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Fantasy Races Reference Sheet (Minor Retcon)

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I decided to do a bit of a minor retcon to my fantasy races. Nothing major, but I needed their sizes to be easier to memorize and needed to get rid of a few races that overlapped with other ones too much and didn't offer anything too interesting to the fantasy world. Biggest change is I pushed every race into a different "size" tier. So now multiple races share the same size and interact with each other as equals. If I add more races I can more easily decide what scale they should be and who they interact with. In general this just makes my life easier. Most of the below is just copy and pasted from my older reference sheets.

1. Gnat Fairy:
Size: About 2 millimeters. (0.1%)
Habitat: Various, Parasitic 
Info: A gnat fairy is a gnat-sized fairy which serves a similar purpose as a gnat, being a pest. As the tiniest sentient creature in this world, they're very much helpless on their own and depend on the other races for survival, buzzing around them and mooching off the food they collect. They often live on the bodies of larger races completely undetected and steal bites of their meals as they eat. Since they're very tiny, most races don't even notice their presence, and the really large races are completely unaware such small creatures even exist since they cannot see, feel or hear them. Luckily since they're so tiny they hardly have any predators to watch out for. They're just not worth eating. No nutrition. Although compared to the largest races they're small enough to be mistaken as a virus and white blood cells can be kind of predatory in a sense.
Features/Powers: Dark skin, small insect-like antennas and also insect wings. Pupiless eyes that glow slightly.

2. Floral Fairy:
Size: About 2 centimeters. (1%)
Habitat: Forests, Gardens, anywhere that's green and has flowers.
Info: A Floral Fairy is a common fairy with a very materialistic lifestyle and attitude. They obsess over taking care of flowers, making sure they grow up healthily by watering them, pollinating them, making clothes out of them, and even living/sleeping in them. They also have a tendency to take in Gnat Fairies and take care of them as well even if they're not remotely interested. But hey! Free food and water and stuff!
Features/Powers: They resemble tiny humans except they possess butterfly-like wings. They possess weak magical abilities that are only useful for taking care of plant life, like conjuring water.

3. Garden Naga:
Size: About 7-10 inches when standing up. (10%)
Habitat: Forests, Gardens, Deserts
Info: A tiny carnivorous Naga around the size of a normal snake. They prey on the tiny fairy races for food. Although they have a monster-like appearance, they're a bit too small to take seriously from a human's perspective.
Features/Powers: They have various tail patterns, other than the one in the picture and in turn various skin colors. All of their teeth are sharp since they're carnivores so mind their bite! Their saliva contains a toxin that causes smaller creatures to become drowsy... so they stop struggling and submit to their inevitable fate as a snack.

4. Common Naga:
Size: Same height as humans. 6 feet while standing up. (100%)
Habitat: Civilized Settlements
Info: A half-human half-snake creature that lives side by side with humans. They originated from desert regions and their culture reflects that. They're very similar to humans except for the fact that they're carnivorous like their cousin Naga races and are willing to eat smaller races. Normally they'll just eat normal meat that humans eat, but a Floral Fairy or Garden Naga may look apetizing if they see one.
Features/Powers: Sharp teeth like their cousins, so watch their bite. The human-sized variation of Nagas have rattles on their tails, which they can use in conjunction with a hypnotizing belly dance to distract tiny prey or weak-minded enemies. Or they can just use their rattles if they just feel like playing a catchy tune for fun! All of them are naturally clever and have snake-like reflexes. They have a the usual saliva-toxin that causes drowziness in smaller races.

5. Humans:
Size: 6 feet on average. Same height as naga. (100%)
Habitat: Civilized Settlements
Info: Humans. You should all know what these guys are like! =P (Razz)
Features/Powers: Humans are one of the few races capable of magic. They lack the strength and size of larger races, so its made up for with magic prowess. They have to learn magic though. They aren't all born with the innate ability to do it without practice unlike another race that I shall mention later.

6. Sea Giant:
Size: About 30 feet/9 meters. (1000%)
Habitat: Oceans, Seas, Seashores 
Info: An aquatic species of giant that are mischief-makers. They have a tendency to scare sailors by popping out of the ocean suddenly, or knocking on the bottom of boats to rock them around, or steering them in the wrong direction and then giggling at their misfortune from beneath the ocean waves. The internet trolls of the sea honestly. They're neutral towards the smaller races and just like to toy around with them. They are not carnivorous towards people and only diet on fish and sea-plants.
Features/Powers: Underwater breathing. They do rely on the ocean so they cannot leave it for long which is why you won't find them going any further away from the ocean than a beach shore.

