I have an idea of something like them yes

no it would dissappear but they could be blessed by a god of decay or something similar

fixed it thanks.

yeah, they do get an attack force, but I didn't include that since I'm gonna for a chapter after Jack's is over.

it's a super continent with small island chains surrounding it, and the candidates' distance between each other varies. Some are closer than others. I should probably find a way to make a map of it.

correct, so they are very close. There is another that is close aswell but they will have at least a few biomes in between them. they'll start appearing more in chapters once the tribal stage is over. That's when candidates start battling and scheming.

1. yes, they would be raised if they were killed after the undead appeared, not before. 2. there are multiple native tribes and this is a spoiler, but kingdoms, but I'm keeping those for once. Jack reaches that stage, which will be very soon.

I remember that the sand striders face worms in the first wave, so maybe those pigmen were in another chapter. But they would have been killed by either the rixis or the undead roaming the desert.

All I can say is that he created them, so some of his personality will be mixed in, and they're all friends, so they'll act similar to one another. I think there's a bit of Jack in each of them, and they reflect differnt parts of himself.

yeah, but I guess they're evil because there are those who aren't religious who don't attack those who are. while those seen as evil actively destroy and ruin everything they can.

New race without any skills or time to evolve and get stronger and is similar to human life spans of the time before modern medicine.

No lizard men, the creator wanted dragons but couldn't make them at the start, so he is doing the next best thing.

yeah, I see that aswell but they can have red,white,black,green, and other coloured skins. The only thing I have in my head for them is a mix of human and predator and maybe some lizard men or avatar look.

maybe because they have high levels of strength,speed,durability, long life span,advanced technology, honour,fearlessness, and a high healing factor.

This seems confusing as if I took away what you say makes them one dimensional they'd be even more one-dimensional. The basic traits people have are their nationality and race, along with their gender and religion. Also, you must not be reading correctly as the mc Jack isn't American he's British and if you've read my work so far you would see I've littered around the chapters how Jack is far from a nationalist in fact I made an entire chapter talking about these things. I've also already spoken about how I'm trying my best to focus on Jack while having group chapters on the other characters as they play important roles later on where they will be more involved. As for the other characters, they're not meant to all be saints with no sins, and Jack isn't perfect, constantly doubting himself and his self-worth while also overthinking his actions. I understand my novel won't be for everyone, and some will say it can be done better, but most of what you're saying just doesn't make sense as if If wrote them your way it would just be their likes and dislikes that gets boring quickly. I hope you give it a re-read, but if not, thanks for your time.

perhaps

Nah, it's alright. You have the Jackrixis that are the main race , and each candidate has 2 minor races. For Jack, because he's in an alliance with Nancy, he has control over her race, and in return, if he wins, she doesn't die.

yeah it's only for the game

hard to say as like your answer we haven't got any massive weakness but you could say the same for aliens. They could be stronger,faster,smarter versions of us, but if I had to choose, probably 4 as in this case its better to underestimate.