All humanoid (including humans) races were created by the Ageshkir as weapons to use against the Ditani. The Ditani made deals with demons to kill the Ageshkir, and the humanoid races were turned loose on the world. All non-human races are referred to as the Bestial Races by humans. They include:

• orcs - Basically Aztecs. Brutal tribal bands who wage endless war for sacrificial victims

• Hobgoblins - Basically Spartans. Tribes who spend their whole lives training for war, eugenics, killing of the weak. They sell their services as mercenaries, often to lords eager to keep their people safe from orcs.

• Trolls - Lion social structure, one male with many females. The males fight over territory and mates, and will subsume a vanquished male’s pride. Regeneration. Norse style might-makes-right culture.

• Goblins - Little guys who have been utterly conquered by orcs. They’ll flee before they fight, and groups of them will often escape bondage and form sedentary family groups in old ruins or caves. They rarely attack human settlements unless provoked, but will set upon travelers if they have a large numerical advantage.

• dwarves - No living person has seen a dwarf, but everyone knows someone whose great-great-grandfather swears he did business with them. Their artifacts still turn up in markets from time to time, metalworking of unsurpassed quality. After the war with the Ditani the Dwarves retreated into their mountainholds. Over hundreds of years their xenophobia grew, until they finally sealed their fortresses and stopped having any contact with the other constructed races.

• ditani - Extinct progenitor race.