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* ''[[Stormbringer]]'' supplement ''Stormbringer Companion'', adventure "The Crystal of Daerdaerdarth". Valyk's Island holds a race of creatures known as the Kay, who were created using sorcery by the Melnibonean wizard Earl Valyk thousands of years earlier. They're in decline because 80% of their breeding females die soon after birth.
* [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]] in ''[[RuneQuest]]''.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' examples:
* Dwarves of the [[Forgotten Realms]] may or may not be this trope, depending on which products you credence. Some of the 2E products suggest that dwarf males may be marrying human women (and breeding true) as a counter to their own race's slow birth rate and scarcity of females.▼
** The Wind Dukes of Aaqa, also called the Vaati, exemplars of Law who created the legendary Rod of Seven Parts. The genocidal actions of the Queen of Chaos devastated their once-magnificent empire, and while she was defeated and banished in the end, with her consort Mishka the Wolf-Spider slain, it was truly a [[Pyrrhic Victory]] for the Vaati. Reduced to about 1% of their former population, the survivors are immortal, but have a very low birthrate. Despite the many millennia since, their population will likely never recover.
** Yuan-Ti once held vast empires, and were a serious competitor with humans for the role of dominant species. However, their empires fell for a variety of reasons - infighting, slave rebellions, neglect from their deities, and their leaders succumbing to madness - and now struggle to maintain what they have, their dreams of reestablishing their empires only dreams.
** Mind flayers, oddly enough. While Illithids once held vast interplanetary empires, the slave uprising of the Gith decimated them and entire illithid worlds were demolished. While still [[The Dreaded|dreaded and feared by most races]] for their potent psychic abilities and brain-eating habits, illithids now only dwell in hidden enclaves deep below the world's surface, competing for land with other Underdark races and frequently warring with [[Arch Enemies| both the githyanki and githzerai]], who are both intent on changing their status from this Trope to "extinct".
▲** Dwarves of the [[Forgotten Realms]] may or may not be this trope, depending on which products you credence. Some of the 2E products suggest that dwarf males may be marrying human women (and breeding true) as a counter to their own race's slow birth rate and scarcity of females.
* In "B4: The Lost City", an early D&D adventure, the weird underground humans of Cynedicea are this trope.
* The Doreen, Kraken and Scurrilans from ''[[Fifty Fathoms]]''. The Doreen habitats were destroyed by the recent apocalypse, the Kraken were hit hard by first said apocalypse and by the [[Big Bad]]s later. There have never been more than 200 Scurrilans, and Scurrilans don't get along with anyone, even each other.
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