Humans are diegetically turbo eugenicists

2025-09-10

So we have been talking about Jay Dragon's most recent post. Through that conversation I was introduced to the Old World Bestiary and an idea was introduced. If we took the DM half and the player half, riffle shuffled them together, and viewed the whole book diegetically.

It seems that humans are turbo eugenicists who create a system to allow them to categorize the abilities of all living beings. That system seems to measure people according to which traits influence their ability to harm and defend from harm.

makes sense.

Also makes me think of like certain anime where they have in universe power measurements. Does seeing stats as in universe socially established measurements do anything? I am just worried that this sounds neat or funny but is really just using the measurements as they want to be used? We would have to lean in to stats not representing you, they only represent the way the dominate culture perceives you.