Race

Race, in Overlord, covers the many peoples and creatures found in Yggdrasil and in the New World. Yggdrasil offered players a wide choice of them, sorted into three main species: Human, Demi-Human and Heteromorphic. The distinction carried weight in the game's rules, since killing another player counted differently depending on which of the three they belonged to, with no penalty at all for killing heteromorphs, who were treated as monsters. In the New World the categories bear on who can have children with whom, and the author has noted that conflict between races there has no end to it: even a race that annihilated or dominated all the others still divides along its own lines and fights.