Racial Terms

Overview
Racial tensions are common in Akfas. Over the centuries (or millenia) that various races have existed in the world, they have made rude nicknames and terms to insult one another, either jokingly or quite sincerely. Most terms are translated into English for conveniance, and are equally applicable regardless of the languages used to deliver them in most instances.

Racial categories sort the races into the deregatory terms applied to them. Subcategories include only slurs applicable to individual subraces.

Elf

 * Knife-ear: based on both appearance and the fact that many elves are considered untrustworthy backstabbers. Some dwarf militaries had the practice of using the knives on their ears to make them "normal"
 * Slantface
 * Guj—derived from "gudgja," a proto-orcish word meaning "prey." Formerly the formal term for elves in orcish, but language has sense moved on. Anyone who uses it in modern times means it as a deep insult. Carries with it connotations of weakness and inferiority, especially since orcs prefer to take thralls than just straight-up eat people.
 * Fairy/Sprite: the accusation of being a giggling midget with no sense of honor or morals is rather insulting, especially as it implies a lack of sense or intelligence/memory

High Elf

 * Goldass
 * Glassbone: High elves have a reputation for being easy to injure and/or being susceptible to disease
 * Butterhide: golden skin and a reputation for being slippery or untrustworthy.

Wood Elf

 * Tree Fucker
 * Paint Slut: Wood elves are renowned for their promiscuity, orgies, and face paint that indicates their home tribe or city-state.
 * Dart Flinger: insinuates that wood elves lack the weapon technology the other races do. Often true, but no less insulting.
 * Monkeys: short, unintelligent, and live in trees.

Dark Elf

 * Eggsac: ancient dark elven culture revolved heavily around both spiders and promiscuity—and the two have blended together. The relative lack of contact between them and other races has prevented this assumption from being dispelled.
 * Dirt Elf
 * Ashface

Half-Elf

 * Mongrel

Human

 * Milkskin
 * Mayfly: the shortest-lived of the pure races. They have short, meaningless lives with only procreation as a goal. Men also go through brief civilizations that improve at a glacial pace only to collapse again.
 * Leg Spreader: humans are infamous for their ability to breed with: elves, orcs, elementals, celestials, fiends, and dwarves.

Halfling

 * Mongrel: halflings began as halfbreeds between humans and dwarves
 * Runt
 * Armrest
 * Hobbit
 * Milkskin: orc counter-insult to greenskin
 * Furfoot: while most halflings don't have hairy feet, the stereotype remains
 * Bend: a highly attractive halfling woman, ie "worth bending over to get a closer look at." Also, but less commonly, applied to goblins.
 * Bushfeet

Dwarf

 * Beardgoblin
 * Alestain
 * Pubeface
 * Dirt Licker
 * Forge Rat
 * Spud: like the potatoes introduced to the Plane of Flesh by humans, dwarves are both lumpy and come from the ground, and are often covered in dirt when you first meet them.
 * Rock Sucker
 * Footstool

Mountain Dwarf

 * Cave Troll: one of the worst things a dwarf can be called. Cave trolls are ancestral enemies of dwarves and many of their earliest legends involve doing battle with the vicious creatures.

Hill Dwarf

 * Mole Fucker: their tendency to live in lowlying areas in human kingdoms after being driven from subterranean ruins has led to an especially unfortunate connotation, not at all helped by one (deposed) dwarf noble actually caught having sexual intercourse with an oversized mole.

Orc

 * Greenskin: a dwarvish slur for orcs, who are typically fair-skinned. Has lost much of its teeth in recent years, to the point that their home plains are referred to as the "Greenskin Plains" instead of its proper name.
 * Plain Boar
 * Ogreshit

Half-Orc

 * Thrallborn: not exclusive to half-orcs, but most half-orcs are the children of thralls rather than traditional couplings. Not used outside orc tribes.

Dragonborn

 * Dragonshit
 * Newt
 * Kobolds

Gnome

 * Cart lice: gnomes are a nomadic, traveling people that often inhabit carts or caravans. Their incredible small size makes them an even easier target than the other small races.
 * Ankle Biter
 * "Lower than a bald gnome's hairline": an expression rather than a direct insult, but still racist.

Tiefling

 * Hellspawn
 * Gargoyle
 * Pox
 * Imp
 * Soulless
 * Goat

Goliath

 * Stoneskull
 * Giantshit
 * Rockmen
 * Whetstone: dwarves and goliaths have a long history of conflict due to proximity. "Sharpening your axe on goliath skulls" is a practice that still exists should goliaths be locateable.

Goblin

 * Gobber
 * Gobbo: the less insulting version of the above, often used affectionately between goblins
 * Fleabag
 * Blin