Guys, the politics of the mostly superficial human concept of "race" and the idea of race in a fictional fantasy setting are an apples and oranges comparison.
Human beings are a single species.
The sapient creatures in this fictional reality are different *species* entirely, and it's no more "racist" to acknowledge their physiological differences, than to observe that a Wookie has the strength to rip a human's arms out of their socket when they lose at holochess. A Wookie is not a human being with minor superficial differences based on geographic ancestry. That thing could have 17 hearts and its brain in its butt for all we know.
Admittedly, this gets a bit murky when Bethesda classifies dark skinned humans as a different race alongside Orcs, Cat creatures and Lizard creatures, and makes their special ability to be "really good at athletics". That is, in fact, hilariously racist.
Last edited by Gelatinous Rube; 29/09/16 04:44 AM.
