The World of Avlis

Are you going to want our characters to have surnames? If so, I need to start thinking of one!

Depends on your character. Tell me what race you are playing and I will post some background on the society's organization.

Brief overview.... There's nine major races corresponding to the nine major alignments. Now, this does not mean that if you are a member of that race it means you must be that alignment. All it means is that the AVERAGE member of that race is of that alignment, with one exception. (more later)
This also does not mean that there are only nine races. Quite the contrary. It just means there are nine MAJOR races, i.e. very numerous and popular races.

Here they are with alignments:

Lawful Good: Dwarves
Neutral Good: Fairy kin, i.e. nymphs, sylphs, dryads, nixies, true fairies, sprites, including half-nymph, half-dryad, etc.
Chaotic Good: Elves

Lawful Neutral: Dracon (good luck finding this one, it's from the Spacefarer's Handbook, 2nd Ed D&D)
Neutral: Humans (this is the only exception, humans have no average alignment. They are balanced among all alignments.)
Chaotic Neutral: Changelings (read up on them in the Shapeshifter threads on Avlis boards)

Lawful Evil: Orcs
Neutral Evil: Lizard Men, Sahuagin
Chaotic Evil: Ogres, Giants, Giant-kin