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Up to the writing. If you create characters with whom your audience can identify in some fashion, someone to root for, then their species doesn't matter.

Diane Duane has many non-human protagonists and hero characters in her various books: sentient fish and trees in her Young Wizards series, Romulans and Vulcans in her Star Trek books, a series about sentient magic-wielding cats — it's all possible.

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