[DF] PC Races Preferred Habitat

[Bruno]

As they're all intelligent tool users, they're all going to be able to live in almost any environment. Moreover, sample any random population and they'll tell you they're quite happy where they are thank-you-very-much. Once you live in a place for a few generations, you start thinking of it as "normal".

Elves might be the biggest exception.

Elves have an advantage of producing subtypes that can settle even more extreme regions - Snow Elves might hang out in Antarctica happily, Sea Elves can literally live underwater and there are probably Lake Elves to match them, Winged Elves' requirement for living space doesn't even include "accessible by foot" - just "doesn't obstruct wingspan". If they can build a platform on it or hang a platform off it and it's not too overgrown, they can live there.

On the other tentacle, elves are more specialized to their environment, and combined with their Sense Of Duty: Nature, out-of-environment elf subtypes might be painfully aware they're an invasive species.


FYI: I can totally see fauns in rocky hills (take a close look at Greece some day - goats have done a number on the vegetation in most places). Coleopterans have so many arms that seeing them in tree-fort villages or cliff climbing seems natural as well.