Norns: the opponents?
Grendels and Ettins. Perhaps a harsh thing to name them, but they are the opponents, the enemies, the hurdles in the race for survival for the game's chosen species. They are the most important threat to your Norns. Their natural characteristics have been chosen in order to fulfil that role. Anger and avarice, respectively, and both are contenders in the dubious contest of carrying the most diseases. What if Norns had a simular role? What would their quirk be? If our "chosen" species remain the Norns, then the quirk of these opposing Norns would most likely be "lust". These wild norns would be stunted in some simple manner, and these broken genes would quickly pollute the genepool of your own Norns. An inability to use portals would be a suitable taint for example. In the case a player would not use Norns as their main population and focus, "corruption" of the genepool is no possible threat and another manner of grievance would need to be found. Glut...
