:The Bruig themselves were not a "seperate
:race."
Well, what I intended was to provide them with some sort of identity, ethnically or otherwise. If Cath Bruig are the same as humans, then some humans are Cath Bruig (sounds like an IQ test question) and there would be no need for people to refer to the Cath Bruig as a race, as they are prone to doing. Although you could say that calling someone a Bruig is the same as saying I'm American, that doesn't take away from the fact that they are referred to as a race.
:I also doubt that they were very different
:appearace-wise.
Exactly. As I said, the difference is not pronounced physically all that much. Journeymen and Heron Guards all look human. Fir'bolg are basically human, aren't they? No pointy ears, same number of fingers, etc., but you don't see anyone calling them human. But are there enough quantifiable differences between fir'bolg and humans as, say, a human and a Trow?
What I meant to clarify was that, in Myth, perhaps ethnic and racial differences are not confined to one's physical appearance...perhaps they transcend to the plane of magic.
