Races of Terrestria

Terrestria was originally only inhabited by the Humans, but shortly after the Genesis event occurred, Terrestria was reconnected to the other planes, bringing non-Human races to Terrestria.

### Aasimar

The Aasimar are humanoids blessed with divine blood by the beings of the plane of Mount Celestia, though occasionally the gods themselves grant this power. As such they are angelic creatures by nature and generally seek to preserve the good in the world.

### Beastmen

Those who remained on the surface of Terrestria during the Thirty Minute War who were not killed outright became what the Humans call the Beastmen. The majority of Beastmen are Humans or non-Humans who's bodily structure was altered by the magical fallout to resemble that of a humanoid beast, though in some rare cases it was the inverse, causing beasts to become more humanoid in nature, gaining sapience along with their new form. Many of the original Beastmen forms were unsuitable for sustaining life those that were able to sustain life were usually feral in nature, acting similarly to the creatures they resembled. Some generations had passed before they became more "civilized" creatures. The common Beastmen forms are as follows: Aarakokra, Centaurs, Giff, Grung, Harengon, Kenku, Leonin, Lizardfolk, Locathah, Loxodon, Minotaurs, Owlin, Satyrs, Shifters, Tabaxi, Thri-Kreen, Tortles, Triton, and Yuan-Ti.

### Changeling

Changelings are deceitful creatures from the plane of Shadowfell capable of altering their appearance. They typically use this ability to trick people into giving them money, going town to town and never staying in one place. Though some daring Changelings may murder someone then assume their identity. But of course not all Changelings act in this manner, several are upstanding citizens, but not everyone sees them that way.

### Dwarves

Dwarves come from Bytopia, a plane consisting of two layers each facing the other around ten miles away from each other, each with their own gravity and mirroring one another, though one layer has harsher weather. Bytopia, with it's extra surface area, had plenty of resources to mine beneath the surface, where they lived for the sake of convenience, building massive underground structures.

### Dragonborn

Dragonborn are a race of dragon-like humanoids created to be a subservient race by the dragons to surpass the Kobolds. This was successful, but to the dragons detriment, as with their superior forms came superior intelligence, as such they formulated a plan to escape their internment as slaves to dragons. But their plan or Pandemonium was originally cut off from the other planes, so they had no way out. That is until the Genesis event that opened Pandemonium to Terrestria, the Dragonborn used this opportunity to escape Pandemonium and the dragons.

### Elves

Elves come from the Faewild, the plane where magic flows heaviest. Because of this, Elves are innately magic beings themselves. Additionally, time flows strangely in the Faewild, granting them the longest lifespan amongst the races.

### Firbolg

The Firbolg are the definition of a gentle giant, despite their massive figure, they typically prefer to avoid violence and keep to themselves. They are typically quite gifted in handling animals, and this is represented in the plane they originate from: the Beastlands. The Beastlands are teaming with creatures, both magical and common, but all are vastly more intelligent than the creatures of Terrestria and they are capable of speech. The Firbolg live with these creatures and created communities working with them.

### Genesi

The Genasi come from their respective elemental planes, but being that any plane besides their home plane are made up of more than just their natural element, they seldom leave their home plane.

### Gith

The Gith were a very intelligent race of beings whose home plane has been forgotten to time. This drew the attention of the Mind Flayers who feast upon intelligence, as such the Mind Flayers enslaved the entire Gith race. This continued for generations, but their quarry's intelligence would be their downfall, as the Gith began to gain psionic abilities from the Mind Flayers, and using this newfound ability they escaped the Mind Flayers. Though after escaping, the Gith disagreed on whether or not they would utilize their newfound power,

### Goliath

Goliath's are relatives of giants that don't quite reach the great heights that the giants do. And they hail from the plane of Ysgard.

### Gnomes

Gnomes are the smallest of the races, and they come from Arcadia, a peaceful plane of mechanical creatures created by the gnomes themselves.

### Goblinoids

The Devils, greedy but cautious, wanted to claim as much of the Material plane as they could, but know that blindly sending resources valuable to the Blood War, their eternal war against the Demons. As such, they created the Goblins to act as scouts and infiltrators into Terrestria for reconnaissance. The Goblins weren't the most capable leaders, so the Devils created the Bugbears to organize and lead the Goblins. The Bugbears were better but not by much, so the Devils then created the Hobgoblins which were much better suited to leading the Goblins. Goblins are only male, because of this, they must capture female humanoids of the other races in order to reproduce. The devils still have not used the information gathered by the Goblinoids, but a mass incursion of Devils can be expected once they do, if the Devils find the information is worth their time.

### Halflings

Halfling come from Elysium, a plane of pure joy and bliss, and the Halflings represent this well, as nearly every Halfling is a care-free individual seeking only to uphold the good in the world and live each day to the fullest. Though they are usually quite lazy and rarely travel further than the border of their hometown.

### Humans

Humans were the only race to occupy Terrestria for countless centuries, after the Thirty Minute War, many of those that survived still see Terrestria as belonging to them, wishing to evict these foreign invaders and claim the world that is rightfully theirs. But Humans are the most diverse in many aspects between the races, and this opinion is not shared by all the Humans, but those that do think this way are certainly the loudest.

### Kobold

Kobolds are the first race created by the dragons to serve them. Once their plane of Pandemonium was opened to Terrestria, the dragons saw the vast new wealth waiting to be taken and began to terrorize the new world with Kobolds in tow.

### Orks

When Terrestria was connected to the Abyss, the Demons, even more so than the other races, wanted to claim as much of the new territory for themselves as they could. Not wanting to waste resources vital to the Blood War, their eternal war against the Devils, they created the Orks. Zuggtmoy had the largest part to play in their creation, as such, Orks are fungal beings in nature, they release spores throughout their lives, but especially so upon death. In the right conditions, the spores will sprout fungi, which an Ork will then grow beneath and emerge from the ground once ready. Because of their fungal nature, the Orks are asexual creature, though they present as male. Their cells do not deteriorate over time, so they do not die of old age, instead they just get larger and larger, the largest Ork is typically the leader of the Ork group. After a few generations had passed, the Orks had mostly forgotten their ties to the Demons, getting lost in their lust for combat, similarly, the Demons had mostly forgotten about the Orks as they had to pay more attention to the Blood war. Because of this, the Orks were left to develop their own culture, including their klans, and the use of teeth as currency.

### Tieflings

Tieflings are the spawn of a devil and a humanoid and as such, have no plane to call their home. Because of this they are widely distrusted

### Warforged

As tensions were rising before the Thirty Minute War, humanity began to create artificial life using magic to inhabit mechanical humanoid bodies. These were the Warforged, and as their name implies, they were created to be soldiers in the inevitable conflict. Each were created with only the purpose of war, and they think only in robotic, logical terms, though some are more advanced than others. Those that were activated during the Thirty Minute War were mostly destroyed along with the rest of the surface, but some survived, wandering Terrestria in search of a target, not knowing that the war they were built for had ended so quickly. But many Warforged lie dormant, waiting to be activated to play their part in a war that ended so long ago.