The world is populated by many different races and cultures. Your choice of race for your player character establishes many of the fundamental traits that define your roleplaying experience. The Age of War campaign setting presents variants of the races in the player's handbook, which are used instead of the races in the player's handbook. When you choose your race for your Age of War character, you may choose any of the races in this chapter, but you cannot choose any of the races in the player's handbook. You may select races from other supplements (unless a variant of the race is presented here), but only with your dungeon master's permission. You may select any race from the Arachonomicon without your dungeon master's consent.