[johnny]

Like I said: do research. You'd be better off doing research yourself and getting inspired by delving deep into the mythos of a certain creature or species than you would simply taking notes and a few little bits of information from us on here.

Think about what sort of mythologies you like. Norse? African? Egyptian? Asian? Everything has its own stories to tell.

For example, I personally love Celtic mythology, so I spent a long while looking up information on what are vaguely described as "faeries" and found that there's a significant level of depth to the legends of faeries that is rarely found in modern writings. Faeries are not an uncommon race, but a spin on the stories of faeries using the research I did makes them new and interesting.