>>6327299>Only Elves & Men though, or are there hybrids & mutants as a result of the hellscape?Nah, not just elves and men, they are just the most important ones in this imagined setting. There would be anthropomorphic bird men inspired by plague doctors. Orcs would be mongols that live in the wastes and get mutated by the exposure. Half-elves would exist, basically children of rape, because the whole world hates and has tried to genocide the elves. Degenerated, withered dwarfs that can only live in darkness.
Cancerous growths and rotting flesh is the most common symptom of exposure to the ruined world, but there are other outcomes. Wildlife would be corrupted, maybe a deer has no limbs and its body is elongated like a snake, or a bear has new maws over its body, or a rat has grown a second head. It wouldnt be standard changes across a species but differ for each individual animal.
