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[General Fantasy] If humans didn't exist and were instead a fictional race, what would our "hat" be?

You can probably imagine the standard fantasy setting, with elves and dwarves and halflings and centaurs and orcs and satyrs and minotaurs and dragons and the like.

While people like subverting the expectations, most people have an idea of what these races are like (dwarves are gruff workers, elves are ethereal and wise, etc). Their "hats", if you will.

This even goes into clarifying what a good or evil example would be like (an evil orc is a brutish thug, while a heroic orc is usually a "noble savage" type, for example).

If humans were a fictional race in this standard fantasy setting, what would our "hat" be? If an elf or halfling author wrote a "fantasy" novel featuring humans, what would we be like?

What would a "good" human character be like?

What would an "evil" human character be like?
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Humans live short explosive lives. They have a strong tendency towards ideology: politics, religion, philosophy, economics (or combinations thereof). Humanity's natural enemy is other humans (of contrasting ideological affiliations). Good and bad humans alike are notoriously willing to fight and die for ideas. 

At their worst, humans are so possessed with their ideological fixations (e.g. profit, sin, racial purity) that they harm themselves, their environment and their neighbours. At their best, this same ability to collectively devote themselves to novel ideas (combined with their short lifespans and rapid generational turnover) allows humans to build mighty empires, world changing philosophies, prosperous economies, as well as rich and diverse cultures.

From the perspective of the older races, humans are zealots, for better or for worse.