Seems like that premise would get old pretty fast.

>>23383347
how so?

>>23383305
>just a tall tale from a board adventurer
Make sure they've traveled the entire wasteland, from the deserts of Ecks to the troll-infested swamps of Bee.

I imagine the fey courts would be interested in the new arrivals, perhaps not enough to approach outright but enough to watch

>they are like elves but ugly and have round ears
>this is the most boring myth ever

Humans would have all sorts of myths surrounding them, like that they ate only ash, or were vulnerable to holly or couldn't move trough reflected moonlight

something that centuries of being myths would asrcibe

>>23383480
>and would burn down forests for the fun of it and prayed to a god of torture who was nailed to a cross

its all how you tell it

>>23383305
I actually am building a game (computer) with a setting like that.

They're not really mythical, just exceedingly rare.

Humanity went around and curbstomped everyone into submission into the Empire.
The fantasy races thrived for a while, then things turned to shit, as second (and third, fourth, etc) class citizens they rebelled and killed off much humankind.

There were a lot of survivors, at first, but while some of the more violent races went to hunting them down and the Empire fell apart, they found themselves with fewer and fewer places to hide.

So now there's only like, a handful of pureblood humans left, and most are kept as chattel.

The main character starts as the last 'free' human, in an orphanage and coming out without much prospects for a job.

>>23383528
>god of torture who was nailed to a cross
They weren't worshiping him! They ate him!

>>23383561
>cult of martyrdom and slavery that practises cannibalism

>>23383502
this might actually be fun
especially if that stuff starts working

>>23383588
imagine how they would react to accidently hearing a gwar or AC/DC song

honestly a fantasy setting without humans in it is already a marked improvement of originality from the usual,
now get rid of the other standard tropes and we're golden

>>23383624
Recordings of screams of tortured slaves? Humens listened to that for pleasure.

>>23383631
>What is Lorwyn?

"Humans? I have heard the orc preform great drum rituals to chase away such evil spirits, they say that they are full of trickery... if one were to believe such superstitious nonsense"

>humans actually exist, they just hide really well and blend in with other races
>they wear noses, ears, tails, horns - you name it
>they also steal other races' babies, and replace them with human babies

>>23383679
"They say that the Humans built the great stone barrow on the northern hill they avoid it saying the voice of the dead echo there, but we all know that was some tribe of orcs that must have come into the valley earlier then archaeology suggests..."

>>23383737
Humans can be everywhere and everyone. That shopkeeper? Human! This old beggar? Human! You? Human!

>>23383305
>>23383781
>>23383762
>>23383679
And now HFY. Glorious /tg/. Never change.

I like this idea OP. Make the other races freaked out of all the rumors they've heard of humans and their Crucified God, insane biology, weird habits, and impossible adaptability and badassery, coupled of course, with EXTREME exaggeration. There is just so many places this idea could go.
>Dwarf historians lecturing about the holy land of Murrica.
>Elvish scientists trying to figure out how humans built skyscrapers.
>The Fey fearing mankind's trickery.
>Holy Orders warning of the folly of Man and his Machines.

Best. After People Setting. Ever.

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>>23383400
> deserts of Ecks.

We control the spice, subboarder. Lest you forget what we built in that place; legions of the rotting dead will rise to destroy the malcontent.

>Elven mothers warn their not to misbehave or a human will creep into their room at night and drag him off
>gnomes say they were like a race of giants that wandered the world doing much destruction and evil till the gods created a great flood to drown them all
>Dwarves say they are robber spirits who lurk on old roads and behind trees to steal from honest travellers
>Orcs say that humans are evil spirits from an earlier time that still haunt their old ruins
>The Hobbits say they are spirits of the garden and are still known to leave offerings of tobbaco or liquor to appease these anti-social spirits

>>23383910
>>23383624
>Random fantasy folk haunted by the grim ghost of DR. ROCKSO
>CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOCCCAAAAAIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE
>CCCYEAH

>>23383910
>Tales still told of ancient human heroes, like Goerg Doubyabush, who slew a thousand sand worms, Valdamer Pu-Tan, lord of ice and snow, Alex-Hander the Grape, who's empire of fruit extended 10,000 thousand furlongs end to end, and Rich Herd Dog-Kin, a man-wolf who fought against the Man-God in ancient times.

