Topics: fantasy worldbuilding, characters, factions, relics, creatures, locations, canon.

Tags: human, kingdom, succession.

Identity: humans are the most politically widespread people of the Seven Realms because they reproduce faster, migrate more readily, adapt institutions quickly, and accept unstable experiments that elder peoples would debate for generations.

Appearance and culture: there is no single human look. Valemere crownlanders favor river wool, sunburst pins, and legal seals; coast humans wear salt-stained blues and pearl tokens; Ashen March families carry scar cords and ash masks; Frostgate clans dress in furs, cold iron, and oath braids.

Strengths: humans rebuild quickly, improvise institutions, form mixed towns, accept new saints, charter guilds, and turn ruins into roads or markets. Their short lives make urgency natural, which can look heroic or reckless depending on who pays the cost.

Weakness: short memory. Humans misquote dragon treaties, simplify elven grief, treat dwarven infrastructure as inheritance rather than loan, and turn emergency powers into tradition before anyone remembers why the emergency began.