Creator race The five creator race s ( or " Iquar ' Tel ' Quessir " in the language of the elves ) dominated Faerûn during the Days of Thunder . All are considered native to Abeir - Toril , as are their descendants and creations . Most historians agree that the creator races were the sarrukh ( creators of the yuan - ti , naga , lizardfolk , and scalykind ) , the batrachi ( known as amphibioids , and the creators of the bullywug s , doppelganger s , kopru , kuo - toa , locathah , siv s , tako and other shapeshifting , amphibious , or piscine races ) , the aearee ( known as avians , and creators of the aarakocra , kenku , and other birdlike humanoids ) , the fey ( known as sylvans , and creators of korreds , sprite s , and pixie s ) and humans . Other sages incorrectly leave out the aearee but include dragons in the list . Elves and dwarves are not counted as creator races because they , as well as some human ethnic groups , were immigrants to Abeir - Toril from other worlds . Although five creator races existed in Faerûn , only four forged empires in the earliest days of recorded history ( known today as the Days of Thunder ) , and only three contributed to the creation of the items known as the Nether Scrolls . The sarrukh , batrachi , and aearee each dominated Faerûn in turn , creating or producing as offspring a plethora of lesser races , and recording the magic of the more primitive races around them . The fey never dominated the continent ; they chose instead to rule Faerie , an otherworldly realm loosely connected to Faerûn . Humans , the last of the Iqua - Tel ' Quessir , did not rise to rule Faerûn until after the Time of Dragons and the elven and dwarven empires . Except for the humans , the fate of the creator races is largely unrecorded . A few sarrukh lurk in ancient ruins and southern jungles , but most of their kindred departed for other planes millennia ago . The batrachi may be extinct , although a few scholars believe they fled to Limbo , where they became known as slaad i . The aearee flew westward to Anchorome , and nothing is known of their fate . The fey still rule Faerie , although the ties between their realm and Faerûn are growing faint . Humans continue to thrive , as do crossbreeds with partial ancestry , such as the yuan - ti . Contrary Evidence . It should be noted that other sources refer to only three creator races - an amphibian , an avian and a reptilian . The creator races reputedly possessed civilizations rivaling or surpassing anything on Toril today . This period is known as the Days of Thunder in elven oral tradition and is said to have taken place " eons before man walked the earth , ages before the elves were civilized enough to record history " . According to the same lore , the undefined age which followed was known as the Time of Dragons , following catastrophic changes which altered the world ' s climate and the shape of the continents , and marked the end of the Iqua ' Tel ' Quessir . By the same accounts , many of the roots of modern civilization begin around this point , particularly the elven , eventually resulting in the First Flowering ( the era from - 24 , 000 DR to - 12 , 000 DR ) . The implications here are that humans were very definitely not one of the creator races , despite their current domination of Toril . While there is no mention of the Fey in these accounts to link them to the Iqua ' Tel ' Quessir , there is nothing to say that they were not present on Toril during the Days of Thunder . Speculatively , the Fey may not have been included in this differing list of the creator races due to their being rather distinct from the other three - perhaps due to a lack of characterizing empires , or of tinkering with other races . Other veiled comments talk of a race of giants before the coming of the lizard folk . However , it is unclear whether or not this reference to " lizard folk " refers to the saurian creator race , or rather to their degenerate progeny . On the one hand , given that it seems that the coming of the lizard folk is a significant event worthy of mentioning , it would imply that these folk would have had a high impact on the history of the area , namely Mulhorand and this area is believed to be the site of first saurian realm . One of the islands of the Pirate Isles in the Sea of Fallen Stars is ringed by impassable cliffs carved with giant humanoid figures . Travelers have reported stories of caves which lead into the interior of the island filled with jungle and unseasonal climes and populated by savage elves and dragons . One possible implication of this is that these caves actually can pierce time and take the traveler back to a time before elven civilization developed , possibly to The Time of Dragons or beyond into the very Days of Thunder . If this were true , then the original creators of the carvings in the cliffs around the island could have been a race of giants with a high civilization in the past . However , on the other hand this theory of a creator race of giants goes very much against mainstream history as accepted by most sages and is basically speculation and hearsay .