The elder Fey have stories of the strange creatures known as humans, Satyrs and Centaurs consider them to be lost fey-kin, long lost cousins of a cruel nature, hidden off somewhere far away, others like the sprites and nixies say they are the parents of all humanoid races, and existed in a time and place outside the world as it exists now

oh shit I had an awesome idea, mankind actually got sick of all the constant infighting, and simply left via space ships, not long after we did this, fucking everyone got 2spooked because (to them) we just up and fucking dissapeared. The party's just coming back to check n' see if them fucks are done fucking around yet

>>23383983
Neat. But why is everyone else still stuck at a low tech-level?

A panic grips the country side, a group of paladins investigate rampant rumors in a rural area of an evil spirit wandering the woods, local druid tries to nature connect to it but gets spooked because it has no magic signiture and it unlike anything he has ever seen

>>23384028
Perhaps they blew themselves up after the one nation of humans left? Actually that would also explain the fantasy races: they're simply the result of however many years of radiation + natural evolution.

>>23384047
Humanity is 3spooky5them, ehh? Could work.

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>>23383983
>AT-15, report
>Dropship ,this is AT-15, we have a visual. its a... flying lizard
>A 15, did I hear you correctly?

>>23384028
Constant infighting, Elves killing Elves in the forests, Dwarves warring against other fortresses, orcs, goblins, etc beating the tar out of each other. Possibly also a strong adherence to tradition, the magic races actually having magic for every member, thus not needing technology as we do.

>>23384060
Neat. Maybe a dark sun thing-- the humans doomed the planet and left. All that's left are the scraps.

>>23384062
In the meantime its just a lost redneck hunter who is currently pissed because his compass is not working and his crossbow hunting trip is not going well

>>23383969
Call me stupid but i don't get the last one.

>>23384108
Richard Dawkin is a rather famous anti-theist/atheist or whatever you wish to call him.

Humans are to Fantasy races what Orcs are to Humans. it's that simple.

They say Human beings have an obsession with gold and gems and that if you can bind ones feet and hands together you can force it to tell you where it has hidden its treasure

>Great wars where armies of Wolf Hit-Lair and Man of Steel fighted in land of Russa. Times of Queen-Singer Mercury! The King of land of Pop: Mikael son of Jack! All lost! All lost!

There's stuff similar to this in the Silmarillion.

They say that Humans can make THINKING things from SAND!

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>>23383969

Just so you know.

>>23384221
They put spirits into their thinking machines, who sometimes rebelled, and killed the user with a blue glow.

>>23384258
I heard that they made huge armies of tiny men this way, and made them fight for their amusement!

It's said humans sneak into the rooms of elven children and clip off the points of their ears if they don't clean them thoroughly before bedtime.

Humans will visit in the night, and give you money in exchange for you teeth that fall out.
Don' put the tooth under your pillow, though, or they'll take the rest of your teeth while you sleep.

An old hobbit farmer once told me that if you are ever beset by a wicked human upon the moor or crossroad that you should offer them a drink, humans are greedy creatures wh will never turn down free alcohol, the thing is they cannot hold it, a dwarven boy could easily out drink them,

once they are drunk it is easy to escape from their large evil hands

>>23383305
So basicly Forgotten Realms except the only Humans are Illumians?
That's pretty damn unoriginal.

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sounds like this, search it for inspiration

Orcs hang bundles of mistletoe over their doorways and hearths as a ward against humans, it is said they cannot pass under it without being invited in

>The myths of Men tell of a giant city made by Iron golems, which fell under darkness when the evil wizard Wy´illi turned the Golems that served Man against them.
>Not even after the human God of light sent his 2 sons made-men to defeat the Evil wizard was the Golemancer defeated.
>It is beliebed that Men fell after this Iron Golems turned against them, as no records habe been found of this city, nor it's location.

>>23384525

Call me stupid, but I don't get this reference.

9/11?

>>23384640
Dr. Wily. Dr. Light. Megaman. And Protoman I think.

>>23384640
My guess is Megaman.
>Wy'illi = Wiley
>God of Light = Dr Light
>2 sons = Protoman and Megaman
>Iron Golems = Robot Masters

>>23383400

Let us not forget the tale of those who dwell in the screaming, light filled caves of eff, nor those vast behemoths who dwell in the strange land of teegee, and dream of entire worlds for their amusement

>>23384640
>>23384677
>>23384689
Protomen, yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqAvvwu0kMU
Act II serves as prequel to Act I, check them out.

