Races

## Forerunner Race (Gods)

The Forerunners were supposedly the first creatures to ever appear on the Primordial Continent. And because they were born from the will of the Heavens, they were incredibly powerful. it was speculated that they were capable of refining the stars.They were also the first to disappear. After the Forerunners came the Origin Beasts and the Desolate Beasts, who had reigned over the continent for a long period of time.

During the era of the First Arcana Kingdom, to the question if the gods once existed, their answer was that the forerunner were Gods.

## Origin Races

### Beast Race

#### Origin Beast (Primordial Beast)

Born in the worlds inception they are exceptionally strong. Unlike the races to come they live entirely off origin energy and are technically immortal. As long as there is enough origin energy in the world and they don't kill each other they can live eternally. However since there creatures are exceptionally strong they use a massive amount of origin energy to live and fight, it caused the world to be sparse of origin energy. Thus because they live off only origin energy Primordial beasts couldn't sustain themselves. Thus to preserve their lives they went into hibernation. However even hibernation ultimately couldn't save them in the passage of time. Unless there is a way for them to get a large and constant amount of origin energy they died without a doubt.

They are born from the kunpeng land, a land born from the corpse of the first beast born in the sea of origin(?) the kunpeng.

Origin Beasts included:

* Blood Ancestor, who was once God of War Augusta's pet
* Shining Dragon (died after destroying Arcana Kingdom)
* Tree Ancestor
* Mountain Origin Beast
* Water Origin Beast
* Nightmare Severance

#### Desolate Beast (Prehistoric Beast)

The following beasts's bloodlines were the foundation of the seven Human imperial clans:

* Dragon Centipede
* Windbite
* Dream Beauty
* Cloudpeck
* Golden Bird
* Luo Yuu
* White Fang

Other Desolate Beasts:

* Golden Falcon

#### Demonic Beast

* Demonic Beast Emperor
	+ Beast Sovereign
* Demonic Beast King
* Demonic Beast Lord
* High Tier Demonic Beast
* Mid Tier Demonic Beast
* Low Tier Demonic Beast

#### Vicious Beast

* Peak Tier
* High Tier
* Mid Tier
* Low Tier

### Elemental Race

One of the Three Origin Race who lived on the Primordial Continent at the beginning. Have the strongest affinity with Origin Energy.

### Gargantuan Soul

One of the Three Origin Race who lived on the Primordial Continent at the beginning.

The Gargantuan Souls, as one of the Origin Races, possessed immense power. Their defeat was only due to their low intelligence and low numbers. It had nothing to do with their individual strength.

A fully-grown Single-Eyed Giant Demon’s strength was at least at the Demonic Lord level, which was more than enough to cause most people to fall into despair.

## Intelligent Races

### Human Race

They were slaves from arcana, the gene splicer was robbed from the arcana race. This splicer allowed them to rob genes of beasts, creating the noble houses in the Divine dynasty. Later the dynasty broke. Right now there are 7 human countries

Nowadays, the human race is a very martial culture, so research, trade and medicine are underdeveloped and don't have a big place in society

The Human Race are the defective descendant of the Immortal Race. They where first though to be remnant of the Immortal Race because of their apparence but it was overruled because of their lack of immortal qi ability and where though to be naturally born.

### Immortal Race

Descendant of the Time Lord, Life Lord and Death Lord, to create the ultimate belief race (strong and intelligent). They are the first race who's power source doesn't come from the origin energy and have their own power system.

They later became feared by the God because of their strength who could rival and possibly surpass the power of God. They had two war against the God where they lost both wars. The first war ending sealed their immortal power and the second war annihilated all immortal.

They are the ancestor of the Human Race.

### Cliff Race (Golems/Stoneskins)

An Intelligent Race similar to humankind.

appearance was very similar to that of humans. However, forehead was particularly wide, and did not have any eyebrows or facial hair, and skin was a greyish-white.

