by Max Barry

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The Celestial Imperium of
Left-Leaning College State

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TL;DR version of Races of the Imperium

Equestrians are canon pony species.

Equines are the ponies.
We have changelings but we're not telling you how many.
There's, like, one draconequus.
Dragons are scary.
The Imperium doesn't care about all the other ones.

Gensokyans are hat-wearing youkais that look like lolis, and they eat people's fear.

Tengu are paparazzi.
Kappa are mad scientists.
Satori are reading your mind.
Oni are basically drunks.
Beast youkai are all out to swindle you.
Those Shinto gods want your faith.
The Yama decide where you're going after you die.
Lunarians are geeky shut-ins, while Celestials are meditating shut-ins.
Tsukumogami are Linkshipgirls in space or just humanizations of objects.
There are like a gajillion varieties of youkai.

Eilodons are the Western fantasy species.

Humans are humans. They have mated with every compatible thing in the Imperium. Some have animal ears.
Dwarves are drunk midgets who dig holes.
Elves are tree-hugging saps who secretly eat corpses. They have way too many varieties.
Orcs and Goblins are basically noble savages and green dwarves who want to rip you off respectively.
Kobolds are Linkcute reptile thingies.
Lizardfolk are all swamp shamans.
Dragonkin are the products of human-dragon relations.
Anything spiritual is shoved into hat-wearing human form that vaugely resembles their old ones when manifesting.
Fairies are either free-spirited little pranksters, honorable deal-making little pranksters, or out to turn you into a dog.
The Wizarding World exists and they're jerks.
There's like all the monster species, and there's too many of them.

Simulacra are undead or artificial

AI are in the interwebs.
Androids and Golems are artificial life.
Ghosts are spooky spirits.
Revenants are smart zombies.
Vampires will suck your blood. They can't get suntans or poke themselves with silver.

Xenos are weird thingies that crossed over from another universe.

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