7. Sky Fairy:
Size: About 30 feet/9 meters. (1000%)
Habitat: Various, Clouds
Info: Sky Fairies are large winged humanoids and are distant relatives of the smaller fairies. As you can tell, they are by far the largest species of fairies. Similar to their floral fairy counterparts, most of them are very maternal and caring and have a knack for helping smaller races out even if they're not really interested. Sky fairies are born with a natural talent for healing magic and serve as the "nurses" for the larger less civilized races. Since they don't have hospitals or doctors, they simply seek out the nearest sky fairy for assistance if they're feeling ill or received an injury. Few races wishes to harm them since they sky fairies make very useful allies, but their helpful instincts make them easy prey for many predators. They can live in a variety of places, but most are found up in the clouds in small isolated floating civilizations. Since very few races can fly, very few have gotten the privileged to see these towns built on the clouds.
Features/Powers: They look very much like humans with feathered wings. The angels of this world. They all have an innate ability to preform simple healing spells to help the injured and sick. Their wings enable them to fly through the skies and even carry small passengers.

8. Forest Naga:
Size: About 150 feet/45 meters when standing up. (2500%)
Habitat: Forests, Jungles
Info: A giant naga that lives in forests and jungles. They prey on travelers and jungle/forest wildlife. The one race that has humans/nagas on the menu. They don't seek out civilized settlements as the forest/jungle has plenty of food, but when traveling through the plentiful wooded areas, the human sized races have to keep their eyes towards the trees just in case they're being watched. They have longer tongues than most species of naga and sometimes use it to catch prey that have hidden themselves in small spaces.
Features/Powers: They have green skin. Just like their cousins they have toxic saliva used to stop smaller prey from struggling and a mouth full of sharp teeth. They use their tails to hang down from trees and scoop up prey. They're very clever and use their cunning to manipulate larger races to bring them tinies to "play" with, aka eat.

9. Gorgon:
Size:  About 150 feet/45 meters (2500%)
Habitat: Mountains, Caves
Info: Large monstrous giantesses found in isolated mountain or cave areas. They're highly dangerous and show no friendliness towards anything that's small enough to serve as a meal. They wont hesitate to step on someone injure them. They live peacefully with similarly sized races though, like obsidian giants who live in the same areas as them.
Features/Powers: Like a classic gorgon they have a head full of snakes. They can turn things to stone by using their petrifying gaze. Their gaze doesn't always petrify though. Only when they choose to use it. You'll know when they're using it when their eyes glow, but by then it's too late to do anything about it! They have sharp teeth but aren't strictly carnivores. Most have knowledge of alchemy and brewing, and concoct potions in cauldrons in their caves, dens or where ever they live. The potions range from harmful poisons to medicines. They have fairly close ties with obsidian giants since they can turn things (living or non-living) to stone, which is what obsidian giants chow down on. They have a small rivalry with sky fairies since gorgons concoct medicines, while sky fairies can effortlessly use their innate healing abilities to do what their medicines can do. Not to mention they may be a bit jealous of sky fairy's angelic appearances compared to their monster-like appearance.

10. Glacial Giant:
Size: About 150 feet/45 meters (2500%)
Habitat: Snowy mountains peaks in palace-like homes constructed from ice.
Info: The only species of giants that are capable of magic. This gives them the idea that they are superior to their cousins, making them innately stuck-up. They live in secluded areas away from the "inferior" races high in the snowy mountains. If they end up having to interact with another race they try to make it very clear that they think they're inferior and then give them the cold shoulder.
Features/Powers: They have icy silver skin and have delicate builds generally. Since they can use magic, they don't use their physical strength much, leading to them to have very low pain tolerance. Ice/Frost Magic is used to freeze mountain wild life for food or freeze people they don't like.

