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Some of the heritages of the game system don't quite mesh with the reality of my world.  Elves and Leshy being the first to need a note, others may follow.

=== Elves ===
Elves came from the faewild and they primarily differentiate themselves by their closeness to that original source.  Standard Tolkien High Elves with their pale skin, and fair hair are the closest.  Wild elves are elves that are bound more closely to the material plane, have adapted to where they live and kind of come in their own categories.  Wood elves are shorter, tend to darker hair, though still pale. Sea elves are the shortest with almost unsettling long hands and feet with the beginnings of webbing and eyes adapted to water as well as air.  Sun elves are tan skinned and dark hair similar in appearance to real world Arabic or Latino heritages while keeping the traditional elven physical build.  \\

Drow or Dark Elves ("cavern elves" in 2e terms... but come on) come from the shadowfell and have a division similar to the High/wild variation of surface dwelling elves.  But in their case the vast majority would be considered wild elves (native in their terminology).  All dark elf children born on the prime material plane are born as native elves.  It is said that dark elves from the prime material can consecrate themselves again to the shadowfel but little is known about it and doesn't appear to be common knowledge among the dark elves themselves.

=== Leshy ===

Leshies have a reincarnation process where at death they produce a seed that can then be regrown.  The cycle from awakening to death and replanting is called a seedlife.  Unless something prevents it the cycle appears to be unending best any druid or leshy can tell.  Leshy seeds are extremely tough and while fire is the biggest risk it takes considerable time to cause enough damage to permanently kill one.  This reincarnation has very poor recollection over the years, though memories of friends from before that continue in the next seedlife can stick and established gardens of leshies can have memories of each other that go back incredible distances in time.  It is not guaranteed that the form of a leshy is the same from one seedlife to another.

=== Giants ===

Currently Giants do not exist in the world anywhere and aren't planned.

=== Dragons ===

The PF2e remaster has made a ton of changes to dragons dropping the traditional color/metal scheme and some significant changes to the elemental planes which also affects dragons.  To the extent that it's possible, both old and new versions exist in the world with the split being a deity dedication or not.  The difference between a white, silver, and rime dragon would be a white dragon is aligned with the destroyer, silver aligned with Apsu, and rime unaligned.  Remaster dragons should be treated as a semi-natural evolution in the world.