Humans

Race

Humans are a versatile, adaptable, and resilient race. They do not excel above every other race in one single natural trait, but they make up for that with their ability to adjust to almost any situation. They can thrive in war, politics, trade, exploration, administration, rebuilding, and survival without depending on one overwhelming racial advantage.

Their origin is unknown. If there was ever a clear history explaining where they came from, that knowledge was lost long ago. Unlike some other races, humans do not preserve a firm founding myth that clearly explains their birth. Only fragments, old theories, and incomplete traditions remain.

They are not the most numerous race in the world in the current age, though in the distant past they were once as numerous as the beastmen. Even then, what truly defined them was never sheer numbers, but their ability to survive change. Humans endure through adaptation. They can lose cities, dynasties, territories, and entire generations and still continue forward.

They are not the strongest, not the longest-lived, and not the most magically gifted by nature, but they are one of the hardest races to erase. Their greatest strength is not perfection in one field, but the ability to recover after disaster and keep building again.

Role in the World

Humans form one of the two original foundations of the Alliance, alongside the draconids. For so long, they have stood together that no one can say exactly when that bond truly began.

In ancient times, humans were one of the greatest peoples of the world in terms of number and spread. Their presence extended across many lands, and they once rivaled the beastmen in population. That changed during the war against the Rasken. When the Rasken betrayed the other peoples and tried to become the dominant species of the world, humans took part in the resistance and helped stop them, but at an enormous cost. Huge numbers of humans died, and their people lost cities, bloodlines, and entire generations.

That war is one of the main reasons humans are no longer the countless people they once were. Even so, they did not disappear or become a minor race. They survived the way they always have: by adapting. Where a city fell, another was built. Where a border failed, another line was raised. Where a generation was destroyed, the next one learned how to live in a harsher world.

Their territory is not a single, isolated human realm cut away from the rest of the Alliance. Instead, humans are spread across much of allied territory and are deeply tied to the structure of allied civilization itself. They live in its cities, forts, roads, borderlands, and shared lands alongside the other races of the Alliance.

In the current age, humans remain one of the most important races in Eryndor, not because they are the most powerful by nature, but because they are one of the main reasons the Alliance is still standing at all.

Elves

Race

Elves are an ancient, long-lived, and low-numbered race bound to the oldest forests in the world. These ancient forests are not simple homelands, but places deeply saturated with old magic, memory, and accumulated power from past ages. Their identity is inseparable from those lands.

They are reserved, discreet, and highly secretive. Elves do not easily share their knowledge, traditions, or inner ways with others. Much of their culture remains closed to the rest of the world, and even when they cooperate with other races, they rarely reveal everything they know.

Their bond with ancient magic is one of their defining characteristics. They do not simply use old magic; they live within it and preserve it as part of their inheritance. Their way of thinking is also shaped by memory, continuity, and the desire to preserve what they consider valuable. They are not a race known for impulsiveness. They think in long spans, act carefully, and place heavy importance on legacy.

Their greatest weakness is their low number. However refined, disciplined, and magically gifted they may be, they do not have the population to absorb endless losses without consequence. Every loss matters more to them than it would to larger races.

Role in the World

Elves primarily live in the ancient forests, though some live within allied lands or work alongside the Alliance.

They joined the Alliance because they came to understand that complete isolation could eventually lead to the slow disappearance of their people. It was not a decision born from trust, warmth, or deep closeness with the other races. It was a practical choice made for survival.

Even after joining, they never fully opened themselves. Elves remain one of the most guarded races in the Alliance. They do not freely share information, and they maintain strong boundaries between themselves and others. Even so, they are loyal to the Alliance once they accept its pact. They may be distant, secretive, and difficult to understand, but they are not careless with their loyalties.

Their role in the world is that of an ancient but declining people who chose cooperation over extinction. They remain the keepers of old forests, old magic, and old knowledge, and although they are not fully integrated into the wider allied world, they are still an important and respected part of it.

Draconids

Race

Draconids are a large, powerful, long-lived, and exceptionally durable race. They are physically imposing, difficult to bring down, and known for enduring punishment that would break many other peoples. In strength, toughness, and presence, they stand among the most formidable races of the world.