It is said that a drop of blood from one of the sons of adam is the most powerful of magical substances, even more so then unicorn horns and dragon heart

>Humans were evil incarnate! How else they could spawn Satan Klust of cold north? Red monster, kidnapper of children and slaver of elves!

>>23384734

>vast behemoths
>eff

You clever little fucker

They say humans breed monsters, like the minotaur, those horrid beast tell of how the first of their kind was born of a human witch and a bull

Legends tell of a man turned demon who hatred against elves is unsurpassed, even in comparission to a dwarf. He would take the meanest child of an elven household on the coldest night of winter and replace it with a statue made of coal as a joke to teh family, using the child for menial jobs, and ultimately to dye his own cloak red blood. The only way of pleasing the Demon-Man and prevent him of taking away a child is to cut a tree from the sacred forest and planting it in the middle of the house.

>>23385031
They say he drives a sleigh of elks from hell who breath fire and can fly

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Played a Homebrew where Humans were a hyper-advanced Precursor race. All the races saw Humans are mythical, scary beings that abducted people in the middle of the night, destroyed entire cities in the blink of an eye. Having human ancestry can bring great prestige to families in the other races, because of humanity's natural talent with psionics, and old technology can be accessed dye to genetic locks.

Party plays a group or adventurers exploring recently discovered ancient human ruins that suddenly became unearthed during a earthquake. BBG is a several humans hoping to pave a way for humanity to reclaim the planet, and is manipulating the party against themselves by offering subtle signs of favoritism (The races are divided/united in countries undergoing a cold war).

Humans are extremely advanced in Technology and psionics, with a high resistance to magic, despite not being able to use it themselves. Genetically enhanced, they are nearly immortal combined with their other traits. Its suggested that they have tampered with the other races in the past. Something about the planet interests them, and they won't let the "lesser beings" or their gods/spirits get in their way.

>>23385177
His dark sleigh can travel to every house an elven child resides on on a single night, no matter how far away they are. He will look for the un-holy sacrifice of sacred trees and plant and milk products to satiate his hunger, and will take revenge on the child he finds meanest if he doesnt find the sacrifice. The elks that pull his dark carriage throw sulphur and brimstone that set ablaze the elven forests, and light up the night sky like a falling star does. And the say that if you ever get to see the fiery tail of his carriage at night, you can ask a single wish:
That Satan Klust doesn't visit your house that very night.

>>23383737

>Other races are actually extinct.
>Humans too busy pretending to be other races to realize

>>23385413
The existance of the myth of Satan Klaust and his blurred simmilaryty to a dwarf, like his white-as-snow skin and beard, his ungodly hatred for elvenkind, and the suggerstion that he residest on the coldest corner of the world, were only a dwarf could survive, suggest that Dwarven kind was in fact a creation of this demonic being to plague the life of elves to come, even after all Men dissapeared with out leaving trace.
Or at least that's what the elven myths tell.

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>>23384229
OH GOD IF THIS IS REAL ALL MY WHY

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>>23388085
It is real, it's parodic, and I kind of want to read it.

>>23388449
I was going to say, if it's anything but a parody, i wouldn't want to live on this planet anymore.

Elves believe humans to be rape monsters who live only to violate.

>>23384978
They say Man seduces members of other races and curses the victim with a wicked child fully half human. They can do this regardless of the race of the victim, even the ones who don't make logical sense. Truly a marker of their supernatural evil.

>>23388557
it would also depend on the type of parody. if it's a parodied acknowledgement of his mediocrity as a president, then that would be cool

if it was a balls to the walls awesome fest tipping the hat toward him and his 'heroics' then you can bet i would kill it with fire

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"Human tales? Humans don't have tails. They've got big big bottoms that they wear with bad shorts! They walk around going 'Hi, Helen!'."

"They say humans cannot live with nature and must destroy it to breed; Indeed, even the vile orcs who carelessly harm nature seem tame compared to humans! The would flatten hills, divert rivers, flood lands, drain swamps, and mow down forests with nary a concern as their breed grew."