The Cliff Race had a very tragic history. From the beginning of their existence, they had always been stepped on. Although they had very powerful physiques, their ability to sense Origin Energy was extremely poor. It was difficult for them to absorb and release Origin Energy effectively. Of course, this wasn’t to say that had absolutely no way of using it. However, cultivating Origin Energy more difficult for them than for any other intelligent race. On average, Humankind only needed five years of Body Tempering to enter Qi Drawing, but the Cliff Race needed fifteen. Humankind only needed ten years of Qi Drawing to enter Blood Boiling, but the Cliff Race needed thirty. Human Origin Qi Scholars had seven cultivation realms, implying that the highest cultivation base could only reach seven realms. However, the Cliff Race had never even seen cultivators of the fourth realm, the Light-Shaking Realm, before. Yang Opening was their limit.

Their intelligence was not high, and they could not learn things very quickly.

Because they were not intelligent and were not sensitive to Origin Energy, no strong expert had ever appeared in their race, leaving them with no protective figure, despite their physically strong bodies.

They have extremely sturdy bodies, can control origin energy 3/4th's worse than humans and have a low amount of conscious energy. Thus it causes them to have difficulties learning things and raising their conscious energy.

### Sand Race

They can control sand. Similar to the Furious race they have extremely bad tempers and aren't that smart but by no means stupid. However unlike the Furious race they don't have strong bodies. Their body srength is about the same as humans.

### Moon Race

The Moon Race were innately talented in concealment, commonly moving under the light of the moon. They were able to easily blend into the darkness, making them natural-born assassins.

### Dryad

Live deep inside the forests and were half-alive, half-vegetation.

Descendant of the Immortal Boddhi and the Nature God.

Created the Fourth Kingdom the in the year 15000 of the Chaos Era, the Eternal Solitude Capital. Lasted 4000 years.

### Mystic / Profound Race

similar in physique and intelligence to the Dark Astral(Dark Spirit) Race.

Descendant of the Profound Armour Beast and the Lord of Dreamrealm.

Created the Second Kingdom in the Primordial Continent History, year 9800 of the Chaos Era, the Heavenly Profound Kingdom. Lasted 3000 years.

### Craftsman

Long-necked Intelligent Race with three arms. The Craftsmen were extremely good at their jobs. Their third arm protruded from their back and could reach above them, cooperating with their other two arms.

Their hands were incredibly agile, and their fingers could bend at all kinds of odd angles, making them extremely suited for delicate work. Their innate intelligence and love for creating things made them the best smiths and artisans.

### Attendant

The Attendants were once one of the Intelligent Races, and the brightest one at that.

Apparently, they possessed an eidetic memory and powerful calculatory abilities akin to Su Chen's consciousness crystal. However, Su Chen had acquired that ability after his birth, while the Attendants were born with it.

However, the Attendants suffered quite a tragic fate. Just because they were incredibly smart didn’t make them invincible. The Heavens had blessed them with extremely powerful minds, but severed their opportunity to become physically stronger. Their physique was about as powerful as that of the Harpies, but they weren’t nearly as proficient at using Origin Energy, and their cultivation strength was roughly equivalent to that of the Ravagers (but without their powerful physiques). As such, they could only use their intelligence to serve as vassals of the other races, which was part of the reason why they had later been named the Attendants.

### Ferocious Race / Ravager

Descendant of the Savage Tyrant and the God of War (their God).

Tribal, consider duels sacred, most are intellectually deficient. Their power comes from totemic tattoos imprinted in their body which are based on the nine sacred totems. They have a relic from the past, the original temple. Due to the poor use of the temple they forcefully and crudely insert polluted origin energy into the Ferocious races bodies. If used correctly and was properly maintained this wouldn't happen. The process makes some of them very strong however; due to how it is used the inscriptions on their bodies are set (for good or for bad) thus determining how far the individual will go cultivation wise. Even if used well by their standards it still will cause them to be more forgetful than usual, have semi polluted origin energy and have bouts of madness.

