Fantasy races

Do you have any unique fantasy races to share? or do you have any different takes on existing races
>pic related what I'm basing my goblins off of

baby goblin

I thought my cat made it's way to Veeky Forums for a second.
On a side note they're awesome pets and no cat hair to deal with.

My friends always give me shit when I say I would want a sphinx cat, saying how ugly they are, but I think they look really cool.
How are they as pets, I've heard they can be quite troublesome

Right now I have two race families and I want a third.

Menfolk. Humans of all types. Includes pygmies, half demons and half and half angels, big slender giant dudes. Wild blonde barbarians and inbred noble dudes.

Then beastfolk. Different animal people. Not furry, just animals who walk on two legs and talk.

What should be the third?

They're clever and have to be kept out of the sun, and they can develop skin issues, but by and large they're fucking mischievous little fuckers.

I had an idea for an insectiod race based upon bees. They'd be ruled by queens who would exert a subtle form of psychic influence on their subjects. Queens would breed with large males termed praetorians that are created by allied queens. They would be capable of breeding with their own praetorians, but at the risk of developing undesirable mutations. Breeding with unrelated praetorians would allow for the development of positive mutations, allowing queens to create new castes as required. Queens would trade praetorians with other queens in return for favours. Breeding would take place several times per year, and would be a public event akin to a marriage ceremony, with allied queens all participating, relatives and friends invited, and praetorians competing in tournaments for the right to breed first. Praetorians would act as bodyguards for queens, in addition to generals, being granted a form of psychic control over their warriors.

The castes in general would be organised as follows:

- Queens (Sentient)
- Praetorians (Sentient)
- Warriors (Semi-sentient)
- Workers (Non-sentient)

I've been toying with the idea of an especially powerful queen rising and exerting psychic influence over the other queens, eventually becoming empress over the entire species. A resistance movement could form, led by queens who are powerful enough to resist the empress' control, but not enough to escape her influence totally, who plot behind the scenes to overthrow her. Some may experiment with ways of isolating themselves and their subjects from the empress' power, though at the cost of been seen as renegades, and being unable to co-ordinate with other queens. They could even lose control over their subjects by isolating themselves, leading to a scenario where rebel queens rule only in name. Their higher subjects may manipulate them to ensure their continued survival, and queens may be tolerated only because they are necessary for the survival of the species.

Faefolk? Strangefolk? Oddfolk?

Spiritfolk. Ghosts of the dead, actual spirits, and elementals.

I do goblins as essentially wolves, with hobgoblins (traditional style, not bigger goblins) being the equivalency of dogs with many different breeds.
>Redcap
>Leprachaun
>Brownies
>Knockers
>Bogeys
>etc.