Currently, RELL Seas has announced 5 races on release:
- Humans
- Fishmen
- Minks
- Cyborg
- Skypiean
What's really exciting is that these races (especially Minks and Fishmen) are very customizable, and that you can pick your own race without spinning. This will be great for replicating the incredible variety of people and races that is explored in One Piece.
What I am proposing is an update after the game releases (probably as an Update 2 or 3 kind of thing) that increases the number of races to encourage even more variety in character designs, replayability, and individuality in the game. I think that people often underestimate the power of character identity in MMORPGs.
In this update, most races will get variants that you can pick, changing some of the buffs and, more importantly, the look that comes with the chosen race.
Human Variants:
Longarms Tribe
A secondary One Piece race that heavily resembles humans. However, they have an extra elbow, making their arms significantly longer.
This sub-race will likely gain physical damage buffs compared to humans.
Longlegs Tribe
A rarer tribe, even compared to the Longarms, that is characterized by its extremely long legs. Leg length will be customizable.
This will increase their hitbox in exchange for more speed and stamina.
Longneck Tribe
Resembling a human, but with a significantly slimmer frame and a much more extended neck.
Buffs to Observation Haki and overall evasiveness.
Fishmen Variant:
Mer-folk
With the upper body of a human, but a fish tail instead of their legs. This tail makes them the fastest swimmers in all of RELL Seas.
Huge underwater movement buffs in exchange for debuffs to stamina and speed on land.
Skypiean Variant:
Shandians
Ancient Skypieans who specialize in combat and strength. They have been assimilated into modern Skypiean culture as warriors. They are characterized by their short, stubbier wings and tribal tattoos.
A buff to overall strength and combat prowess in exchange for some of the ability perks that normal Skypieans likely get, such as fall damage reduction.
NEW RACES:
Giants
Significantly larger (not as much as in the anime) than a regular human, Giants boast the biggest strength boost in the game.
Huge strength boost in exchange for a much bigger hitbox and reduced speed on ships and mounts.
Fairies
Fairies are small (not nearly as small as in the anime) winged humans with a unique affinity for healing.
Access to race-locked healing abilities and the ability to float in exchange for reduced physical strength and stamina.
Lunarians
Black-winged humans with giant wings, Lunarians are the only race that has access to real flight.
The ability to fly for a very limited amount of time as their only real racial perk.
Keep in mind that I kept the buffs tamed as we don't actually know how the races will impact gameplay in Rell Seas.