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# Peoples

*One entry per people: a race, species, ethnicity, nationality, region, faction, order, class, or religion treated as a collective. A character's people informs how they speak, what they assume, and what they fear. The term adapts per work type (races/species, tribes/nations, audience segments); the entry shape is the same.*

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## {{PEOPLE_NAME}}

**Kind:** {{KIND}} (race / species / ethnicity / nationality / region / faction / order / class / religion)
**Scale:** {{SCALE}} (a household, a city, a nation, a species)

### Origin
- **Where they come from:** {{ORIGIN}}
- **Makeup, if not ordinary humans:** {{MAKEUP}}
- **History that shaped them:** {{HISTORY}}

### Shared values and culture
- **What they prize:** {{VALUES}}
- **Customs and taboos:** {{CUSTOMS}}
- **How they speak:** {{SPEECH_MARKERS}} (dialect, idiom, register, what they never say)

### Social position
- **Where they sit in the world's order:** {{SOCIAL_POSITION}}
- **Internal structure:** {{STRUCTURE}} (who leads, how they organize, who is in and who is out)

### As a people (the collective arc)
- **Collective want:** {{PEOPLE_WANT}}
- **Collective fear:** {{PEOPLE_FEAR}}
- **Self-image vs how outsiders see them:** {{SELF_IMAGE}} (the group's blind spot, the collective version of a character's lie)
- **Stake in the central conflict:** {{STAKE}}

### Members
Characters or figures who belong to this people (linked from the adapted cast surface, such as `CHARACTERS.md` or `FIGURES.md`). A member inherits these traits unless their entry overrides them.

{{MEMBERS}}

### Relations with other peoples
For each other people this one deals with, the standing dynamic and where it is headed. This is the source the derived people-dynamics map rolls up.

- **With {{OTHER_PEOPLE}}:** {{RELATION}}
  - **Standing:** {{STANDING}} (alliance, rivalry, oppression, trade, contempt, kinship, none)
  - **History between them:** {{SHARED_HISTORY}}
  - **Friction or bond:** {{FRICTION}}

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*A people is the collective tier above the cast. Keep each entry to what shapes characters and conflict on the page; deep lore belongs in the adapted world surface, such as WORLD.md or COSMOLOGY.md.*