naturally occurring

Worldly Species:

Humans: Standard fare, as usual. Jack of all trades, master of none. ...Like, seriously. A human attempting to specialize in much of anything is ultimately stunting themselves. High growths, low caps, if you will. But if they specialize in enough things, those caps will quickly become irrelevant! Their relation with other races is hard to describe to the diversity of humans, but is ultimately quite nice thanks to how widespread they are! In fact, when races mingle, the offspring usually end up being half human. Perhaps, overall, they're good charmers...or, perhaps, they're suckers for the other species romancing. Who's to know?

Dwarves: Not all that short, but you can't deny that they enjoy alcohol. Then again, a lot of folk do, so maybe that's just silly to point out. Their call to uniqueness is being incredibly magic resistant! If it's magic based, they're harder to hurt with it, harder to effect with it, etc etc. On the flip side, it sort of makes it hard for them to actually use it...however, they can craft magical weapons and armor without much issue, and since they're strong on average, this tends to be what they do! Relationships with other species are thus pretty nice, thanks to offering various services, but due to their tendency to hole up underground, some folk are careful around them. ...Granted, they get materials down there, so others tend to shrug off such claims.

Fairies: Cute little girls of the forest. ...No, seriously. A vast majority of them are girls, forever with a child's body and usually with a childish personality, and the boys...are lucky, I suppose. Each fairy is born with the traits of an element, or maybe something else. Elements are the most common, but every so often there's the odd one, like 'gravity' and whatnot. Those that focus on fire tend to have flaming wings, while those of darkness tend to be very dark themselves. When it comes to magic, fairies are pretty good at their element! Not much else, and due to their very own nature, they tend not to tap into their potential power, but...let's say that if a competent fire fairy got serious in a forest, someone would be in trouble. They can all fly, and are quite fast, so they escape danger from monsters pretty easily. If they somehow become a monster...

Elves: There's not much of these left, due to the earlier war that wrecked the world. They're more comfortable in forests, but due to them being filled with monsters, they can't live there quite as well as the fairies, and due to their longer life cycle, they've quickly been made a minority that might live in a forest, but are more commonly seen in cities because cities are a whole lot more easily livable. However, as a minority, they're still quite respected, thanks to their obvious efforts in the war that nearly ended them as a whole. Some say it's because even before all of this, they hadn't liked demons that much, due to differing views on many, many things, but that doesn't change that they did lose many, nor does it change that they're pretty much the opposite of demons! On average, they're quite graceful sorts, and both their movements and their thoughts seem like they've been practiced for a lot longer than they are. Perhaps it's that kind of grace that makes them delicious to monsters. In addition, they are rather good at letting magic flow out of themselves in various ways, and also really good at drawing it in for better or worse. You could call it magic vulnerability, along with magical strength! In any case, aside from their grace and greater magic ability, they're one of two earthly beings with an extended lifespan, living until around 400 years, exactly like the next one on the list!

Demons: Not actually bad people! Of course, thanks to the prejudice that's formed, the majority have ended up as bad people. Self-fulfilling funtimes was also a part of Pandora's plan. In any case, thanks to Pandora's influence, demons are an incredibly varied species. At first, they used to just be folk with various, not feathery appendages, such as batlike wings and tails. But, their main trait now is their ability to specialize with amazing success. Warriors with unparalleled might, wizards throwing around meteors, making scientific breakthroughs... that would be demons, and they're only doing one of those things unless they started on magic first and somehow became immortal. Now, it's a bit more complicated. There's those, and there are monsters that transcended their monster given madness. And with animals being linked to monsters as well, there, yes, are technically catgirls. ...And, on rarer occasions, plantgirls. Or boys. All and all, the ones with monster origins tend to have the abilities and traits of the monster they are, along with the ability to command their own. They have little else, but when monsters are very, very deadly by default, they generally don't need it. Either way, many are unruly sorts, and as detailed earlier, a contrast to the elves. That, and their culture...how do you say, doesn't make it all that hard to reproduce. All and all, their ability is feared, and it very well might be for good reason.