They were slaves from Arcana race. The temple was stolen by the Ferocious race after the fall of the Arcana kingdom. Third Race to create a kingdom, the Storm Territory(?) in the year 12000 of the Chaos Era. Lasted 500 years.

### Feathered Race / Harpy

Look like Angel but smaller in height than human. Live in the Heaven's Castle. They hold the Strongest Sark's Nuclei, who power their city in the sky.

Descendant of the Illusory Winged and the Sky Goddess (their Mother Goddess).

Because of this, Harpies were the best of the Intelligent Races at using Origin Energy. They were actually not inferior to the Arcanists, but they lacked the same kind of powerful eyesight and the ability to apply their knowledge effectively.

Their greatest weakness was their physical bodies.

Their unique bone structure made them very ineffective at bearing loads, causing their vitality to be greatly reduced as well. No matter how much they cultivated, their latent talent was incredibly low. Very rarely did Harpies act as warriors. Most of the time, they were either archers or mages. This was on the opposite end of the spectrum as the Ravagers, and humans were roughly in the middle.

For this reason, the Harpies adopted the Arcanist system of cultivation, from one ring to ten serving as the ten tiers.

### Sea Race / Oceanid

Descendant of the Scaled Flood Dragon and the God of Sea.

The Oceanids lived in the ocean. That was naturally the most suitable environment for them to live in.

They, like humans, had a head, a body, and two arms. However, they also had a pair of fins on their back. Their skin was smooth and scaleless, but it was covered in a thin fat membrane, which increased their speed in the water.

They had no hair, and they breathed through the pair of gills on either side of their face. Their eyes were covered and protected by a hardened film. They did bear some resemblance to humans, but their biological functions were also the most different.

This made it hard for them to survive outside of water. That was, until they obtained the Freedom Wind.

Unlike the other races who had grown stronger from the Arcanists’ treasures, the Oceanids had fought bitterly to obtain the Freedom Wind because they knew from the beginning that they would not be able to change the environment they lived in with just one or two treasures. The Freedom Wind ensured that the Oceanids would not be in danger of extinction no matter what kind of situation they were in.

Throughout the countless millennia afterwards, the Oceanids had encountered countless tough spots, but they were always able to make it through because of their ability to return to land at the most crucial moments.

By relying on the Freedom Wind, not only could the Oceanids leave the water as they pleased, but they could even display the strength that they would normally possess in water. This made them quite adaptable to their environment.

### Demon Race / Elf

The Demon Race, or Elf, are a race that live in the Ferocious Race's territory. Their counterpart in the Human territory are the Cliff Race. They're only composed of beautiful man and woman.

### Arcana Race / Arcanist

Descendant of the Divine Eye Dark Ape and the Moon Goddess.

Some sort of dwarf magicians. They have bigger brains but weak bodies. The Arcana nobles cultivated their eyes, and consciousness so that they could see the microscopic world. Thus increasing their understanding of the world and in turn help their ability to research by leaps and bounds. All this caused them to be great researchers. They used spells which was based on truths of the world rather than martial skills. Most of the current technology is from or based on the Arcana races research and creations. Due to their cruel use of the other races for their experiments for their research the slaves eventually successfully rebelled which caused the kingdom to fall.

Created the Greatest Kingdom against the Beast Race, the Arcana World Empire, lasted 30000 years.

Created different underground organisation, each for different race territory:

* Immortal Temple (Human)
* Resurrection Door (Ravager)
* Black Flame (Oceanid)submitted to the Boundless Palace
* Fate's Hand (Harpies)Destroyed
* Dazzling Society (Astral)

### **Astrals** (Spirit Race)

Some Arcana decided to pursue immortality. Thus they forcefully turned themselves into a conscious based lifeforms. They also lost the ability to reproduce once converted. However another problem arose. The ability to convert themselves eventually was killed/ destroyed. Which in turn stoped their aility to grow in numbers. Thus the race had to make a decision on how to proceed. It then split themselves into two camps respectively. One who continued their research and another who decided to live in the shadows. The ones who decided to live in the shadows eventually had some of their characteristics change. Thus causing the Spirit race to become two races.

