Five Races: Difference between revisions

* An exception is [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, which have many different races, but only three are especially defined: Humans, Dwarfs (note the plural spelling) and Trolls (and although very different, Dwarfs and Trolls are both Stout by the trope's definitions). Elves appear in only threefour novels, ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', ''[[Discworld/The Wee Free Men|]]'', ''[[The WeeShepherd's Free MenCrown]]'', and ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', and are [[Cosmic Horror|sociopathic extradimensional pillagers]] instead of the usual Tolkien-esque [[Hidden Elf Village|isolated sages]]. Goblins appear near the end of the series and thus are not develped as a race, but what we see f them indicate this trope wouls call them Cute despite them being ugly by human standards. Gnomes, Vampires and Werewolves are increasingly used, but tend to be more focused on the individuals rather than well-culturally defined races.

** Gnomes (and pictsiepictsies) are kind of like the "cute" race, but more [[Violent Glaswegian|violent]]. They are tiny and hard-headed in every sense of the word. Vampires and Werewolves <s> tend to be bastards</s> vary considerably, with one known group of organized bastards in each race contrasting sharply with characters like Angua and Maladict{{spoiler|a}}.