Toby Ragaini 2021 Q&A/Question 15
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Question 15
Q: There were seemingly two additional player character races planned that did not make it in: The Viamontians (then called Viamonters) and another race called the Rennaj. Could you elaborate more on these? How far along into planning or development did either of these races get?
A: The Viamont were originally envisioned as a group of humans that came from the same world as the Aluvians, Sho, and Gharu'n. They were imagined as imperialist conquerors with a vaguely medieval French inspiration from the Charlemagne period. I believe they were later implemented as blue skinned folks, but that was well after I had left.
The Rennaj were another group of humans that were considered early on in the game's design. Evil and corrupt, they were slavers and hedonists somewhat analogous to the Melnibonéans from Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga. They seemed out of place in the conflicts that we wanted to focus on, and so they never made it into the final game
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