Their exact origin is uncertain, but a famous legend surrounds them: it is said that they descend from the union between a dragon and a human. No one knows whether that story is true, partly true, or only a myth shaped by time, but it remains a central part of their identity. It also helps explain why their historical connection to humanity is so old and so deeply rooted.

They are a brutal, heavy, and physically overwhelming race. Draconids are not associated with subtlety or lightness, but with force, endurance, and the ability to hold firm where others would fall. Their longevity gives them a stronger sense of continuity and historical weight than humans, though they are far less withdrawn than elves.

Their bodies, their presence, and their reputation all reinforce the same image: draconids are built to endure, to strike hard, and to remain standing.

Role in the World

Draconids have stood beside humans for so long that no one knows when that relationship truly began. Together, both races form the oldest and strongest foundation of the Alliance.

They are not merely allies who joined later, nor do they exist at the edge of the allied world. They are one of its central pillars. Their history is so closely tied to that of humanity that in many places the two are thought of together as the backbone of the Alliance.

Their importance lies in both symbolism and strength. Draconids provide military power, physical resilience, and stability. They are one of the strongest reasons the Alliance is capable of holding so many threats back. They are respected as warriors, defenders, and one of the oldest enduring powers within the civilized world.

In the current age, draconids occupy the place of a core allied race: old, strong, trusted, and inseparable from the history and defense of the Alliance.

Lizardmen

Race

Very little is truly known about the lizardmen, and that mystery is one of the things that defines them most clearly. They are a massive reptilian race, and many of them are as large as draconids or even larger. In raw physical strength, they are generally stronger as well. Their size alone makes them imposing, but their physical power is not the only reason other races treat them with caution.

They are not a uniform people. There is a great deal of variety among them, both in appearance and in physical build. Different kinds of lizardmen exist, and from the perspective of outsiders, they do not seem like a single narrow racial type but a broad reptilian people with many different forms. That variety makes them even harder to classify and understand.

They do not speak the common tongue, nor any language known to the rest of the world. Instead, they use a language of their own that remains largely unknown. In the few cases where stable contact has happened, communication was only possible because they used a strange form of magic that allowed their speech to be translated or made understandable. This alone has made many other races view them as deeply alien compared to more familiar peoples.

Some lizardmen are also known to wield strange and unfamiliar magic. These are not simply different versions of common arcane arts, but powers that seem to follow their own logic and traditions. Very little is understood about these practices, and most races have never had the chance to study them properly. Because of that, the lizardmen are often seen not only as a physically powerful race, but also as one that guards ancient or inaccessible knowledge.

Role in the World

The lizardmen live apart from the rest of the world, and almost everything about their lands, their numbers, and their internal structure remains uncertain. Other races know they exist, know they are powerful, and know they are not to be underestimated, but beyond that, reliable knowledge is rare.

They are not part of the Alliance, but they also do not seem to be its direct enemies. They do not behave like a race trying to join the wider political order, and they do not act like a constant invading threat either. Instead, they remain separate, distant, and difficult to interpret. On the rare occasions when they interact with the outside world, they do so on their own terms and usually for reasons that remain unclear to everyone else.

This makes their place in the world unusual. They are neither allies in the normal sense nor enemies in the open sense. They exist outside the common balance of the world, following their own purposes and preserving their own isolation. Other races may fear them, mistrust them, or simply fail to understand them, but very few can claim to know what the lizardmen actually want.

In the current age, they remain one of the most mysterious powers in Eryndor: a race of massive reptilian beings, hidden knowledge, unknown magic, and distant territories that still lie outside the reach of the Alliance.

Beastmen

Race

Beastmen were once one of the most numerous races in the world. In earlier ages, their numbers rivaled those of humans, and their people were spread across many different regions.

They are not a single narrow race in form or identity, but a broad and highly varied people made up of many kinds of beastmen. That variety is one of the most important things about them. There is no single way to define all beastmen at once, because one tribe may differ greatly from another in appearance, mentality, and values.

