(forgive me if this is poorly articulated; hopefully i can clarify and expand as i go)
so far, one of my biggest issues with creating Xiluh has been explaining why the yuma are treated differently then the rest of the races. since i havent been able to shake the fact that aside from the invading armies, yuma were the only ones considered at odds, i think ive come up with an idea:
iltimately, both yuma and the invading armies treated Xiluh the same way, which was fundamentally different then the way the rest of the world treated it; while eles, humans, dwarves, etc. all believed they belonged to the world, yuma acted on the belief that the world belonged to them. elven culture may have been different from human culture, but both realized that the differences were due to conditions presented by the world. in effect, they essentially let the differences of the world control their behavior and culture. they have tolerance for their respective cultures because neither of them claim that their way is "the one way".
yuma, on the other hand, refused to accept or even understand that worldview. cared of being at the mercy of the world, they decided to minipulate and control as much of their environment as they could- attempting to conquer challenges to this. the yuma, of course, couldnt understand how the other races could tolerate being at the mercy of the world, and invasively tried to "improve" the worldview of the other races.
if anybody has any thoughts, comments, critiques or questions, please share them.
It's a good way to seperate them. although I'm fairly unfamiliar with Xiluh, I can see that this is a much more reasonable explanation for enmity than that which many a book of D&D canon will give you.
Sorry for the odd speech method, I'm still trapped in a method of literature right now...
if youre unfamiliar with Xiluh, then i probably should explain yuma a bit:
first off, 'yuma' is just a name change for PHB half-orcs. while half-orcs fit in the setting, orcs didnt, so i needed a name change. yuma are a slave race, and the only race that isnt seen as being on equal ground as the other races. ive been working under the assumption that they were seen this way due to their low charisma, but that idea never really felt right to me.
It's interesting...you might want to flesh it out and see how players might see it as well. Like...how will this affect your game in play?
aside from the bias against yuma that i already had, i havent given that too much thought yet. for now, this is just a better reasoning for that bias then "theyre ugly so they cant be as good as us better-looking races".
oh! i just re-read that post.... actually, im posting it here to see if i can have help fleshing it out. im great at coming up with ideas like this, but i have a hard time really working them out.....
I like your idea, but how does a "slave race" see the world as their possesion, when they really are a possesion of the world? This seems to be your only conflict. Is ther eperhaps a world map or nation descriptions that could help us understand your setting a little more? Anxiously waiting!