11. Golden Giant:
Size: Varies (They have no common size) (5000% in the above image)
Habitat: Secluded Caves, Treasure Troves, Ruins, Desert Ruins
Info: A strange and rare species of giant that are only found guarding treasure hoards. They have a shiny/reflective golden physique. But it's speculated that they are man-made or goddess-made guardians that were created to watch over treasure hoards. They rarely leave their treasure hoards, but when they do they have a tendency to capture people and ask them to polish their golden bodies. They often wear cages as necklaces, earrings or jewelry in general to transport their captives back to their caves. While the idea of being kidnapped to polish a giant golden being may seem unappealing, they fully intend to let you go after you finish their request. And they always give away a little treasure reward if you do a good job. A win win situation. They have no common size and it depends on whoever created them to decide their size. A small man-made treasure hoard may have a miniature golden giant, but a more important treasure owned by a goddess may be guarded by a massive golden construct.
Features/Powers: Simply their size and golden physique, which is hard much like real metal.

12. Desert Naga:
Size:  About 300 feet/90 meters while standing up. (5000%)
Habitat: Desert Civilizations
Info: The largest and most imposing species of nagas. They're strictly found living in large desert civilizations. Their architecture is much like Egyptian ruins. They have multiple limbs and use their multiple them to wield many weapons at once to fight off danger. The desert is home to many dangerous creatures like titanic "sand worms" and the occasional trespasser. Their towns always have an oasis or a water source, so people trekking through the desert often try to sneak into their settlements for a drink. Like all nagas they are carnivores. Hunting, strength and battling is a large part of their proud culture and they often solve their problems with their blades. They prefer hunting worthy opponents but won't pass up the opportunity to eat a tiny as a simple snack. They find 2-armed races amusing and consider tinies weaklings. They often poke fun of these factors before devouring prey to add salt to the wound. It's rumored they worship a "Desert Goddess" of some sort who provides them with their eternal oasis water source...
Features/Powers: They have the usual drowsiness saliva that all naga have and have several powerful arms instead of the usual two. Some have 4 arms but the majority have 6.

13. Leviathan:
Size: Their base size is about 600 feet/180 meters (10,000%) but they slowly grow a tiny bit after every meal so their potential is limitless.
Habitat: Oceans, Seas
Info: Leviathan are rare but dangerous creatures. They're the largest carnivorous race in this world but since they're confined to the seas, you can elude them quite easily. Leviathans choose their territory and then stick with it as long as sailors come along to feast on. When a boat enters a leviathan's territory it's only a matter of time before the leviathan pops up and grabs the ship or even sucks the ship down using her mouth (provided the ship is small enough). People usually figure out where their territory is, but if no one comes by for a while, they simply choose another place to call their territory. Some of the smarter ones set their territory right in front of ports so incoming ships and boats who aren't familiar with the area have to cross through their territory. They're not picky eaters and will eat just about anything, living or inanimate. If it enters their territory then its theirs for the taking. They think with their stomachs so you can't really call them clever. They're not too hard to outsmart though because of this. Very few live long enough to grow to insane sizes.  They often beach themselves while trying to pursue prey. The largest Leviathan is known as the "Sea Goddess" who grew to an immeasurable size that is big enough to swallow other leviathans whole. She keeps the population in check by devouring any other large leviathans.
Features/Powers: They have the ability to breathe underwater, adept swimming. Inhaling water to create a drain-like whirlpool beneath vessels. They're stuck in the seas so they're relatively easy to avoid. But they can always try and reach onto land with their long reach and grab people. The more they eat the larger they grow, so this gives them the unique ability to not be confined at one size all of their life

14. Obsidian Giant:
Size: About 900 feet/275 meters (15,000%)
Habitat: Mountains, Caves, Canyons, anywhere that has plenty of rocks/stones and is far away from civilization.
Info: Obsidian giants are the largest species of giants and the largest creatures in this world. Many call them "walking-mountains." Despite being titanic in size they're extremely docile and shy and try to avoid civilization as much as possible for fear of hurting anyone. They aren't carnivorous and only diet off of rocks. In general really don't pose a threat to anyone. On the flipside no one's a threat to them either. They're fairly rare, but they live for ages. Since they're so docile and don't feel the need to worry about their safety, they don't care if anyone approaches them, touches them or climbs on them. You can do pretty much anything to them and they'll ignore you, BUT never insult an Obsidian Giant. Their shyness results in them being very sensitive. When you push these gentle giants too far they won't hesitiate the remind you who the biggest creature in the world is. In general though they want to be neutral and will only help a close friend and only hurt a very malicious enemy. They're down to earth and don't want to have to deal with the drama of civilization and predator VS prey. They'd rather chill on their mountain tops, snack on some rocks, and enjoy the view.
Features/Powers: They have tough grey skin and are highly resilient to pain. They all are naturally strong, even for their size. They're creative and have a knack for sculpting jewelry.