They live in tribes, and each tribe may have its own ideology, customs, priorities, traditions, and way of understanding the world. Even so, their tribal structure does not make them primitive or technologically behind. Their level of advancement is comparable to that of the other peoples of the world. The difference is in their way of organizing themselves, not in a lack of intelligence or development.

Among them are more common beastmen and much rarer bloodlines. Their leaders, chiefs, or alphas are often especially unusual individuals. It is not uncommon for unique or rare types, such as saber-toothed beastmen, kitsunes, and other exceptional variants, to rise to leadership. These figures often become living symbols of their tribe’s strength, spirit, or identity.

Role in the World

The war against the Rasken greatly reduced the number of beastmen and left a lasting mark on their history. The Rasken betrayal was not simply an external war but an internal wound, one that split the beastmen and reshaped their place in the world.

After that conflict, part of the beastmen chose to join the Alliance in order to improve their standard of living, gain stability, and secure better conditions for their tribes. That choice was not accepted by all. The beastmen who entered the Alliance are called “domesticated” by those who remained outside it, and the term is used as an insult. To many independent beastmen, joining the Alliance means becoming softened, tamed, or disconnected from one’s roots.

Those beastmen who live within the Alliance are part of it, though not always free from prejudice, distrust, or tension. Those who remain outside the Alliance are not direct enemies in the same way as the Rasken or the demons, but neither are they true friends. Their relationship with the Alliance depends on the tribe, its beliefs, and its interests.

In the current age, the beastmen are one of the most divided races in the world. Part of them belongs to the great allied bloc, while part of them remains independent. That division defines much of their role in Eryndor and makes them one of the least unified but most internally complex peoples in the setting.

Rasken

Race

The Rasken are a branch of beastmen in the form of rat-men who chose to separate themselves from the rest and claim a name of their own. They no longer wanted to be seen as merely one beastman tribe among many, but as a race apart, with its own purpose, identity, and destiny.

On an individual level, Rasken are weak and cowardly compared to many other races. They do not excel in physical strength, endurance, or bravery, and they rarely seek direct confrontation unless they hold a clear advantage. A single Rasken is not especially impressive by the standards of the world’s stronger peoples.

Their true strength has always been numbers. Even before breaking away from the beastmen, they were already the most numerous branch among them. That immense population became the core of their identity. While other races relied on strength, old prestige, or discipline, the Rasken saw themselves as the countless mass destined to surpass all rivals through quantity, persistence, and overwhelming spread.

They are not merely numerous rat-men, however. After their fall underground, they changed. At some point in the depths, they found something unknown, and from that discovery they began to develop in a twisted direction. Strange technologies, unknown magics, unnatural transformations, and bizarre machinery became part of what they are. Because of this, they are no longer only a race of weak but numerous rat-beastmen, but a people tied to warped progress, experimentation, and power drawn from things the rest of the world does not understand.

Role in the World

The Rasken are outside the Alliance and are enemies of it and of almost every other race. Their place in the world is defined by betrayal.

Driven by ambition and the belief that their numbers gave them the right to rule, they turned against the other beastmen and tried to become the dominant species of the world. The war that followed deeply scarred the world, especially humans and beastmen, and turned the Rasken into one of the most hated and feared peoples in history.

They failed, but they were not wiped out. After their defeat, they retreated underground, hiding in tunnels, caverns, and subterranean domains. For a time, they seemed like a diminished threat. Then, somewhere in the depths, they found something that changed them. No one knows exactly what it was, but from that point onward, their progress became drastic and unnatural.

They developed twisted technology, strange forms of magic, machinery, and transformations that made them far more dangerous than before. They no longer rely only on overwhelming numbers, but also on strange tools and methods that make them difficult to predict and contain.

They are still rebuilding their numbers. Even now, they launch attacks, provoke conflicts, and force the Alliance to respond to their actions. Though they remain hidden underground much of the time, they are still one of the world’s most persistent threats, and one that has never truly gone away.

Marine Races

Race

The marine races are highly varied and cannot be reduced to one single form. Many different kinds exist among them, but they all share a deep connection to water, the sea, and marine life.

Their magic is closely tied to water and sea creatures. It does not fully resemble the magic of surface peoples and seems shaped by an environment and worldview that are fundamentally different from life on land. For them, water is not simply part of their surroundings, but part of their identity and power.

