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> <mailto:544979.21847.qm%40web23404.mail.ird.yahoo.com>> Felix Felix
> writes:
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> I'm inclined to take John Hughes's suggestion a bit further and
> say humans are associated with the man rune plus a rune based
> on the mythical tribe they came from. So Dara Happens are man and
> sun, Orlanthi are man and storm, Ernaldans are man and earth,
> Praxians are man and beast. Then morocanth are also man and beast
> but herd men are just beast.
>
I've been saying this is the standard for a long time.
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> Another interesting borderline case is the Aldryami. As a group
> they are associated with man and plant.
>
I'd suggest that the "elves" are associated with the man rune and plant
rune. Other aldryami are not.
>
> While this is pretty
> straight forward for elves and dryads I'm not so convinced about
> runners and pixies. Then there are odd things like mobile plants
> who the Aldryami count as one of themselves but surely don't
> have a man rune.
>
To be a bit picky, the elves consider themselves to be mobile plants,
with the man rune, but the "fighting trees" do not have the man rune.
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