In the heroic fantasy games, in addition to humans, races are often humanoid and fey creatures of Myth such as elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, immaterial being (spirits, ghosts), etc. Andre uses the term ' kinship' the term Spezies ( species) is used in Das Schwarze Auge, and éthnie ( ethnicity) is used in EW-System 2.0. Not all works use the term 'race': in Tunnels and Trolls 7th ed. the Middle Earth or the Star Wars universe. The transmediality is obvious in case of consistent universes, e.g. This notion began in fantasy or science-fiction works: novels, comics, video games (especially role-playing video game), board games, LARP, etc. Artificials in Fantasy Craft or the Forgeborn/Dwarf-forged optional race in 13th Age ( 2013). the Aldryami in Glorantha ( 1978), or the Sylvanians in Fantasy Craft ( 2010) and robots, e.g. The term “race” is even broader than the usual meaning, as it also includes extraterrestrial beings vegetal beings, e.g. It can be a fictitious species from a fictional universe, or a real people, especially in case of a history-based universe (even if it has a given level of fantasy), e.g.

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