Toomanysorrows
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In the setting I'm writing about, you have monster girls on the one hand, diametrically opposed to humans, elves, dwarfs and halflings. Since they're two broad factions I regularly need to have some way of referring to these factions in their entirety. That's easy with the monster girls, I just call them monsters, but I just haven't been able to find a similar name for the other side.
The alternatives I'd considered were:
- just use humans or humanity as a pars pro toto, or maybe even rewrite the others as subspecies of humans but... well then what's the point of having the other three there in the first place?
- mortals or humanoids: those are often used in other fantasy settings for this but the monster girls also usually fall under those categories.
- An alternative I'd used earlier was calling them the High God's children (since that's who created them) but that's both very wordy and sounds very mystical and formal, so it's not useful in a lot of contexts.
So I figured I'd ask: does anyone here maybe have some ideas for a name for those groups?
The alternatives I'd considered were:
- just use humans or humanity as a pars pro toto, or maybe even rewrite the others as subspecies of humans but... well then what's the point of having the other three there in the first place?
- mortals or humanoids: those are often used in other fantasy settings for this but the monster girls also usually fall under those categories.
- An alternative I'd used earlier was calling them the High God's children (since that's who created them) but that's both very wordy and sounds very mystical and formal, so it's not useful in a lot of contexts.
So I figured I'd ask: does anyone here maybe have some ideas for a name for those groups?