Talk:Race/@comment-183.88.64.99-20161225200958/@comment-30797707-20161230181524

Isn't this why Heteromorphic isn't the best name for the race category since many of them don't actually have alternate forms? Heteromorphic literally means occuring in more than one form. Grotesque seems better.

Grotesque has two definitions:

1.

odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.

2.

fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.

This second definition actually describes the race much better as whole than Heteromorphic, though the original Japanese was a pun on both.