"I once saw humans hunt. Now, you know how a big cats runs after the prey and if it catches it, it kills is and eats it? These sick fucks started off after some prey, but the prey was too fast. It got a good way away and rested, but the humans kept coming. When they drew too near, the prey sprinted away once more, leaving an even larger gap between the humans and itself, but the humans just kept going. I followed as long as I can, but the prey was quick and I grew tired. Last I saw, the prey was breathing heavily, but the humans simply kept coming, glistening in moisture they seemed to created themselves. Never become prey of the humans, young one, for though you may be faster than them, they will never stop hunting you"

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>>23383868
"It would take thousands of our spells to turn a big city into an unhealing wasteland. Humanity needs just one."

This is turning into HFY: Fantasy Edition.

>>23389757
No. No need for HFY here.

>>23383551
planet of the apes?

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this book is pertinent to this. its a childrens book but its basically what you are making

If you're bad, the humans will come in the night and drag you off, make you wear a clothes made to torture you called a zuit and tigh and make you work in a box all day and night for nothing!

>>23384778
Ancient myth whispers of accursed humanity, that upon the throat of man lay a bulge, testament to their abomination and monument to their wickedness. Warlocks and sorcerers covet this artifact, for it is known by many names, the fruit of heresy, the wages of sin, the fallen star, the herald of calamity, the philosopher's stone. Truly, only the mad dare dream of such folly.

It is rumoured that humans are 12ft tall, and kill you with fire from their eyeballs and lightning from their backs. Those are the stories.

But let me tell you that humans look almost like you and me, and if you let them into your homes, soon all around you will be caught in their web. A web of promises, of threats, of money, and of power, all the while people in a town with a human in it never realising they have one in their midst while telling the scary stories to their children, while they get more and more under its spell.

Paladin bands try to get to cities that might be at risk and prevent such an occurrence, but if they are to late they will never find it, as cloaked in secrets and influence as it becomes, or if they are to soon, the human might not eve enter the town or village.

Beware of unknown travelers, and giving comfort and aid to strangers you dont know, for while they may offer you candy and wealth, you never know what they will take in return, and you cannot comprehend the alien minds of to forces of darkness, nor the duplicity and motives of humans.

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>>23391693
?

I can just imagine the first wizard or cleric who gets ahold of a copy of grays anatomy;

"I have seen all manuals of black magic, devil worship and evil... But one book alone disturbs me the most, its horrid illustrations fill my nightmares to this day... I cannot bear to conceive the work that must have gone into its creation"

>>23383910
>offerings of tobbaco or liquor to appease these anti-social spirits
They ward off hobos?

>>23383983
Nah, sounds too much like HFY story of us bombing the natives from the orbit, prancing around with superior tech. Not cool.

Elder races like elves and dwarves should be amused by human antics, not be afraid of them.

>>23392051
That's nothing. Imagine if somebody from today decided to "save" the internet. He printed every image, every thread, recorded every video, saved everything he could and then put it in a time capsule.
Many years later dwarven historians find something they call the "Library of human knowledge".

>>23392251
...or the Library of Madness, as it is colloquially known.

>>23383868
Pretty sure during the 70s or so it became a worn-out cliche to have bog standard fantasy settings revealed to be post-apocalyptic Earth somehow.

...Adventure Time is kinda like that of all things. The protagonist is about the only human left.

>>23392117
Why?

Could you imagine how a somewhat primitive society of fantasy races would deal with modern technology? the gun alone is a horrifying enough to our sensabilities, can you imagine how a nymph or elf would react to them? orc would be enthused by them

>>23392833
Elves have been the masters of science and magic for millennia, humans have been nearly extinct and spoken of only in legends. It's pretty clear that elves aren't impressed by anything the humans could throw at them.

>>23388557
>>23388449
>>23388880

It was from when he was still running against McCain, so it's all election 2008 humor.

well you could explain away the technological stasis of the fantasy races by just not making them tool users. humans cant use magic (and if you want to play it for horror, are immune to it) but the other species cant use tools. they're intelligent so they can be taught, but they will never come up with it on their own

>>23383305
we dwemer now?

