Thread:Juraj103/@comment-27075564-20171115015842/@comment-27075564-20180213164549

It was because there was no clear explanation of why mermaids/sirens were being grouped together and so different, especially because English they don't necessarily mean the same thing. Simply be adding the notes in there should be enough to explain the difference. Plus, those from the game side aren't going to know to look for "Nixa" in search, so everytime they pull up the "Siren" page if we go your route, they'll be even more confusion than the previous.

Race is going be sentience here, and being able to actuall communicate with other races would be a big defining point. For example, trolls are also a race even though their vocabulary is very basic. Korreds would be the same thing. The one exception are creatures like parrots, which only repeat back what they hear but can't really have a conversation with other races.