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Everything is handed to the Sith Warrior. They are Sith nobility - or at least on good standing in the Empire. They get through their trials via favoritism and sheer blunt Force because they are so powerful. They are practically handed a Sith Apprenticeship.

They could want for nothing and yet here they are seeking more power. And they get it at the price of obedience. They Serve. They're undefeated, each task seemingly easy. Until they are discarded and then picked up again - this time at a higher rank until they are the highest ranking Sith in the entire Empire next to the Emperor himself. Every step they take towards power shackles them more until they are the second most powerful Sith in the Empire and they can do nothing with it. They are little more than an attack dog, waiting for a Master that will never return and didn't care in the first place. They're scolded for any unauthorized use of their power, expected to wait obediently.

Sith Inquisitor starts with nothing and has the exact opposite experience as the Warrior. Every obstacle possible is put in their path. They are sabotaged and abused and undermined at every turn only to come out on top. Again and again they defy fate and every single time they break another shackle, gathering power that separates them from the slave they once were. Becoming a Sith is what freed them and in becoming a Dark Council Member, there are very few that have any control over them now. The power they have isn't even theirs. They have to take it and learn to take it until they are truly Free.

It was 2012 and I was a "white washed" (not real but you know what that means) junior in undergrad and an entire chapter included in this textbook was dedicated to our pidgin/dialect whichever your argument. 14 years later and the amount of borrowing with and without permission of rest of English is truly a marvel to the point where things I know damn well are just AAVE are attributed to wide ranging sources such as "Gen Z/Alpha slang" and "gay lingo" and "internet speak" in general. Our range

These are just a few of our many common grammatical rules:

Habitual "Be": In Standard English "He is working" means right now or generally. In AAVE "He be working" specifically means he works regularly or habitually, a distinction that Standard English can't make without adding extra words.

Copula Deletion: Dropping forms of the verb "to be" in places where Standard English requires them ("She tired" instead of "She is tired" or "They going" instead of "They are going")

Double Negatives: In Standard English, two negatives make a positive. In AAVE, using multiple negatives ("She ain't never going") simply adds emphasis to the negation, a common feature in many of the world's languages.

Metathesis: switching sounds within a word, the most famous example being "ask" as "aks," a pronunciation that has roots in Old English.

Remote "Been": When you say "I been knew that" the stressed "been" means you've known it for a long time, remotely in the past, which doesn't exist in Standard English without adding extra words.

Completive "Done": "I done told you already" is a way of saying the action is finished and the matter is settled with an emphasis on finality or frustration.

Subject-Verb Disagreement: In AAVE verbs are often uninflected for the third person ("She walk" instead of "She walks") to simplify conjugation.

camp but if there’s only one bedroll…

Like hello one of the most famous knights is a nonbinary (she/her) human named Clarethe whose mom loves them and is also a badass knight.

Clarethe has a full page entry as an NPC. On the opposite page is Beirivelle (female human bard) who is trans, ran away from home rather than going through with an arranged marriage while being seen as a youngest son. Beirivelle also guides other girls and women like herself 😭

Like everything is so COOL AND FLESHED OUT.

That looks like the wheelchairs I've seen used in sports! I don't know a whole lot but I recognize where else I've seen it!

This elf Shining Sentinel Warrior —

I know their clothing probably has that mask motif everywhere because the Alijae elves of the Mwangi Expanse carve ancestry masks which guard the oral history of their families!!! The one on their hip is probably that actual mask.

It's almost certainly inspired in part by the Benin Ivory mask depicting Idia, a Queen Mother and other African culture's masks. (bakongo, maybe?)

A genderfluid sprite on a corgi!

A masculine-nonbinary dwarf!

A transmasc ex-Gray Maiden (the all-female personal bodyguards of a now-dead shitty queen)

There’s just so many, I’m sure I missed a few - and that’s not even touching on the fact that despite focusing on “Fantasy-European knights who fight undead”, there’s a surprising amount of ‘worldliness’ to them, with Fantasy Africa, Fantasy India and Fantasy Americas all have a noted presence in the writing here.

Also, that elf in the art there? While not a named NPC per se, I’m pretty sure they’re supposed to be the same elf seen in the Mwangi Expanse book (an extremely good book on Pathfinder’s West Africa-inspired region):

There are a few other such easter eggs throughout this book.