They are also a strong race. They should not be mistaken for a weak or fragile people simply because they are associated with the sea. Near water, especially near the sea or large lakes, they are dangerous, capable, and difficult to challenge.

They do not usually stray far from the sea or major lakes. Their connection to water is not only practical but spiritual. For them, the sea is life, and the sea is also their god. Their faith, identity, and magic are all tied to that central idea.

Role in the World

The marine races were the last to join the Alliance.

They live beneath the sea, in an undersea kingdom that very few surface dwellers have ever seen. Most of what the world knows about them comes from limited diplomacy, old stories, and the history of conflict between sea and shore.

Their entry into the Alliance was not peaceful at first. When surface peoples expanded by sea, they eventually came into direct contact and conflict with the marine races. There were territorial disputes, mistrust, and long periods of hostility. Only after much conflict and negotiation was an agreement reached that allowed them to join the Alliance.

Even now, they maintain a separate identity more strongly than many of the other allied races. They are part of the Alliance, but they remain deeply rooted in their undersea kingdom, their faith, and their water-bound way of life. They are allies, but still somewhat apart.

In the current age, they are a valuable and important part of the Alliance, especially wherever the sea, coasts, or great inland waters matter.

Demons

Race

Demons are an extremely varied race. There is no single demonic form, no standard demonic size, and no one way in which demonic power expresses itself. Some are massive and brutal, others small and strange, and others possess abilities that differ greatly from one another.

That variety makes them difficult to classify. They are not a race that can be easily summarized through a single image or one consistent pattern. What most races agree on is that demons are conflictive by nature. Even when not actively at war, they are rarely seen as stable, orderly, or easy to deal with.

Their variety in form and strength also makes them a difficult enemy. Fighting one kind of demon does not necessarily prepare anyone to fight another.

Role in the World

Demons entered the world through a portal that remains open to this day. That portal appeared in an ancient kingdom whose name has long been forgotten. All that remains is the memory that this lost kingdom was destroyed and became the birthplace of one of the world’s greatest threats.

The Alliance still fights them and keeps them at bay by maintaining a frontier around the demonic lands. There is also a magical barrier of unknown origin that helps restrain them. No one clearly understands how it was originally made anymore, but it is old, powerful, and steadily weakening. Sometimes it fails, and when it does, demons cross through and create new crises.

Not all demons remain on the other side. Some live inside the Alliance or work with it in some form. These demons are called traitors by the rest of their kind. Even then, their true motives remain uncertain. A demon inside the Alliance is not simply “good” or fully understood. Each demon seems to have personal reasons for being there, and those reasons are often unknown.

That leaves demons in a split role. As a race, they are one of the world’s greatest active threats. Yet some individuals stand within the allied world itself, mistrusted by their own kind and never fully trusted by their new side either.

Vorak

Race

The Vorak are a devouring race, immense in number and extremely varied in form. They exist in countless shapes and types, making it impossible to reduce them to one single appearance. Some are small, others massive, and others appear to exist for very specific functions within their species.

They are difficult to classify because so little is truly known about them. Even so, all signs suggest they are a race built around consumption, overwhelming numbers, and expansion. They are not understood as a normal people in the same way other races are, but as something vast, alien, and deeply threatening.

Their numbers are enormous, and their forms are many. That alone makes them one of the most disturbing presences in the world.

Role in the World

The Vorak fell from the sky centuries ago. Their arrival was a catastrophe unlike any other in the history of Eryndor, and since then they have remained centered on a great island under their control.

From time to time they leave the island, and when they do, conflict follows. Raids, battles, and violent encounters with them force the Alliance to react. On rare occasions they take hostages, but no one knows why they do this or what purpose those captives serve.

Almost everything else about them remains unknown. No one truly knows what they are, how they organize themselves, why they mostly remain on the island, or what they ultimately want. That lack of understanding makes them even more feared.

In the current age, the Vorak remain one of the most mysterious and terrifying dangers in Eryndor. Even without constant conquest, the mere fact that they exist is enough to make their island one of the world’s greatest danger zones.

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