< Pascale > Why does every primitive race have a creation myth? I ask you, is it more likely that a god swooped down out of heaven and just created a bunch of uppity mortals for no reason or that we slowly developed over millions of years from animals?
< Tarazelle > It still amuses me that a people of your powerful intellect can still deny the existence of gods. I know that I know Dragons were created by the gods, tens of millions of your people believe the same and why don't you? Every day clerics all over the world recieve their power from some source? Together you and me have conversed with powerful spirits and extraplanar beings beyond the power of any normal mortal. Wizards alter and reshape life all the time. Why can't you admit the existence of beings so powerful as to create life at will?
< Pascale > Clerics draw their powers from a source inside themselves, just like wizards. The things we consider gods are nothing more than powerful spirits, similar to marid or dryads.
< Tarazelle > Thats true in the same way that you're similar to a snail. God's can be killed...its just so incredibly difficult that the power of every wizard in New Wessmark could not do so. Don't worry, when you reach 1000 you'll have a better understanding of the world. I myself have spoken to several minor deities, some of them rather nice fellows. Now out with this myth.
- Elorans - Charismatic and beautiful humanoids
- Jhuna - Solitary forest folk
- Jzega - Hard-working peasants, the Jzega are the backbone of the Dagati economy.
- Kaeda - Sea-folk, the Kaeda have long been discriminated against first for cooperating with the Sorvanni and then the Kaelra
- Kimasxi - These folk, built for their impassable hills and mountains, and are able to traverse long distances with a single leap
- Koro - Black as night, this is a race of savage hunters. Mystical and primitive, they look to their goddess of night before taking any action
- Loacci - Diminuitive physically but giants mentally, the Loacci have long been the intellectual powerhouses of the Dagati
- Lturas - This communal race is incredibly prolific. One of their fleets was blown off course by a strong wind, landing unscathed but far to the east of the rest of the Dagati. They have since become a power to be feared in the New World
- Nathar - Footloose wanderers
- Orodrim - Masters of battle and tactics
- Pevishan - Born of magic and raised to command it
- Selevani - A semi-aquatic race that holds intrigue and deception as its highest virtues.
- Sjuntra - Master craftsmen, arrogant perfectionists
- Sorvanni - Once the overlords of the Dagati, they now have the stats of a typical human
- Suranzi - These nomadic people can run faster than a horse
- Trein'lae - A mysterious race with deep insight into the human soul
Other Races Originating in the Old World
There appear to have been dragons in the Old World at some time in the past, the mythos and imagery of the existing culture is rife with draconic forms. But regardless of what may have been in the past, when the first dragons arrived here after the discovery of the New World there were none left. In the years from the discovery until the war, a few dragons migrated to escape the expansion of the Dagati but only a few. During the war migration drastically increased. When the first settlers came here following the Great Migration they found that dragons had carved themselves quite a niche. It appears that dragons have not restricted themselves to the North, as have Dagati, but have roamed far and wide across the continent. There have been reports of Dragons from both the Jaeli and the Vasari. Dagati contact with dragons has been restrained, even good dragons are wary of people after centuries of hunting by the Sorvanni.