Human

Key Similarities with Faerun's Version

• Humans come in the shapes, sizes, and hues in Adra as they do on Earth. Their features are mostly uniform, though skin color will very usually by the nearness to the equator, with those closest having shades of black, brown, and tan, and those farthest away having lighter shades. 
• In a world as diverse and magical as Adra, there is no place (and no real practical reason) for real-world racism to enter the picture. Humans may sometimes look different from each other, and speak different dialects, but their prejudice towards another human with a little more melatonin would look silly with goblins, dragonborn, and grung running around in the background. That being said, biases towards certain cultures do still exist, though are likely to be far less extreme than the biases towards non-human cultures.

Key Differences with Faerun's Version

• Humans are certainly common in Adra, though perhaps not completely dominant as in some fantasy worlds, faerun as an example. Humans hold dominance over much of Adra Majoris, Adra Minoris, and Kelior, but it is not true that humans are found in great numbers everywhere in Adra. In Qualaxi and Arathia, while there are some humans in large cities, there are by and large no human exclaves or communities in those lands (with the exception of a few ports in the Sun Soaked Sea). Furthermore, even in the places where humans are commonplace, they are not always the dominate race, politically speaking. In most of the Satrapies of Kelior, in Arissia, and in Aegyri, the most politically powerful races are Loxodons, Halflings, and Dragonborn respectively.
• Humans are not one of the oldest races. Compared to some, they might well be, but it is beyond doubt that humans are nowhere near as old as the Dwarves, the Elves, or the Gnomes. Furthermore, while humans aren't necessarily a young race in the grand scheme of things, their political dominance is quite recent. It is only until the 2nd Era, that the Arissian Empire, staffing its armies, bureaucracies, and guilds with scores of humans, began to establish real political power for the race more widely. The longer lived races recall times in their records when the humans were completely nomadic hunter-gatherers, traveling the vast spaces of Adra, and being picked on by just about everything else in the world at the time. Still, whatever the past of humanity, the future is unmistakably grand - humans have grown to be the most populous Kith race in the world, and they are unlikely to give up any of the political power they have gained in the last millennium any time soon.

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