>>23383480
THEY BUILT TOWERS OF STRONGEST IRON, WIELDED WEAPONS OF TERRIBLE POWER WIELDED BY TROOPS BEYOND NUMBER, THEY FLEW THE SKIES, LIVED LIKE KINGS, COULD SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER FROM A WORLD AWAY, TRAVELED TO THE MOON. NEAR THE END, THEY COULD EVEN ALTER THEIR FORMS OR BECOME MEN OF IRON. IT ENDED WHEN THEY LAID THE WORLD LOW FOR A THOUSAND YEARS WITH SHORT-LIVED SUNS THAT BOILED THE SEAS AND BURNED THE LANDS! THE LEAST OF THEIR ARTIFACTS CAN MAKE A MAN LORD OF ALL HE SURVEYS, OR RICH BEYOND HIS WILDEST DREAMS.
yup, boring.

>>23383588
>slavery?

>>23383631
>hipster cunt detected.

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>>23395860
>THE LEAST OF THEIR ARTIFACTS CAN MAKE A MAN LORD OF ALL HE SURVEYS, OR RICH BEYOND HIS WILDEST DREAMS.
>THE LEAST

>>23393460
but stories only grow wilder, so eventually they will not know myth from fact. They would believe human returning would hurt them, but know it would never happen. It's like the aftermath of HFY, after the humans have died

>>23388449
>Dumbass liberals hopped up on Obamania Kool-Aid, decide to make fantasy comic where he is the hero, and the republicans are the villains.
>Everybody laughs at them.
>It was a parody guys, seriously.

>>23395965
Hey, the myths don't need to be true. It's like some El Dorado or Atlantis style shit, everyone wants to believe in the magic of it. The last pen that a dwarven mining party found was taken for study by mages and never to be touched due to risk, so nobody figured out it is a fucking pen.

>>23391693
but to not grant a traveler hospitality would violate the ancient laws of hospitality and invoke the anger of the gods.

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While the world does not look like this, it is clear that either.

A: they were great map makers

B: Its a fake.

we are not sure.

>>23396221
Thats why the ancient custom of removing your hat before entering a home comes in, You check their ears, all humanoids have a point to their ears, the gods marked humans with rounded ones so thheir trickery could be seen

A sorcerer once told me that no matter what shape a human may change to, his ears will remain the same

I've had this story where humans built a trade empire and got very, very rich, which prompted neighboring elf kingdom and orcish horde to gang up on them and wipe them out, only to turn on each other afterwards.

>>23396269
Why are all human maps upside-down? They've got the north pointing towards the arctic, and the South pointing towards Antarctica.

>>23392117
>Nah, sounds too much like HFY story of us bombing the natives from the orbit, prancing around with superior tech. Not cool.
Yes cool. Although that's not what the post implies to a normal person and your raging white guilt is just making you tilt at shadows.

Just imagine what they would think of nuclear waste
Imagine being a dwarf, just digging holes, when all of a sudden you reach a chamber with barrels full of a magical substance that glowed and caused horrible diseases

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>>23396377
>implying that I'm a filthy human

>>23396453
Nuclear waste doesn't glow, though.

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>>23396453

So guys, we were digging through the ground like usual and guess what!

We encountered a human base of some sort, we are planning on breaching the gate tomorrow, but the sign on it makes me a bit nervous i'll admit..

I wonder what it means.

>>23396521
Dwarf 1: This is obviously some of the fabled human booze! Lets drink it!
Dwarf 2: NO NO NO! Not so fast. We must transport the barrels to our king, to gift him with these. Then we can act superior over those elvish faggots because we have human artifacts

Soon after, stories spread of how human booze is so potent, it kills even dwarves

>>23396642
>the humans of the ancient land of ussar were so durable, even there booze was deadly enough to kill a dwarf!
>that is why we never drink barrels of what humans called "vodka"

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>>23396642

>implying magic isn't science

>implying that won't cast some identification spell on them

>>23396642
http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/

>>23397756
So adventurers would be drawn to it like a magnet

>>23383502
>or couldn't move trough reflected moonlight

What does this mean?

>>23399792
like they believe humans are frozen by reflected moonlight

>>23397756
Perfect

>>23383737
wouldn't the average human be WAY bigger than the tallest member of all those races save the orcs.

>>23397756
I like to think people do this just to scare the shit out of anyone who might succeed us

>>23397756
I fucking love that name.
"This place is not a place of honor"
If you just simplify it to "This is not a Place of Honor," that right there could be a book title.

>>23391238
no, it's fantasy