Humans

The **Humans** are a nearly extinct species, hunted by the "grotesques", as referred by many humans. Most humans were killed by the hunters during the Great War. Many of the remaining humans live in hiding, while others are actively hunted and imprisoned before being eaten.

## Background

Humans were a race that were described as being physically weak compared to most non-human races. Unlike the other races in the world, humans found it difficult to accept others due to their differences as it conflicted with their sensibilities. Due to this non-humans viewed humans to be a fastidious race, that are often quick to anger, boastful and pigheaded. Thus they were viewed as creatures that disrupted harmony and were nothing but trouble.

## History

1000 years ago the existence of humanity was relatively unknown to the wider world.

During the time when the world was still at peace, humans and non-humans lived unaware of each other due to the vastness of the world. Then humans were able to live in peace and without fear. Then came a time when a human traveler came across a non-human village. Both the traveler and the villager were astonished by each other's appearances, but the non-humans gave the human a warm welcome despite his strangeness. The act of friendliness moved the traveler who then spread talk of his encounter with the non-humans all over the land. It was this that caused the two races to gradually become aware of each other.

However a dissenting voice among the humans began to be heard. These humans began to question as to why the non-humans were so different and hideous. Because of their monstruous appearances and abilities, humans began labeling all non-humans under the term *grotesque*.

The non-human races were taken aback by this behavior, as never before had they questioned the appearances of others, always accepting others as they were. Further more the non-humans found the term to be insulting as from their point of view humans were the truly grotesque ones.

From then on, humans then began to see the other intelligent non-humans as monsters, judged on their looks and feared. During this time, non-humans learned of the concept of prejudice and faced discrimination by their human neighbors. Despite the relatively majority of non-humans were peaceful, humanity's growing distrust of the non-humans led to widespread paranoia and led to violence due to misunderstandings. Soon a voice among the non-humans began to form, demanding why humans were so hard to please. The repeated incidents of violence reached a tipping point when the non-humans decided that humans were too much trouble and just simply incompatible for exist. Eventually these two voices from the humans and non-humans clashed led to the Great War. In the end humans lost the war and it led to the scattering of humans across the world.

Despite the war being over, the non-humans still embittered by their treatment of humans, sought to wipe out the survivors, with the surviving humans either being captured and used for selfish reasons by the non-humans. Humans who were never involved in the war soon found themselves, paying for the sins of their race's transgressions. What scant human settlements that remained were being targeted by non-humans, who began organizing pogroms in the form of "human hunts" to capture and enslave humans either for food or labor. Humans who were captured and attempted escape met worse fates of being eaten by their captors or physically crippled.

By the current start of the series, the number of humans have been in decline and their numbers almost non-existent. Those that survived the culling were forced to disguise themselves as non-humans or live in remote locations to avoid persecution. The fate of humanity was met with unsympathetic air throughout the world. To the non-humans at large, majority regard the fate of the humans nonchalantly as they see that the race's bigotry and hatred as the cause and thus were mostly to blame for their kind's slow demise. A general view among non-humans is that the world is much, better and more peaceful now that they are gone.

## Current Known Survivors

* Somali
* Haitora
* Zaza

## Trivia

* Witches while appearing the most human looking species of non-humans, were viewed in fear still due to their abnormal magical abilities.