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* ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' series seems to hold to a viewpoint best described as follows: "Humans are Bastards, but frankly, compared to the rest of reality, they're small-timers." Both ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' and ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' come close to playing it straight, while ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' comes close to subverting it (Prometheans admit humans have their flaws, but desperately want to ''be'' them because they know Prometheans are far worse), while ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' subverts it outright (''Dancers In Dusk'' states few things rekindle a changeling's much-needed faith in other people then visiting a stranger's dreams for the first time). |
* ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' series seems to hold to a viewpoint best described as follows: "Humans are Bastards, but frankly, compared to the rest of reality, they're small-timers." Both ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' and ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' come close to playing it straight, while ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' comes close to subverting it (Prometheans admit humans have their flaws, but desperately want to ''be'' them because they know Prometheans are far worse), while ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' subverts it outright (''Dancers In Dusk'' states few things rekindle a changeling's much-needed faith in other people then visiting a stranger's dreams for the first time). |
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* In the expanded ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' core setting based on ''[[Greyhawk]]'', Humanity's creator deity is [http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20041203a Zarus] who claims to be the first human, a [[Lawful Evil]] Deity of bigotry and human supremacy. This in a world where every other core race's primary deity is good aligned. Worse yet, he's a greater deity, meaning he has a flipping ton of worshipers, all of them human. |
* In the expanded ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' core setting based on ''[[Greyhawk]]'', Humanity's creator deity is [http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20041203a Zarus] who claims to be the first human, a [[Lawful Evil]] Deity of bigotry and human supremacy. This in a world where every other core race's primary deity is good aligned. Worse yet, he's a greater deity, meaning he has a flipping ton of worshipers, all of them human. |
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* From ''[[Dark Sun]]'', this is the reason Athas is the barely hospitable [[Death World]] it is. While the mastermind behind the [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide|Clensing Wars]] was [[Predecessor Villain| Raajat]], who was a Pyreen (sort of an evolutionary offshoot of halflings) his fifteen disciples who led the genocidal armies to exterminate non-human races, slaughtering every man, woman, and child among them they found, were all human, who made the most brutal of the savage humanoids on Oerth and Toril look like saints. Kobolds, Ogres, Trolls, Orcs, Gnomes, Lizardfolk, Pixies, Goblins, many lesser-known races [[A Nazi By Any Other Name| were all eradicated during these genocidal wars]], and many others - such as dwarves and elves, came awfully close. Though, at very least, they were less monsters than Raajat himself, proven by the fact they eventually turned on him when they realized he wished the same fate on humans as well. |
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