Bonus Worldbuilding Content - Affinities! (Patreon)

It’s been ages since I did a worldbuilding thing! This one has to do with “Natural Affinities”, as I’m calling it.

In short, species as a whole can have one or more affinities, with varying degrees of strength. If a species has that affinity, they’re pulled as a whole to have that element as their first class. The stronger the affinity, the stronger the pull, the greater the likelihood that they’ll end up with that element.

The best, easiest example of this are elementals. A water elemental will always have the Water element. A fire elemental will always be Fire. Storm is Storm. Etc.

Elementals are so strongly pulled towards their element that they can’t get anything else. No lightning bolts from water elementals!

If you’re not quite following, some examples should help.

Slimes are strongly Ooze-aligned. It’s the rare slime that doesn’t have at least one Ooze element.

Fish are moderately Water-aligned. It’s the rare fish that doesn’t have at least one Water or Water-related element. A natural extension of this - most things that live in the water have a Water-aligned element.

Birds are moderately Wind-aligned. See fish.

Hydras are strongly Verdant-aligned. Without the element, they don’t get access to their classical power of head regeneration and head-splitting when they lose one.

Pigs are Fire-aligned. See bacon, Iona, and Journey of Black and Red.

Trolls are extra-strongly Light-aligned. It’s where their crazy regeneration comes from. Also why White Dove gave them such a powerful curse - it amused her that the second strongest Light-aligned creatures couldn’t be exposed to the sun.

Humans and Elves are both neutral. They’re not pulled towards any element.

Kitsune are moderately Mirage-aligned. Not that they’ll admit it.

Sirens are strongly Sound-aligned. They’d love to tell you all about it.

Goblins are very weakly Fire-aligned. Short, explosive lives. They don’t get Fire classes that much more often than neutrally-aligned races, but there’s a small effect.

Thunderbirds are strongly Lightning-aligned, with a moderate pull towards Wind-aligned elements, and a weak pull towards Sound.

Giants are pulled in a dozen different directions, depending on the type of giant. Storm, Ice, Earth,  [REDACTED], [REDACTED],and [REDACTED], among others!

Liches are modestly pulled towards Gemstone. That’s because [REDACTED]!

Vampires are strongly pulled towards blood, which can be in some, but not all, of the Water-aligned elements.

Ents and Dryads are strongly pulled towards Wood-aligned elements, generally Forest.

Demons are weakly Dark-aligned. It’s just a bit shady.

Sandwyrms are… Sand-aligned. I’m sure nobody saw that one coming.

That’s basically the idea. What element(s) are races naturally pulled towards, and that they’ll likely pick up for their first - or more! class.