[dremora]

Gives some non-humans in the legion a little bit of hope to look forward too.

In Thay, only humans are allowed to have aspirations and dreams.

Rubbish, every elf I've made on here has had hopes and aspirations. As mentioned repeatedly, the Legions are far from the only Path to Power in Thay. Some organisations remain influential even if the Red Wizards do not want them to be (Harpers, Veiled Alliance etc). Also if you seek hope as a player of non-humans (because ICly why would the Reds care about giving our lesser chars hope), take into account Thayan's post. If you have an exceptional soldier, you're char may just be lucky enough (with DM assistance and a good, solid RP) to be one of the privileged few that get that rare Red Wizard V.I.P promotion. Red Wizards call the shots in the end and if they want to elevate a non-human for being exceptionally valuable to them (and lets face it, you have to be or you aren't worth the influence spent on you), they can. Question is, is your character able to get that level of recognition and value placed on them? And in your strive for Captain or higher, maybe the Reds will think of a different use for you (hopefully not a spell component). RP and find out! I would argue we non-humans players could benefit more in pursuing the near-unattainable goal because by default, we need RP (presumably a lot) to get there whereas human chars can get there with just casual RP with others thats unrelated or by repeatedly doing quests. I know what sounds more fun to me atleast.