### **Dark Astrals** (Dark Spirit Race / Dark Race)

Descendant of the Nightmare Spirit and the Night God.

They were the first of the Intelligent Races to possess the ability to control energy. Innately sensitive to it, they could almost be considered as half Origin-Related. However, they lacked the physique to directly control the rawest form of energy. The thinning of heavenly energy actually allowed them to get an initial grip on controlling it. Using their newfound abilities, they began to wage war for their freedom. First Intelligent Race to create a Kingdom against the Origin Race the year 9800 of the Chaos Era, the Origin Spirit Kingdom. Lasted 2000 years.

The Dark Astrals were the pre-conversion lifeform of the Astrals. As such, they were also considered a part of the Astral family and were scattered throughout Astral territory. Most of them were in Gloom City, but there were some elsewhere as well. Because Astrals could only be produced from Dark Astrals, the Dark Astrals were treated like children in the Astrals’ eyes and protected as such. Before every important battle, they would be pulled all the way to the back lines for preservation. There weren’t many Dark Astrals at the moment, which was all the more reason for them to be protected. To the Astrals, the Dark Astrals were an important strategic resource.

### **Trigenders Race**

The Trigenders were a subsidiary race to the Astrals. They had three genders, including male and female.

The Trigenders were a strange race. Their members covered their bodies from head to toe in tattoos, and they liked to copulate publicly. They would even often host public “ceremonies” at dusk, and their promiscuity was a source of shame for all the other Intelligent Races.

### **Kobalos**

The Kobalos were a short-statured race with not much talent for anything. Like a bully, they were both tyrannical and cowardly. When they held the advantage, they would all pile on an opponent, but when they were at a disadvantage, they would immediately scatter. Their reputation was just as horrendous as the reputation of the Trigenders.

### **Neanderthals**

The Neanderthals were a race that had already gone extinct. When they still roamed the land, they preferred to live in gardens and forests, and they called themselves children of nature. The Neanderthals used to live peaceful lives in Specter’s Plains, until one day, a young Neanderthal brought an unidentified flower back home. That flower had been planted in a corner of the plains. From that day onwards, the plains slowly yet inexorably transformed. The Neanderthals were subjected to untold torment and grew weaker and weaker with every passing year. By the time that they discovered the patch of poisonous flowers, it was too late. This patch of flowers emitted a toxic miasma that prevented anyone from approaching it. Eventually, the cloud completely swallowed up the Neanderthals’ habitat.

### **Sun Astrals**

The Sun Astrals actually were an offshoot race of the Dark Astrals. After Kun’s territory was separated from the Origin Realm, a group of Dark Astrals had found themselves stranded on this side of the Barrier. The sudden change in environment had forced them to adapt extremely quickly in order to survive.

In the current age, these Sun Astrals looked extremely different from the Dark Astrals. They were far more slender, pale, and refined-looking. Yes, even their refined demeanor was a result of evolution. The Sun Astrals were actually descendents of the Love Goddess, Amelie. This Love Goddess had extremely high standards and expectations when it came to appearances, and those who were ugly would not receive her favor. As such, over the course of tens of thousands of years, the Sun Astrals naturally evolved to possess the beauty that their Love Goddess desired. In fact, their artistic talents had increased as well, and even the way they spoke had naturally become much more elegant. Of course, this greatly decreased their combat prowess, but in their world, all that mattered was the gods’ approval.

### Sandmen

A Sandman owned the Red Cauldron Tavern at the based of Dusk Fog Mountain.

### Scorched Earth Pygmies, Large-eared Dwarves

Their feet were very flat and their bodies small and light. They also wore special shoes that were extremely well-suited to traversing through muddy terrain.

Their strength was mediocre, but their reproductive rate was extremely high. As such, they typically relied on overwhelming numbers to secure victory.