/lit/ - Literature

The world has only humans but I use the color of hair and skin and certain features like pointed ears or equine noses, along with some naming conlang i'm developing to distinguish the ethnic groups. but those differences are never explicitly revealed in the text, the reader should realize them over time.
Wizardy doesn't exist. Gods, mythical creatures and religious figures with odd powers do exist though.
>Protagonist and his family are servants of a lowly lord.
>his culture is slavic-celtic-germanic mix they are(were) concerned with dueling rather than raiding/conquering called "The Forest Dwellers"
>they are subjugated by a culture with pointed ears
>not-elves are horse riders, with scythian and hunnic culture called "The Equestrians"
How could the not-elves use horses in forests? they didn't. they were welcomed to free the forest people from another ethnic group that i didn't develop yet.
>a revenge story that will turn into an ethno-religious uprising and cultural conflict
I'm writing this novel while in the army, and I'm finding plenty of ideas to pick from. The idea that i'm really happy about having in the story, is that there is a set number of gods that all groups worship, but interpret their domains differently depending on their own culture. one of the moons is worshipped as a god, it has what looks like a lyre or a bow on its surface. The third group view that god not as a god of poetry or war, but as a god of visions. Sometimes I feel like the novel can get too big for someone with minimal writing skills like me but I enjoy writing and thinking about that setting and that's what matters tbqh. thanks for reading my first blogpost