Elezen
 * Hyur
 * Lalafell
 * Miqo'te
 * Roegadyn
 * Beastmen: An Examination of a Strange Name
 * Amalj'aa
 * Gigant
 * Gnath
 * Goblin
 * Ixal
 * Kobold
 * Mamool Ja
 * Moogle
 * Qiqirn
 * Sahagin
 * Sylph
 * Vanu Vanu
 * Dragons: A Spoken Race?

Contributing Authors
Ceredan Brooks

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