It sure is nice to not be american, grow up on fantasy novels/games, and think that fantasy actually borrows from, you know, mythology most of the time - with an added layer of exaggeration / fanservice on top for what was back in the day considered to be the core audience (the stereotypical male geek type).
Might be a step towards the thread getting fridged, but I've seen somebody say that Larian's portrayal of elves in D:OS2 is apparently a pinnacle of bigotry. I have long given up on trying to figure humanity out at this point, I am afraid. Yes, the typical fantasy races are definitely not mostly borrowed from Tolkien who mostly borrowed / expanded them from Celtic/Nordic mythologies. Gnomes obviously are a racial stereotype and not earth-aligned fey-kin rooted in alchemical lore. So are the dwarves, who certainly aren't an established species within the Norse mythos and are technically elves (alvar) and their typical traits come from that particular source...
I should probably stop before this gets out of hand.