(Additional Races)

15. Pearl Naga:
Size: 
About 300 feet/90 meters while standing up. (5000%)
Habitat: 
Oceans, Seas
Info:
A massive but gentle race of aquatic nagas. They have tails that are more fish-like than serpentine. These ladies are not carnivorous. Male Leviathan (who are many times smaller than female Leviathan) swim alongside them for protection. They're very motherly and love to tend to their guests with food and gentle embraces. They're mostly found on the ocean floor but sometimes they swim around the bottom of bays, waving to sailors as they leave their ports. They gladly guide those who are lost at sea. However they are not fighters by any means and will take off without warning if a female leviathan is in the area. Female leviathan often try to take the male leviathan away from pearl naga and they are much larger and can be rough with pearl naga.
Features/Powers: They do not have any way to defend themselves physically, but they're known for being highly poisonous to eat which can get them spat out by the rare titanic-sized leviathan. They have no drowsiness-inducing saliva, or sharp teeth like their cousins.

16. Common Giant:
Size: About 30 feet/9 meters. (1000%)
Habitat: Civilized Settlements
Info: Common giants live side by side with humans and nagas. In a world where they're all outclassed by larger cousins, they depend on working together to have a place in the world. Giants are the brawn of the civilized races. When working together, the naga tend to be the ones who make up the plans, while the humans use their magic to dish out the hurt, and common giants do the heavy lifting. Common giants have a natural affinity for building things and are most often hired to construct buildings and carry supplies long distances. Most of them typically act like mercenaries for hire and demand money for their services towards little humans and such, but others are naturally friendly with the smaller races and enjoy their company. When living with humans and the like, they prefer to camp outdoors but some towns have buildings sized for common giants, or giant barns for them to sleep in at the very least. They act much like large humans and don't eat live prey like a naga would. They'd prefer a cooked steak or vegetarian diet.
Features/Powers: They're the physically strongest race of their size-range and have an affinity for building and construction.

17. Dryad:
Size: Range from 30 feet/9 meters. (1000%) to 150 feet/18 meters when standing up. (2500%)
Habitat: Forests, Jungles
Info: A friendly species that live deep within the forests. They can turn themselves into trees to blend into their surroundings. Most of them are very shy and a bit cowardly. Like your typical dryad, they can turn into trees. They often assume this form when they hear someone coming towards them. They find smaller races fascinating and tend to drop their tree-disguise when they see one approaching so they can talk/play with them. They often stay hidden if they sense a predator though. They live for hundreds of years and the younger ones are smaller than the older ones. They stick to the forests and prefer to only seek out their own kind, unless a traveler crosses paths with them.
Features/Powers: Dryads have long life spans much like trees, they are capable of manipulating nature with magic and use this to drive out intruders who mean to harm the forest, and they can turn themselves into trees to blend into their surroundings.


Size Tier
0 Tier - 15,000%  -900ft/275m    Obsidian Giant
S Tier - 10,000%  -600ft/180m    Leviathan*
A Tier - 5000%    -300ft/90m       Desert Naga, Golden Giant*, Pearl Naga
B Tier - 2500%    -150ft/45m       Forest Naga, Glacial Giant, Gorgon, Dryad*
C Tier - 1000%    -30ft/9m           Sea Giant, Sky Fairy, Common Giant, Dryad*
D Tier - 100%      -6ft/1.8m          Human, Common Naga
E Tier - 10%        -7-9in               Garden Naga
F Tier -  1%         -2cm                 Floral Fairy
Z Tier - 0.1%       -2mm               Gnat Fairy

* = Size can vary

Lemme know if you see any contradictions or typos that I missed!

Habitats

Desert Environments: Desert Naga, Golden Giant, Garden Naga

Wooded Areas: Dryad, Forest Naga, Gnat Fairy, Floral Fairy, Garden Naga

Mountainous Areas: Obsidian Giant, Gorgon, Glacial Giant, Golden Giant

Civilized Settlements: Human, Common Naga, Common Giant, 

Human Gardens: Gnat Fairy, Floral Fairy, Garden Naga

Aquatic Environments: Sea Giant, Pearl Naga, Leviathan

Atmospheric Environment: Sky Fairy (live in the skies but visit all environments)
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Seekerlano's avatar
Very detailed. I also want to create my own fantasy race reference sheet, but I am not good at drawing humanoid figures.