Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Toltecatl (section)

==Views of other races==
And it was all a hilarious joke to the other races. Primitive beastmen traveling across the world to bring back maps, poetry, philosophies, ideas and inventions, only to have it locked away in a temple while the race stagnated in a swamp? So much for PROGRESS! Where were the gleaming crystal cities, the towering spires, the evidence that their racial goal had any impact whatsoever?

The Toltecatl were immune to such mockery. They were adapted to their marshy homeland and saw no need for such monuments, they said. Ostentation was not PROGRESS! This was considered a pathetic excuse from a backwards people who could not master the scraps and lessons they gleaned from superior races. Was, as in past tense.

Recently a human naturalist became intrigued about the gigantic tubers the Toltecatl grow and hollow-out instead of constructing buildings. Asking about their history he was told that the Toltecatl didn't just cultivate them. They had made them. Using life-magics previously thought known only to the [[Setting:Unified Setting/Sidhe|Sidhe]] and the deceased [[Unified_Setting/Draconian|Draconians]] they had altered the native flora into a more useful form. One that was appropriate to their marshy homeland and thrived where traditional construction would collapse within weeks. And they had been doing it for hundreds of years.

When the news spread other nations began treating the Toltecatl with greater respect. The Sidhe denounced the work as crude and unworthy of even apprentice level casters, but everybody expected them to. The Toltecatl knew life-magic, and treated it casually. Who knew what other secrets they had in their possession?