Wish it were a little larger :( Without downloading it I can't see the names of the races or any of the notes ...

Really liking how this game seems to be coming out in the picture forms though! Super neat lol

Sorry, the production team wants it kept small and details hidden for now :O Hence the whole teaser bit ;) Glad to hear it, though!

Fair enough xD I guess that makes a lot of sense lol

Looking forward to what 2015 adds to your art ... well this is becoming more than a portfolio ... umm ... shipping cargo container? Definitely enjoy the added stuff! I have it all in my watch list on my DeviantART too lol

Besides, my writing can be pretty hard to read even at the best of times :b

*chuckle* Yes, there's quite a lot of content being added thanks to Endless Realms work :b Thanks for the support over on dA, too :)

Yes, you wouldn't believe how long I tried to increase the image size and sharpen the image online, but to no avail.

I promise, though, that even if I could find a way to decipher it, I would have kept the knowledge to myself as opposed to giving it to everybody.

*chuckles* It's not THAT secret or anything, just not finished and there's still a race we're trying to name.

So, which races are you most interested in finding out more about?

I don't know, they ALL look so interesting!

I'd like to find out more about the feline and lupine types a lot, of course, and some of the more mysterious-looking ones I can't help but wonder about.

Glad you think so! Well, if we're lucky, I may be able to get this finished this month, but it depends on what sort of feedback and changes things undergo as we develop them.

This version is so teeny I can't see the words. Do you have a link to the larger version somewhere so I can read the text?

*nods* It was intentional, really just intended as a (as the title would suggest) teaser to give an early glimpse of the player races. There IS a large version (17 000 pixels large), but it's really just for the development team for now :b

Its got felines. 10/10 IGN best game of the year.

XD Glad you approve!

looks interesting

Thanks, glad you think so!

I see a werecat...I'm in.

Weeeeeellll, none of the races here are intended to be shapeshifters or lycanthropic in nature, but I'm sure there's some sort of template that'll get worked in so you can have the ability to change shapes if you want (like the druid shape change spell or lycanthropy condition in DnD).

But yes, there's a feline race!

GOOD ENOUGH! Sign me up.

Haha ;) Any other race look potentially interesting to you yet?

Here and there.

*chuckles* Fair enough.

Coming up with a few roleplay ideas of my own, too....Doubt i'll ever implement, though XD

Don't say that! You have a whole lifetime to use your ideas :3

Well, i STARTED typing it out, so we'll see.

Is one of them a werewolf? I can't read any of the text.

Mmm, there isn't a werewolf race, persay, but the giant race is going to have prominent canine influences :b None of the races are canonically lycanthropic in nature, but I'm sure there'll be a lycanthropy condition/template that can be applied to players with lycanthropy.

But yes, there's a big wolfy-type race :b

Awesome!!!

Haha, yes :b Much earlier on, when I was going over the proposed race ideas, I was like, "... There's no big beefy race? You gotta have a big beefy race! You need a dragonborn/orc/charr/tauren/krogan or SOMEthing!" I made sure one made it in ;)

Niiiice!!!!!

can't wait to see this finished :>

It'll probably be a while >_> Might be done this month if we're lucky!

Worth the wait =)

Hope so :) Glad you think so, though!

Like to see you're not stuck with freakin humans!
I like the second pair, and the last 2 the best. How come the last ones don't have male and female distinction?

Heh, yeah - the developers didn't like the idea of races just being "human, tall human, stocky human, tiny human, green human". We've tried to still provide safe/approachable humanoids, but also included some more exotic ones.

The first race is female only, the second last one isn't terribly sexually dimorphic (although we may mess with them a bit), and the last one is genderless.

EXACTLY!! Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, gnomes blah blah blah..... they're all just freakin' humans! How does anyone find that interesting, creative, diverse ect?

The second to last is certainly one of my 3 favorites. Very, squirrelish. I'd like to see differences between the male and female. Just don't do the chest-boob thing on something that feral looking, that's my vote

Heh, hopefully we won't be doing that :b

4 belly teats

names, please

Heh, sorry, no can do - the names aren't all finalized yet, actually!

ahh, I see

It's all literally being worked on as we speak - the races hadn't even all been sketched up until yesterday! So this was a really early sneak peak :) Although depending on how smoothly things go, we may be able to present a finished version of this later this month.

Well, I'll be waiting. I have no trouble as soon reach what you've done very well

oh look, female only cat-race, mithra invasion!

Haha, no, the feline race has males too :b

This is the moment I've been waiting for the most. Even if they are just silhouettes we have an idea on the shape of the races and I like what I see.

Awesome, glad to hear it! Any one(s) in particular you're interested in?

The two on the far right.

Cool :3 One is sort of ferret/meerkat-esque, and the other is a genderless plant race.

Are humans still your basic looking humans or is there something different about them too?

Nah, they're totally vanilla, average humans.

Yay. I see felines! :)

Yup :3 Have a good number of beastie-related races, actually :b

I'm curious about the big ones!

Glad to hear it :D The big guys are pretty much my creation :b After reviewing the races, I was disappointed to find that none of them were particular "big", and I was like :O MUST CORRECT. Need at least one big beefy race :b

Smash!

One thing that I don't get is that here, you said that there'd be a feline race, but in the newest submission, you mentioned Tiefling-looking beings instead.

Was part of the planning changed? If so, why?

(I'm still hoping to see kitty people in the game)

Yeah, they were removed because we ran into... briefly put, design issues.

The cat people were redundant as a race - the developers wanted a more or less neko-race (human but with ears and tail), but we already have the bunny-girl race, which is essentially neko, plus they received critique that the design they wanted (http://sta.sh/0prpa7e421h) was really, really generic in appearance. Because at least one of the developers was really set on having cat-people, I suggested them let me modify the race into a more unique one. I had originally wanted to create something more Khajiit/Farghul-like, something that would please cat-lovers, wasn't a neko, and also hope to work in something to make them stand out as unique, but they wanted a neko, or nothing, plus they felt we had too many "furry" races as it was, so they made the decision to remove them completely and replace them with something non-furry, and something filling a niche we didn't already have done (which was something demonoid).

They may show up again in later books, with additional player races and things like that, but we won't be having cat people as one of the core player races.

Well, while it may be somewhat generic, I still would sort of like to see it.

Perhaps they could show up in an expansion, if it's anything like D&D there'll be vastly more material expansions than there is in the core set.

*nods* That's what I mean - we may end up doing additional races/bestiaries, so you never know for sure!

Now that we've seen all 9 races, are you done drawing them, or will you draw the other-gender versions of them first?

Also, will you be drawing classes as well, and if so, when?

No, I'm not done with the races. I'll eventually be doing more of them, fully clothed and garbed in their style, and making sure I show any other gender or variant, for their respective race pages in the book, but I'm not doing that yet.

Yes, I'll be drawing classes, but probably not for a while yet - they're still being worked on, and I believe there's an excess of classes right now, and they're trying to figure out which ones will be the "core" ones, I think?