History of the Creator Races

In a time when the North was always warm and the seas of the world were deeper, empires of inhuman peoples dominated the lands of Toril. In the elven tradition, these were the days when the Iquar'Tel'Quessir, or creator races, tamed the wilds, built towering cities of stone and glass on the shores of the warm seas, spanned the wilderness with winding roads, and fought wars of extermination - such was their hatred toward each other. These were the Days of Thunder.
First of these ancient creators was a Saurian race that built an extensive if short-lived civilization. Its survivors eventually became the naga, lizardfolk, and similar creatures.
Supreme among the creator races were the dragons, powerful enough ot raid large cities of other creator races with impurity. Dragons dominated the surface world, claiming vast areas of territory and battlign eahc other for land, mates, and status. The great drakes only suffered setbacks when lesser races mastered magic, and htey remain influential today despite the advances of such rabble.
Developing in the later stages of the civilization of the saurians was a race of amphibious shapechangders that crept onto the land to build their proud cities. These creatures contributed to the downfall of the saurians, but they themselves eventually fell into barbarism under pressure from sahuagin, merfolk, and tritons. The survivors of this race are the locathah and tako in the sea, and doppelgangers on the land.
Least known of the creator races are the sylvan people that populated the forests and other wooded areas, living in harmony with nature and leaving few traces. It is beleived that their civilization fragmented after a great plague created by a draconic or demonic power. Their descendants are the sprites, korred, and other small woodfolk that populate secret parts of the Forgotten Realms today.
The last of the creator races, and the one that spent the lognest time in a primitive state, are the humans. Always adaptable and ingenious, when circumstances allowed for their rise to porminence, humans make advances with incredible speed and efficiency. Of the five creator races, only they truly have a civilization today. The dragons war with each other as individuals, and the other kinds have vanished from the world.
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